Patient's question:
I never interacted with or played with the people around me since I was young. Sometimes when family members spoke to me, I would just agree without understanding, as my mind couldn't process it. I couldn't even explain what I wanted to do, my mind was just blank. I would never memorize the multiplication table, and others called me a mentally retarded child, which I didn't understand. What kind of help do I need: Do mentally retarded people have complications?Doctor's answer:
The symptoms of intellectual disability can be categorized into the following types:1. Slowed sensory processing speed, finding it easier to understand the effects of visual pathways than sensory effects.
2. Severe concentration, with extremely narrow attention span.
3. Poor memory, requiring numerous repetitions to learn many skills, but forgetting them completely without practice.
4. Impaired verbal ability, only able to speak simple words and phrases.
5. Low cognitive ability, lacking concrete thinking skills, imagination, and induction, and unable to apply knowledge to new situations.
6. Almost no understanding of numbers, able to learn simple addition and subtraction through rote memorization.
7. Unstable emotions, poor self-control.