Dyspraxic Logic

[Lithium_joe]

I too have been known for the quirky thought process.

An example: last week in the literacy booster course I attended before starting the PGCE at uni, our group had to put together a poem called a cinquain (sin kway en) which has a syllable pattern of 2,4,6,8. (Similar to a Haiku 5,7,5)

Anyway our brief was to describe a place or activity.

Other groups came up with driving and shopping in the supermarket poems. This was ours - can you guess what it is meant to be? (Scroll down)





Swimming. (2)
Fusty odour. (4)
Gerbil, parrot, rat. Bubble! (6)
Forgot. Flakes Floating Down. Big Face!! (8)
Forgot. (2)


When we announced the title - we got a big laugh - and someone asked: was that Joe's idea?

So yes I'd say dyspraxia can lend itself to thinking outside the box logic.






























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The title of the poem was:



A Pet Shop from the point of view of a goldfish.

[Nicky]

That's a fab poem Lithium_joe! A really good idea.

[Auron]

The last poem I wrote was a limerick:

There once was a man from Kentucket
Who couldn't finish a poem if you paid him.

[SavV]

I've been told I will make what others call 'jumps in understanding'. When I asked what they meant they explained their thought process, and after a LONG LONG time I had mine explained (I'm not to flash at explaining anything, I think its because of this understanding 'jump').

To use an aplhabetical explanation....

Although my solution was Z the others solution was also Z, but they went from A via all the other letters to Z, wheras I went from A to Z via only a couple of intermediate letters, J and T for instance.

This apparently, is a 'jump in understanding'. I can however still understand how the others would have gone A, B, C, D... etc, just my way was quicker due to being able to jump ahead many steps in the process. The hard bit to explain is, although I seemingly skipped these steps, I can explain them if I have to, because for me to arrive at J from A I had to make all the steps between. Hopefully that makes some sense. My math teacher at school would often come over to watch me doing the set work because he said I did everything in 'a very unique way'. What I did - and still do with a lot of things - is see how its 'meant' to be done, that is to say the way it is taught to people, then apply my logic to it and am able to skip many steps and what have you and still arrive at the same result.

On a side note, the said math teacher at school was always wondering how I could grasp concepts near instantly, and then not do well in tests.... the information was just able to be successfully recalled...


Cheers!
SavV

No, not the sausage...

[Auron]

well, I might grab that paragraph, it's exactly what I experiance, only I've never been able to explain it well enough to describe it properly before.

[babooshka2002]

I'm not sure I'm very good at the old logic.

My dad is though and he thinks he may have a mild developmental disorder. He can think two ways and back to front and upside down simultaneously. Wh his colleagues are stuck trying to solve a problem, they go to him and see if he has any ideas they hadn't thought of. He usually does.

When I come to a wall, I often have a look around to see if I can get past it or through it, but then I might give up. Dad comes to a wall and if he can't get over it, through it, under it or around it, he'll blow it up and change the problem to one he can solve.

Hi, I like metaphors.

[m20uk]

I thought it would be comparative to have the point of view from someone without dyspraxia (i.e. me).

It's rather unfounded to say "all normal people need to get taught certain abilities we gain" when referring to logic, as I for one follow this exact A to Z method of logic, amongst other people I know, yet also have no problem explaining how to get there for other people's interest.

We can assume from this that the A to Z logic routine is not a direct by-product of dyspraxia, or necessarily an advantage since the difficulty of explaining how to get there is prevalent in most posts here.

As far as thinking outside the box goes, I'm a design student who is constantly thinking of alternate ways to solve problems, like others in my course - yet none are dyspraxic as far as I'm aware. I don't mean to shoot down this 'advantage' but it's important to keep perspective in the wider picture.

It's fair to say that when a disability like dyspraxia is found within the brain, it 'deletes' information about, for example, articulate motor movement, but something else will come along and fill that space. It's purely randomized, and more often that not brings the person up to par with people that do not have dyspraxia, but if dyspraxics were truly better at thinking outside the box and solving logical problems then why aren't there more famous dyspraxic people topping the leader boards in these trades?

As I said before, I don't intend a flame war but it's a point that should be made.

[Nicky]

"why aren't there more famous dyspraxic people topping the leader boards in these trades?"

Which trades are these? Dyspraxia isn't a particularly well understood or well known disorder, so there are possibly many successful people who have dyspraxia, but are not aware of it/don't make it public knowledge.

As far as skills go, there are ones that are common traits to many people with the disorder. Not to say that they are not found in other people, just that if you take 100 random people and 100 dyspraxics, there would be more poeple with those particular skills in the group of 100 dyspraxics than in the other group. Not because we are any better, but purely because the way we organise information in our brains differs. So there are problems that non-dyspraxic people would be better at solving (ie those requiring skills in areas we have defecits, such as spacial awareness) and there are problems that a dyspraxic person may be better at solving (such as certain types of logic problems). If everyone was the same, we'd hit many more dead ends in life than we already do!

I was just wondering why you're on this forum if you're not dyspraxic. Is it an interest you have or are you trying to better understand a particular person who is?

[tompete123]

I can relate to that. My mind jumps two steps ahead of everyone else esp in conversation. Leaving others thinking " huh" "where did that come from"