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Engaging in special interests can bring autistic people great joy [25] [26] and many autistic people spend large amounts of time engaged in their special interest. [27] In adults, engaging with special interests has been shown to have positive outcomes for mental health, [28] self-esteem, [29] and can be used to manage stress.
Similarly, people with ADD/ADHD have higher rates of dyslexia. [ medical citation needed ] It is unknown how many individuals with ADD/ADHD who also struggle with penmanship actually have undiagnosed specific learning disabilities like developmental dyslexia or developmental dysgraphia causing their handwriting difficulties.
Autistic people appear to have a local bias for visual information processing, that is, a preference for processing local features (details, parts) rather than global features (the whole). [34] One explanation for this local bias is that people with autism do not have the normal global precedence when looking at objects and scenes ...
[83] [84] Learning disabilities have been found to occur in about 20–30% of children with ADHD. Learning disabilities can include developmental speech and language disorders, and academic skills disorders. [85] ADHD, however, is not considered a learning disability, but it very frequently causes academic difficulties. [85]
Dysgraphia; Other names: Disorder of written expression: Three handwritten repetitions of the phrase "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" on lined paper.The writing, by an adult with dysgraphia, exhibits variations in letter formation, inconsistent spacing, and irregular alignment, all key characteristics of the condition.
A person can have ADHD but not learning disabilities or have learning disabilities without having ADHD. The conditions can co-occur. [106] People diagnosed with ADHD sometimes have impaired learning. Some of the struggles people with ADHD have might include lack of motivation, high levels of anxiety, and the inability to process information. [107]
Grammar can be present, but the meaning of these thoughts is generally hard to grasp and the sentences are loose. [7] In some cases, patients write extremely detailed accounts of events that are occurring or descriptions of where they are. [7] In some cases, hypergraphia can manifest with compulsive drawing. [8]
Type 2: Autistic children who demonstrate very early reading as a splinter skill. Type 3: Very early readers who are not on the autism spectrum, though they exhibit some "autistic-like" traits and behaviours which gradually fade as the child gets older. A different paper by Rebecca Williamson Brown, OD proposes only two types of hyperlexia. [11]