A Thread About Absolutely Nothing! Part I

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Lighthouse77 said:
yep, he got to be tough if he can wear those boots on hiking . Handsome guy too. :)
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Yes - very handsome, but I also see the thick sock he's wearing. Very smart!!

I now see where Jiro gets his good looks from.
 
KristinaB said:
Got a question about dyscalculia.

If a person has real trouble with math, and has to review and review and never seems to get it, her reading is terrible and comprehension is no-where, but she otherwise seems to be doing fine, should I be really concerned. It took 6 years before she understood what multiplication meant, and she still has problems and now we are trying to do fractions and she has the "deer in the headlights" look in her eyes all the time. To get her to manage basic math, she used manipulatives (macaroni, buttons and M&M's). For the fractions, I have used different shapes I cut out and had twelve of the same same and had 1 whole, then 2 halves and 3 thirds and on down to twelvths. She seems to understand for the one day, then next day or later in the same day, she doesn't remember and doesn't understand. She's 15.
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That sounds like me. I wasn't diagnosed till I got into college. I have been out of high school going on 19yrs. For years I was telling my teachers that I understood the theory of math, but I just couldn't get the theory out onto paper to prove it.
Then we went onto the higher stuff and I was completely lost. And I was told that I didn't "apply myself enough" or I was "lazy". :roll: I was already in the 'special classes' so if I showed the minimal amount of ability I was given a passing grade.
 
KristinaB said:
Yes - very handsome, but I also see the thick sock he's wearing. Very smart!!

I now see where Jiro gets his good looks from.
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lol :ty: but actually my look is from both of my grandfather (my dad's father) and my mom and yea a small piece of my dad... My brother has his face. :cool2:
 
I noticed too that Jiro's dad is very good looking. Jiro looks just like him except with a modern haircut. :)
 
Juli-terp-to-be said:
That sounds like me. I wasn't diagnosed till I got into college. I have been out of high school going on 19yrs. For years I was telling my teachers that I understood the theory of math, but I just couldn't get the theory out onto paper to prove it.
Then we went onto the higher stuff and I was completely lost. And I was told that I didn't "apply myself enough" or I was "lazy". :roll: I was already in the 'special classes' so if I showed the minimal amount of ability I was given a passing grade.
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All of her problems are why I homeschool. She also has CAPD - Central Auditory Processing Disorder, Speech and Language delays, fine motor and gross motor skill problems, and borderline broad spectrum autism.
 
Juli-terp-to-be said:
Fingerspelling comes easy to me as well....though I have to work on not closing my eyes when I do it. LOL It's gotten to be a bad habit, I think. I see myself in a mirror spelling everything out.
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I think that shouldn't be a problem. When I ask them to fingerspell SLOWLY, a lot of deafies who fingerspelled slowly to me do not look at me in the eyes. Their eyes are either partially closed or focused on their hand. I can't fingerspell properly if I have to look at them because my memory's just not trained enough to do this fluently. But when they fingerspell rapidly/fluently, they do look at me in the eyes. I have heard that it's easier to fingerspell it by saying the word in syllables. :dunno:

maybe I'm wrong about this observation??????
 
I am still labeled "emotionally disturbed". That term is STILL on my records. It has been only recently that ADD & dyscalculia have been added. So I look like a educational NIGHTMARE!
 
Jiro said:
I think that shouldn't be a problem. When I ask them to fingerspell SLOWLY, a lot of deafies who fingerspelled slowly to me do not look at me in the eyes. Their eyes are either partially closed or focused on their hand. I can't fingerspell properly if I have to look at them because my memory's just not trained enough to do this fluently. But when they fingerspell rapidly/fluently, they do look at me in the eyes. I have heard that it's easier to fingerspell it by saying the word in syllables. :dunno:

maybe I'm wrong about this observation??????
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Oh, ok. For some reason I thought if I close my eyes while concentrating on what I am fingerspelling that it might be taken as being insulting.
 
Juli-terp-to-be said:
I am still labeled "emotionally disturbed". That term is STILL on my records. It has been only recently that ADD & dyscalculia have been added. So I look like a educational NIGHTMARE!
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:laugh2: "Emotionally disturbed", Is that actually a category to label?

I have been labeled Autistic, Asperger's, and now back to High Functioning Autistic.

You should demand a more descriptive label. Who among us is not "emotionally disturbed "at some time? (Philosophised the amateur philosopher. )
 
Juli-terp-to-be said:
I am still labeled "emotionally disturbed". That term is STILL on my records. It has been only recently that ADD & dyscalculia have been added. So I look like a educational NIGHTMARE!
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I forgot to say I have severe dyscalculia also and can't do much other than add and subtract.

Maybe you finally just wandered into the right group for you. :)
 
Bottesini said:
:laugh2: "Emotionally disturbed", Is that actually a category to label?

I have been labeled Autistic, Asperger's, and now back to High Functioning Autistic.

You should demand a more descriptive label. Who among us is not "emotionally disturbed "at some time? (Philosophised the amateur philosopher. )
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I dunno....I have had this label ever since I was in grade school. I was even taken out of my regular school and placed in a school with kids with severe cerebral palsy, autism and even kids that were profoundly deaf.
In the mid '70s in my school district there wasn't any teachers that could handle me. So off I was shipped into the B.O.C.E.S (Board of Cooperative Educational Services) program.

I just Googled "Emotionally Disturbed" and yes it is a actual category.
The Federal standards of symptoms of being labeled emotionally disturbed are as follows:
An inability to learn which cannot be explained by intellectual, sensory, or health factors.
An inability to build or maintain satisfactory interpersonal relationships with peers and teachers.
Inappropriate types of behavior or feelings under normal circumstances.
A general pervasive mood of unhappiness or depression.
A tendency to develop physical symptoms or fears associated with personal or school problems.
 
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Daughter found an old photo album of mine that I put newspaper articles and poems from school. The following was posted on my school-bus with a picture of Mickey Mouse shooting a bird.

When things go wrong
as they usually will
And your daily road
seems all uphill.
When funds are low
and debts are high,
when you try to smile
but can only cry.
And you really feel
you'd like to quit,
don't run to me;
I don't give a shit!​
 
Juli-terp-to-be said:
Oh, ok. For some reason I thought if I close my eyes while concentrating on what I am fingerspelling that it might be taken as being insulting.
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no different from people looking away or closing their eyes when trying to say something.
 
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Top 45 gets $
 
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