Oh god, that description has a lot of me in it, particularly if you change English for Maths (I was ahead of the game in English, but maths didn't challenge me at all). I used to say I'm probably neurodiverse, but not autistic, but then I had a pain psych spontaneously segue into trying to decide if I had Aspergers in the middle of a session. I talked to him afterwards and he said "I think you're probably somewhere in the vicinity of the Autism Spectrum." I've since met autistic people who are a lot closer to me psychologically than those I'd previously encountered. I don't have a diagnosis, but "somewhere in the vicinity of" is quite useful for recognising when I have behaviours that intersect with autism.
It's similar with hypermobility and EDS, I'm confirmed to be hypermobile, but don't have a definite EDS diagnosis, but the experience of EDS is so close to what I live with that I'd be stupid not to pay attention to all the EDS stuff. "In the vicinity of EDS" would cover it nicely.
Speaking of which, that 'co-morbid with EDS' may also extend to the Specific Learning Difficulties, such as dyslexia, and more specifically dyspraxia (movement) and dyscalculia (mathematics). My sister was actually trained to look for undiagnosed dyspraxia as part of her teaching job, and her first reaction was 'OMG, that's David'. There's a definite overlap between the hypermobility issues and dyspraxia issues, but there are parts of my makeup that dyspraxia explains and hypermobility doesn't, and parts that hypermobility explains and dyspraxia doesn't. 'Somewhere in the vicinity of dyspraxia' works just fine. The handwriting thing _could_ be dyspraxia, the maths thing _could_ be dyscalculia, and either would go some way to having a 'glitch' as all th SpLDs have deeper effects than the ones that get them the label. And they add up to being neurodiverse even if not on the spectrum.
I'm really not trying to hang labels on you, but I've found that these various things come close enough to who I am that there's value in using their concepts and coping mechanisms, and they may be worth looking at for you too.
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It's similar with hypermobility and EDS, I'm confirmed to be hypermobile, but don't have a definite EDS diagnosis, but the experience of EDS is so close to what I live with that I'd be stupid not to pay attention to all the EDS stuff. "In the vicinity of EDS" would cover it nicely.
Speaking of which, that 'co-morbid with EDS' may also extend to the Specific Learning Difficulties, such as dyslexia, and more specifically dyspraxia (movement) and dyscalculia (mathematics). My sister was actually trained to look for undiagnosed dyspraxia as part of her teaching job, and her first reaction was 'OMG, that's David'. There's a definite overlap between the hypermobility issues and dyspraxia issues, but there are parts of my makeup that dyspraxia explains and hypermobility doesn't, and parts that hypermobility explains and dyspraxia doesn't. 'Somewhere in the vicinity of dyspraxia' works just fine. The handwriting thing _could_ be dyspraxia, the maths thing _could_ be dyscalculia, and either would go some way to having a 'glitch' as all th SpLDs have deeper effects than the ones that get them the label. And they add up to being neurodiverse even if not on the spectrum.
I'm really not trying to hang labels on you, but I've found that these various things come close enough to who I am that there's value in using their concepts and coping mechanisms, and they may be worth looking at for you too.