I don't need a "cure"
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I'm trying to get my partner to understand that the way I read & can read so many books & stuff is not because of some kind of intellectual superiority as he struggles a bit. It is because of hyperlexia. That's all it is. Plus I love to read. But he can math. I have dyscalculia & cannot. At all.
04:20 PM - May 03, 2024
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2PupsMommy
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For me it's because the Florida public school system ran all kinds of experiments on it's gifted kids & they trained, then stress tested us to get our WPM read as high as they could. It was stressful as hell to be an elementary school kid in that environment, but damn if it didn't come in handy.
04:26 PM - May 03, 2024
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In response to 2PupsMommy.
Oh snap. Well at least it came in handy. I grew up in Florida too & went to public schools here but I was always in just regular classes than drop out prevention with the at risk kids or whatever in middle school
04:29 PM - May 03, 2024
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They also put us thru a Reagan Era cold war project called "Ground Zero" where they taught us all the effects of various nuclear bomb yields, aftereffects on the populations of Hiroshima & Nagasaki then told us to design bomb shelters. Because we'd "think outside the box". Mental scars be damned.
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04:52 PM - May 03, 2024
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But also doesn't that project kinda ignore the fact that in Florida you can't dig too deep into the ground or so I've heard. How would one even have a fallout shelter here? 🤔
05:02 PM - May 03, 2024
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That's the hell of it, it wasn't for "us". It was for the govt & high muckity mucks. I do remember we encased the entire thing in 6 feet of parrafin wax to defeat (I think) gamma rays. Whichever one it was that goes through ground & rock like it's nothing. Wax has such a weird lattice it stops it.
05:07 PM - May 03, 2024
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I know of one in Mount Dora. Water tight and flood proof. It was built/installed in the 60's. I haven't seen it personally in probably 40 years, but as far as I know it's still there. 🌝💙
05:22 PM - May 03, 2024
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In response to 2PupsMommy.
Holy crap. So you grew up in the Gen x era Florida school system if I'm not misunderstanding you? That definitely sounds memorable but yes mentally scarring too. Terrifyingly informative school days seems like an apt way to say it maybe
04:59 PM - May 03, 2024
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Oh yeah, totally Gen X! I don't even remember all the shit they put us through. Project Ground Zero was the one my parents were iffy on, but school admin pulled the "it's her patriotic duty to use her big brain for her country" & they fell for it. Even when the nightmares started. We were naive.
05:02 PM - May 03, 2024
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