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I'm new here and I was wondering if anyone has non verbal learning disorder. I was diagnosed with it in August 2010 and wanted to know if I was the only one on here with it.

Welcome, raspberry. :3 You might find this thread interesting: http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt83644.html

There's plenty with NVLD here. It's a common condition among AS people.

I used to think my daughter had it but I wasn't sure if it was that or pdd-nos. She is a very good talker but she used to have language problems when she was little. They said she had pdd-nos but now her new psych. says she doesn't. So maybe she does have nvld.

Does anyone know of something like Wrong Planet for NVLD? It's like everything about it gets ignored on these forums. I understand that most people with ASD have bigger fish to fry, but at least in my case, my NVLD is a much bigger impairment than my ASD (assuming it's even a correct diagnosis, which I doubt).

It's so hard and so frustrating to find information on this! People on this board seem to be content debating over whether a 10-page verbose "girlfriend ad" with lots of off-putting sentence is appropriate or not. I am not aspie or autistic, regardless of what the medical professionals say. I'm an NT trapped in a cloud, driving down the road trying not to run over pedestrians.

Any info would be much appreciated.

i think i see what you are getting at, correct me if im wrong. you are saying that you're NVLD is purely sensory, like being hard of hearing. as opposed to an ASD which is like having a brain that runs a completely different OS... like having a brain that runs Linux while NTs are running Windows. yeah?

I guess I could. I'm pretty clumsy sometimes and I can't do equations on paper, only in my head.

I suspect NVLD is part of the autism-spectrum but I could be wrong.

I believe I have NLVD based on my scores on neuropsychology testing with a higher verbal score than performance score (about 32 points higher for my verbal score compared to my performance score) and based on symptoms during my childhood and as an adult. As a kid in middle school I had trouble with math and then was assigned a tutor and I then did fine in math. I can not parallel park or reverse a car effectively. My sense of balance and sense of personal space are off at least mildly to moderately. Social situations have never been easy for me. At one point I thought I had Asperger's, but after the neuropscyhology testing and reading about NLVD, I do not believe I have ASD. I am not sure that I stim and have extreme rituals. I sometimes almost seem to have agoraphobia and a few mild symptoms of OCD. Also I have been diagnosed with social phobia and a tendency for avoidance traits or avoidance personality. In the past I have functioned fairly well and just felt "pretty shy." After a stressful time at work and after going through a bad experience with a verbally abusive boss my social phobia and avoidance traits are worse.

I think in pictures most often and yet I feel I have most of the symptoms of NLVD. I have always thought I was not as good at directions as my friends. I never realized I had a disorder such as NLVD that made a person's sense of direction less than adequate.

I have read that NLVD is on the border of the autism spectrum so my interpretation is that NLVD is "almost on the autism spectrum."

This is what I learned at uni about non-verbal learning disorder:
If the neuropsychologist tests your IQ, he or she will calculate verbal IQ and non verbal IQ, as well as an overall score. If there is a big difference between the verbal and non-verbal intelligences, an overall IQ score may not be given.

If somebody's non-verbal IQ i.e. spatial tasks etc, is much much higher than their verbal IQ (language based tasks), you would suspect the presence of a language disorder - that is difficulties with understanding and use of spoken language but otherwise normal intelligence.

If, however, the verbal score is significantly higher than the non-verbal, Non-verbal learning disorder might be suspected. The person with non-verbal learning disorder may be quite good at language and verbal tasks, and logical, linear problem solving based on their verbal skills. However they will lack abilities in the traditional 'geeky' spatial intelligences.

A discrepancy in scores may also mean that the person got bored in that part of the assessment, so it really needs to be backed up with other evidence.

Beyond that my knowledge is quite vague. There is no medication for it - it is really a different configuration of learning styles and strengths from average. And a diagnosis doesn't mean that the person can't learn non-verbally. It really just helps someone understand their strengths in learning and to identify further areas of support.

I guess that, if you've been diagnosed with NVLD, you would already know this.