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Susan Grigor's avatar

I quite agree with you. 1. Long ago students were tested for being "color-blind", Those people could not distinguish the colours red, green, and yellow, so they were unable to "read" the traffic lights at intersections. But the military found that such people made good snipers, because they were not deceived by camouflage suits and could "see" the enemy soldiers clearly. 2. There are some people who find that the words move around on the page so reading is nearly impossible. This is because the white paper that we print books and lessons on glare and so "blind" the reader. Everyone may think that they are stupid, but they just need to have a different color of background paper. Each may need their own color, but many just need yellow. This is called Irlen Syndrome. https://irlen.com/what-is-irlen-syndrome/

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Mmerose's avatar

Being ADHD, (formally diagnosed by conservative, resistant Kaiser) (Mom actually kept my school reports from childhood!) I am of the awkward generation maybe too old for when identification might have helped me cope, but too old for medication, and definitely too old to have turned it into some great success. Being ADHD, I persevered through roughly half of this essay. I got to the part where the prospect of reciprocal theories of brain damage were being juxtaposed. Thanks! The people with the opposite brain damage are the congenital accountants, right?

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