nld and face blindness

Hi Tuesday,

With NLD (Nonverbal Learning Disorder).
A major factor, is a difficulty with Spacial thinking.

The relevant thing that this Spacial difficulty can effect, is ‘Pattern Recognition’.
Where this involves how the parts fit together, to form a pattern.

With facial recognition, we don’t recognise a face as a single image?
How it works, is that we remember a persons face as a pattern?
Which might be made up of someone’s eyes and mouth, or another person, their ears, nose and eyebrows?
Where these elements of persons face, form a pattern.
The distance between them is also important, such as how far the eyes are apart?
Or if they long or short face, then will change the position of the mouth in the pattern.

So that the relationship between NLD and Prosopagnosia, essentially comes down to Pattern Recognition.

thanks for your response.
just spent an hour here describing my son, i pressed submit and it disappeared! ugh!

anyone out there have a teenager with NLD?

Hello there, I was a teenager with NLD (diagnosed with something else, but NLD fits my symptoms perfectly) When it was identified by one of my professors, who had never heard of it, he referred to it as “almost like facial agnosia.” I can see faces, but I have some trouble with recognizing subtle emotions of others, but it wasn’t discovered until I was 25 so I’m apparently mild. For example, I was struggling through graduate school (see posts in adults with LD for more detail) and I often ended up having to meet individually with my program coordinator to get through classes. When he would first come out to greet me(he had full details of the situation in an email already) I couldn’t tell if he felt sorry for me (pity) or if I was in trouble and he was angry or frustrated. So, he could tell immediately that I was nervous (anxiety and depression both being part of the disorder for me) and he would immediately say “It’s not bad” so that I would know he wasn’t angry and he wasn’t going to yell at me. I won’t notice until I’m asked how another person is feeling and I have to search for the word to describe it and I feel like I’m guessing. The major emotions I can pick up, and I’m okay with people I know well, but otherwise I may miss. Feel free to ask me any questions.

I don’t have a teenager with NLD, but I was one (undiagnosed until age 25) Feel free to ask me anything my other response disappeared too, ugh!