Hi, Satabishara.
I completely understand your frustration with dolfrog, but please don't leave the dyslexia article. You and I are in the same space. We'll have more success getting this article on track working together than either of us working separately.
Hang in there with me on this! All we need to do is approach the problem from the perspective of making the article compliant with Wikipedia content guidelines. His personal opinions are irrelevant, and we can get an objective Wiki editor to help us if we need to.
What say you? :-)
Best,
smoran 05:34, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
- Hi, Satabishara.
- Thank you for your response. I absolutely understand your issues with dolfrog. I don't have dyslexia and related deficits, though I do have ADD inattentive type and some other issues with my brain function that seem related to prior toxic exposure. According to my neuropsychiatrist, my brain scan was among the worst he's seen, the only one worse was a scientist who develops pesticides for a living. Oh, joy.
- My experience with dyslexia and its related disorders comes from having two children with dyslexia and lots of other stuff clearly related. My son is now nearly 25 (and just finished getting his licensed vocational nurse schooling done --- a miracle when you consider where he was when he was 15, which was on probation for drug use when he was "self medicating"). My daughter just turned 12. The good news for her is that, because we had been through it once, we recognized it as soon as symptoms began to show in kindergarten --- she had enormous difficulty just learning the alphabet. My son wasn't diagnosed until 4th grade and is still strongly affected by his experiences. I can't even estimate how much it has cost us to get him to this point. At one time when he was a teenager, we were spending more than $1k a month just on academic intervetions. Our daughter's experience is much better because we caught it so early, but it's still nightmarish. It took 18 months of private 1:1 O-G instruction for her to learn the most basic letter-sound correspondence. After 4 years of specialized intervention, she was reading on grade level. Then we got to deal with handwriting, learning to type, etc. Now we're dealing with the math, executive function issues, and social and emotional fallout of years of failure and her peers thinking she is "stupid" (she's twice exceptional) --- oh, and adolescence too!
- Dolfrog is hitting the "newly converted" problem -- though it sounds like he got stuck there and isn't moving past it (add a little OCD to the mix and stir?). I try to ignore him as much as possible and don't read his posts anymore when I can avoid it. He actually hasn't been on the list recently -- until yesterday. Supposedly he won't be participating again for awhile. We'll see.
- Check in with me occasionally, at the very least, OK? Maybe I could post the current state of an article, subarticle, or section here on your page for you to review, or work on personally. If you would like that.
- I would be very interested in hearing your story sometime, if you are open to sharing it.
- Take care. Best,