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I finally found a video of someone who has the same thing that i have. I am 47 and was just diagnosed with merld. My 16 year old daughter has merld too.

3:28 I can tolerate if someone is in A1 to B1 level, if it's B2 to C2 level and speaks fast, I'd have to write it down. Unless it's a topic that I really like that could get me a leg up in a conversation. I was oblivious to my difficult experiences not until I was diagnosed with AuADHD at 29 and 35. I beginning to understand my condition. Thank you Alyssa for sharing.

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did you have issues as a toddler, as well? My 2-year old was diagnosed with this and I am worried about his future.

Thank you for sharing this. My 4-year-old boy is being treating for the same condition. It's really nice to hear about how someone has dealt with this. It's pretty scary for us parents but you seem to do a good job at coping with it and I hope we can help our son do that too.

I’m late commenting, I was diagnosed with a receptive language disorder from a young age. I am now 26. Finding work can be difficult.

Thanks for the video. Editing is your friend.

I think these days many kids with lanuage disorders are given Autism diagnosis and doesnt seem right. Did you ever think you had ASD but you dont?

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I am aware of the fact that there is lipstick on my teeth in part of the video! I couldn't be bothered to re-film and re-edit the video so please understand! Thank youuuu

Please watch this video in the highest possible quality so it’s watchable! After uploading my video quality got messed up even more; when I record with my camera the issue should be solved. Please remember this video is mostly here for my words, not my face. :/

I have this I was diagnosed as a toddler, I always new I had a learning disability but I didn’t know the specifics I’m 25 and I just Went through my Ieps and found I had this boy do thing’s finally make sense 😮

Hey,haven’t been back to your channel in awhile but wanted to say hope you’re doing well !

Me !!!!! Made me cry bc I was diagnosed in the 5 th grade but it never got easy I had to go through trial and error . It sucks!!! Life would’ve been so much easier but oh well

I've been like that all my life I'm 64 now and just now finding this out. I'm lacking in understanding and comprehension. I hear what people saying but can't read between the lines. whatever people say is all I know beating around the bush I don't understand but if you speak directly what's on your mind then yes I understand you. my memory is weak after 10 seconds whatever you told me is gone. it is hard for me to express myself because I don't know what to say to people without sounding childish, immature. I think my brain did not fully mature as a kid so I'm afraid to communicate with people they quickly notice something odd about me. So I keep a low profile. all I know is cartoons and TV shows and janitorial work at 64 years old. I was born this way and people would laugh at me thinking I'm silly or funny but to me I was doing my Best to communicate seriously. having a mind of a 15 year old is not fun . I live a Sad and lonely life. my girlfriend is 40 but her mind is age of 15 too we both suffer from language disorder

Woah. I so feel this. I feel I need to “lie” to people to full express my ideas or where I’m coming from. I take things to the extreme. I will say things like “I love Jesus Christ so much I’m an atheist” or I’ll try to imperially describe “flat earth” by describing how we knew it wasn’t flat for tens of thousands of years via trigonometry using right angles and being still perfect. Another example is when I tell people I feel belittled, they think the belittlement comes from my expression or theirs. The belittlement comes from the body. But I like see belittlement as an outside action (or speech itself) as the actual thing that is being belittled. How do you coup with this…?

I'm in my mid to late 20s and I never understood what was wrong with me. As a 9 year old I was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder but I genuinely never connected the dots because I could understand social situations, sarcasm, jokes, I didn't have most of the symptoms of ASD. I have a visual impairment (astigmatism+strabismus) and I feel I also have language disorder, both of which have made it seem like I had autism, but I don't. I even thought I had dyslexia at some point, because I had a very hard time with reading comprehension, even though I was one of the first in my class to learn how to read. Everything you said is just so on point. Even the amazing memory. That is so me. I feel this has sadly blocked a lot of opportunities in my life and it has delayed my full potential. I hate that. Thank you for this video! It makes me understand even more that I'm not alone.

Thank you for posting. My 3 year old son was diagnosed with the same disorder. Unfortunately he no longer qualifies for speech therapy because his issue is not considered “severe” enough. I am hoping he will qualify for services once he starts elementary school. I worry about how this condition will affect his school, work and social life. I already see how his teachers in preschool don’t understand why he won’t listen, even though they know he has this disorder. I get notes home from them all the time about it. It makes me really sad how there seems to be no support for his disability.

Thank you for this. My 4 year old just got diagnosed with this.

My daughter has mixed expressive & receptive language disorder along with Autism & I want to thank you for sharing your experience. It helps parents like me to understand more about it & about ways we can help our children. It’s great to see how well you are doing & gives me hope for the future!

