Prodigic Disruption: Learning Disability I’d Like to Coin

Here is new one for the DSM-VI.

The criteria are as follows:

1. Extremely high metaphorical cognition.
2. Extremely unstructured, and often confused with lazy or unsociable.
3. Novel idiolect used only by that person.
4. Proficiency in Math Concepts and Literary concepts, but not in Grammar, Spelling or doing Arithmetic.
5. Unsociable in groups or not good at group activities.
6. Extreme ability to comprehend and communicate big thoughts, but simpler things often get overlooked.
7. Not very good at detail oriented work.
8. IQ above 120.
9. No signs of autism.
10. Often stigmatized by the larger group, so develops a strong sense of independent thought, often leading to miscommunications and confused with cognitive impairment.
11. More likely to remember concepts and relate to the world through them, than specific dates, details or facts.
12. Has a strong sense of equity and justice, and has impeccable ethics.
13. Has high rates of creativity.

Typically, people with Prodigic Disruption seem lazy during class, and don't do well with technicalities. They have heavy child's play and imagination, and typically would rather play pretend than competitive games or sports. So, they excel at high concept and understanding things like psychology, or sociology, literature, or why something like algebra works. They also don't tend to get along with peers, and are isolated from groups, and made fun of by other classmates. And this can hamper their ability to constructively learn, as they receive mostly negative feedback from teachers and peers, instead of honing their abilities and nurturing their giftedness. And since they tend to get minor details wrong a lot, since their brain is thinking about the big picture rather than getting everything in its perfect arrangement, they tend to do bad at math and grammar at the lower levels, but will excel at higher learning. An example might be they may tend to lose against low rated chess players who have become proficient at the game, due to not wanting to memorize positions, but may win against higher rated opponents due to their extreme out of the box thinking and creativity. Or they may fail spelling tests and grammar tests and math tests, but be extremely gifted at forming coherent narratives and story structures, and will often go deeper than most when exploring a concept; or they may be good at forming original and new math formulas, as they tend to understand the "Why" instead of the "How".