Chris Rock has been diagnosed with a nonverbal learning disorder, or NVLD, he has revealed.This means he struggles to understand nonverbal messages – which account for 80% of communication.‘All I understand are the words,’ the 55-year-old said. ‘All of those things [the consequences of the condition] are really great for writing jokes — they’re just not great for one-on-one relationships.’‘And I’d always just chalked it up to being famous,’ he added to The Hollywood Reporter. ‘Any time someone would respond to me in a negative way, I’d think, “Whatever, they’re responding to something that has to do with who they think I am.” Now, I’m realising it was me.
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