ps - fwiw, undiagnosed LDs can also cause social and emotional stress that can go unrecognized. Even though he was diagnosed much earlier in life, living with his disability before he had a name for it and an understanding of it took a toll on my ds - having a name for it, knowing it wasn't something that was just "weird" about him or quirky, helped him not feel so different or helpless in the areas he struggled.
My ds has an expressive language disorder - long long ago when I first met my fil, everyone in the family warned me that he didn't make conversation. He was just seen as that was his quirky thing, that was him. I'm guessing now he had the same type of challenge my ds had - and to be honest, I think we might have all gone a few steps further in trying to include him in our conversations had we realized it.
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