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To: luckystarmom; Lazamataz
Giftedness can also mimick ADD.

Absolutely. Dyslexia, according to many is considered a gift because of the "highly visually oriented" learning style.

For example..
My just took his standardized tests for school and during the reading comprehension phase, he would score about 25-30% higher if the paragraph was read to him, versus than if he had to read it himself.

Visual thinking is quite amazing. Consider that many of the major inventors/theorists were dyslexics.
(ie: Einstein, Edison)

Laz:
Does an athiest, dyslexic, who suffers from insomia stay awake at night pondering if there is a DOG?

65 posted on 04/18/2003 2:14:23 PM PDT by Johnny Gage (God Bless our Military, God Bless President Bush, GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!)
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To: Johnny Gage
Until I was in my 20's, I had no idea that there was any method of thinking except visual thinking.

I agree; visual thinking is quite amazing.
79 posted on 04/18/2003 3:12:29 PM PDT by Sweet_Sunflower29 (Snapping fingers in a *whatever_shape_it_is* for emphasis.)
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To: Johnny Gage
..."highly visually oriented"...

I've never heard this. As one who has been dysletic for decades (past tense sedaced), the main problems seem to be the reversal of letters and numbers along with a (slight in my case) disconnect of words with their referents. (The map really isn't the territory.)

I do know of people considered dysletic who see numbers in arbitrary geometric patterns. Like:

44 477 34 8....
12 743 16 194....
2 45 466 744....
..............

Theses people have trouble with math; I had to teach them algorithmic rather than intuitive methods of computation. Fortunately I see the numbers in a line (ordered by magnetude). (I do see days of the year in a circle, Christmas on top and July 4 on the bottom. I know one person who sees a year as a horshoe with November connecting the ends.)

Studying music does seem to help with dyslexia. Perhaps it's because music uses different brain circuits or because one just learns more discipline.

133 posted on 04/18/2003 9:23:26 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: Johnny Gage
Does an athiest, dyslexic, who suffers from insomia stay awake at night pondering if there is a DOG?

I know about a teenaged dyslexic who was a very religious, Dog-fearing boy.

But then he fell in with the a devil-worshipping crowd and started praying to Santa.

138 posted on 04/19/2003 7:16:28 AM PDT by Lazamataz (c) Entertaining beautiful women since 1972 ! :^)
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