I totally missed this entry the first time it posted, so I'm glad you referred to it in your last entry. My husband is dyslexic, but I was not educated about it the way you describe. I had no idea it affected the brain that way and wasn't just a simple reversal of letters and numbers. He remembers being berated by his 1st grade teacher for misreading "boy" as "doy" in front of the whole class. Yeah, public schooling is best :P (/much sarcasm)
You've intrigued me to want to learn much more about this subject, both as a mom looking for the signs of it in her children, and as a wife who sometimes feels that communication between herself and her husband is happening in two different languages. It makes sense if his brain sees things in a totally different way than mine. He'll often have to, literally, draw me a picture of what he's trying to explain for me to get it! Frustrating for both of us.
And, on a related note, I don't think your journal focuses on any one of your children more than the others. You go through periods where you write more about one than another because of something important happening in your life at that time. A journal is just a snapshot in time. Someone seeing a snapshot of you with Ananda wouldn't necessarily assume she was your only daughter or even your only child. It's just a snapshot.
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Date: 2010-08-16 11:56 pm (UTC)You've intrigued me to want to learn much more about this subject, both as a mom looking for the signs of it in her children, and as a wife who sometimes feels that communication between herself and her husband is happening in two different languages. It makes sense if his brain sees things in a totally different way than mine. He'll often have to, literally, draw me a picture of what he's trying to explain for me to get it! Frustrating for both of us.
And, on a related note, I don't think your journal focuses on any one of your children more than the others. You go through periods where you write more about one than another because of something important happening in your life at that time. A journal is just a snapshot in time. Someone seeing a snapshot of you with Ananda wouldn't necessarily assume she was your only daughter or even your only child. It's just a snapshot.