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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't really want to go back to uni ever because my subject area is probably just philosophy but not in the sense it'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'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:
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/pando-aspen-grove-utah-oldest-largest-organism-2016-7?r=US&IR=T
The Pando learning style:
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/pando-aspen-grove-utah-oldest-largest-organism-2016-7?r=US&IR=T
Growing the first tree in a pando forest is the hardest - I think exposure to many things helped.
I can'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'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...
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...
