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[mobculture]

Three updates in two days, you guys are blessed. However, they are only memes. Feel free to do all, one, two, or even none, of them. :)

01 Stolen from meri_sielu:

Post a picture in my comments that you think describes me when you think about what/who I am. No matter how surreal or plain. Give no written explanation. Just an image.

02 Stolen from madamclaire & killerrrcocopop:

Comments

[zombiebloomers]

i really like your handwriting!
i'm going to have to do this because really.. my handwritting is pretty bad.
infact, i was just doing some word puzzles to practice...
part of one of my learning disabilites.
my thoughts cannot keep up with my hand - but i still try so it comes out unreadabley.
plus, i am dyslexic :P

i LOVE youre doodlies.
i doodle like crazy - i cannot take notes or write a simple reminder down without doing some sort of little squiggle or creature thing..

i'll try this tomorrow :)

[mobculture]

Aha, I doodle over everything, especially my uni notes if I'm bored as hell during a lecture. I've not done it so much recently because I have to concentrate on writing really hard because it hurts so I have no time to do doodles. :(

I thought my handwriting was shit, but apparently people like it. I did actually try quite hard there, if I had just written it in a rush then it would be a different story haha!!

Do you have other learning disabilities apart from dyslexia? (Why do they make that word so hard to spell?!)

[zombiebloomers]

for cereal, right! i had to look up dyslexia because i knew i was flipping letters around... asshat. whomever named that is an asshat.

i'm really lucky. i have every catagory of learning disabilities.
this includes Reading, Written, Oral, Math, Organizational, Attention/Concentration ( my ADHD )..
if you want a nice sum up on these, the college i am hoping to go to has a great page talking about it
http://www.mhcc.edu/pages/334.asp

i've taken an IQ test twice - the first time the doc that was also evaluating me accused me of lying and "fucking up on purpose"
i found out years later that people who have soooo many learning disabilites tend to score half on legal mentally retarded levels and half on beyond genius levels.. how annoying as fuck is that! >:(

[mobculture]

I'm shit at maths but I don't think I have a disability in it, I know there's this thing where you can look at numbers & they just mean nothing to you, & sometimes that happens but mostly my brain just hurts haha. Also, I've always been good at English, but recently I've found myself making a lot of mistakes that I would associate with dyslexia & it's... kind of weird. I don't know, maybe it's got something to do with my mental state, I'm guessing so anyway. It can't be easy to do things properly if your head is all over the place.

I think my IQ is 128 or 130-something. I'm not sure, I can't remember. I took an IQ test years & years ago when I was in secondary school & got something really high, then I took it again when I was doing drugs & I'd lost like 10 or 20 points! It was horrific. I took it again recently & had gained 10 or 15 points so that was good haha. Bit scary when your IQ drops so low, I freaked out a little.

[zombiebloomers]

i am positive that mental state can effect any form of study. even if a person is just a tad stressed it can throw them completely out of wack.

has youre mind always been all over the place?
most people that struggle with math its because they just.. don't think in numbers! you stare at them and they just.. are meaningless symbols. its because youre brain works better with, probably, hearing & reading. or like with myself, i tend to only REALLY get things to 'stick' from learning visually & hands-on. Otherwise i cannot focus at all/enough to learn anything new. total pain :P

i cannot even recall my IQ test.. i want to say it was inbetween 120-130 but i honestly don't even know if that is good or not!
yeef - yes drugs will definatly drop youre IQ. terrible stuff!

[mobculture]

Oh, I'm sure it can too, if it's hard enough to concentrate on doing the daily things then it's even harder to focus on studying.

Um... yes & no. I can focus when I want to but it takes me a long time. I guess it has something to do with my willpower too. Not got a lot of that at times, & at others tonnes of it. I'm not a very rational person, never have been. They say those with lots of common sense are not necessarily "smart" & those with not much common sense are quite brainy. My house mate Maria says the most ridiculous things but she's very clever, academically. My brain definitely works better with hearing & reading - those are what I did best at in my language GCSEs. I tend to learn quite quickly by 'doing' too. :)

That's a good IQ score! 130+ is like super smart. My IQ did drop rather a lot after doing drugs & not doing any educational learning. Sure I went to the "School of Life" but whilst it taught me street smarts it dumbed me down a fair bit haha.

[crystalra1ndr0p]

I just wanted to say you are so right in your last paragraph. I have dyscalcula and they didn't find out until my senior year of college. I had to repeat so many math classes and they never let me take easier ones because I passed the ISTEP (which is 2 grade levels below the one you're in, so of course I remembered) and I can do basic operations and mental math just fine so it wasn't until crap like Algebra that I started to have trouble. But I always got genius level scores on reading and writing type things.

[mobculture]

Yeah, same. I fail miserably at maths but I'm usually great at the other stuff, unless I'm having a brainfreeze then everything becomes a blank & I do terribly. I'm really not consistent at all.

[zombiebloomers]

oh seriously - when i got to Algebra i was... screwed. I only made it to PreAlgebra. Which i repeated 3 times before dropping out and getting my GED instead. (but thats a long story)

when you have the Math learning disability you are immediatly dyslexic. Which is why it doesn't often get found out until when too much damage/wasted time has come to pass... i didn't even know my Math disability had ANYTHING to do with my dyslexia until i went to a specialist. Most doctors don't even know about it.
SO FRUSTRATING!

[mobculture]

Wow, I didn't know they were related, although that makes a lot of sense.

[crystalra1ndr0p]

They made me take algebra in 7th grade and not pre-algebra. My elementary school didn't have pre-algebra but some of the other kids' did and so that made it that much harder. I asked my guidance counselor to let me be in a different class but she said I should know how to do it because of my test scores (which again, were 2 grade levels below the one I was in so WTF???)

I actually don't have dyslexia, but I don't get how they wouldn't understand that it would make it hard to do math since it affects how you see both letters AND numbers. I am not good with directions though and I was actually joking about being dyslexic yesterday because everybody says that I should put "lefty flip" for the way I hold the guitar but if I do then I can't play right. They said it's supposed to be easier if the buttons are going in the other direction bu that doesn't make sense to me.

[zombiebloomers]

it doesn't really matter that much which way you hold the guitar when you play. whatever works for you - works.
are you left handed? i always suggest guitar players to try it lefty if they are beginners. it helps.