Posted by malcolm664 on June 15, 2007, at 5:21:14
In reply to Re: Meds to improve memory?, posted by mike lynch on June 15, 2007, at 2:30:54
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> > Question-did you read at an early age and do you find it impossible (nearly) to tell your right from your left?
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> > Driving is still a challange for me-I have no depth perception.
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> > I am often misjudged in a strange way. Because I have great language/reading skills people think me more capable than I probably am. Then they think I'm screwing around when I don't get something or that I'm not trying at all. I also am not very socially savvy. I take everthing at face value and just seem to miss the obvious a lot.
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> Damn this is what I experience to. Reading was probably the easiest thing that came to me with academics, I was flying through all of the words ever since I was in first grade with little ease. But then I acted really stupid towards other things.. Do you guys have trouble following certain directions, like if someone explains something elaborate, about how to do something you're just like....wtf??? and just nod not knowing what the hell to do) What about badhandwriting, and if you do something like math problems, everythings horribly organized, tons of cross outs, everythings sloppy etc??The following link has a good description of NVLD's symptoms. Though each person is different, some or all of them would apply if you truly have NVLD. But only an experienced neuropsych would know to make that diagnosis. I saw three before the most recent one looked at the results of the neuropsych testing I had done and put the pieces together. Not that it would really have mattered had I found out sooner. There is no med (or at least none that I'm aware of ) that effectively treats NVLD (including all the ADD meds, which I've tried). So you have to learn to compensate for the disorder, which as I'm finding out is much easier said than done. Again, people will only make allowances for disorders that they can actually see and if you're clumsy, with poor motor coordination like I have always been, people will think you're a klutz (or worse).
Anyway, the following contains a link that explains the disorder quite well:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ro15-4513
Malcolm
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