d. m. arney, m.a.

I happen to adore doing assessments; it’s a crazy obsession with being able to explain everything. However, I learned very early that most of it is pointless when it comes to actually helping people. The real problem is that no one looks at the whole picture, the whole person. Eye doctors explain it through muscle problems, cognitive trainers say it’s a matter of practice, and psychologists are so general that the only meaningful thing you take away is some indication of how you process things; that’s if you know how to look at the sub-tests and not the big bad score. I’ll tell you the secret, we are different. There isn’t a fix because there isn’t anything wrong with us. But there is a world of education and sometimes business that can’t even understand who we are. So when I see training programs who build success on forcing us into molds that suit the classroom rather than expansive universes that fit our minds; well it’s kind of sickening. They smile, show statistics and are totally convinced they are helping. Homo-Dyslexus isn’t too far from the truth when you compare us to those who eat and breath auditory processing. Please remember that I may not be able sit at a desk and keep up with a teacher, but I am freaking amazing.