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Surprising but true.
April 30, 2013 at 5:06 am
Something that people don't know about you that is somewhat out of the ordinary and would probably never be suspected.
I'll start..
I am an only child of two blind parents (sadly now passed on) and spent all of my childhood, teenage years and into my twenties living with at least two, sometimes three Guide Dogs. My father had a hereditary disease, Aniridia (only one other family in the country had it) meaning that he had no iris. Consequently most of my uncles, aunties, cousins etc. on my fathers side were also blind or visually impaired. My mother lost her sight at the age of five and went to an all girls school for blind girls, so, many friends of the family were also blind.
Your turn...
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RE: Surprising but true.
April 30, 2013 at 5:36 am
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I started reading at the age of three. My sister, four years my senior, wanted to play school with me and suddenly words made sense to me. My parents did not believe us at first, so dad wrote some short words on small slips of paper and I remember a weekend morning when he presented them to me and I read them all. At first I read only books with lots of illustrations and not so many words, but at the age of six*, when I started school, my teacher had to give me a reading book meant for third graders, since I read the hardest level first grade book in one afternoon. I used to frequent our library a lot as a child.
*Kids in Finland usually begin school when they're seven, so that is another odd thing for me.
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RE: Surprising but true.
April 30, 2013 at 7:04 am
2 things:
1 - I have Syndactyly on my feet.
2- When I was on 9th grade, I took some sort of school guidance, where a psychologist would do tests on the kids and then advise on what kind of area you should take... I was "diagnosed" as a good potential economist... but I didn't want to take geography, nor history, so I went for sciences.. and ended up in physics.
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RE: Surprising but true.
April 30, 2013 at 7:42 am
1. I have Chronic Recurrent Multifocal Osteomyelitis in numerous places
2. Most things I'm well known for/good at; the people that it really matters to, can never know
(March 30, 2013 at 9:51 pm)ThatMuslimGuy2 Wrote: Never read anything immoral in the Qur'an.
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RE: Surprising but true.
April 30, 2013 at 8:15 am
(This post was last modified: April 30, 2013 at 8:18 am by KichigaiNeko.)
(April 30, 2013 at 5:06 am)Darwinian Wrote: Something that people don't know about you that is somewhat out of the ordinary and would probably never be suspected.
I'll start..
I am an only child of two blind parents (sadly now passed on) and spent all of my childhood, teenage years and into my twenties living with at least two, sometimes three Guide Dogs. My father had a hereditary disease, Aniridia (only one other family in the country had it) meaning that he had no iris. Consequently most of my uncles, aunties, cousins etc. on my fathers side were also blind or visually impaired. My mother lost her sight at the age of five and went to an all girls school for blind girls, so, many friends of the family were also blind.
Your turn...
You also forgot to mention how clever and caring you are Dar
(April 30, 2013 at 5:36 am)Kayenneh Wrote: I started reading at the age of three. My sister, four years my senior, wanted to play school with me and suddenly words made sense to me. My parents did not believe us at first, so dad wrote some short words on small slips of paper and I remember a weekend morning when he presented them to me and I read them all. At first I read only books with lots of illustrations and not so many words, but at the age of six*, when I started school, my teacher had to give me a reading book meant for third graders, since I read the hardest level first grade book in one afternoon. I used to frequent our library a lot as a child.
*Kids in Finland usually begin school when they're seven, so that is another odd thing for me.
And YOU forgot to mention how beautiful you are Kayenneh
(April 30, 2013 at 7:04 am)pocaracas Wrote: 2 things:
1 - I have Syndactyly on my feet.
2- When I was on 9th grade, I took some sort of school guidance, where a psychologist would do tests on the kids and then advise on what kind of area you should take... I was "diagnosed" as a good potential economist... but I didn't want to take geography, nor history, so I went for sciences.. and ended up in physics.
You have forgotten to mention how patient you are pocaracas
(April 30, 2013 at 7:42 am)Joel Wrote: 1. I have Chronic Recurrent Multifocal Osteomyelitis in numerous places
2. Most things I'm well known for/good at; the people that it really matters to, can never know
You have forgotten to mention your curiosity Joel .....
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April 30, 2013 at 1:40 pm
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RE: Surprising but true.
April 30, 2013 at 2:48 pm
I was deaf until the age of 4 or 5...
I understood algebra without help at the age of 9....
I had troubles with school throughout my life, from nearly flunking high school and graduating at the bottom of my class to getting kicked out of college because of my grades...
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RE: Surprising but true.
April 30, 2013 at 2:57 pm
(April 30, 2013 at 5:06 am)Darwinian Wrote: Something that people don't know about you that is somewhat out of the ordinary and would probably never be suspected.
I am actually a complete arsehole in real life. I know what you're thinking. "Really? No way, that's impossible". It's sad but it's true....
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RE: Surprising but true.
April 30, 2013 at 3:09 pm
Like Kay, I learned to read at three. I also learned to read music at three. I don't have conscious memory of learning either, so it's almost like they're inherent. Knowing how to read, though, was tough when I started school because I didn't do it "correctly" with phonics.
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RE: Surprising but true.
April 30, 2013 at 3:21 pm
I learned to read very young as well, seeing as there wasn't much else to do where we lived.
I contracted pneumonia as a two-month old, and my left lung suffered a partial collapse. For about twenty years afterwards, when I became fatigued I'd feel a very sharp and uncomfortable ache in my chest near the area where it collapsed.
My knees can hyper-extend about two inches. This has not proven to be particularly useful, and was the cause of some very painful episodes during my early teens-- I would be running, and upon planting one of my feet the knee would bend the wrong way and absorb my full weight and momentum a split-second afterwards. It hurt like a motherfucker. Thankfully, there was no lasting damage.
And finally... I didn't suffer a broken bone until I was 40 years old, when I broke a small bone in my left wrist... which took 23 weeks to heal.
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