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Re: What have you done today? (Pt 2)
« Reply #7440 on: August 04, 2016, 12:03:44 AM »
Irlen lenses are for addressing the issue of scotopic sensitivity.
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Re: What have you done today? (Pt 2)
« Reply #7441 on: August 04, 2016, 09:33:38 PM »
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Re: What have you done today? (Pt 2)
« Reply #7442 on: August 05, 2016, 04:15:49 AM »
Quote from: odeon on August 03, 2016, 09:22:45 PM
I know I've asked you this before, but what is it that they do, exactly?
Quote from: Lestat on August 04, 2016, 12:03:44 AM
Irlen lenses are for addressing the issue of scotopic sensitivity.
Lestat has it right. Also, a lot of people who have dyslexia find that Irlen lenses help them. My issues are more environmental. I am pretty sensitive to yellow light. Gives me headaches and makes me feel sick. So the blue lenses counteract that. I have worn Irlens since 2006, so 10 years now.
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Re: What have you done today? (Pt 2)
« Reply #7443 on: August 05, 2016, 02:59:45 PM »
Ah. OK, thanks. :)
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Re: What have you done today? (Pt 2)
« Reply #7444 on: August 06, 2016, 05:00:47 PM »
Ren-do they help with dyscalculia?
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Re: What have you done today? (Pt 2)
« Reply #7445 on: August 06, 2016, 06:39:46 PM »
Took a tour around Washington to kill of a couple of hours while waiting for my flight.
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Re: What have you done today? (Pt 2)
« Reply #7446 on: August 06, 2016, 10:23:22 PM »
Quote from: Lestat on August 06, 2016, 05:00:47 PM
Ren-do they help with dyscalculia?
They may help with reading numbers. I say that because part of my testing involves counting a line of Xs in a row - something I find very difficult. They of course wouldn't help with working out maths in your head.

You would need to work with numbers doing all your chemical work, wouldn't you?
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Re: What have you done today? (Pt 2)
« Reply #7447 on: August 06, 2016, 11:14:44 PM »
Yes. It's come to the conclusion that I now need to get software to work all that out for me, as I can no longer do it myself. After some...unfortunateness, I've essentially become 'blind' where numerical processing is concerned. I just can't do it, I can now just about count change, but am losing the ability to do even that. Its as if the math co-processor got fried totally, numerical stuff now just looks like marks, without much inherent meaning, as if I were to say, look at writing in chinese characters and language. Can see it, just  do nothing with it.
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Re: What have you done today? (Pt 2)
« Reply #7448 on: August 07, 2016, 12:21:52 AM »
I'm thinking Irlens may help you with reading numbers. If they can help people with dyslexia read letters, then why not numbers? You are about as far from dyslexia as it gets. How did you do in maths at school? With your chemical knowledge, you could go to uni but Chemistry has maths involved, I know that much.
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Re: What have you done today? (Pt 2)
« Reply #7449 on: August 07, 2016, 12:31:54 AM »
Scraped the worst grade possible before they just toss the paper. JUST barely. Dyslexia-not even close. Quite the opposite. Taught myself to read with science textbooks at age 3 apparently. The reading numbers is difficult, things like phone numbers are a nightmare. But its the processing side of things, it just does not happen.  That notwithstanding, its back to the lab I go, finish my workup on the remaining mother liquors of this ice synth. Couple of pulls with boiling xylene, haven't quite decided which method to go with yet. Might try gassing w/ my CO2 tank, to try and precipitate the carbonate salt. After drying over baked epsom salts that is. Or might try either citric acid or HCl-saturated acetone. The idea being to convert meth to the carbonate salt and crash it out of the nonpolar, or alternatively convert to citrate or HCl salt, dissolved in the acetone, which is then separated off with the sep. funnel and evaporated to get the goods out.

About as far from dyslexic as can be but also about as dyscalculic as its possible to get.
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Re: What have you done today? (Pt 2)
« Reply #7450 on: August 07, 2016, 05:09:53 AM »
I am not close to dyslexia either. Nor dyscalculia, though I am terrible at maths. Scraped a Pass when I did statistics at uni. Now I am having to learn binary.
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Re: What have you done today? (Pt 2)
« Reply #7451 on: August 07, 2016, 09:16:19 AM »
I just BARELY scraped a 'G' grade in the math GCSE (high school exams)

What REALLY infuriates me, is that the (spesh, aspie) school I moved to after my Kanner's school  refused to let me take the higher tier science  papers, saying oh we just don't do that. Didn't have time to fuck with them over it. I should have done more, I wish I had given them hell on earth over that. As a result the maximum I COULD get was a 'C' grade. I think I deserved an A or even better, since I went on to get, according to some of the staff there, the best science grades the school had ever had. Missed ONE damn question and that was due to stupidly switching the formulas for bicarbonate and carbonates, if I remember right.

But that was at least a source of some inner pride, and satisfaction at, metaphorically speaking, taking their damn insult and shoving that paper right up their arses. Sideways.
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Re: What have you done today? (Pt 2)
« Reply #7452 on: August 07, 2016, 10:04:48 AM »
I flew from Baltimore to Heathrow. :)
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Re: What have you done today? (Pt 2)
« Reply #7453 on: August 11, 2016, 07:45:19 PM »
Not a lot, some deep cleaning around the house
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Re: What have you done today? (Pt 2)
« Reply #7454 on: August 12, 2016, 05:50:19 AM »
Went to college for Communications and Word processing classes. Went to the library to get some books so I could finish my database forms, only to find it closed. There was a sign saying the closure was due to staff illness.

Came home and made some mini quiches.
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