Reading and writing problems

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Whenever I read a sentence which is too long or has too much information, I feel as if I haven't read it at all. Same applies for spoken sentences, except the maximal length is even shorter in this case. When I write, I very often make many stupid mistakes, such as writing "and" two times, or inverting + and - in a math problem (these stupid mistakes usually eat away at least 4 points out of 20 on a test).

This seriously impacted my ability to learn, so I resorted to searching for explanations which either have graphical representations or short sentences. This has allowed me to learn far faster and far more accurately than before. I simply go and check about 6-10 different sources, and run my eyes through them, as well as through all the image and video material I can find about the topic. Learning this way has allowed me to collect and comprehend information at a far faster rate than average. But as you understand, it isn't possible to learn in such a way when you're in an educational facility, which resulted in me having grades (while still above average) far less than my true learning potential.

Does anybody else experience such problems? Is this related to Asperger's?

If this helps, I scored very poorly on a working memory subtest during a neuropsychological evaluation. Could a working memory deficit be the reason? Please note that I don't have any problems in other intellectual subtypes, such as reasoning, and the learning problems described simply lower my potential, but don't even put my learning ability below average in a normal learning setting (ex: public education). My learning speed is simply far higher when I self-teach the way I described above.

I don't think that this is dyslexia, as I learned to read rather early.

I have a similar self-teaching style, looking at pictures and passing my eyes over the same information from multiple sources and avoiding reading pages and pages and pages of words. Somehow, the information sticks, maybe because of the repetition. I have been reading a lot of papers from science journals lately, and those are filled with words words words that I don't actually read and hurts my mind to read, at least not in the way that I read a novel. I just look at them and see them without really processing them, but the next time that I see them, I recognize them and know the other concepts connected to them, and after a few passes, such as multiple encounters of the same topic in PubMed, the information has downloaded itself into my brrrainzzz. I find that it helps to have seen a picture of the various concepts before you read in detail about them, as that helps you place the later lookings on a map, and you can process more words by converting them into pictures and comprehend information faster that way. The traditional method of reading pages and pages and pages of words doesn't work for me. I would not do well studying something like literature or history due to the reading of the words. For science topics, verbal can be de-emphasized in favor of visual, and this pictures + word-looking seems to work for sucking up information about a topic.

Edit: With this kind of method, it seems that there is a latency period of ill comprehension, like maybe a few days during which I feel that I have learned nothing, before I have sucked up enough information into these maps to allow me to place later lookings. But after this period, the learning happens very quickly, and it feels like you always knew the information.

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