Re: Malady

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I suspect it just means that you're an aural learner and too easily distracted (maybe a very mild form of ADD or hyperactivity?) by visual input which you don't learn from. I'm much the same. I've found that I appreciate visual things (art, beautiful people, scenery), but it doesn't stay in my memory. And I get very easily distracted by the TV, even when the sound is off. It drives my Mum mad when she's on the phone with me! ;o)

I've got some learning techniques quizes up on my blog (in my last quizes post) if you wanted to check my theory out.

- OLS

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Weird. I mean, unique.

How come when you are driving around, trying to find an address, you have to turn the radio down?

I think you got the same thing, only reversed.

So not everybody's memory is pictures? Then how can you recall what you've read?

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I had the opposite experience. If I sat in the back, my mind wandered if it was boring, or I would get sidelined pondering a point made in the lecture and stop listenting to it. If I sat in the front, I listened to what was being said, paid attention to others' questions, etc.

There is an explanation, though I don't know if there is a word, for the phenomenon of having to turn down the radio while one is driving around trying to find something.

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Is there a name for this?

Spooky-Learning-At-A-Distance?

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I used to short-circuit sitting in the front row of the classroom and seeing the teacher's all-too-frail humanity so close-up. I couldn't get past the littleness of it, the one lone individual tiny and vulnerable, trying to get all that knowledge through all those thick adolescent skulls. I had to get my seat assignment changed because the tears made it impossible for me to see the blackboard.

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Not as unusual as you'd think. Malady's description is accurate and applies to me too. An example is: if I watch a film from the front of the theatre and there is a lot of dialog, I won't be able to follow the plot because the huge moving images overwhelm my attention.I was 48 years old when I finally figured out that I was an aural learner. It's OK as its a positive in some areas.

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