Basically, I have a whole host of weird neuro problems that happen with varying frequency. Communication issues are just the ones that press the most frequently on my brain. I got referred on the basis of a TBI, but I understand those very rarely show worsening symptoms. (But it's also pretty rare for those to not get caught when they happen. The probable TBI happened in 2003.) 1: struggle with math. I've managed to push my skills up to just below average, but I always got very weird ideas in my head as to how math works (like exponents being just a weird way to express multiplication, so 3^5 would cause me to write down 15.) This has gone into my problems understanding language. When I insistently misread, I am much more likely to misread numbers, causing me to be late for things. Work doesn't know this is a thing that happens, but they've been extremely forgiving anyway. 2: fine motor issues. Handwriting, holding things, tying shoes. It took me forever to learn how to tie my shoes, and I still am uncomfortable with it. I swear my typing has gotten worse recently, where I've gotten a lot more typos than I did before and I've slowed down. Typing used to be the only area where I went "I can't have issues with fine motor control. I type super fast, super accurately." Well... not anymore. I type moderately fast, not very accurately. 3: language in general. My spelling is getting worse, and I rely heavily on spellcheck to get by. I tend to mash idioms together that vaguely would mean the same thing. (This is why I joke I can't teach English as a Second Language: I struggle with the same things they would: spelling, grammar, and idioms.) 4: memory. While a lot of my memory issues I don't think are actually neurological, I have gone as far as to strap a key to my car because I've locked my key in my car over fifty times. You'd think someone would learn, right? I've lost my purse over twenty times. (I tend to wrap that around my legs now if I have to unhook it and place it on the floor.) I always got in trouble at school for not doing homework, but somewhere along in the process I'd forget: forget to do it, forget it at home, forget to turn it in. It was a mess. So this is why I wasn't referred straight to an SLP.