Moonwalking with Einstein -
The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
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Saturday, 24 September 2016
quote [ In North Carolina, Massey Hill Classical High School teacher Lee Francis invoked Texas v. Johnson, the 1989 Supreme Court case that overturned bans on desecrating the United States flag.
And then, to demonstrate that point, he desecrated a flag. Specifically, he stepped on it three times — or “stomped” on it, depending on who you ask. ] It's one thing if any parents had complained, but this straight up government employees trying to violate this man's First Amendment rights, and sadly, helping him demonstrate his point.
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SnappyNipples said @ 5:39am GMT on 25th September
Yeah my LD went diagnosed for most of my life and was probably the reason I dropped out of HS at the 10th grade. I couldn't get the work in on time and back then we didn't have word processors. The disability did not affect my reading and even back then my reading level was beyond my grade level. When I was blowing off my English teacher I was reading Dune in class. My strong reading skills got me through the military, then later in civil aviation and aerospace. When I went back to school for my undergrad one of my professors seen my notes and had me checked out at the school of ed. By this time using brute force I mastered my undergrad subjects because the word processor is the tool of choice to work with people with dysgraphia. It takes the work out of writing so you can concentrate on content. Graduate school just ratcheted up a notch because its was nothing but research and papers ending with a capstone thesis. Odds are if you had some difficulty in school in the past you might of had an undiagnosed SLD *specific learning disability* The most common ones are literacy related.
An example of my notes from this week from my post grad class. You will notice where I scratch out where my brain said screw you, try again sucker and some words may be missing letters. Also I'm not actually writing letters its more like drawing hence how almost no letters look the same. I am so lucky I do not have dyslexia I would of been really screwed over and probably never had a career.
http://imgur.com/Ni3dQdG
SnappyNipples said @ 5:42am GMT on 25th September
Yeah my LD went diagnosed for most of my life and was probably the reason I dropped out of HS at the 10th grade. I couldn't get the work in on time and back then we didn't have word processors. The disability did not affect my reading and even back then my reading level was beyond my grade level. When I was blowing off my English teacher I was reading Dune in class. My strong reading skills got me through the military, then later in civil aviation and aerospace. When I went back to school for my undergrad one of my professors seen my notes and had me checked out at the school of ed. By this time using brute force I mastered my undergrad subjects because the word processor is the tool of choice to work with people with dysgraphia. It takes the work out of writing so you can concentrate on content. Graduate school just ratcheted up a notch because its was nothing but research and papers ending with a capstone thesis. Odds are if you had some difficulty in school in the past you might of had an undiagnosed SLD *specific learning disability* The most common ones are literacy related.
An example of my notes from this week from my post grad class. You will notice where I scratch out where my brain said screw you, try again sucker and some words may be missing letters. Also I'm not actually writing letters its more like drawing hence how almost no letters look the same. I am so lucky I do not have dyslexia with my dysgraphia, I would of been really screwed over and probably never had a career.
http://imgur.com/Ni3dQdG
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SnappyNipples said @ 5:39am GMT on 25th September [Score:3 Informative]
Yeah my LD went diagnosed for most of my life and was probably the reason I dropped out of HS at the 10th grade. I couldn't get the work in on time and back then we didn't have word processors. The disability did not affect my reading and even back then my reading level was beyond my grade level. When I was blowing off my English teacher I was reading Dune in class. My strong reading skills got me through the military, then later in civil aviation and aerospace. When I went back to school for my undergrad one of my professors seen my notes and had me checked out at the school of ed. By this time using brute force I mastered my undergrad subjects because the word processor is the tool of choice to work with people with dysgraphia. It takes the work out of writing so you can concentrate on content. Graduate school just ratcheted up a notch because its was nothing but research and papers ending with a capstone thesis. Odds are if you had some difficulty in school in the past you might of had an undiagnosed SLD *specific learning disability* The most common ones are literacy related.
An example of my notes from this week from my post grad class. You will notice where I scratch out where my brain said screw you, try again sucker and some words may be missing letters. Also I'm not actually writing letters its more like drawing hence how almost no letters look the same. I am so lucky I do not have dyslexia with my dysgraphia, I would of been really screwed over and probably never had a career.
http://imgur.com/Ni3dQdG
