#learning disorder

[i-may-be-an-emu]

Shout out to people who can not tell the time

Shout out to people who need a little longer to figure out the time

Shout out to people who can't do "quick" maths in their head

Shout out to people who need to use a calculator for even "simple" maths

Shout out to people who need others to read number a for them

Shout out to people who cry over maths and numbers

Shout out to people who say the wrong numbers when reading or talking about prices and the time of day

Shout out to people who can't read charts and graphs

Shout out to people who get confused with mathematical concepts

Shout out to people who can't read music because it seems mathematical to them

Shout out to people who's maths struggles limit them

Shout out to people with dyscalculia or math struggles, basically. I am with you. I am here for you. I see you. It sucks, and most of the world doesn't even know about dyscalculia. But it'll be ok. It won't go away but people will help you, you can adapt. I love you. Screw math ❤

#dyscalculia #discalculia #it's not just “math dyslexia” by the way #It's so much more than “just maths dyslexia” #not saying people with dyslexia have it better off at all just saying it's a different disorder and we have no awareness or visibility #neurodivergent #neurodivergence #neurodiversity #I hate maths #learning disability #learning disorder

[robertseanleonardthinker]

i see actually neurodivergent trending so i just wanna say shoutout to my fellow learning disability ppl bc disorders other than adhd and autism r often left out when talking abt neurodivergency on the internet. we r all so awesome and cool and hot and smart regardless of our learning disabilities and i am kissing u all on the forehead so gently

#i don't talk abt it much here (bc this is a dumbass house md shitpost blog) but i have dyscalculia #I HATE NUMBERS!!!!!!!!! #anyways #ppl with learning disabilities i love yoi #actually neurodivergent #learning disability #learning disabilities #learning disorder #learning disorders #sld #slds #specific learning disorders #dyslexia #dyscalculia #dysgraphia #non verbal learning disability #nvld #and all the others that i know i am probably missing #mwah

[themogaidragon]

Dyscalculia Pride Flag

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Original posts of the learning disorders flags I made a while ago here (link) and here (link).

Symbol design from this dyscalculia flag (link) made by distinct-disability-flags (link). I did not design the symbol, just made a high png quality version of it.

For archival purposes, here is under the cut the flag template with each part as its own separated png. It can be used to make your own flags with the design. But please keep it related to only learning disorders flags and give credit.

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#dyscalculia #dyscalculic #learning disability #learning disabled #learning disorder #neurodivergent #neurodivergent flag #neurodivergency flag #neurodiversity #specific learning disability #neurodevelopmental disabilities #neurodevelopmental disorder #disability pride #mad pride

[magpie-murder]

it's so frustrating when people start to condescend you and treat you like a child when they realize you have some sort of disability. they never assume that you know they've stopped seeing you as an adult, even after they "randomly" start calling you things like "bud" and "dear" when they need to make clarifications and stop emotionally engaging with you at the same time. coincidentally this only happens after you tell them you have a disorder

#váli.txt #disabled #learning disability #learning disorder #learning disabled #disabled community

[charliejaneanders]

I've written a lot about Ms. Pennington, the special ed teacher who saved my life when I was kid. I was struggling with a huge learning disability and she worked with me to help me master schoolwork --- but she also encouraged me to nurture my creativity and used creative pursuits to motivate me to try harder in school. I was so happy I got to hang out with her yesterday, and I'm so grateful that we're still friends. She and I are proof that a dedicated and supportive teacher can make a huge difference in someone's life. I got to tell her once again that I'm the person I am today thanks to her. <3

#teachers #special education #learning disability #learning disorder #learning disabled

[youngpeachenthusiast]

going through my drafts is so funny because this was meant to be about getting tested for learning disorders and having the specialist look me dead in the eye halfway through the first consultation and tell me "you have adhd"

but consider: going to get tested for dick

#elliot talks #learning disorder #idk what to tag this #but it's so funny to me #dyslexia #dyscalculia #dysgraphia #dysorthography #is that how you spell it #well anyway #adhd #i guess #LMAO #the man who's testing me is so funny btw #like he's really nice #i appreciate him #i do not appreciate how expensive the tests are #but i appreciate that i am privileged enough to be able to even do it #okay bye #drafts

[undiagnosed-autistic]

Question for neurodivergent people?

Is focusing too much a thing? Sometimes I have the feeling that I can't control my ability to focus and that I can only choose between don't doing the thing and doing the thing but with so much focus that afterwards I feel sick (I usually am nauseous, lightheaded, exhausted).

It's like my brain thinks that I have to do the thing fast and at the best of my abilities, like it's a matter of life and death. I don't know how to explain it better, has anybody experienced something similar?

