Carol,
By the mid-70s everyone was using a calculator in math and business classes. In the 80s IN PUBLIC SCHOOL my son did not bang his head against his disability. He learned his way - with ADD and dyslexia. Long before he entered Summit, Public School teachers were showing me ways of helping him learn his way. Ranting on and on about your experiences 30 years ago is no more productive than me ranting on and on about physical abuse in Catholic schools. It has been recognized; it has changed. Everyone else has moved on. Why do you need to repeatedly retell the story of your childhood? Move on.

And you do wear your disabilties on your sleeve while everyone else has taken advantage of new attitudes and developments and moved on. I REPEAT: "Is it at all possible that it is your attitude and not your disability causing your perceived difficulties?"


Lizzie,
You have been barred repeatedly from various websites because you make a nuisance of yourself and prevent the websites from functioning. Your special gifts do not entitle you to screw around with the rest of us.

You listed 51 traits of people with dyslexia and ADD. On any given day I exhibit at least 30 of them and when my thyroid goes "off" all of them. So what?

This list supposedly shows how dyslexic people surpass the norm:
Persistence,

Concentration,

Perception,

Vivid imagination,

Creativity,

Drive and ambition,

Curiosity,

Thinking in pictures instead of words,

Superior reasoning,

Capable of seeing things differently from others,

Love of complexity,

Simultaneous multiple thought processing,

Quickly mastering new concepts, and

Not following the Crowd.



A total crock! It is a list of traits attributable to successful people in every walk of life, dyslexic or not.
Just because you find it in print does not make it gospel truth. You claim you are dyslexic. How is it that you are incapable of grasping even the simplest idea put forth by anyone here or anywhere else on the web?

Now back to our regular progamming:
You do not understand because you do not live in my mind. I teach truth and love and decency in a world full of anger and hate and my son is good while Dave's girls have been indoctrinated by a system that does not allow them to see that they are better than anyone else and yadayadayada