I have an expressive disorder me too. Actually I received diagnosis at 5/6 years old and I did a lot of speech therapy during primary school, I've started to educate myself about it later, around 18-19 bc I was really ashamed of my disorder. Right now I haven't issues in understanding, but sometimes I struggle to communicate especially in English, that is my second language. When I speak about familiar topics there isn't huge difficulties, but when I'm out of my confort zone I start to hesitate a little and I look confused. Usually I haven't great issues when I write bc I can take my time and possibly checking the sentence I wrote, I leave out some word rarely. The part that I struggle the most is speaking: I feel like I have to be fluent and rapid al of the time, and I should avoid any grammar mistakes. It has to do more with my insecurity, i perfectly know that in 99% what I say is understandable even though I do some little mistakes, but I'm scared to be judged less worthy or less smart just bc I speak slower than average of people. For me learning a second language was pretty complicated in particular the grammar is tricky to understand and remember but also in the first time I struggled with my limited expressive vocabulary, when I've started to speak effectively my problem was to not be able to keep in mind what I wanted to say, and consequently look really out of place when I speak English. Fortunately I'm overcoming this little obstacles and I can speak effectively English, I'm not fluent like a person who has my same level of English. I'm feeling a little overwhelmed by the expectations that people could have about my speaking in English, bc I know, I don't look like I'm an upper intermediate level

My speech therapist wants me to make videos of me talking or explaining things to improve my speech.

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I'm glad I found you. I'll follow you into battle my friend lol.

My 20 month old was diagnosed today with this diagnosis. Thank you so much for sharing. I know God is working beautifully in you and in my daughter. His promise stands, she will sing and worship Him for the rest of her life. May God bless you and the many people that come across your video.

I completely understand you!!! This is the story of my life!! It seems like I didn't listen to people or disregard whatever they say because I can hear EXACTLY what is being said it just never registered to me as language or something like that? I don't know how to explain it either. When I do register as language I always think the person meant something else. U are perfect! Thank u for sharing

Does kids with this diagnose have memory problems too?

My son who is in the profile picture has this disorder. He is now 8yrs old. I am so happy we found your page. Very encouraging.

Thanks for sharing your story! I was also diagnosed with this. I find it that a lot of people sometimes miss my message so sometimes so I find myself repeating myself hoping that I make sense to the person I’m talking to. Usually it takes a few tries but I get it eventually! I find it really hard to find words and put together a decent sentence without losing or forgetting a certain word. I feel more effected by the receptive part of this condition. I find it hard to sit around multiple people at a table and understand each individual person. Most of the time I feel lost and it can feel isolating. I’ve had incidents where my teachers embarrassed me (probably not intentionally but rather out of frustration because I could not follow directions of keep up. Worst part is that it would happen in front of everybody all the time.

Hello Alyssa I hope you are well I have a little boy with language disorder so I was watching your video you did 5 years ago Thank you. Any way I pray you are well Just checking on you as you haven't upload in a while. Take care and God bless you

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My son has a speech delay of mixed receptive and expressive language. He just turned 4. Any advice? I have had him in speech since 18 months. I worry about his future but your videos give me hope. Do you know or have videos of when you were around 4. You speak so well and it is my hope my son can talk as much as you one day. God bless.

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This video makes me feel like I'm not alone people don't understand how difficult this order is to struggle with it as an adult; it is more challenging to deal with.

Thanks you - this was really helpful and informative

I'm very grateful that you shared this video, because it shows that I'm not the only that has MERLD. Growing up, I've always knew that I was different from most of the other kids, but I couldn't quite point my finger on it. I'm the kind of person that takes multiple times just to intake what's being said in a textbook and I feel like no matter how much I try to prepare for a TED Talk or have a conversation, I stumble on words every now and then. I love making friendships, but compare that to someone that doesn't have MERLD, it's a lot harder to do, and it really does suck. I thought it was my Autism bc I was diagnosed with it. That was when I saw on my SLP report that I was diagnosed with MERLD at age 5 (I'm 23 now), I decided to search for answers, especially this video where I found someone that talked and facially expressed in a similar manner as I do, and described a lot of the issues that accurately describe myself when it comes to expressing and intaking language. Honestly, I wish we MERLD-ites had more support. MERLD is something that I will live and die with for the rest of my life because it's incurable and I don't think there's anything wrong with that now that society is becoming more aware of developmental disorders, but it seems like once you become an adult, you no longer have access to Speech Therapists that you had from K-12, but despite the help they provide, I've always felt like they focus way too much on the autism part than the MERLD part. Perhaps it's because of how significantly rare you'll get MERLD compared to autism. On top of that, a significant amount (I'd say half of many the articles I read) of the resources on MERLD online are targeted towards parents that kids with MERLD. So for adults like me, I'd say that I'm pretty much on my own.

Update: I have created the discord server. If you want to join, here's the link :) The link: discord.gg/UtKGstDuGK You are so brave putting this out in the world, it really put light on things... I have this same disorder and I've never heard someone describe the same problems that I have... I'm thinking about making a Discord group for this since we're really the only ones that can understand each other having the same disability. If anyone wants to join, let me know. We can answer each other's questions to learn more about it because I know that I have many questions about this that are left unanswered...

My son is 3 years and was diagnosed with this delay at 2 years 7 months. We are still trying to get therapy for him. However we are trying what we can at home. There is nothing more we want but to hear our little one use the words he knows functionally.

thankyou for doing this video, my daughter has been struggling and we are trying to get the right support for her she is 7 years next month, we have a report from the eductaional psychologist and speech and language therapist detailing similar issue that you have discussed in your video. Im interested to know what line of work your in and how you have used you specific qualities with memory to yoour adventage :-)

What a great video! As a mom with a special needs child and a speech therapist, Thank You for sharing this with us!

I have a little boy who is now 6 with MERLD. Thank you for sharing your journey with all of us. You are an inspiration to us.

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I have the same exact disorder. I’m also on the autism spectrum