Like, in a practical sense? Do you have any stories or examples from your life?

  • neomachino@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    I would say I’m pretty smart, I have a job that relies on being intelligent and I excel at it.

    My toddler and I are pretty much learning to read together. I didn’t realize how much I stuggle to read, or at least read aloud, until I tried reading books to my son and it fucking rocked my world.

    At first I thought the books were poorly written until I heard my wife reading a bunch of them without a problem.

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      1 day ago

      Dyslexic maybe? I know a decent number of engineers who struggle sometimes even though they do medium complex maths and can remember long lists of standards or do a bunch of coding.

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        Huh, I wonder.

        I always struggled in school, even though I generally understood all the concepts pretty well.

        I do remember at one point being pulled from classes and read a book to a guy, then a week later being put in special ed. The special ed program got shut down and shortly after I moved and the new school was even more of a shit show where no one cared/had the capacity to single out one struggling student.