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More fun with google voice

Once again, I need to say that Google Voice rocks.  I love getting transcripts of voice mail as e-mail and SMS.  I hate answering the phone, because it’s such an interruption, and because if I need to write anything down I have to find my computer and type it up somewhere … so it’s ten [...]

What is it with ADD and perfectionism anyway?

Yesterday at <a href=”http://www.wellorderedchaos.addaptabilities.com/?p=318″>Well-Ordered Chaos</a> I blogged about heading out the door, needing to catch a train, and realizing literally at the last minute that I needed to set out donations for a pick-up.  Even though I was successful — I set everything out, taped signs to it, and even made my train — I [...]

Dietary Management of ADD

I love coffee.  Anyone who has known me since high school knows that I love coffee.  I’ve always had trouble getting going in the morning, and coffee was the only thing that would get me functional.  In the all-day seminars for my master’s degree, I was known for arriving with a cup of coffee, and [...]

The disruptive power of 2

I get confused when there two of something.  That is, when I am trying to remember the difference between two related but distinct concepts.  For instance, there’s the difference between “affect” and “effect” that I wrote about yesterday.  Another example is the difference between “inductive” and “deductive” reasoning, which I must have learned about half [...]

The emotional effects of LD

There’s a persistent myth out there that learning disabilities are a problem of childhood; as if somehow, our dyslexia or Asperger’s or visual processing disorder just vaporizes upon reaching the age of legal majority.

This is not the case.

It is also not the case that LD is contained within the four walls of the classroom. [...]

“Twice Exceptional”

OR, “My Mommy Says I’m Special!”

At the moment I’m taking a break from filling out a quantitative survey on development in twice-exceptional adults. Twice-exceptional, or 2e, refers to people who are diagnosed with both giftedness and LD.

It’s kind of a weird label for kind of a weird condition. As you might have guessed, [...]

Focus or Hyperfocus?

That is the question, isn’t it.*

Focus is a commonly misunderstood aspect of ADD.  Anyone with ADD can tell you of the many many times they’ve been told, “but you can’t have ADD!  I’ve seen you play video games for hours without getting bored!”  Folks with ADD know that that their inability to pay [...]