AS,NLD and success

[wellwhywonder25]

I was thinking about the fact that many Aspies have NLD and what this really means

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[mysticsong]

What's NLD? I don't know many of these things by their acronyms so I never know what anyone's asking about..

NLD is

[wellwhywonder25]

Nonverbal Learning Disorder... it affects nonverbal learning and skills....things like math,spatial,motor,social skills as well as some others.

[antiquegirl]

Thanks for asking because I didn't know either.

[ramiki]

Um. Why would you think it's a gender difference at all? I'm actually insulted...

[antiquegirl]

I have discalculia, which makes most jobs difficult from the get go.

[mercurygrrl]

Since it has been mentioned I did a quick reading on NLD on Wikipedia and suddenly things make even more sense. I suck at math and my mom thinks I have dyscalculia. After reading up on how that works, it didn't seem correct, where as NLD does.

I can relate to the theory presented above on how aspies are thought to be good with numbers because there are more men who are diagnosed than women and men are usually better with numbers than women.

I'm better with language, btw

[notuntill]

I find both the supposition that math skills have something to do with "gender" and the overall definition of NLD to be insulting. I always had difficulty with math, and am not interested in it; but that isn't a "disorder," it is just specialization, which is a concept that is much more accepted in educational institutions outside of america. We need people who will function and think better in the humanities, and the job pool as well as the educational system clearly, should reflect that, instead of trying to make everyone know all the same things and then shove most people into stores selling things made in Chinese child labor sweatshops.