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I actually have a theory about the generational thing

I think that you relate best with the generation that should be your grandchildren

I'm going to have to lure them out here to adopt me.

Rehearsal camp/rocket school.

This could be a hoot... but I'd better hide the gingerbread house.

I read that people with autistic disorder, Asperger syndrome (diagnoses from DSM-IV), on average, tend to have weakness in Processing Speed Index in Wechsler tests like WISC-IV (in the case of NVLD PSI is also a weakness, although on average Perceptual Reasoning Index appears to be minimally lower than PSI in NVLD sample (34 individuals) in Identifying Nonverbal Learning Disability Using the WISC-IV: Establishing Diagnostic Differences (Fielding Graduate University, 2010)).

I had no Coding/PSI "valley" in WAIS-R in 2016, in my case, WMI was probably 1 - 3 points higher than VCI and PSI was about 13 - 17 points higher than POI while VCI was 25 points higher than POI - this single difference at least superficially suggests NVLD (although my Block Design result was 5 or 6 scaled scores higher than three other POI subscales, which is very interesting). People with NVLD have rather better result in Picture Completion than in Block Design, but I had 14 in Block Design and 9 in Picture Completion.

Watching planes on flightradar24.com has become a new interest of mine. My dad had gotten into it and now I enjoy watching what planes are passing over and where they are going. It's neat. I was shocked to see how many aircraft are in the sky at once.

I think that there are many profiles of symptoms within autism, not only one ("classic" ASD with severe sensory issues, high risk of serious prosopagnosia, frequent tendency to nonverbal (especially visual) thinking, problems with flexibility, rigidity and hidden meanings).

I think that diagnosis of ASD in adolescence or early adulthood when someone struggles in life can be really helpful and may cause receiving of noticeable support due to autism, making life better and safer than without diagnosis or with misdiagnosis with non-helpful diagnosis.

Yeah definitely
I believe it helped my daughter especially

I think it is very important to be diagnosed with pervasive developmental disorder/autism spectrum disorder instead of being diagnosed with at least theoretically "less serious" disorders.

I think people respond more negatively to social anxiety than to social blunders.

That is, I think many of us develop social anxiety because of unpleasant responses to blunders as children.

But I think many adults don't care about blunders and simply don't want to deal with vicarious anxiety.

I wonder how actually regulating anxiety and not worrying about being odd compares to other social strategies like trying to be less odd.

(I thought I knew one answer to this, but it occurs to me that I was masking social anxiety rather than not being socially anxious )

I read that decades ago Byron P. Rourke hypothetized that autism is NLD plus global language impairment. Using this way of thinking, autism without global language impairment would be NLD. I suppose that most individuals with diagnosed NLD may be misdiagnosed autistics who have true NLD (which is developmental visual-spatial disorder) or some of its symptoms in addition to autism.

I was talking to a counsellor a few weeks back when he managed to get me into a lively description of an Interest related subject.
He smiled at me mid sentence and pointed to my hands which had crept up and out and were dancing like they belonged to a supervillain.
It's a stim I knew about but had never really considered.
I was already aware they were doing joint exercise, but it never occurred to me how someone else might interpret my automatic arthritic semaphore.

I would say that many autistic features are misattributed to NVLD or ADHD... It is too hard to get ASD diagnosis, especially in adulthood. Some autistic people are very successful, do not "euphemize" less typical conditions (especially when as impairing as typical ASD level 1 without speech delay and adequate IQ) as NVLD and (or) ADHD without autism. I think that autism diagnostic criteria are too strict and large part of autism cases are misattributed to other disorders. Criteria of Asperger syndrome look to me as more fair than criteria of ASD. Not every autistic person has severe sensory issues and good technical skills. Autism is not a severe sensory processing disorder. NVLD as described in earlier years would be considered distinct and divergent autistic profile by me with other neurology than typical autism spectrum disorder with equally good FSIQ and similar level of functional language, but not as a non-autistic condition or just a visual-spatial problem. Someone with developmental visual-spatial disorder might not have social "oddity" which is always present in autism.

I think that in terms of my general well-being as an adult, it was probably lucky for me that when I first encountered stigma it was directed towards a much-loved older sibling rather than towards me.

To be clear, at the time I did not feel lucky!! I was upset and confused and angry. But because I reacted strongly against it, when it was my turn, I really really didn't want to internalise it.

I am prone to diffuse or pervasive feelings of shame, but in response to specific things about my body or my brain, I think my instinctive response is rarely shame. I am sure that has helped me a lot.

I read about a person who scored 19 in Block Design when that person was 8 years old while other performance subscales on Wechsler test were with scaled scores below 10 and in this IQ test verbal IQ of this person was 100 while performance IQ was 90. Such a PIQ results pattern looks inconceivable - 19 in Block Design (the highest, extremely high) and all other PIQ subscales above three standard deviations lower, which looks unbelievable... That person wrote that at the age of 15 in Wechsler test verbal IQ was 131 and performance IQ was 93 (which gives very large gap of 38 points which is about 2,5 standard deviations) and the best subtest in performance part was Block Design again, but with scaled score only 12 (while all other performance subtests were also below 10). Both results (when the person was 8 and 15 years old) were in WISC-III?

I had WAIS-R test in 2016 when I was 24 years old and I had verbal IQ 126 and performance IQ 104. In performance part Block Design was the best subtest with scaled score 14, but Coding was also pretty good with scaled score 13 although three other (Picture Arrangement, Picture Completion, Object Assembly) were with scaled scores below 10.

I think that not every child with ASD and no intellectual disability with not bad functional language has to be enthusiastic, bright kid who expansively or in "weird" way talks about his/her own special interests to other people. Such a behavior may be most possible in autistic children with comorbid combined-type ADHD, especially boys.

I think that VIQ much higher than PIQ can be quite common in certain groups of autistic people. I do not think that VIQ>>PIQ equals NVLD without ASD! NVLD was misunderstood and "typical" NVLD cases IMO tended to be ASD cases, sometimes maybe these cases would not meet proposed NVLD (developmental visual-spatial disorder, DVSD) eight-point criteria where a person would have to meet at least four of them to be diagnosed with DVSD.

No, I'm not a neuropsychiatrist.
No, I'm not some meditative guru.
No, I'm not some rich person who has all the biofeedback gadgets to watch and catch what their own body is doing if they're feeling or doing something.

No, no, no. Well, I wish I was an alien or whatever inhuman being, but no... Also, no... And nope.

I'm just someone with hypersensitized interoception who happened to not identify well with whatever I happened to embody as I occupy this existence of a life and living -- and happened to just try and describe all of it.

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