Dyslexia, full disclosure?

shawbridge
Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:09:40 +0000

poetgirl and amtc, ShawSon has similar auditory recall. He can repeat verbatim the last paragraph or so that you have said to him even when he appears not to be listening (to the great dismay of his mother, who has on numerous occasions chastised him for not listening and then he actually does repeat back exactly what she’s said). Better still, he can listen to an audiobook and do math homework or amazingly read another book and have complete recall of the audiobook. He can recall minute details from things he’s listened to long ago. Someone who studies the neurology of reading sent him to MIT so that they could do fMRIs of his brain to see what it was doing.

On the other hand, he cannot think if music is playing. He used to hate music (it gave him a headache) although now he likes some kinds of music when he is relaxing (he’s gone to Bonnaroo a couple of times). And, he puts the capital T in Tonedeaf. He cannot hear if the notes are getting higher or lower and listening to him sing would not be the high point of one’s existence. (Imagine his Bar Mitzvah). Remarkably, even his singing has improved.