Aspergers vs NVLD - Ask the Expert Video Series

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Hope this helps.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JWh3lrscqE[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdSzM3MHfOA[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYHzJGTA6KM[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Pp8jcQ97pY[/youtube]

AD/HD - Separating Fact from Fiction
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyVVp9x47ZA[/youtube]

This is complete BS. There is no way to separate AS and NLD because they simply aren't comparable. They go to impairments in different areas.

NLD is a learning disability.

AS is a developmental/social disability.

You can have one without the other, or you can have both. In fact, if you have Asperger's, there's a 4/5 chance you ALSO have NLD. They are not alternative disorders in the DSM. And it's ridiculous to assert that everyone with NLD is an audio thinker while everyone with AS is a visual thinker. This just plays into stupid media stereotypes about aspies as all being computer geeks and engineers.



http://www.aane.org/asperger_resources/ ... rning.html

The description of "NLD" actually sounds like a description of some adulthood manifestations of PDD-NOS, including mine. NLD is not in the DSM and is only a learning disability. I personally fit into this category simply because I grew out of certain autistic behaviors as I got older but lengthy videos of me as a child which I showed my physician clearly showed an autistic child. Had my repetitive behaviors and rituals continued into adulthood, and had there not been a language issue in childhood, I likely would have been diagnosed with Asperger's. NLD is simply a separate diagnosis that deals with another realm of difficulties.

ASD means I have social trouble.

NLD means I can't do most jobs.

Last edited by Tyri0n on 23 Mar 2013, 5:25 pm, edited 1 time in total.

The videos explain the overlapping parts of each.

Except it's simply incorrect. NLD and Asperger's deal with difficulties in completely different areas, so it makes no sense to compare them, especially given the fact that 4/5 of people with Asperger's also have NLD. I think describing everyone with ASD as a visual thinker is quite ridiculous, frankly.

Aren't you confusing visual thinkers with people thinking in pictures?

Nope, it just makes no sense to create a distinction there regardless of what you mean considering the fact that 4/5 of people with AS have NLD. I'm sure, therefore, that some people with AS are not visual thinkers, maybe even the majority. And having NLD doesn't rule out being a visual thinker either.

NLD and AS are not comparable in any way because they simply deal with different impairments, just like it makes no sense to compare herpes and the bird flu.

It would make a lot of sense to compare NLD and ADHD. Those are both learning disabilities and are comparable, but comparing either with AS doesn't make sense.

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