right brained dominant artistic genius with L.D.

shawbridge
Wed, 16 Sep 2015 15:35:07 +0000

@pattib845, I agree with @Westchestermom. My wife is a gifted (and pretty successful artist) who has a high IQ and dyslexic. My son is gifted in many things including art. Very high IQ and severely dyslexic. With average grades and scores, no real chance. Plus, fine art is a tough profession and the economic conditions are actually getting worse. So, I would encourage someone going into art (if that is what your son does) to avoid accumulating debt. My wife went to RISD and has sometimes taught there. My son is also really good at academics (there is a strain of folks gifted in math on my father’s side) and completely driven (I told him in 2nd grade that he was very smart but that, because of his dyslexia, he would have to work harder than everyone else for the rest of his life to show his talent.) After lots of struggles, he did quite well in HS and fantastically on standardized test scores and got into elite schools including Ivies. We selected his college in large part on the fact that there were no distribution requirements and lots of support for kids with LDs. He worked incredibly hard there as well. But, to get there, he needed top performance in school – he had no foreign languages because he doesn’t do well with them, for example, and had to be better than a top candidate in some dimensions to get in.