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Played badminton with Ah Long, Evelyn and Cherry at Woodlands today. Had a nice lunch with them at Causeway Point after. Was really nice chatting with them. I knew Cherry was a teacher but what I didn't know was that she taught dyslexic children at a primary school. It was really interesting hearing her talk about the problems these kids go through.Dyslexia is a learning disorder marked by impairment of the ability to recognize and comprehend written words. It doesn't mean they're stupid, that's the common misconception. Lee Kuan Yew and Lee Hsien Loong have dyslexia. So do Tom Cruise and Kiera Knightley (so says Caleb, but I'm too sure abt that). Apparently, normal people have larger left brains than right brains. The left brain is usually used for stuff like learning language, numbers and speech. The right brain controls our more creative side. Which is why artists generally have bigger right brains. Dyslexic people have larger right brains too. Xinyi, is that right? This is under your scope right? Heh.
There're different levels of the disorder. Severe Dyslexics can't even tell the time off the clock, because their brain just cannot organise the information they see. Some are also capable of writing a whole paragraph absent of vowels. For example, the word "running" will prob be spelt "rnnng". The cool thing about such people though, is that once they over come their initial disadvantage, they can tap on the power of their right brain, and usually they're quite creative and even geniuses in their own right.
Anyway just a side note. I read somewhere that when we dream, we can't read, since it's our right brain that controls our dreams and our left brain that controls language recognition. So next time you guys dream, do tell me if you're capable of reading. Quite interesting man.
Passed my final riding evaluation today! Can finally book TP date! 11 April! Vroom Vroom!!!!
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