High Performance IQ with no visualization ability.

AlienVisitor · Tufted Titmouse Joined: Sep 17, 2009 Posts: 35

Hi folks,

Here are a couple links, and please go googling for more information.

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonverbal_learning_disorder
> http://ohioline.osu.edu/flm03/FS11.pdf

NLD description corresponds more or less to my situation:

I wrote 'more or less' because:
- I don't have a well-developed memory of any kind, working memory, long-term memory, whatever.
- I'm considered 'clumsy' by people around me (trouble with gymnastics, dancing, manual work, etc) BUT I was 'good' at various sports, from soccer to tennis and not a bad runner or... fighter.

Besides these 'discrepancies' between the general description of NLD and my own 'problems', here is what seems to fit the description:
- Huge gap between visual/spatial and verbal intelligences.
- Absence of mental imagery.
- Can't relate to most math, especially geometry but most algebra as well, beyond elementary math, elementary statistics. A shock to teachers, used to be very good at simple math and stats, but can't relate to any more 'advanced' mathematics.
- Very bad at producing literary work, no imagination, same for drawing and the arts included music.
- Said to have no sense of humor, as understood by most of the population.
- Trouble developing, maintaining social relationships. Had 'friends', 'girlfriends', people enter and leave my life all the time, sometimes called an hermit, loner... by others. Said to be living in his own world, and likes to be left alone, always in the corner in a group, relatives, friends, strangers, any social group.

Now how do I relate to Asperger's?
- As a child, obsessive Asperger-like interests, one I remember was memorizing the population of every town in the region. Hoped to know by heart the name of every city and the population figures of every place of the planet, but hey, very bad memory, not photographic at all, so ambition never fulfilled.
- Would not say hello to people at family meetings or to visitors at my parent's home. Secretive, reclusive as a child, still is.
- Repetitive routines, likes to eat the same food or wear the same clothes, reluctant to change.
- Said to be both insensitive and sensitive, hard to empathize (some people thought I might be a sociopath), but also very sensitive and prone to emotional outbursts. So too insensitive, too sensitive.
- Social anxiety.
- Poor speech, prefer to know what to say before entering into a dialogue with another person, otherwise, lot's of confusion.
- Talk too much or barely talk.
- Love talking about my interests to anybody, long inappropriate Asperger-like monologues. Tend to disregard what discussion partner says.
- Can be very focused. Work in IT.
- Avoid eye contact.

...etc.

Now I know this doesn't make me autistic per se, not in the clinical sense, but I can relate quite a bit to people suffering from mild forms of autism.

OK I hope you guys with issues pertaining to mental imagery have found the NLD part of my post interesting.

Regards,
AlienVisitor

PS: I'm not a native English speaker, I'm stating the obvious but I just wanted to make it clear. Laughing

Note: I just saw the NLD sticky thread, sorry Very Happy