You all know we have begun the process of testing Eli for ADD and the like. The first step is sessions with a therapist to determine whether the learning issue is something in his head, or environmental or familial--either present family situation or an hereditary issue.
Well.
I took the tests alongside Eli, to determine how we both thought about a certain issue, or would act in a situation. He answered the questions, and then I answered the same ones--you get the picture.
I was re-reading some of my older posts tonight, looking for a picture I posted a while ago and came across this post: Goals
This post was really eye-opening when I factored in that I was told on Thursday that I scored 8 out of 10 positive on the ADD test.
Things are becoming clearer.
3 comments:
ADD/ADHD; yes, they exist.
I believe they exist the way that a chair exists, only after you have a name for it and have standardised what defines a chair. Example: A chair has 4 legs and a flat place for your butt. Wait, a chair has a back to lean against...but what if it has arms? What if the chair has five legs? A chair with three legs and no arms must be a 'stool' but what if a stool has arms? What if the chair fals and breaks off the back? It's a broken chair.
Standardising human perceptions and assigning identities with the aim of definingwhat a baseline 'normal' is sounds foolish to me. The point of the exercise seems to be about identifying the margins outside of 'normal' and then stigmatising them. What is it that makes dyslexia a deficiency and genius an accolade? It is soley a matter of the mode in which this person learns and should be instructed; Davinci wrote his journals backward; Einstein was too distracted to tie his shoes; Hawking cannot communicate without technology that would have meant he'd been labeled an idiot a hundred years ago.
The secrets that lie behind the mental processes of a person who can be 'tested' for an ADD/ADHD diagnosis are as mysterious as the concept that a test can divine God's creation of the mind.
I test really high on IQ tests but there are things about me that suggest that I'm autistic; My therapist suggests that I am a 'polymath'; someone who has savant skills in a number of areas but is denied other disciplines that make them below average in other areas.
You tested ADD? Congratulations! Modern social/psych science cannot understand your abilities. Wear that label with distinction. You are as unique as a snowflake...and so is everyone else.
Dang if you don't make that sound good Swampy. Thanks!
The ADD thing clarifies a lot of things that have happened in my life, but does not make me who I am.
I can tie my shoes with the best of them.
Oh I have it too. I blogged about it the other day!(it was called Overhaulin) *L* It's hard, but we can rise above!
It was most unnerving as a child not knowing why everyone else in class had a clue as to what was going on but me. I was busy staring out the window singing that morning's TV show themes in my head etc...then I'd suddenly realize that I was lost. Repeat that hundreds of times and you have my "school days" I've found that for adults, it's called "Butfirst Syndrome" *L* You can read about it here...
http://www.superlaugh.com/1/first.htm
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