LGBT Thread

[Uppercut]

Me neither. It's just something I take the piss about a bit rather than a real opinion. Half-serious.

[GIMH]

You're way off the mark here Uppercut. It's like comparing Parkison's disease to not being able to run very fast.

[Uppercut]

If I understand the basis of that analogy, you're underestimating just how much of a hindrance being stupid can be when trying to learn something.

[Flem274*]

If I understand the basis of that analogy, you're underestimating just how much of a hindrance being stupid can be when trying to learn something.

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[GIMH]

If I understand the basis of that analogy, you're underestimating just how much of a hindrance being stupid can be when trying to learn something.

Not really. Given what I do for a living I have a very good understanding the challenges that people face when learning something. But of course, dyslexia doesn't just affect you trying to learn something...

[Uppercut]

Of course not. Nor does lacking in basic intelligence. Where does the difference lie, exactly?

[GIMH]

Are you being deliberately obtuse? Have you never known anyone with dyslexia?

Aside from this, you are ignoring the fact that with adjustments made dyslexia can be countered, for example by using different coloured paper or special computer screens. What do you propose is done to aid 'stupid' people? There's a difference between not understanding a question and not being able to see it, it would be ridiculous not to acknowledge and account for this.

[Uppercut]

I'm being deliberately obtuse with the use of the word "stupid". Thing is, there are all kinds of mental issues, many of which haven't yet been identified, that can make learning very difficult. Special computer screens and coloured paper are very specific measures to combat dyslexia, but the majority of those currently in place would also be appropriate to combat any other natural difficulty with reading and writing- some of which would, in society, just be labelled as stupidity.

[silentstriker]

Quoted for posterity.

Sigged, tbh.

No making fun of the fat guy! It's discrimination. I have a thyroid issue.










It's the thyroid that compels you to eat copious amounts of meat, sugar, and drink large quantities of beer, and makes you too lazy to exercise, right?

[Uppercut]

I'm being deliberately obtuse with the use of the word "stupid". Thing is, there are all kinds of mental issues, many of which haven't yet been identified, that can make learning very difficult. Special computer screens and coloured paper are very specific measures to combat dyslexia, but the majority of those currently in place would also be appropriate to combat any other natural difficulty with reading and writing- some of which would, in society, just be labelled as stupidity.

Just to be clear, there's an element of devil's advocate about my posting. I'm not qualified to hold an opinion because I don't understand dyslexia- all I'm saying is that I'm yet to hear quite what it is that distinguishes it from any other form of difficulty in reading and writing, thereby making it eligible for such preferential treatment.

I really don't actually care that much. I'm just predisposed to argue back at people.

[GIMH]

I'm being deliberately obtuse with the use of the word "stupid". Thing is, there are all kinds of mental issues, many of which haven't yet been identified, that can make learning very difficult. Special computer screens and coloured paper are very specific measures to combat dyslexia, but the majority of those currently in place would also be appropriate to combat any other natural difficulty with reading and writing- some of which would, in society, just be labelled as stupidity.

You keep going on about learning but that's only a tiny part of the issue

[GIMH]

Just to be clear, there's an element of devil's advocate about my posting. I'm not qualified to hold an opinion because I don't understand dyslexia- all I'm saying is that I'm yet to hear quite what it is that distinguishes it from any other form of difficulty in reading and writing, thereby making it eligible for such preferential treatment.

I really don't actually care that much. I'm just predisposed to argue back at people.

Well it isn't just a difficulty in reading and writing so it's flawed from the start. Dyslexia causes you to not be able to read because you can't programme the letters into the right order, basically. I'm no scientist or expert so I'm sure someone else could give you a better definition, but if you can't read then you don't know what a word says, if you have dyslexia you know what a word should look like but don't see it that way.

Aside from this, as Pothas said earlier on, other learning disabilities are accounted for with benefits and special treatment.

[Son Of Coco]

And yet they don't qualify for benefits the way dyslexic people do.

What about people with a natural (yet, like both dyslexia and a low IQ, impossible to diagnose) inability to do Maths. Should they be afforded, say, extra time in an exam?

I don't know about the UK, but in Australian schools (at least some of them) people who can't read properly can have someone in their grade sit with them during an exam. As ****ing incredible as I find that to be, it seems to be true as my cousin was one of the helpers.

This is in Years 10,11 and 12 mind you. And as far as I can tell, they don't have a disability, they just managed to make it through the education system without learning basic literacy.

[Son Of Coco]

And yet they don't qualify for benefits the way dyslexic people do.

What about people with a natural (yet, like both dyslexia and a low IQ, impossible to diagnose) inability to do Maths. Should they be afforded, say, extra time in an exam?

I don't know about the UK, but in Australian schools (at least some of them) people who can't read properly can have someone in their grade sit with them during an exam. As ****ing incredible as I find that to be, it seems to be true as my cousin was one of the helpers.

This is in Years 10,11 and 12 mind you. And as far as I know, they don't have a disability, they just managed to make it through the education system without learning basic literacy.