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MP says dyslexia is a "cruel fiction" invented to cover up bad teaching. Yeah? How about you get a ladder and jump up my ass, sir.

Can I get some recommendations for good tai chi or yoga DVDs/videos? I'll trade suggestions for epic cat cuteness.

Samwise, our gray tabby who came to the door and claimed us.

Gracie the new addition, being cute. Mauling imminent in 3, 2, 1...

Weejo, my parents' cat, with her ill gotten straw still in her mouth. "O HAI, why you takes mah picture?"

Gratuitous cat snuggling! They clean each other, too.

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Dyslexia problems are not due to the inadequacy of teachers, but because we have unique brains and the English language is a mess.

Hell yes. I mean honestly, phonetics suck! The letter C? It makes one noise in "cackle" and a completely different one in "cellophane".

And don't even get me started on math. I had so many teachers mark my tests as wrong because I didn't show the work, but how could I show the work when I did the work in my head and it changed every time? Plus - and + and / all look very similar. Lame.

WORD. Wordity-McWord, even, on the math. I still switch 7 and 3 and they bear no similarity.

7 and 3 totally look alike! 7 and 2 also look alike. 2 and 3 look alike... they all freakin' look alike! My biggest math issue when I was a kid was my inability to see - + and / (pretend that's an old fashioned division symbol) as DIFFERENT symbols. And I had the weirdest way of solving things:

What's 4/5th's as a decimal?

4 goes into 5... um, once. But then there's a number left over. 1.1? 'Cause there's one left over?

or

100% is 1, right? So if I make the bottom number 100, it'll tell me the right answer... right? 5 and 5 is ten, and 5 and 5 is ten, and 5 and 5 is ten, and 5 and 5 is ten, and 5 and 5 is ten (etc. I'd also circle the tens so I'd know how many there were.) Okay so it takes 10 10s to make 100 which is 20 5s. So what's 20 4s? 80. So 80/100... so what's the decimal of that? 1.8?

Yeah, math was impossible. And even if I DID get the right solution I did so many little steps that it was insanely easy to miscount and then screw up my answer.

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