F*ck!

[Slipstream]

I was turned down in an ops position, in the Navy, for being pregnant.

I had completed everything, just needed to sign the dotted line

In the two weeks after doing the tests and finding out I was accepted and "could you please come in to do some paper work", I found out I was pregnant with my first daughter.......

Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I didn't go to the doctor's before signing on the dotted line????


I'm glad I'm not in the Navy now tho. I've heard that woman hardly ever get to go out to sea....

[Dr Bob]

wait, if i can get diagnosed as dyslexic, then i can get in? cause i think i kinda am

-Indy

Studying cognitive pschology and learning styles led me to believe that dyslexia is not a condition. The theory goes that left brain hemisphere dominance leads to sequential and linear thought, which is closely allied with western phonetic language. Whilst right brain hemisphere domininance is more allied with creative and holistic thought, which although good for 'messy' and spatial problems can get in the way of linear challenges like reading.

That said, the solution if you have been playing too many video games and have developed the spatial (or sometimes referred to as acoustic) reasoning, is to read more books. Read more and elevate your linear thought processes to the same level as your holistic processes and you will overall be better off. Dyslexia may be temporary ko.

[bungbung]

Yea seen it done, been drilled ("not like that" ) But buggered .

. .

[Biff]

Studying cognitive pschology and learning styles led me to believe that dyslexia is not a condition. The theory goes that left brain hemisphere dominance leads to sequential and linear thought, which is closely allied with western phonetic language. Whilst right brain hemisphere domininance is more allied with creative and holistic thought, which although good for 'messy' and spatial problems can get in the way of linear challenges like reading.

That said, the solution if you have been playing too many video games and have developed the spatial (or sometimes referred to as acoustic) reasoning, is to read more books. Read more and elevate your linear thought processes to the same level as your holistic processes and you will overall be better off. Dyslexia may be temporary ko.

Hmmmm - far be it for me to question a trained medical doc, if that is indeed what you are, but I can't help but think that you're dangerously generalising here. Particularly as dyslexia has been studied for decades and research clearly contradicts what you've just said.

While I agree that many a person that claims not to be able to read/write/spell correctly may simply spend/have spent too much time playing Porno Turtle Death Match on the Z Box, me thinks that your guilty of just a wee bit of over-simplification here.

[Dr Bob]

Hmmmm - far be it for me to question a trained medical doc, if that is indeed what you are, but I can't help but think that you're dangerously generalising here. Particularly as dyslexia has been studied for decades and research clearly contradicts what you've just said.

While I agree that many a person that claims not to be able to read/write/spell correctly may simply spend/have spent too much time playing Porno Turtle Death Match on the Z Box, me thinks that your guilty of just a wee bit of over-simplification here.

Not medical, but then again cognitive science is in the behavioural and social sciences not medical. And I would like to limit my description to mild cases. Sure there are medical causes, and since noone really understands how the brain works I would not like to generalise about anything (especially since I am not a positivist). However, the little that we do know (old russian experiments on mental patients (where they severed the subjects corpus collosum etc.) leads us to some understanding of difference between the two hemispheres. Since there is also a substantial amount of literature about learning styles (a great deal that is inconsistent and contradictory) I think that none of us would like to generalise about the brain. Especially as there are members of this forum that may astound the scientific community.

[Biff]

Especially as there are members of this forum that may astound the scientific community.

I am their personal manager - let's talk business.

[sAsLEX]

I'm glad I'm not in the Navy now tho. I've heard that woman hardly ever get to go out to sea....

quite untrue, they go as often as the blokes


p.s I cant spell for shite and I got in.

[Drunken Monkey]

Dude, tell 'em you're me, I aced the exams. Still, never passed final selection board, but it was probably the best thing they couldv'e done to a 16 y.o. kid like me. I think they made the right decision, although sadly it meant our family's naval tradition died with my grandad.