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[–] protist@retrofed.com 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Having a learning disability and having an advanced academic ability in one or more subjects are not mutually exclusive. There are lots of different types of learning disabilities, and most don't automatically make someone less capable, it just may mean you process information differently

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[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Or as my girlfriend likes to describe it, we have "spiky skills." That is, very high in some areas, and very low in other areas.

I work with a six year old who's still learning the most basic skills (like following one-step directions, such as "put your backpack in your cubby"), but he can spell out the full Latin names of various obscure fruits and vegetables from memory in order to find pictures of them online. Although he still has a long way to go with communication skills (he doesn't speak and only recently acquired an AAC device), it's clear he knows a lot more than would be apparent from the outside. Classic "spiky skills."

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[+] kolmaskommentoija@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

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[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Interestingly, this can also describe our sensory experiences/sensory filters. Some of us have brains that filter out speech, to the point that we don’t hear our own names being called. Others (like myself) have so little filter for speech sounds that we can’t even hear our own thoughts if someone else is talking in the same room. Or we may not experience pain from something that would cause an NT pain, but things that NTs experience as pleasurable might be painful to us. (For me, that’s tickling. I can’t stand being tickled. Or ASMR, it makes me irrationally angry.)