I really enjoyed this article, thank you so much for sharing your experiences, giving insight into Tim Wallace, and talking about nonverbal learning disorder.

I am also on the autism spectrum, with ADHD and dyspraxia, and I am special ed teacher, and have worked with NLD. I've had great success with many different conditions, but I have to say NLD is one of my weaker areas. It truly is a challenging area for me as a teacher and I love hearing insight.

I think the name is a little misleading. NLD from my experience, pretty much means the disorder can affect a lot of different areas, but non the verbal. All of the NLD people I have encountered are very well spoken, which gives people a false sense of understanding of them. I think it goes with fallacy that humans assume achievement is expressed verbally. For me, I had the opposite of this. Growing up I was disfluent, and speaking was very difficult for me. People assumed I was unintelligent, even though I was very smart.

NLD people often speak very well, but have trouble in other areas, so people often see their intelligence and capabilities, but struggle to understand they have trouble in other areas. Also, nuertypicals struggle to differentiate skill from intelligence. So while it is a particular skill to tie ones shoes, difficulty with that does not show a lack of intelligence. So when there is a NLD who speaks very well, but struggles with tying their shoes, nuerotypicals are very confused and don't understand.

Anyway, thank you for sharing your experiences and insights. I enjoyed hearing about it. Best of luck in becoming a mother! I