This information is so true and important!! Thank you, Thom.
AND, everyone on the Autism Spectrum: having ADD, ADHD, dyslexia, Asperger's Syndrome, and inherited autism, not vaccine-induced autism, are here with the built-in brain difference to live in the moment, connected to intuitive knowledge, thinking and acting outside the box, Not being farmers, but innovators.
ADD needs to stand for Attention Differently Directed and Not Attention Deficit Disorder. We have over time (since Bacon and Descartes said only thinking was the way to know reality), we have lost the compass of our whole brain, both right( hunters)and left (farmers) hemispheres, the left only for linear, sequential thoughts. Thus, like a boat turning in one direction, our world is going in circles, rather than straight.
YouTube talk: Spectrum Learning Differences, Not Disorders 1:10.
Substack: Our Wise Intelligences
Education needs to be discovery/experience-based while young, as Montessori/Waldorf/Piaget knew.
Project Based Learning, PBL, best for all learners, using both right and left brain intelligences, as they were meant to be used, to create a world of connection and good.
Like disabled; add one! The book, "You Mean I'm Not...." was a revelation to me, and thanks to Thom and other random connections I continue self-recognition, but too late for "worldly success." Age 72, just getting what comfort there is from explaining the failures. It would have been interesting to experience an educational path as you describe.
Mmerose, Yes, it is unfortunate that the misunderstandings of our differences were there. I am ADD, differently oriented myself, and am 76. However, it is not too late to spread the word about different learners to others who do not know, and about how education needs to change. There are many grandparents and parents who worry about the children in their families whom they think have deficits. Thank you for sharing.
The one time I tried to "spread the word" didn't go well. It wasn't about ADD etc exactly. It was about gifted musical "ear." In a pizza place there was a juke box, and a family came in and there was a little girl. Four or five others settled in and the one little girl came over to the juke box and proceeded to sing beautiful harmonies with two or three pop songs. I heard her loud and clear: not just the tune, but harmonies, like people had asked me about, how could I do that, all my life. As I was leaving, I paused by the table where the rest of the family were, and said, your little girl is singing beautiful harmonies with the music, I just want to say, I hope you encourage her singing. They looked at me like I was some kind of freak. I have always hoped that girl got to sing.
Excuse me for saying, perhaps, if this sounds offensive, but bless you. How lucky you are to have that singing ability and the intuitive knowing and hearing it in the young girl. I tried to speak to parents of kids on the spectrum several years ago, many, and I was rejected and felt dejected also.
However, I've come to the conclusion that better to recognize the light and fire of knowledge when I see it, and pass it on to that individual or whomever is listening. We're going thru a change point in life of leaving just the linear mind and opening to connected and reciprocal living with gratitude for all. I am grateful for you, and others with our differently directed attentions, and all others, as well.
We need a balance of interconnected, and outer productive lives, those both coming from our right or left brain, so, even more one way or the other, our societies can complement each other, and progress toward solutions for a beautiful and successful world.
I had conversations with a few bright kindred spirits before ADHD was recognized, about that funny thing, I'm kind of flaky with everyday stuff, but by golly you want me there in an emergency! Anyhow, the headline is kind of coincidental. Visiting a relative for Thanksgiving, I ran early and decided to drive around the town of Roseville, CA. Fortunately, I haven't had much call to be in that kind of massive Suburbia. Miles and miles of these mansions, but packed in 10 feet apart, but everyone must be a millionaire, they all look like 4-bedroom, 5-bath and I DID feel anxious! No wonder people are crazy, how can they live like that?
ALL on the "autism spectrum," need to be released from the stigma of being misunderstood, mistreated, and disempowered.
Thank you, again, Thom.
This is me to a tee. Especially the anxiety diagnosis. Thank you Thom
This information is so true and important!! Thank you, Thom.
AND, everyone on the Autism Spectrum: having ADD, ADHD, dyslexia, Asperger's Syndrome, and inherited autism, not vaccine-induced autism, are here with the built-in brain difference to live in the moment, connected to intuitive knowledge, thinking and acting outside the box, Not being farmers, but innovators.
ADD needs to stand for Attention Differently Directed and Not Attention Deficit Disorder. We have over time (since Bacon and Descartes said only thinking was the way to know reality), we have lost the compass of our whole brain, both right( hunters)and left (farmers) hemispheres, the left only for linear, sequential thoughts. Thus, like a boat turning in one direction, our world is going in circles, rather than straight.
www.HeartCenteredMinds.com;
YouTube talk: Spectrum Learning Differences, Not Disorders 1:10.
Substack: Our Wise Intelligences
Education needs to be discovery/experience-based while young, as Montessori/Waldorf/Piaget knew.
Project Based Learning, PBL, best for all learners, using both right and left brain intelligences, as they were meant to be used, to create a world of connection and good.
Like disabled; add one! The book, "You Mean I'm Not...." was a revelation to me, and thanks to Thom and other random connections I continue self-recognition, but too late for "worldly success." Age 72, just getting what comfort there is from explaining the failures. It would have been interesting to experience an educational path as you describe.
Mmerose, Yes, it is unfortunate that the misunderstandings of our differences were there. I am ADD, differently oriented myself, and am 76. However, it is not too late to spread the word about different learners to others who do not know, and about how education needs to change. There are many grandparents and parents who worry about the children in their families whom they think have deficits. Thank you for sharing.
The one time I tried to "spread the word" didn't go well. It wasn't about ADD etc exactly. It was about gifted musical "ear." In a pizza place there was a juke box, and a family came in and there was a little girl. Four or five others settled in and the one little girl came over to the juke box and proceeded to sing beautiful harmonies with two or three pop songs. I heard her loud and clear: not just the tune, but harmonies, like people had asked me about, how could I do that, all my life. As I was leaving, I paused by the table where the rest of the family were, and said, your little girl is singing beautiful harmonies with the music, I just want to say, I hope you encourage her singing. They looked at me like I was some kind of freak. I have always hoped that girl got to sing.
Excuse me for saying, perhaps, if this sounds offensive, but bless you. How lucky you are to have that singing ability and the intuitive knowing and hearing it in the young girl. I tried to speak to parents of kids on the spectrum several years ago, many, and I was rejected and felt dejected also.
However, I've come to the conclusion that better to recognize the light and fire of knowledge when I see it, and pass it on to that individual or whomever is listening. We're going thru a change point in life of leaving just the linear mind and opening to connected and reciprocal living with gratitude for all. I am grateful for you, and others with our differently directed attentions, and all others, as well.
We need a balance of interconnected, and outer productive lives, those both coming from our right or left brain, so, even more one way or the other, our societies can complement each other, and progress toward solutions for a beautiful and successful world.
Thanks, Gloria for your likes.
I had conversations with a few bright kindred spirits before ADHD was recognized, about that funny thing, I'm kind of flaky with everyday stuff, but by golly you want me there in an emergency! Anyhow, the headline is kind of coincidental. Visiting a relative for Thanksgiving, I ran early and decided to drive around the town of Roseville, CA. Fortunately, I haven't had much call to be in that kind of massive Suburbia. Miles and miles of these mansions, but packed in 10 feet apart, but everyone must be a millionaire, they all look like 4-bedroom, 5-bath and I DID feel anxious! No wonder people are crazy, how can they live like that?