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I won a pair of silver earrings - so veeery unexpectedly They are quite expensive so I guess (for i haven't seen them yet), they must be also quite big and massive - something I like

I find Schlager music very touching.

I read than FGR (fetal growth restriction) and LBW (low birth weight) are most harmful for executive functioning, concentration and attention, somewhat less harmful to visual-spatial and motor skills and least harmful to verbal skills (after asking a question in ChatGPT).

I read in ChatGPT that FGR and LBW are more harmful to Arithmetic subscale than to Digit Span subscale in Wechsler test and that FGR and LBW are more harmful to Block Design subscale than to Picture Completion subscale in Wechsler test. I had FGR and LBW and, paradoxically, my result in Arithmetic (18) was much better than my result in Digit Span (11) and my result in Block Design (14) was much better than my result in Picture Completion (9) in WAIS-R test. Maybe I have ASD+ADHD without NVLD despite dominance of verbal thinking? I am interested if I have cognitive disengagement syndrome. My mother called me "conscious but absent" and that I "move like a fly in the tar" and I was often called "lazy"

I heard an interested story from a woman who may be about 24 years old who appears to be intriguingly similar to me and my sister despite probably not having a neurodevelopmental disorder, especially ASD. She has MA degree in Psychology and was relatively poor in Physical Education (although not as poor as I), was a very good student in school, had 100% in high school leaving exams from a foreign language and thinks mostly in words. She was born about a week too early (at about 36 weeks of gestation?) and had birth weight above 2500 g and below 3000 g, as I heard, maybe she had birth weight similar to the birth weight of my sister, who had birth weight 2650 g (with loss to 2450 g after her birth?) and was born about 38th week of gestation. Verbal IQ of this woman was 135 or about 135 and her result in Arithmetic was maybe the highest in VIQ profile, but her result in Digit Span might be the lowest in VIQ profile and her result in Information subscale was also among stronger ones, from what I heard - the same situation as in my WAIS-R verbal part profile! She might be slightly preterm-born but she had no LBW and FGR, I had different issues - I was not preterm-born but I had serious asymmetric FGR and LBW (birth weight below 2500 g), but many of our traits appear to be interestingly similar. This woman said that she did not make performance part of Wechsler test. She had 100% in high school leaving exams from a foreign language, I had 100% in high school leaving exams from basic Mathematics and basic Chemistry, but I was about 18 month after receiving F84.5 (Asperger syndrome, a pervasive developmental disorder) diagnosis from ICD-10 and more than year after receiving F42 (obsessive-compulsive disorder) diagnosis from ICD-10.

There was a time that I was really shaken by the demise of the Routemaster in London.

I think that I fit to NVLD more than to ASD because I think that I have intuitive theory of mind since childhood (I know that other people do not think the same way as I since preschool age), too much predictability and too much sameness is boring to me, I did not rock my body or flap my hands as a child, I am rather normally sensitive to sounds and lights, I had no speech delay, I am a verbal thinker, I had poor result in Benton test measuring short-term visual memory, I had VIQ 126 and PIQ 104 on Wechsler test in 2016, I was very poor at highly-visual topics in Physics, I have multiple and switchable special interests, I am verbal-conceptual-abstract thinker, I do not like typical technical or mechanical tasks.

I suppose that I do not met DSM-V ASD criteria (maybe only one (special interests) from RRBIs, but no routines and rituals, more pronounced stims, more serious sensory issues). I think that NVLD profile fits me much better than ASD or AuDHD profile - I suppose that I in fact do not have ASD or even ADHD, but that I just have brain "dysfunction" and dysharmonic development due to marked asymmetric fetal growth restriction and low birth weight. My verbal skills are much better than my performance skills. I have impairment in executive functioning and organization (rather in themselves than only in visual-spatial area). Left-brain skills definitely dominate in my case (rote memory, vocabulary, grammar, arithmetic, logical thinking). I have no talent to work with machines.

I romanticize Germany. I'm trying to see how many different Germany related avatars I can come up with. Right now, I'm using a traditional Gingerbread House. I'd love to live in a Gingerbread House.

I suppose that I have the second NVLD subtype mentioned in this article: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12489661/ (Profiles in Nonverbal Learning Disability, Academic Skills, and Psychiatric Diagnoses in Children). Despite the fact that Block Design was my strongest subscale in performance part of WAIS-R test in 2016. And Object Assembly, Picture Completion and Picture Arrangement were much worse than Block Design in my Perceptual Organization Index in WAIS-R test.

Its the chocolate on a KitKat that's the big pull for me

I don't know how Nestlé have managed to retain that hint of metallic in it since they got rid of the tinfoil wrapper....but they have

I love things that are metallic

To me, KitKat sounds like Kitekat - the cat food brand and that's why I would be mildly disgusted, eating KitKat

It's fine that I romanticize Germany, as long as I get out and socialize with PEOPLE as well.

Did I mention that this is my favourite song?

It's a window into my little Alpine Gingerbread world.

"I should get some deeley boppers"

Said The Alien