#question #help #nd #neurodivergent #autism #adhd #dislexia #learning disability #learning disorder #gifted #actually autistic #autistic #adhder #adhd experience #autistic experiences #actually adhd #neurodivergence

[burntoutuserboxes]

[This user has dyslexia.]

#dyslexia #learning disorder #mental health #this user is #userboxes #userbox #dark userboxes #black userboxes #black aesthetic #dark aesthetic #;q

[b4byfawn]

#learning disability #learning disorder

[nld-as-insights]

When Writing About Disabilities and Depression, be Careful with Cause and Effect.

When I was a teenager, a testing psychologist wrote that I had had a bout of depression “because she [I, Julia] then realized she was different from her peers.” Now, please consider how this statement is false and potentially harmful.

The depression part is true, but the because part is false. People do not get depressed because they realize they are different from their peers. I wasn’t depressed because I was different. I was depressed because I had unpleasant thoughts about being different.

The psychologist’s words fed the stereotype that depression is inevitable for people with disabilities. Depression is not inevitable for people with disabilities, but implying that it is could create a self-fulfilling prophecy.

If you have a disability, try to not let the stereotype about disabled people being depressed become a self-fulfilling prophecy for you. It doesn’t need to be. You can be happy.

Thanks,

Julia

#neurodivergence #non-verbal learning disorder #neurodiversity #non-verbal learning disability #autism #ableism #learning disability #learning disorder #disability #inspiration

[ichayalovesyou]

Spock & L’tak Terai: Discussions on Learning Disability

Based on a very thoughtful conversations I had with @zitronenfaltertochter

What is L’tak Terai?

L’tak Terai (Memory Alpha definition): The Vulcan term for a learning disability which included spatial and order dysphasia, affecting learning, reading, and writing. It was much like the Human condition known as dyslexia. The condition was fairly common on Earth, but not so much on Vulcan.

Spatial, meaning of or relating to space, the three-dimensional realm or expanse in which all material objects are located and all events occur.

Order, as in the arrangement or disposition of people or things in relation to each other according to a particular sequence, pattern, or method.

Dysphasia, language disorder marked by deficiency in the generation of speech, and sometimes also in its comprehension.

In Spock, this disability is attributed to inheriting (at least aspects of) Amanda Grayson’s dyslexia. L’tak Terai is seemingly a temporary developmental disability, while in Humans, conditions like dyslexia and dyscalculia are lifelong.

It manifests most obviously in canon during Light & Shadows as Spock reciting numbers in the incorrect order for his needs while in a disassociative fugue brought on by his contact with the Red Angel.

Which has led myself and others to misinterpret it as dyscalculia, and Amanda’s mention of Spock having L’tak Terai because of her dyslexia has led others to misinterpreting it as analogous to dyslexia. When in truth it is neither of them though it presents surface level symptoms attributed to both.

He’s also said to have L’tak Terai, but in truth, Spock’s condition is unique and that label is all they have. L’tak Terai supposedly goes away as a Vulcan child matures, for Spock it did not. Spock is half human, but his learning disability cannot fully be equated to human learning disabilities as we know them today. Like in a great many other things, Spock is unique.

A Mother With Learning Disability, Communicating With Her Child

Amanda deliberately read Spock Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland to try and tell him just because things are assumed to be one way, doesn’t mean they can’t also be another.

That sometimes up is down and left is right, and that it’s not inherently bad for things to be that way. Sometimes things that you are told are correct and concrete are wrong, or gruesomely oversimplified, and can be changed. It’s okay for things to not make sense, if you can hold true to yourself as you figure it out.

I may not have dyscalculia or dyslexia, but I did grow up with different learning disabilities. What came easily to others did not come easily to me. The way that I am isn’t wrong or bad, and it is not the source of my inner strengths, or my intelligence. But it does irrevocably effect how I interpret the world, it always has and always will.

It provides me a unique perspective on the world, it is not a superpower, but it is wisdom. Wisdom that can be applied to question and observe things in ways that don’t occur to most neurotypical people. It also has its extremely potent drawbacks, overstimulation, lack of accomadation among them.

L’tak Terai is NOT Presented As A Superpower

Spock is uniquely vulnerable to attempting to mindmeld with individuals who don’t/haven’t experienced time linearly. Processing and communicating things in a coherent order is already difficult for him. Everything changes when he melds with Future!Michael.

When presented with something that isn’t congruent with the order and spatial reasoning of time. Something he has worked so incredibly hard to understand and communicate, being proven wrong on such an intense, psychic, empathetic level. It strips away whatever accomadations he has built for himself in his mind.

All the workarounds and training, the bedrock of his inner world is uprooted. In ways that a neurotypical person could never understand. They don’t have to fight every second of every day to keep things in the “right” order, the order that people who aren’t like him understand. Spock’s struggle to communicate in that sense continues into TOS (which I’ll discuss in a moment).

