Thank-you for your comment masterjen. I have had to learn better ways of communicating over the years, as I work in academia. I understand how some people would be skeptical of what I am trying to say. I am phrasing it incorrectly. My oral and written communication skills are fine, understanding what he is saying is my problem, in a sense. I have had extensive neuropsychological tests at a university autism center in the States, when I was a young adult and I was found to have severe deficits in reading body language. I kid you not, someone could be smiling at me and some times I feel as if they are angry with me. I have partially learned, rather unsuccessfully, to read facial expressions, but I still have a lot of trouble if I am not really careful. My first instinct is always to read people wrong. I have a kind of facial blindness as well. All documented in extensive testing. I have a really difficult time with socialization. My family and friends sit in with me and try to explain that what the neurologist said and communicated was the exact opposite of what I think, but I feel helpless as I can't seem to wrap my head around it. He says a lot of possibilities for my symptoms, and one moment describes them as serious seizures and the next as spells. I truly don't understand why he can't stick to using one term, unambiguously, directly. He smiles at me, I know that much, but is it a negative smile, a sneer, or a happy smile? My family says he likes me and all of his patients note his abnormal level of compassion. I can't get it. The head neurologist, who is my outpatient doctor is very direct with me and understands my autism. She will be in to see me in a few days. Do you think I should try to explain this to him? I don't want to offend him. All of the nurses and doctors are like blank books, and I am not used to them so this is uncharted territory for me here. Also, he thinks I am having spells with no EEG recording, i.e. odd hand movements, but those are part of my illness and voluntary. I don't know how to make them understand the difference.