NVLD and Aspergers the same thing?

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I'm writing this because since I was like 8 years old I was diagnosed with a severe case of non-verbal learning disability. As i looked into this though I found out that it's a lot more severe than just a learning disability and effects people in almost every walk of life. People have said they believe they are the same disorder but some don't want to be classified under the the autism spectrum. I'm a 20 year old male and have struggled greatly the past few years I feel different from everybody else and don't like being around people and hate eye contact it makes me very uncomfortable I struggle to keep a job I do good for awhile then usually have a freak out and fall off. I've managed to maintain eye contact with those I trust and am close to but it usually greatly bothers me and I am extremely shy as a person. I am kind of pissed off at my mother because she told me I had this "learning disability" but never told me how serious it actually was I had to find this out myself through research and the last few years of my life have truly been hell I feel like an alien the way my brain works compared to everybody else and I haven't had a girlfriend for years and never had one that lasted more then a month because I don't feel I operate on the same level as anybody else. What are you guy's thoughts on this?

Did you get any kind of therapy since you were diagnosed with NVLD?
If you think aspergers fits better or you could get more help with a ASD diagnoses, maybe you should see about getting your diagnoses changed to ASD.
I don't think there is much difference between NVLD and Aspergers except for maybe the restricted/repetitive behaviors.

Here's a list of RRB's but also hyper/hypo experience of sensory aspects of the environment should be mentioned.

No I haven't I have been diagnosed since I was 8 years old and now my doctor thinks I should go on disability for awhile because I have a very hard time with people in general so the work environment is extremely tough for me I need to find a job where I'm not working around 30 people I just can't do it I work best by myself.

Yes, I think they are. I have autism and I was diagnosed with NVLD because as a child I would bang my head on the walls because Of sensory overload. You dont need to get rediagnosed. that is just obsessive validation and wanting to remind yourself you arent doing this to yourself and its real. just take care of yourself and it is not bad if you are self diagnosing because its not really a self diagnosis as nvld is an autism spectrum disorder. I am also 20 and have had a hard life

Nonverbal learning disability basically just causes problems with understanding and sometimes displaying nonverbal communication but besides that can have great difficulty learning through imagery and thinking in pictures.


People with autism on the other hand have difficulty with all kinds of socialization, tend to think in pictures ( can vary) and have other obsessive tendency and sensory sensitivities

Sorry but people with NVLD struggle socially very much so as well they are notorious for isolating themselves and not fitting in just like asp ethers so I have to disagree there. They don't pick up on non verbal communication which makes them akward and they take everything literal and are very concrete thinkers like Asperger's the only real difference I find is the obsessiveness with certain things commonly associated with Asperger's. I'm not writing this to argue but to understand because as a kid I was a very bad child when I threw a temper tantrum I would smash my head off the wall until I would make myself bleed I could never get along with other kids at school and was constantly bullied and eventually they forced my mother to medicate me or I would not be able to attend school in my district. They are a lot alike there are some differences but not many I'm 20 years old and now choose to be on my own and have extremely isolated myself because I don't feel that I can relate with anyone I'm constantly caught in deep thought and feel I'm just on a different level then other people.