MissMorrigan
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I was popular among my colleagues this past Friday when one of them ignorantly commented that people with dyslexia are feigning learning difficulties to gain 'special treatment'. My son has two forms of dyslexia, ordinary word blindness and also audio phonic dyslexia, of which neither are recognised in the education/health system in the UK and which means he has had severe learning difficulties. My son's 'special treatment' consisted of remedial classes which, to someone of a higher than average I.Q, are inadequate and hold them back even further, so I had to pay for him to attend an American based school in London that deals specifically with children that have profound dyslexia. So... to tell me my kid is a lazy so and so especially when he works six days a week and twelve hours a day and has a degree in sports science is not going to go down well, but rather than resort to ripping her a 'new one', I preferred to let her languish in her embarrassment when I pointed out my son's accomplishments. She behaved ignorantly, I wasn't about to join her. As for my sub, he's very level headed, no one has grounds to criticise him regarding his decisions/actions and should there ever come a time when that happens, he reacts as he has been taught - with good manners.
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The Tooth Fairy who teaches kids to sell body parts for money. A free society is a society where it is safe to find one's self unpopular and where history has shown that exceptions are not that exceptional.
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