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Henry Winkler on Growing up Dyslexic in the ’50s: 'I Was Told I Was Stupid, Lazy'
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Posted on 07/14/2023 7:43:41 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: Wilhelm Tell
I have two things going...dyslexia and synesthesia (where sounds and numbers have color). I was never formally diagnosed until I was in the USAF in my 20's.

Two things came out of it in my life:

I never knew I was different from anybody else.

I had developed many coping mechanisms that allowed me to deal with it before I knew it was a problem....so it wasn't.

21 posted on 07/14/2023 9:01:06 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: budj

Agnostic, not atheist.


22 posted on 07/14/2023 9:02:07 PM PDT by Burma Jones
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To: for-q-clinton

Indeed.


23 posted on 07/14/2023 9:04:00 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: NWFree

Exactly.


24 posted on 07/14/2023 9:04:35 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: nickcarraway
I loved him in "Hppay Ydas." The Fzon was really cool!

Regards,

25 posted on 07/14/2023 9:54:56 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: NWFree

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltH2V15DAug

He was more than kind to Emmy of 7 Questions with Emmy. She’s a great little interviewer who will do wonderful things in this life.


26 posted on 07/14/2023 10:04:34 PM PDT by bgill
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To: BobL

Speaking of leftists you said “It was only relatively recently that they seized political power”

Where the heck have you been for the last 50 years?


27 posted on 07/14/2023 10:08:16 PM PDT by Nik Naym (It's not my fault... I have compulsive smart-ass disorder. )
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To: xp38

I don’t know anything about dyslexia, but I know that Henry Fonzie played Winkler.


28 posted on 07/14/2023 10:40:08 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: nickcarraway

My parents thought I was dumb, even had a tutor when I was in 3rd grade. I think it was all the sugar cereals and coke I had that made me bounce off the walls.

I write out how to’s that help me learn be it in my former help desk jobs (retired now) to anything else I need remembering. I also read a lot and the internet makes that easy. Prior I read many magazines and many books and watched tv. I know people who are quite happy not reading much of anything.

I know people who remember everything and get the subject easily what ever it is yet I am a slow learner.
SLURP... I am still drinking that soda pop. I wonder what could be the issue... ?

You know life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.


29 posted on 07/15/2023 1:06:27 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: Nik Naym

“Where the heck have you been for the last 50 years?”

They had partial power, now it’s nearly complete, as we see when they are emboldened enough to simply stop prosecuting crimes...a dream they always had, by the way.

The final stage, when we’ll know that they have full power, is when all our IP addresses are traced and we all meet up at some former Japanese Internment Camp in the Great Plains.


30 posted on 07/15/2023 2:39:49 AM PDT by BobL (Trump has all the right Enemies; DeSantis has all the wrong Friends)
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To: bgill

How does Emmy even know who Winkler is? Way back in ‘08 an 18 yr old of my acquaintance made a Fonzie like remark and I said “ Who are you, Fonzie”? And she said “Who’s Fonzie”?


31 posted on 07/15/2023 4:16:07 AM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: for-q-clinton

He’s a Trump hater so he’s very possibly stupid.


32 posted on 07/15/2023 4:18:15 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: BobL

At least we’ll be together :)


33 posted on 07/15/2023 4:23:52 AM PDT by xp38
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To: Cold Heart

>Dyslexia affects people differently. Einstein had dyslexia<

Obviously. The rule is “I before E except after C”. He got it wrong twice.

EC


34 posted on 07/15/2023 5:13:25 AM PDT by Ex-Con777
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To: Cold Heart

Hubby is dyslexic. He struggled — a LOT — to succeed. Earned a PhD in Physics and was involved in many projects we are familiar with, and some we can’t know about.


35 posted on 07/15/2023 5:26:17 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: Ex-Con777

#34 Einstein made an error with his answer of E=mc2 when he was learning in school his abc’s and numbers.


36 posted on 07/15/2023 2:00:14 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: BobL
before the Leftists (Ukraine War Supporters) got power.

Which side are they supporting? Note that there's no GOOD GUY in this fight!

37 posted on 07/19/2023 3:50:14 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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“Which side are they supporting? Note that there’s no GOOD GUY in this fight!”

Agree, Russia does not like people giving them crap...no different from the Democrats or most leaders in Europe.

So the REAL QUESTION is what’s best for AMERICANS, in the end. Is it a dominant Conservative-HATING government in DC, riding the coattails of their victory in Ukraine, or is it a government in DC willing to understand that they WILL NEVER be able to tear Russia (and possibly China) into pieces, but still looks out for AMERICAN INTERESTS.

That is the real choice.


38 posted on 07/19/2023 3:59:45 PM PDT by BobL (Trump has all the right Enemies; DeSantis has all the wrong Friends)
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