[firemonkey]

It's amazing how even seasoned health professionals can't get their head around the verbal- nonverbal gap some of us have . My depot(antipsychotic injection) nurse is one of those, although she's a pleasant person. The conversation got round to my being good verbally. I said that that may be true but I lag some way behind when it comes to non-verbal/practical intelligence . That was responded to in a 'Good verbal skills can help in so many ways' way, completely glossing over what I'd said about non-verbal/practical intelligence.

She's not the only person who thinks this way. In fact a failure to see how much poorer non-verbal/practical skills can negatively impact on a person is all too common. It almost certainly explains why I have never been assessed as having a learning difficulty.

I am lucky in that I have a stepdaughter who knows my practical skills are far from good , and gives me first rate support. There are probably many though that , unlike me, don't have that support .