It's not surprising that an LD can go undetected

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It's amazing how even seasoned health professionals can't get their head around the verbal- nonverbal gap some of us have . My depot(antipsychotic injection) nurse is one of those, although she's a pleasant person. The conversation got round to my being good verbally. I said that that may be true but I lag some way behind when it comes to non-verbal/practical intelligence . That was responded to in a 'Good verbal skills can help in so many ways' way, completely glossing over what I'd said about non-verbal/practical intelligence.

She's not the only person who thinks this way. In fact a failure to see how much poorer non-verbal/practical skills can negatively impact on a person is all too common. It almost certainly explains why I have never been assessed as having a learning difficulty.

I am lucky in that I have a stepdaughter who knows my practical skills are far from good , and gives me first rate support. There are probably many though that , unlike me, don't have that support .

Many conditions have been defined as a learning difference

Visual tracking disorder
Dyslexia
Dyspraxia
Dyscalculia
Nonverbal learning disorder

The definition of learning difference, changes with time

Hmm...

Off the tangent, but...
What are also the odds that an actual aspie who happened to have severe and several comorbids, ended classed off as classic autism due to visible differences?
And the supposedly closer to classic autism who can pass as an aspie for being verbal enough, even with an already severe and several comorbids yet just less visible or troubling?

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In the United States, it is a violation of Child protective services . ("Failure to attend to special education need")

But public schools often have 30 students per class

Schoolteachers k -12 have enough to do, without worrying about learning differences

Stretched thin

Some students with LD do fine at school

Parents are often biased and in denial