[Sca-cooks] Spawn was Oops, I forgot...

[Olwen the Odd]

I was too.  Took all the IQ tests and talked to every counselor over and 
over in each school.  Sure I was bored stiff, but it would have actually 
helped if they had figured out early on that I am dyslexic.  Didn't find 
that out till 11th grade!  How was *I* supposed to know that wasn't how 
everyone else saw stuff??
Olwen who insists on first writing owlen-EVERY time!
>
>Oh, your Spawn has my sympathy. I was in the same boat, at his age... 
>Partly, I was sometimes understimulated (read - bored silly)  and partly 
>teachers seemed to think I should understand everything at a glance, and 
>thought I was acting up if I didn't understand something, or asked a 
>question. Well, you know, I ask questions... a lot of things aren't obvious 
>to me because I see problems they don't. And there really are things I do 
>have trouble with... Oh, yeah, I did stop working hard after finding that 
>it didn't help me with many of my classes... I mean, I wasn't stupid... :-\ 
>        I don't really know the answer to how to fix it.  Wish I did. And 
>you therefore also have my sympathy...
>
>AEllin
>
>Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:
>
>>...I picked up my hunks-o-chocolate (and some hulled, roasted cocoa bean 
>>nibs, too) at The New York Cake and Confectionary Supply Co., (or some 
>>close variant on that name), on 22nd Street, off Sixth Avenue, in 
>>Manhattan.
>>
>>I've dealt with them for years, and they are nothing less than the 
>>confectioner's Disneyland.
>>
>>But, after years of having to actually go there or deal with a smudgy 
>>catalog, they now [finally] have a viable web site. I haven't investigated 
>>it fully yet, but they can be found at http://www.nycake.com
>>
>>
>>Maybe this'll help someone someday.
>>
>>Adamantius

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