It is not Spock’s L’tak Terai that saves the day. It is Spock’s long established remarkable intelligence and strength of character that helps solve the Red Angel’s mysteries. The L’tak Terai gives him the wisdom, not the inherent magical ability, to see the problem from angles no one else had thought of. That’s no super power, and to assume so I personally believe has an element of ableism to it.

It assumes Spock, or anyone else for that matter, could never have figured it out without L’tak Terai. As if Spock’s intelligence, perseverance, and ability to apply the wisdom born of his life experiences from having L’tak Terai had nothing to do with it. It removes the disability from the person it’s attached to. Frequently in a way that still seems to deem the person/character as “weaker” for having the disability inform their experiences, and their logic.

Does Spock Struggle With His L’tak Terai in TOS?

I think the answer is emphatically yes, and I will list a few examples to support my beliefs. I do not believe his disability magically disappears after it becomes directly relevant in Discovery, even if it isn’t directly stated. After all, TOS is notoriously riddled with ambiguities. Ambiguities that are now getting explanations and context through shows like Discovery & Strange New Worlds.

In The Naked Time, when he is unable to stop or make sense of the unbridled emotions the virus is forcing him to feel, he eventually starts counting by twos. As if fighting his L’tak Terai will let him get a grip on his emotions, struggling to apply himself to whatever he’s attempting on the monitor in that room. His thoughts are drawn to his mother. Amanda, who is dyslexic, who strove to help him cope with his own disability, who he could never tell he loved her.

In The Changeling, while Spock tends to anthropomorphize machines, projecting onto them a bit. Nomad is the first time (but not the last) that he mind melds with an artificial intelligence. Nomad has not experienced time linearly, it is damaged, there are blots in its memory, it has become something other than what it was designed for. Kirk has to intervene to prevent Spock from being trapped in Nomad’s mind. Afterward Spock is extremely disoriented and struggles to put into words what he and Nomad experienced.

In By Any Other Name, when Spock tries to remotely meld/influence the crew’s alien captor, it’s too much for him. He describes them processing space and time and mathematics in a way that’s advanced far beyond comprehension. The implication could be the effect the telepathic contact would not have been as severe, and more information could have been understood, if he didn’t have L’tak Terai.

In conclusion, I think they’re doing a decent job with Spock as disability representation so far. Though the mere fact that many have interpreted it as the “superpower disability” trope is indicative of the fact they could be doing even better. At SDCC this year, when asked about Spock’s learning disability, it was implied that there would be more to see of his struggle in the future. I have reasonably high hopes for it 💚🖖🏻💚

#star trek #Star trek discovery #star trek strange new worlds #star trek the original series #Star Trek meta #meta analysis #meta #light and shadows #spock #s’chn t’gai spock #amanda grayson #michael burnham #Sarek #l’tak terai #dyslexia #Vulcans #dyscalculia #disability representation #learning disability #learning disorder #the naked time #the Changeling #by any other name #tos #dsc #snw #snw speculation #ethan peck #lar trek

[zebulontheplanet]

I’m still an adult even though I have learning disabilities and borderline ID. That’s all.

#autism #medium support needs #semiverbal #actually autism #aac user #intellectually disabled #learning disorder

[themogaidragon]

Dyslexia Pride Flag

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Original posts of the learning disorders flags I made a while ago here (link) and here (link). There is no credits nor alternative texts on the older one.

Symbol design from the Pqbd org (link). I did not design the symbol, just made a high png quality version of it.

For archival purposes, here is under the cut the flag template with each part as its own separated png. It can be used to make your own flags with the design. But please keep it related to only learning disorders flags and give credit.

[IMAGE ID: An image with blue pieces at the right and left. The background is totally transparent. END ID]

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#dyslexia #learning disability #learning disorder #learning disorders #neurodiversity #neurodivergency flag #neurodivergent flag #dyslexic #dys #specific learning disability #disability pride #neurodivergent #mad pride #neurodevelopmental disabilities

[radlissa]

#actually dyscalculic #dyscalculia #dyscalculia awareness #education #girl #glow up #graduated #hello kitty #inspiration #kawaii #learning disorder #life #meaningful #mirror selfie #motivation #no it doesn‘t mean i don‘t know how to calculate #sanrio #study motivation #studyblr #studyspo

[graylinesspam]

It's hard to be a kid that asks for help.

When I was in elementary school I was struggling with ADHD and isolation from my peers. It was nearly impossible for me to stay on task. I spent most of my day talking to myself out loud. Of course, my teacher found this disruptive and sent many warnings home to my parents that I was completely unable to stop interrupting class and that I needed to be disciplined. My mother tried many punishments to curb my behavior. I was grounded, screamed at, held in lunch detention, sat out at recess. I spent a year getting spanked every single day when I came home. At her wits end my mother threatened to come into school with me every day until I learned to act right. She had a whole speech about doing her hair up in curlers and dressing in a robe and slippers in order to humiliate me in front of my peers, who she knew I was already ostracized from. She said i would have to sit at a desk with her alone and away from my classmates as if that were a threat. When she asked me if I would like that I agreed immediately. i knew with my mom there she'd be able to help me with the work I struggled with, she'd be able to keep me focused and my teacher would never yell at me in front of the class again if my mom were there.

