Learning difficulties. People think WTF. Anyone else?

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I’m sure when I mention learning difficulties people think " WTF are you talking about? You’re highly verbal " People latch on that to say I’m highly intelligent. The thing is it’s true in some ways but not in others ie my non-verbal intelligence is low/very low. I’m probably one of the most impractical people you’d ever meet.Then there’s the issue of people confusing learning difficulty with learning disability where they think you’re insisting you’re intellectually challenged (IQ <70).

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I think my stepdaughter gets it more than most. She’s one smart person

I think people tend to mistake differences in communication (especially being mute or speaking little) with lack of intelligence.

Also, many of us here will tend to take things literally, or maybe use words in different aways than most, which could be mistaken as lack of intelligence. I often do this. But, I guess the difference between me and someone with an intellectual disability is that, while I may misinterpret, I can understand the other person if they explain better, or I think about what they're saying.

Is this the kind of thing you're talking about?

I hate "learning disability" because it makes me sound unintelligent but I'm actually exceptionally bright. I just struggle with sensory information.

I'm the opposite I struggle with communication. In college when I had to write an essay I knew all the answers but had no idea how to start an essay. In some ways I think I am highly intelligent but in others I am way below average.

I do have a learning disability. NVLD. Can’t retrieve information for free recall.

I get told pretty much the same thing. People tell me, "But you're so articulate."

I guess I had learning difficulties considering I was in special ed back in the day.

I'm dyslexic & I tell people that to help explain some of my issues & behavior. There's more awareness about that than autism so others tend to judge dyslexics less negatively than autistics. I really am less intelligent compared to the average person. I don't have any special skills/talents/strengths that us Aspies are stereotyped to have. I just have all the problems/issues instead

I am not intellectually or learning disabled but, for a long time, I was functionally disabled. I had only my education to hold onto as evidence that I wasn't disabled. Even today, with all of my vast improvements, all coming within the past five years, I am still nowhere close to having everything the average NT has. I am working on getting there by the time I'm 60, but it will take a lot of work.