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I have "obsession" and "mania" about NVLD. In Wechsler tests lower results in subtests like Block Design, Visual Puzzles, Matrix Reasoning, Figure Weights, Coding, Symbol Search can suggest NVLD. In my WAIS-R test there were only two of these six subtests: Block Design and Coding. Interestingly, Block Design had the same scaled score as Vocabulary and Coding had the same scaled score as Similarities! I suspect that I may have NVLD since more than seventeen years ago and I had WAIS-R test in 2016. Vocabulary and Similarities are two most frequently-used Verbal Comprehension Index subtests. I am predominantly non-visual thinker and I am poor in high-demand mental rotation tasks and precise short-term visual memory. I do not have aphantasia or hypophantasia. My visual thinking can be quite sharp but it is quick-to-fade and has low usefulness in high-demand visual-spatial tasks like complex mental rotation or Benton Visual Retention Test. I have a lot of songs and melodies in my mind, they can appear repetitively.

I love going to the flea market to sell the things that I make.

20 years ago I never would have guessed that a teapot would feature so heavily in my life

But here we are

A teapot, a crochet hook and a ball of flipping wool



I don't think I'm a baby bird anymore

I have "obsession" about NLD...

"I have obsession about if I am autistic or not".

I think that people with NVLD who struggle in social-behavioral area and executive functioning should have full rights to be called autistic even when they do not meet DSM-V and ICD-11 ASD criteria. For me NVLD tends to look as autism with clearly other pattern of strengths and weaknesses than typical DSM-V ASD level 1, not as a non-autistic condition. In my opinion, NVLD tends to be pervasive developmental disorder, not a specific learning-communication-motor disorder. Social, behavioral and executive traits are better criteria for being not allistic than specific kinds of sensory symptoms, stims, rituals or routines, impairments in reading hidden meanings etc. because I consider social-executive "NVLD" a profile of autism, not a domain-specific disorder like isolated developmental visual-spatial disorder. "Social-executive NVLD" appears to be not less impairing in occupational area than ASD level 1 in my humble opinion.

I'm getting back into eating soup I am

It's cheap
It's good for you
And if you sit with correct posture whilst eating it، it fills you up a treat and satisfies you for longer

SOUP! SOUP! SOUP! SOUP!

I came out of a pea pod.

I experienced extremely interesting "talk" with ChatGPT about autism and NVLD yesterday late evening and "we both" could concluded that cases like mine are autistic with NVLD profile, not non-autistic NVLD. I think that uneven visual-spatial skills like good Block Design and map reading but poor mental rotation and working visual memory are autistic feature...

grandson 'taught' me some passes in footbal- soccer to you- and opinionated that i learned that quickly

Some puppy at a gig on Sunday told me he "Admired my stamina"

I'm not particularly good at handling compliments at the best of times, but this felt like a backhanded poke at my age..

Whatever...someone noticed me

I wonder if my sister can not have the same condition as I have. If I am autistic, why she could be not while she also has problems with adult life functioning in early adulthood which I also have?

There's a moment where I completely come to a halt during breaststroke and that's why I don't get on very well with that particular discipline

But I can doggy paddle all day long

I think that it is large problem that ASD diagnosis and being considered autistic is pretty gatekept, especially by diagnostics.

If I had to choose between Hogan's Heroes and The Monkees, I'd choose Hogan's Heroes.

I do not know what would be my Matrix Reasoning result in WAIS in 2016 because I did WAIS-R that time which does not contain Matrix Reasoning subtest. WAIS-R does not contain Matrix Reasoning and Figure Weights, WAIS-III contains Matrix Reasoning but does not contain Figure Weights, WAIS-IV contains both Matrix Reasoning and Figure Weights.

This teddy fleece jacket that I got from Aldi is the warmest thing I've ever owned

It's warm as