Kaylee: So, uh, how come you don't care where you're going? Book: 'Cause how you get there is the worthier part.

'Serenity'


What Happens in Natter 35 Stays in Natter 35  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Rick - Jun 06, 2005 7:23:34 am PDT #9577 of 10001

What the hell kind of drugs help dyslexia?

Kids with dyslexia are often (mis)treated with stimulant drugs, or antidepressants, or even antipsychotics. The drugs are given based on the disruptive/withdrawn/disorganized behavior that is associated with undiagnosed dyslexia in the classroom, not for the dyslexia itself. Assuming that Tom was as likely to be misdiagnosed as often as other boys of his generation, I suspect that his is right about this.

Not a justification for being a nut about medication later in life, though.


Emily - Jun 06, 2005 7:24:14 am PDT #9578 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

Also, I dreamed last night that I was teaching a math class and had some time to kill so told them they could ask me about anything. They asked me about modernism, and I had to try to remember the details of my senior year seminar from eleven years ago.


Emily - Jun 06, 2005 7:25:21 am PDT #9579 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

Rick, you have no tagline! (For posterity: )

You're such an enigma.


Sophia Brooks - Jun 06, 2005 7:28:42 am PDT #9580 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

OK- I JUST got the Top. I was thinking it had something to do with Top Gun


amych - Jun 06, 2005 7:31:33 am PDT #9581 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

OK- I JUST got the Top.

I still don't.


Lyra Jane - Jun 06, 2005 7:32:28 am PDT #9582 of 10001
Up with the sun

Paul Walker is definitely wet in that photo. Wet, and yum.

What would you all say "generals" mean in terms of college classes?

I also think she probably means general requirements, and that she should rethink transferring to a school that doesn't offer an accounting major. I wonder how she managed to get to the point of actually transferring without noticing the school didn't have the major she wanted?


Emily - Jun 06, 2005 7:32:52 am PDT #9583 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

I believe the substance of the joke is to assume that dyslexia might reverse letter order, rather than just letter orientation.

Also, apparently I need to know non-Euclidean geometry in order to teach high school math. Um. Do I know non-Euclidean geometry?


msbelle - Jun 06, 2005 7:33:27 am PDT #9584 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

poor amych, isn't dyslexic.


Jesse - Jun 06, 2005 7:33:45 am PDT #9585 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

amych, it's a dyslexia joke...

Kids with dyslexia are often (mis)treated with stimulant drugs, or antidepressants, or even antipsychotics. The drugs are given based on the disruptive/withdrawn/disorganized behavior that is associated with undiagnosed dyslexia in the classroom, not for the dyslexia itself. Assuming that Tom was as likely to be misdiagnosed as often as other boys of his generation, I suspect that his is right about this.

Ah, OK then. At least there's some small shred of sense-making.


amych - Jun 06, 2005 7:34:11 am PDT #9586 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

ho'D