A suspiciously large proportion of the people I get along with really well turn out to have the same unusual IQ test performance I do – Verbal subscore on the Wechsler much higher than Performance subscore.  More than you’d think would happen by chance.  I’ve always been curious about what this means.

If this leads to any diagnosis, it’s typically a nonverbal learning disability (NLD).  I wonder if, beyond things like “tying shoes is unusually difficult” and so forth, there are deeper personality or thinking style traits associated with “being on the NLD spectrum” so to speak?  That would explain why people I get along with keep turning out to have this property.  I’m not sure what the traits would be, though.