🌋 Chapter 3: That word began with:
Published: Wed, 06/28/23
Where was I? Ah yes! 'tis I, the Barb portion of the Dennis and Barb Partnership and when last we met, I had shared with you the extreme bullying I went thru during school.
And just to refresh your memory (cue "Last week in Star Trek: (fill in your fav series 😀 ), I had mentioned:
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"...it was for a reason that is nowadays known as something rather serious, but back then was dismissed with "oh, that kid will be impossible to help because that kid is ... what do you think that kid was?"
Well. What is known today as 'neurodiversity' (aka dyslexia, NVLD, autism, dysgraphia, etc.) was know when I was in elementary school as ... The R word. Now, as my grades were quite good, one couldn't say I wasn't intellectually fit, but one *could* say (and bless my mom for making sure to emphasize this to me a weeee bit more than 1 time - I'm positive she wanted to protect me if kids decided to focus on that topic, but yeah - not a thing you really tell kids) that I was *emotionally* the R word.
Y'know, I still vividly remember that day. And now with the wisdom of my 299 years ofl life, I realize she was parenting in the best way she knew how. So it would make zero sense to take offense to it, as there was zero maliciousness in it.
But i digress.
Well, it turns out, that was NOT the case, but several centuries later, when one of my kids was tested by a neuro-psych, I was told, "Mrs. Ling, your son has NVLD. Here, I'll show you what indicates it." She then pulled out some puzzles that said kid did, I looked it over intently and then asked, "Why would you say that? The kid did it perfectly correctly!"Â
Think about that now for a moment. If my kid was flagged by this puzzle as being NVLD, and I declared that said kid did the puzzle correctly (because it was done exactly as I would have done it)....
Do the math. Or common sense of genetics.
My kid inherited the NVLD (non-verbal learning disorder) *from* me.
Which meant that for more than 40 years, i had *no* idea myself... because like I said, neurodiversity didn't exist in my childhood.
So! Back to said early school years.  One trait of NVLD is *extreme* immaturity and OMG, I could have been the poster kid for that! It made navigating thru highschool quite the character-building event indeed.
And after graduation, it was time for me to tackle college, still without any knowledge that my brain was wired 'way differently than the vast majority of humanity. Nowadays, I know the blessing it truly can be but back then, when I literally could NOT grok pre-Calculus or Complex Variables or (And I was a math major as well)...
... it was hell.
My self-confidence shot to an all-time low.
Such a low, in fact, that I started to consider an action from which nobody could return.
What stopped me?
Tune in tomorrow and see!
Have a strongly spectacular day,
Barb Ling and Dennis Becker
DAB Coaching
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