She did not in fact come to school with me. When I started talking about how excited I was about the idea she only became quiet and didn't speak for the rest of the car ride. Over the next several weeks as I continued to struggle I asked her several times to come to school and help me, she only told me that she didn't have time.

Eventually, I figured out that if I behaved badly enough I would be sent to ISS in the library, where I had access to all the textbooks I needed and I could work at my own pace with fewer distractions. This worked for a year until eventually they figured out that i was getting in trouble on purpose and banned me from ISS.

When I was in the fifth grade I had an A in every class except math, which I was constantly struggling to pass. I had several meetings with the leaders of the gifted and talented program who were trying to figure out why I had such a low grade in only 1 class. They tried all sorts of incentives to get me to bring my grade up, they offered to let me join the program if i could get all As. They offered me access to the higher reading level books in the library. They offered to let me participate in some Academic competitions and the rewards I'd get if we won. They even let me come to a handful of the fun "smart kid" English classes with floor discussions and poetry readings. They did not offer me any tutoring. When my grade did not go up they gradually lost interest in me. I was so disappointed that my parent came up to the school to find out what happened and they were informed that since my grades did not qualify me they would pay tuition instead. I was never admitted to the program.

Because of that incident and the introduction of Division into my math coursework, I had a series of breakdowns that led to me being put in a troubled kid therapy program. part of the program was supposed to be that I could leave class anytime I felt I was on the verge of having a meltdown and go to the counselor's office instead. I was diligent in following the guidelines, I took my work with me down to the office and sat alone to do my work, occasionally asking the counselor for help with the work. I had no more breakdowns after I was given a medium to regulate myself with. And because of that the "privilege" was taken away from me for abusing it. when I "clearly didn't need it."

I spent all of middle school in and out of similar programs all offering to help me deal with my feelings but none of them benefiting me academically. On two separate occasions, I asked to join the tutoring programs or the programs for kids that struggled academically. I was either outright declined or they administered a written test to see if i qualified and I didn't score low enough.

Despite advocating for myself constantly every single person I spoke to was convinced that it was an emotional problem and not an academic problem. Counselors always liked to ask me what they could do to help me help myself and I was adamant about receiving one on one tutoring for math. The ones that didn't immediately shut me down and kick me out spent the whole meeting discussing me taking AP classes in the subjects I was excelling in instead of addressing my problems with math; as if that would make up my grade average. Every meeting was structured as a punishment and when i tried to receive actual support i was iced out.

When I did my own research and realized that I likely had Dyscalculia I was told that i needed to get diagnosed in order to receive any accommodations. supposedly there was a woman who worked at the school that could get me signed up for and administer the test. She had a corner office upstairs, I know it well because i visited so many times. I went everyday for the first month. Then sporadically through out the rest of the year. I received conflicting information about her schedule but no matter when i showed up the office was always locked. I left my information with every councilor, with the teachers in the neighboring rooms, and taped to the office door. To this day i do not believe that woman actually existed.

My last year of highschool I was facing the possibility of not graduating despite the fact that I had Exceptional grades other than math and that I only really needed to take math classes for my last year since i had all other relevant credits. I was finally admitted into the credit recovery course and thankfully met the only math teacher in my life that ever gave a fuck about me. I scored high enough in my classes that year to graduate but i still failed the math portion of the SATs as i did every years. The madness did not stop once i got to college because i was barred from taking any math courses until i could retake and pass the SATs.

I searched high and low for a tutor that would take an adult clients looking for help with SAT prep. because of the area i live in i have found obsoletely no one. all available programs within two hours of where I live are for children. I've been told I should have asked for help sooner.

So if you're a kid that thinks that no one is trying to help you they just want you to stop being a problem...you're probably right.

And anyone who is demoralized now because you think you should have advocated for yourself more instead of wallowing in your own missery through your teenhood. I promise you us overachieving loud annoying know it all kids aren't doing any better. No one was rooting for us either.

#ADHD #autism #neurodivergent #teenhood #dyscalculia #dyslexia #anxiety #social anxiety #mental illness #learning disorder

[samijami]

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(Original under cut)

#adhd brain #actually adhd #adhd thoughts #adhd post #adhd memes #adhd tag #attention deficit hyperactivity disorder #learning disorder #learning disabled #learning disability #dying rn #adhdlife #adhd culture #adhd #adhdblr #adhd bullshit