Greetings, all...
I have just scored 41 on Autism-Spectrum Quotient and now believe that I am probably an Aspie rather than attention deficit disordered as I wrote in my journal:
TUESDAY 2010-10-05...
09.39 Having spent near three hours drafting… posted the following on:
BermudaSucks - General Discussion:
Re: Son of Michael Douglas Has Dyslexia, Symptoms...
Reply #2 on: 2010-10-05 at 09:39:59
Greetings, Mike…
Thank you for your supportive comments and update on "V…"
I pedantically prefer not consider myself as ADHD but attention deficit disordered…
May be I should credit Britain's meagre WW2 sugar and candy rations for not triggering hyperactivity…
During my childhood years there was little or no understanding of reading impairment and so, those so handicapped were often called dunces and ridiculed just as my adoptive sister constantly ridiculed me. Naturally, I knew no difference, I just had trouble reading books or so I thought. I could glance at a word on a building or advertising marquee and conveniently interpret its meaning dependent on its peripheral exposure or my most recent trend of thought. This still often occurs to my own inner amusement, and I have to look carefully again before unscrambling and applying the word's correct meaning. However, I was not always so circumspect and one such case was as a seven-year-old evacuee on my way home from the local village school and having need to urinate, I was relieved to see a public toilet building. Interpreting which door to enter, I dashed inside and was surprised to find no urinals. "Okay, so this is Timperley and things are different," I must have reasoned and expediently hauled up the leg of my school boy shorts and pissed against the wall. Wham! Wham! I felt slaps to both sides of my head from behind, along with cries of "You dirty little bugger, get out of here" as a lady chased a very surprised me out onto the street. I'd interpreted "Gentlemen" as "Girls" and "Ladies" as the north country "Lads!"
Dunces Alan Smith (cum Brenda Lana Smith) and his biological father were both sent to English boarding schools in a parental endeavour to knock some education into them… Alan's dyslexic diagnosed son and his two learning different sons were fortunate to be sent to The Rectory school, Pomfret, Connecticut, for caring specialised tuition to cope, and hopefully overcome this genetic learning problem that the paternal side of our family tree is genetically afflicted with…
Occasioned by the two stigma free R.af Ds and more recently a self made-millionaire proudly in Alan Smith's family tree had me on 2010-02-14 electronically encourage Alan Smith's eldest learning different grandson with "overcoming our learning impairment enables us in other ways…."
Sadly, the embryonic dyslexic electronic stream-of-consciousness between an inquiring intelligent fourteen-year-old learning different student in his final year at the Rectory School, Pomfret, Connecticut, USA, and his equally learning impaired seventy-six-year-young biological paternal grand-parent in Cornwall, Britain, was soon parentally cut short on 2010-02-16 by Alan Smith's transphobic twenty-seven years estranged son…
Hence my advocacy for a better understanding of matters gender-variant and ADHD…
Ciao…
B+…
UNQUOTE...
That done and dusted… as it is probably more than relevant in the study of the Autism Spectrum that not everyone comfortably fits the male/female gender binary… the likes of AQ and WrongPlanet questionnaires would benefit from accommodating those of us who identify as gender-variant, intersex, etc…
brendalana
31 Jan 2014, 7:39 am
