I was tested at the age of ten and diagnosed as ADHD/Gifted. I have reason to believe that medication was recommended, but rejected. I have a memory of overhearing my mother talking about trying those "diet pills," and not liking how they made her feel. This was the mid 1960's and she had no awareness that how they made her feel would not necessarily be how they made me feel. I have never been medicated. I was treated very poorly by the schools.
I have developed a strong mistrust of AI. I do use it for some things. Mostly for voice to text. For the last act of my life I have turned to writing. My muse is traveling by bike and on foot around my suburban environment, and occasionally nature. Voice to text allows me to capture thoughts before they evaporate into the scatter of my mind. When I get home I review the voice notes on my phone and "download" sitting at a proper keyboard.
My mistrust of AI stems from many people using it as a tool to do their thinking for them. The algorithms are written at the behest, and for the benefit of the tech giants, which are owned by the oligarchs instituting a New World Order. I have detected a rightward bias in autocorrest and autofill. I had an exchange with MS Copilot where I got it to admit to a pro-corporate bias.
Musks GROK has been outed as fascist. (btw, I read Stranger in a Strange Land. Musk doesn't grok. That requires empathy.)
This piece is written with the bare minimum of AI. At the lowest level firmware that translates keystrokes in to the pixels displayed as text on a screen is AI. I am actually quite proud of my Actual Intelligence.
On the topic of digital diagnostic tools, I discovered one for a different learning disability around the turn of the century. It is a condition, spectrum if you will, that I have almost none of.
Dyslexia.
In my life I became very skilled at Computer Aided Design. Not art related design, but the detailed functional drafting of blueprints for everything from building plans to precision aircraft parts. Aptitudes for this kind of work involve being able to mentally process shapes and proportions.
Geometry.
At the turn of the century I got a job teaching it at a for-profit trade school. They were profit motivated to the extent that it negatively impacted their ethics. There are aptitude tests involving geometry. I took them when I was younger and sailed through them. This particular "Institute" had used these tests at one time, but by 2000 had dropped them because too many "customers" were being rejected.
I learned early on that most students were capable of understanding the work. There were some that seemed to be having difficulty processing shapes and sizes. I did not understand what I was seeing at first. My background was in engineering, not special ed. I had been there about a year when a new student introduced himself and informed me that his "counselor" (actually a high pressure sales person with no background in counseling) told him I was the best one to help with his dyslexia.
I was blown over.
I stayed a total of three years, fighting with the admin to hire professional special ed help, which the eventually, and begrudgingly, did. Once I knew what I was seeing, I started to get a better sense of what dyslexia really was. I tried to research it on the internet. The most important lesson I got was that the internet was not a good place to learn about such things.
The most valuable thing I did learn was from coming across a memoir by a celebrity on his struggles with it. Stephen J. Cannell was one of the more prolific writers for television. His credits included The Rockford Files, and creation of The A-Team. Like me, he did poorly in college, but did graduate. He wrote by learning to touch type. He had professional typists fix it up.
The first descriptions I heard of the condition was that people with it saw letters backward. I believe this is the perception of many people not familiar with it. I came to realize that it involves the way the brain processes visual input. I strongly suspect that depth perception and peripheral vision are affected. I have been tested and am exceptionally strong in both.
Are depth perception and peripheral vision valuable in hunting? What is the comorbidity of dyslexia and ADHD? Based on my growing self awareness, I suspect it is low.
I was tested at the age of ten and diagnosed as ADHD/Gifted. I have reason to believe that medication was recommended, but rejected. I have a memory of overhearing my mother talking about trying those "diet pills," and not liking how they made her feel. This was the mid 1960's and she had no awareness that how they made her feel would not necessarily be how they made me feel. I have never been medicated. I was treated very poorly by the schools.
I have developed a strong mistrust of AI. I do use it for some things. Mostly for voice to text. For the last act of my life I have turned to writing. My muse is traveling by bike and on foot around my suburban environment, and occasionally nature. Voice to text allows me to capture thoughts before they evaporate into the scatter of my mind. When I get home I review the voice notes on my phone and "download" sitting at a proper keyboard.
My mistrust of AI stems from many people using it as a tool to do their thinking for them. The algorithms are written at the behest, and for the benefit of the tech giants, which are owned by the oligarchs instituting a New World Order. I have detected a rightward bias in autocorrest and autofill. I had an exchange with MS Copilot where I got it to admit to a pro-corporate bias.
Musks GROK has been outed as fascist. (btw, I read Stranger in a Strange Land. Musk doesn't grok. That requires empathy.)
This piece is written with the bare minimum of AI. At the lowest level firmware that translates keystrokes in to the pixels displayed as text on a screen is AI. I am actually quite proud of my Actual Intelligence.
On the topic of digital diagnostic tools, I discovered one for a different learning disability around the turn of the century. It is a condition, spectrum if you will, that I have almost none of.
Dyslexia.
In my life I became very skilled at Computer Aided Design. Not art related design, but the detailed functional drafting of blueprints for everything from building plans to precision aircraft parts. Aptitudes for this kind of work involve being able to mentally process shapes and proportions.
Geometry.
At the turn of the century I got a job teaching it at a for-profit trade school. They were profit motivated to the extent that it negatively impacted their ethics. There are aptitude tests involving geometry. I took them when I was younger and sailed through them. This particular "Institute" had used these tests at one time, but by 2000 had dropped them because too many "customers" were being rejected.
I learned early on that most students were capable of understanding the work. There were some that seemed to be having difficulty processing shapes and sizes. I did not understand what I was seeing at first. My background was in engineering, not special ed. I had been there about a year when a new student introduced himself and informed me that his "counselor" (actually a high pressure sales person with no background in counseling) told him I was the best one to help with his dyslexia.
I was blown over.
I stayed a total of three years, fighting with the admin to hire professional special ed help, which the eventually, and begrudgingly, did. Once I knew what I was seeing, I started to get a better sense of what dyslexia really was. I tried to research it on the internet. The most important lesson I got was that the internet was not a good place to learn about such things.
The most valuable thing I did learn was from coming across a memoir by a celebrity on his struggles with it. Stephen J. Cannell was one of the more prolific writers for television. His credits included The Rockford Files, and creation of The A-Team. Like me, he did poorly in college, but did graduate. He wrote by learning to touch type. He had professional typists fix it up.
The first descriptions I heard of the condition was that people with it saw letters backward. I believe this is the perception of many people not familiar with it. I came to realize that it involves the way the brain processes visual input. I strongly suspect that depth perception and peripheral vision are affected. I have been tested and am exceptionally strong in both.
Are depth perception and peripheral vision valuable in hunting? What is the comorbidity of dyslexia and ADHD? Based on my growing self awareness, I suspect it is low.