Expert: James Michael Roan - 1/17/2009

Question
I have a very big problem. I don't know what I have. I have diagnosis of As but i think I have NVLD only. I haven't friends and I am very low interseted about contact. I have't good nonverbal communication, especially eye contact. My contacts are very one-sided and I had social obsessions about one person like children with PDA. I have unconventional thinking (many visual fantasies with agitation, strange ideas like controlling compulsions or shame about telling name of the "friends", bizarre ideas, fear of torture). I had obsessive and restricted interests (roads, maps). I heard "loud voice" very rarely.
I have severe obsession about NVLD.


I remember my imaginative play when I had... 6 (cars and roads in the carpet, I think it was earlier also - it change diagnosis).

Do the person can have good imaginative play and PDD/ASD? If I have PDD/ASD? In my country NVLD is practically unknown.

Answer
Hello;

Yes, of course, people with PDD/Asperger's syndrome can have wonderful imaginations. I have met many that are artists and writers, and they have obsessions as well.

Generally, if you have NVLD your right brain is somewhat atrophied or underdeveloped, including the motor cortex which results in left-sided body weakness.

Kind regards,
James





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James Roan is a certified school psychologist who has been consulting in the areas of autism, Asperger’s Syndrome, and learning difficulties in the United States and in Ireland for over ten years (http://www.jamesroan.com). James earned his M.Ed. in School Psychology and M. Ed. in Adult Education and receives ongoing post graduate training in autism at the University of Washington’s Autism Center. James Roan has traveled to Galway, Limerick, Mayo, Clare, Dublin, Cork, Waterford, and other cities and counties across Ireland assessing children and adults, and consulting with solicitors (lawyers) in defense of children with disabilities. James Roan was the consulting psychologist responsible for many of the autism and AD/HD screening tools and other content for Access Special Needs.Com. James Roan consulted with the graduate department of the Waterford Institute of Technology in Waterford Ireland in the development of their graduate program for the certification of private autism tutors. James has conducted formal assessments of students in the Autism Unit in the Claddagh National School in County Galway Ireland.