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A lot of neurodivergent people tend to be analogous learners - which makes the current education system completely unsuitable - the wider I was educated the better I understood everything.
Fastest way to teach me would have been through analogy. Always. Still is. If you can compare it to something I already know I will eventually get it.
Wonder why I loved all those 1001 ways, encyclopedia books, learning multiple languages at the same time, having subjects compared to each other constantly would have been an amazing way to teach - rather than hyper categorizing them.
Don& #39;t really want to go back to uni ever because my subject area is probably just philosophy but not in the sense it& #39;s used now.
Music taught me math - as a dyscalculic person - I cant do mental math but I can imagine shifting keys - algebra was my favourite because it was logical.
Algebra AKA analogy math.
It& #39;s really weird that we teach math problems with analogy to kids, and they get it usually but then just stop doing that in a lot of ways.
The Wire taught me more about sociology than my courses did - but I could apply theory to The Wire...
I learned more about racism in stories told through an experiential format about racism - rather than concepts.
I learned more about racism in stories told through an experiential format about racism - rather than concepts.
I learn like a tree - roots form, then trunk then branches, but I need to compare to other trees to have the concepts form.
The Pando learning style:
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The Pando learning style:
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/pando-aspen-grove-utah-oldest-largest-organism-2016-7?r=US&IR=T">https://www.businessinsider.com.au/pando-asp...
Growing the first tree in a pando forest is the hardest - I think exposure to many things helped.
I can& #39;t stop thinking about the evil that is ABA - especially in regards to this concept. It fundamentally tries to make a hyperplastic brain into a neurotypical one.
I was taught always not to do stuff not by rote learning but by learning an analogy as to why the thing I was doing wasn& #39;t correct.
But also - I was denied experience of my sensory sensitivity too. So I stopped listening to myself and my body, and my mind... ugh why... why...
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But also - I was denied experience of my sensory sensitivity too. So I stopped listening to myself and my body, and my mind... ugh why... why...
