NLD (see sticky at top for definition) and special interests

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so it is not part of the profile which is a difference from AS.
NLD people often get obsessed with things?

is not having any deep interests common?
being bored with things?

I dont have special interests, but lots and lots of little interests, and a short attention span. If that helps.

I find though that NLD is a confusing catagory... Ive sort of given up trying to make sense of it all... I dont know why psychologists or psychiatrists etc think that people can just fit neatly into these tabled catagories like that.

I was first diagnosed with NLD, later AS. Obsessive interests are more AS related, in general. So, you may need to get your evaluator to dig deeper into your past and present social abilities to see if it's really AS you have, beyond NLD. I have both.

I think it can be uncertain which traits belong to which condition, since so many people have both.

I think that obsessiveness is typical AS traits. I have many, many "special" interests. I liked maps, games, and other many things. They were once named as "manias". My biggest special interest now are Aspies They may be really fascinating.

I was rather good in Maths, I like visual stimuli, vivid colors. I rather do not like literature fiction. I may have "sure" AS and mild NLD, maybe also a form of mild McDD. I have really poor nonverbal communication. I am not so interested in normal social bounds. I am interested in it what other people think - have they easier life than I? I was always INTP in MBTI classifications.

I do not think about occupational future so much. I do not think about the job what I will have. It is something wrong. I have strange "obsessions".

I think I have AS and a mild NLD which made me a verbal thinker. I have not so good technical abilities. I am not so interested in IT. And I do not like the term NLD when it is used for social, emotional and behavioral problem.

I read that people with NLD perseverate on common things and people with AS on uncommon things. My perseverations were rather uncommon in theme and nature... And simple activities, such as writing, washing, tidying are rather pleasant for me, they are like routines, I tend to make everything slow and I suppose that I have SCT (sluggish cognitive tempo; CDD - concentration deficit disorder) which make me more inept. It is rather unknown in my country. I think that people in NLD are less "atypical" than I. They have scholastic deficits, especially in Maths.

I think that NLDers are Aspies also. NLD is at least a "phenotype" of PDD. I think that AS is only a psychological and psychiatrical term and even obsessive interests are unnecessary. I think that severe dyssemia is even better hallmark of AS, it may be also present in "NLD". Maybe classic nonverbal communication is somewhat "not natural" for me. I have problems with it. I am better in cognitive aspects of socialising. I have NT "influx" in my mentality, I am not a "classic" Aspie. My NLD is mild, I can even doubt that I have it. I am "childish" and sometimes feel like a mentally(?) handicapped person. I want to have a job. I am not so interested in "practical" things, I have "atypical" obsessions. I like to write about my "aucorigia" (autocontrast and originality). Aucorigia is something which make you "socially inept", "odd" and starts in early childhood. Better not to have it. I am not so interested in studies, many things are complicated for me. I do not like complex projects. I think that I make them quite slow. But I have "higher" feelings also, although my shame is raher inadequate or strange and I do not need love of other people so much. My parents often offend me.

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