NLD, NVLD

Classic forms of NVLD and AS are just subtypes of aucorigia

NLD is the term which is used inappriopiately and it makes confusion and rumors. People with NLD should be diagnosed as having "aucorigia".

"NLD" is a misnamed pervasive developmental disorder. It is "hyperverbal", rather than "hypervisual". NVLD is "hyperlogia", hyperlogic ASD.

Kannerity may be in kanneroid form (BAP and similar aucorigias), kannerotypal (classic AS), kanneric (childhood autism). It is like schizoid - schizotypal - schizophrenic.

Kannerity traits are for exapmle:

- ususally visual thinking rather than verbal
- serious sensory integration disorders
- caseine and gluten intolerance, IBS
- difficulties in social communication
- dislike for change, making things in the same way

Hyperlogia is not kannerity. It also has social ineptitude and obsessiveness, but not so large sensory problems (and they may be of other type), talents are rather in "verbal" area than "technical", maybe it is associated in perinatal problems. Sometimes hyperlogia can co-occur with kannerity. Some traits overlap. Hyperlogia has less tendencies to rigid thinking.

NLD - visual-spatial deficit.

"NLD" - a form of developmental flexible autism, probably not related to Kanner's disorder.

Aucorigia symptoms:

- beginning of the occurrence of the symptoms in earlier childhood;
- marked problems with expressive or (and) receptive nonverbal communications;
- problems with social interactions;
- deficits in social reciprocity (such as one-sided conversations or interactions, diminished social needs);
- "obsessive', atypical interests, often narrow, repetitive, stereotyped;
- strange customs, routines, rituals;
- "positive activity disorders", like hyperactivity, autostimulating behaviors, mannerisms, tics;
- sensory oversensitivity or (and) hyposensitivity (especially to touch);
- clumsiness (to a different degree)

"Social-emotional learning disability" symptoms:

- lack of empathy (especially cognitive one) and (or) compassion,
- lack of understanding of lying and intentions,
- inability to mentalise emotional states of others,
- lack of understanding why something is offensive for other person,
- "painful" honesty,
- being very naive and gullible,
- lack of pragmatic skills,
- literal interpretations,
- policing behaviors (applying the same rules to everybody regardless of the circumstances),
- thinking that other people thinking just as I (and have, for example, the same interests as I),
- lack of interest in rivalisation and (or) understanding of it (why someone is happy when is a winner?),
- poor understanding of social situations,
- poor understanding of motives of other people,
- alexithymia,
- lack of common sense in social situations (for example taking toys of other child because a child with SELD thought that other child will like "me" because of it) - idiosyncratic and "illogical" behaviors in social interactions,
- "intense" imitative behaviors (associated with cognitive deficits in socio-emotional area?),
- lack of knowledge about emotion which should be felt in particular situation (such as after death of an uncle),
- difficulty with describing emotional states of other (for example characters in the novel) and creating stories containing descriptions of emotional states,
- problems with imaginative play and understanding of it,
- problems with recognising people and faces and memorising facts about people)

"Kannerotypy" symptoms:


- speech delay (or even lack of it),
- language impairments,
- problems with communicative use of language
- lack of central coherence,
- difficulties with looking to objects or ideas as a whole, seeing everything "in parts"
- no "internal voice" in head (lack of verbal and (or) conceptual thinking),
- clear dominance of visual thinking,
- literal, concrete, rigid thinking,
- lack of abstract thinking, difficulties with understanding abstract concepts,
- having "narrow" mind,
- over-attention to detail, missing the "big picture"
- echolalia,
- pronoun reversal, lack of using the pronoun "I"
- difficulty with differentiating self and others,
- serious or even profound problems with sensory integration,
- being overwhelmed by sensory stimuli easily,
- "meltdowns", attacks of anger or fear
- "splinter skills", "islets" of abilities
- necessity of sameness,
- compulsive adherence to nonfunctional routines and rituals,
- stereotypical movements like hand flapping, body rocking, head-banging, tiptoe walking,
- preoccupation with the parts of objects;
- gluten and casein intolerance

SELD + "kannerotypy" = typical infantile autism

For me words such as "Aspie", "Aspergian" should refer to heterogenous spectrum which include complex psycho(neuro)developmental differences such as for example "NVLD" and ASD which are characterised mainly by social inadequacy and peculiarity. An Aspie can have a disorder which is not related to "typical" autism (Kanner's syndrome) at all. I might even say that "more classical" Aspie is rather "NVLDish" than "autistic"...

Both "NVLDers" and "ASers" are "Aspijczycy" and "Aspijki". "Social NLD" is something more than just a learning disability.