YES YES YES…….Tid that has always been my point, albeit poorly executed by me I’m sure. Truth…dyslexia as well as ADD, ADHD…..DO NOT fall within the acceptable “Range” of the rigid stereo-typical left hemisphere/frontal lobe processing spectrum. If an individual does not fall within that tight rigid spectrum, or close to it….. they are labeled for convenience….”disabled’……and really many of us are not, we don’t all have a learning disability….for many, our problems are with a teaching disabilities. Society does not understand, they have no capability (often) to see beyond the “STANDARDIZED RANGE”…….and a standardized learning/communication format.
The fact is…..the brain is capable of so many different paths, modes, and with those permutations and combinations comes so many different perspectives, collection, and retrieval modes that are outside of the NARROW range of acceptance that it is frightening, staggering actually. Even now, if I could speak rather than type, write…..it would be much easier for me to communicate and share my thoughts, but…. I am a prime example, I never finished my Psych Degree because of it…..I struggled to communicate with the written word, as I do here, there is so much going on…. I feel even now, I am fumbling my thoughts terribly. I would “wow” my profs in class, they were astounded and yet every time I turned in a paper, wrote an exam….they were terribly disappointed…they expected so much more……and yes, my work was passable….70’s and 80’s…but it was a horrible struggle to get that, which fell so so short of my knowledge, understanding and verbal performance. Fact is, I would start writing my papers, the first week of class and handed them in last day, late, under the profs door. for a medium grade….it was painful. I’m not a good writer…..so what…..I could out think and verbalize like nobody else…but that is not the standard measure is it????
So, yes….’learning different’…… and there are so many other differences it is astounding! The problems as I see it (simplified)….is it is so much simpler/comfortable to label and discard…..when really in many instances the system is disabled and we are missing entire groups of brilliant minds, whose see different patterns, have different intelligence, perceive the world in a very different way……it is a terrible shame!!! Now impose that narrow thinking on a child in their very very early formative development years……tell them again and again and again….they just need to try harder….tell their parents they a disabled….tell their peer group they don’t belong….tell them they are learning challenged…send them away to the isolation of “Special Needs’…..what is likely the outcome…….just what we have.
I’m just mad??? I guess maybe, sorta……but more to the point is I feel very distraught or frustrated with narrow thinking….even here people seem to desire to be legally labeled, they want a “legal” disorder definition…..many appear to want to have verification that they are “disabled’ for accommodation!!! Well damn it….I believe before that happens there is an educational process of Linear people that needs to happen First!!! Why the hell do some of our finest minds have to struggle and struggle beyond anybody else’s struggle????
Wg……your quite often stimulating (for me anyway, thanks) but…….well. I reject Barkely…….and I reject the Barkely-type thinking that says just because we haven’t mastered some things that the Linear world does with ease……that we are broken!!! This is their game….their environment….their standards and their rules…..and their labels. Remember, it was not so long ago that here in N. American an entire race of people was labeled and labeled horribly….as moronic, incapable of complex thought…..thought to be fit only as draft animals. It was common thinking…. validated, and supported learned people in society. Even India today the Caste system places people as the exalted ones and others as dirty, the lowest caste……and movement from caste to caste is near impossible. So thinking “du jour” or the majority, pulls no weight with me…… it actually makes me question it!!! Historically…..accepted thinking of the day has proved time and time again to be false……and faulty at best. There really is so much under the sun that we don’t understand…..and we continually are amazed, astounded at how rudimentary our thinking in hindsight was/is….what were once universal truths….embedded beliefs fall by the way side. Ignorance….is rampant, and can be cruel and harsh…….it’s nobodies fault, we as a species are infantile at ruling this planet…….but remember, the only thing that can change that are people.
or sumpthin’ like that……. 
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