Just seen your interview on BBC 1, you sound like one amazing human being and I wish you were in my area and someone I could chat to. Do you think your gift for languages is from audio learning? I’m an audio and visual learner. Give me a book of instructions I’d struggle to take in what I was reading but show me and I can remember. Isn’t the brain amazing and how if we don’t have one thing it makes up for it another way and we learn to use what we have to learn, create and cope with everyday life. I want to ask with all the different discoveries of different conditions humans have we strive to be ‘normal’, what now is normal? I was told as an adult I was dyslexic. It made sense of my schooling and other things I’d coped with in my life. I try to explain it as having no minds eye for words yet I can do maths in my head. I can’t summarise what I want to say so come over as abrupt or blunt when I’m a pacifist and wouldn’t want to upset anyone. I try to be diplomatic but truthful. I can’t write short explanations, as you can see here and use 100 words where a sentence will do. But now ADHD has come into the public eye more and the different things autism brings I’m wondering if I was misdiagnosed because I have similar problems/traits that those conditions are reported to have.Have you come across people who were misdiagnosed in the 1990’s? I took the WRAT test in 1999 I left school in 1980 and went to art college for 4 years where I flourished. I was told years later that approximately 75% of the students at that college were all dyslexic to one degree or another yet it wasn’t mentioned once whilst I was there. I just had to repeat my English OLevel twice before I passed. I’m looking forward to reading your book. I wish you lots of success in the future and keep up the great work. Thank you.
