13 Dec
2004
13 Dec
'04
9:32 a.m.
From: "Roger Merchberger"
<zmerch(a)30below.com>
Dyslexia. There are a lot more kinds of it than just writing your letters
backwards (my type) -- I have two friends that *just can't spell*, and my
wife is LD in math; she can't handle decimals or fractions! Oh, guess who
has the most college degrees of the 4 people I just mentioned: my wife.
Some people's brains are just plain *wired funny* -- sometimes it's a good
thing, sometimes it's not.
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
Hi
When I was in grade school, I used to get B+'s on my
math test. The teacher told me to write down the intermediate
steps so that I could get more credit for partial solutions.
Up till then I'd been working the problems out in my head
and then just writing out the answer.
An interesting result happened. My intermediate work had
the same number or percentage of errors as my final results.
Of course, I still worked them in my head or the final results
would have been worse because of the cumulative effects.
This was one of the first indications that I was dyslexic
and not just lazy ( I was that as well ). I just made errors
in translating what was in my head to the paper. Later, I found
simple ways to check my results and got 100% on my test :)
Dwight
14 Dec
14 Dec
3:45 a.m.
I absolutely positively cannot learn Morse code. I've tried for 12 years,
since I got my tech (amateur radio) license. No method I've tried has
worked. It remind me of how awful a student I was. Other people could study
a subject and learn it. I had to construct elaborate "systems" for each
test. I wrote an entire help file for the VMS help processor for Calculus
II in college. That was the only way I passed Calc.
Which brings me to today's joke: Just what is lysdexia, anyhow?
At 03:32 PM 12/13/2004 -0800, you wrote:
[Fiction] "Dear Mrs., Mr., Miss, or Mr. and Mrs.: Words cannot
express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son,
father or brother was killed, wounded or reported missing in action."
--(_Catch-22_. Cathcart to the doctor's "widow.")
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From:
"Roger Merchberger" <zmerch(a)30below.com>
Dyslexia. There are a lot more kinds of it than just writing your letters
backwards (my type) -- I have two friends that *just can't spell*, and my
wife is LD in math; she can't handle decimals or fractions! Oh, guess who
has the most college degrees of the 4 people I just mentioned: my wife.
Some people's brains are just plain *wired funny* -- sometimes it's a good
thing, sometimes it's not.
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
Hi
When I was in grade school, I used to get B+'s on my
math test. The teacher told me to write down the intermediate
steps so that I could get more credit for partial solutions.
Up till then I'd been working the problems out in my head
and then just writing out the answer.
An interesting result happened. My intermediate work had
the same number or percentage of errors as my final results.
Of course, I still worked them in my head or the final results
would have been worse because of the cumulative effects.
This was one of the first indications that I was dyslexic
and not just lazy ( I was that as well ). I just made errors
in translating what was in my head to the paper. Later, I found
simple ways to check my results and got 100% on my test :)
Dwight
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