Maybe NLD?

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I was just speaking with my mom on the phone. Through the course of the conversation I remembered something about my last neuropsych testing. I was on heavy sedatives at the time and it's been reallly fuzzy up until now. The doctor at the hospital ordered the tests but wouldn't tell me what it was for. He said he had a very strong suspicion of something but wanted to get the neuropsych first. When the results came in he revealed that he thought I had asperger's but according to the person who did the testing I didn't have asperger's. It was NLD. I'm waiting for my mom to dig that and some other neuropsych testing I had as a child up and bring it over. I remember when he told my mom and I what he had been suspicious about and gave his description of it neither of us sounded like it fit me very much, but I don't remember why. He definitely put emphasis on something in his description but my whole memory of it is fuzzy. I'm definitely going to continue on with setting up new neuropsych testing, if possible with Dinklage, but I think in his case my insurance would be an issue. I have a few questions that might help clarify things for me, if anyone can answer, or maybe not so much questions as statements about things I don't understand.

I'm not sure I get what makes an interest into something more than an interest. I generally seem to have very specific interests with lack of interest in anything else, but could it also just be that I'm fascinated by those things and want to learn more?

I generally have a good sense of how to inflect words in my speech for emphasis, and I don't think I generally speak too loudly or too quietly, except when I'm really excited and get louder.

I have a habit of stopping books before I get to the end, when I reach the conclusion and everything's getting wrapped up.

I'm not sure if I stimm or not. But I did notice the other day that I have a habit, when at the computer (which is most of the time) of alternating between pressing two keys with different fingers. I'll make sure the doing that won't effect what I'm doing on the screen and do it over and over. When I was little, in the car I used to tense my left buttock when passing a telephone pole and then the right for hte next one, alternating and counting for each pole in my head. I don't know why I did it.

I tend to be able to read between the lines when others speak to me, but I read people just as effectively online without body language or facial expression. If I'm face-to-face and really involved in the conversation, like if I'm going on about something nobody else cares about, I tend not to pick up cues. But if I'm detached it's easier.

I have sensitivities to certain sounds, touch, and to light but textures don't seem to bother. If I encounter an unusual texture, soft or rough, I'll sometimes have the urge to feel it more. I used to walk barefoot over asphalt, gravel and the like because it felt great on my feet. Grass too.

Those are mostly reasons I think I don't have AS, not reasons I think I do, and any feedback would be much appreciated.