Followers and Leaders:
I am not a follower, I am not religious, I have respect for people who are religious, but I can not attend gathering only because you told me it will be good for me, I can not take peoples word or be part of a crowd, everyone’s doing it means nothing more than a trend to make money from to me.
I am not a leader, whilst people tend to like the music I show them they still only catch onto bands that hit the radio’s high rotation list. According to comments in my high school year book people admire that I am my own person yet no one has followed this trend of not creating crowds and trends either.
So as neither a Follower nor a Leader I am simply a Loner, and a Looser, I listen to music you have never heard of, I wear daggy clothes that are comfortable, I play sports that I enjoy, and I can’t convince anyone to come with me to the blood bank or smile at lonely people on public transport. (You make friends and meet crazy people that way, and get snubbed a lot.)
But I have been a follower on occasion, like that time I joined a school band because my friends wanted to, I can be coaxed into doing things for others and with others, sometimes. (The band sucked no one could play anything so we had 5 vocalists.) I also followed the trend of watching ‘family guy’ because it was funny and after I tried it I liked it.
But I have been a leader too. It’s just that I needed other people to follow me, people that other people thought were cool. It was an accident to begin with, but you may have noticed how many people are wearing oddly colored shoelaces these days. Well I am sure I am only one of many people to start this trend but I did. My school shoes were wet so I went to school wearing black shoes because they were the closest colour to the brown school shoes I had at home, because the only colour laces I had that were dark enough to put on black were purple they had purple laces in them. I had worn them before and been told I was weird, but at this time I had a group of girls from school who were obsessed with me, almost stalker like (I don’t know if they were pretending to freak me out or if it was real but) they were like, “that is so cool” “that looks awesome” “how did you think of that” “you’re so cool” etcetera etcetera. And then this trend pops up, because I did what I normally do and I had followers think it was cool. So I learnt that if you want to be a leader it’s easy, all you have to do is be yourself and get some followers to start all your trends, and move them into something bigger beyond yourself.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Monday, May 12, 2008
AD(H)D
AD(H)D:
Touchy subject this one, there is a question out there as to weather or not it exists. As a dyslexic person I have a few symptoms but do not consider myself to have ADD however I have several friends who do, and trust me after you have a few full length conversations with people who cut themselves off mid-sentence you will no longer wonder weather or not it exists. I Know AD(H)D exists, however I think it is over diagnosed and that medication is normally not needed (perhaps it is in extreme cases) as the people I know who have not been medicated have grown up, annoying the hell out of their parents and failing a lot of theory based school work, but have learnt to control their symptoms to a point where they can manage their life. The people I know who have had medication have on average done much better at school, and that includes friendships, but have not managed to control their hyperactivity or concentration at all once their medication starts running low. I could watch them and tell when it’s wearing off. They bounce around so much that even their peers are freaked out. Oh and for the heads up for parents fizzy drink equals hyper kids even in normal kids, and fruit contains sugar the main source or energy (a healthy sores of energy but an unneeded one in kids who have enough energy.) and for anyone out there who is still asking but what happened to all the people who had it before anyone knew about it. Well they either grew out of it (as some kids still do) or more likely they failed or just scraped through school, got themselves apprentaships or became professional footballers or created their own businesses and put all that extra energy to good use.
So ADD and ADHD are real, but they are not a bad thing just a different thing.
Touchy subject this one, there is a question out there as to weather or not it exists. As a dyslexic person I have a few symptoms but do not consider myself to have ADD however I have several friends who do, and trust me after you have a few full length conversations with people who cut themselves off mid-sentence you will no longer wonder weather or not it exists. I Know AD(H)D exists, however I think it is over diagnosed and that medication is normally not needed (perhaps it is in extreme cases) as the people I know who have not been medicated have grown up, annoying the hell out of their parents and failing a lot of theory based school work, but have learnt to control their symptoms to a point where they can manage their life. The people I know who have had medication have on average done much better at school, and that includes friendships, but have not managed to control their hyperactivity or concentration at all once their medication starts running low. I could watch them and tell when it’s wearing off. They bounce around so much that even their peers are freaked out. Oh and for the heads up for parents fizzy drink equals hyper kids even in normal kids, and fruit contains sugar the main source or energy (a healthy sores of energy but an unneeded one in kids who have enough energy.) and for anyone out there who is still asking but what happened to all the people who had it before anyone knew about it. Well they either grew out of it (as some kids still do) or more likely they failed or just scraped through school, got themselves apprentaships or became professional footballers or created their own businesses and put all that extra energy to good use.
So ADD and ADHD are real, but they are not a bad thing just a different thing.
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Dyslexia
Dyslexia: (and the advantages of spell-check)
I am dyslexic (spell-check changed it without asking me) or as I sometimes say Dexlysic, and I was thinking where would I be without spell check, apart from entirely misunderstood. For those of you that tell me “you would have learnt to spell” your wrong. (I prefer writing to typing and I still haven’t learnt besides) I know how to spell most of the words I get wrong. Like the, my computer doesn’t even ask me anymore if I meant to spell ‘the’ or if I meant it when I typed teh, it just changes it for me. This was annoying just then when I wanted to type teh but most of the time it’s useful. Thing is dyslexia and people’s inability to spell is not the only thing that makes us make mistakes when typing, there is a very occasional but amusing mistake I make when typing, of shifting both my hands one key to the left (it would be good for code too.) it makes the last sentence I typed look like this; ur najes rgw Kar awbrwbxw u rtows kiij kujw rgua. (Spell check even changed the capitals from a word it didn’t know taking caps lock off.) Or after I spell check it using the first suggested word it looks like; urn names raw Kari (no spelling suggestions) u rows kin kiwi rogue. But it does not know what I did. Still I only do that when I am very tyred and have had too much caffine.
I am dyslexic (spell-check changed it without asking me) or as I sometimes say Dexlysic, and I was thinking where would I be without spell check, apart from entirely misunderstood. For those of you that tell me “you would have learnt to spell” your wrong. (I prefer writing to typing and I still haven’t learnt besides) I know how to spell most of the words I get wrong. Like the, my computer doesn’t even ask me anymore if I meant to spell ‘the’ or if I meant it when I typed teh, it just changes it for me. This was annoying just then when I wanted to type teh but most of the time it’s useful. Thing is dyslexia and people’s inability to spell is not the only thing that makes us make mistakes when typing, there is a very occasional but amusing mistake I make when typing, of shifting both my hands one key to the left (it would be good for code too.) it makes the last sentence I typed look like this; ur najes rgw Kar awbrwbxw u rtows kiij kujw rgua. (Spell check even changed the capitals from a word it didn’t know taking caps lock off.) Or after I spell check it using the first suggested word it looks like; urn names raw Kari (no spelling suggestions) u rows kin kiwi rogue. But it does not know what I did. Still I only do that when I am very tyred and have had too much caffine.
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