I truly hope that despite ever worsening education in the USA bias against learning styles and human interests have changed since. One school, my bro M had a speech impediment. It was deemed low intelligence and he was treated poorly. His intellect was not impaired in the least.

Mar 20, 2023 路 4:14 AM UTC

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Same school, same teacher saw me cry as I met a block in arithmetic. "Don't worry honey, you'll never need it" instead of sitting for five minutes and helping. Both me and that brother were also sent to a counselor . I liked shop and bio. He liked home ec. Fear of gay much?
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Replying to @mholzschlag
happened to me in the 70s and 80s. because I had visible albeit mild CP the assumption was I was slow, people, teachers, service staff used to shout, despite being told that I could hear them fine.
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That's horrible! I think it would have at least felt to me like I was constantly being disciplined for simply exisisting. :(
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Replying to @mholzschlag
My younger sister is dyslexic, manifested abt age 7, & the school wanted to put her in 'special ed' (1960's term). Absolutely nothing wrong with her intellect! My mom fought like hell to prevent that and succeeded.
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I'm really glad because once people are erroneously put into those types of categories it can follow them around for their lives and ruin their opportunities no matter what their capabilities of the human race is it's on disability
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