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Fun with meds and sunlight

I’ve blogged before about the seasonal aspects of my ADD.  Unsurprisingly, things have been even worse since the return to Standard Time (ptui!) and the loss of another hour of light in the afternoon.  I’ve been more tried, more hungry, more spacey … and paradoxically, less able to get to sleep at a reasonable hour.

“Attention” [...]

How many dyscalculics does it take to change a light bulb?*

Yesterday I hung a light in my art studio.  Just an ordinary shop light, soft wired, hung from basic ceiling hooks, with daylight corrected bulbs instead of standard florescent tubes.  It’s the kind of thing that should take half an hour.
But when you have dyscalculia and ADD, it goes something like this:

Early music education as dyscalculia remediation

I came across this fascinating post by an Iranian researcher.  It turns out music education might significantly improve dyscalculia symptoms:

Conclusion: Experimental groups skills in math and Music training group in scores of IQ had show increased. Some methods, such as bilateral brain training and Music training could be used to reduced symptoms of dyscalculia disorder.

As [...]

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 [...]