Opposite of dyslexia

The Anti Romantic Child

Astrophil and Stella

Nutting by Wordsworth.

The book is filled with Wordsworth's lines of poetry. For every instance, the author finds a way of introducing us to lines of WW. Its like old Indian movies which had characters go into singing verses. Enter son. He too quotes lines from poems. While searching for one of the stories 'Time of wonder' on the net, I came across hyperlexia and just brushed it off as a smart word engineered by a parent for their child's babbliness. Having just read 'My Dyslexia' by Philip schultz, I wasnt ready for another special needs.
Little did I realise that the book I was reading was on it. The readers realise that the kid has been playing back what he is been told, at the same time as the mom. Once she is informed with the reasons as to why her son is unable to do certain things because of his condition, readers too are eased into the situation at hand.
This book is so different from the ones that I have read recently on the subject of parents and their experiences with a special needs child. Author Gilman's search all the way through to help her son in interacting with his peers is out there for the reader to a close detail of how she had instructions everyday for her kid to suit his structured brain which like rituals yet modifying it everyday to introduce him to the dynamic of real life. She acknowledges the effort of all the teachers, therapists and other parents who understood her kids needs. Its this element that is different from the other books.
Towards the end, the author talks about how hyperlexia is viewed as opposite of dyslexia. This chimes with dyslexics having a creative edge in My Dyslexia. This is like the opposites in Unbreakable movie.
At many points, she finds that her professional English professor life and her personal life meet due to the presence of poetry in both as a bedrock for her son's growth as well as her own.
The author never betrays a sense of 'why me or why my child', she's long won that battle. She gets positive enforcement from everyone around that her child brings joy into their life added with the confidence that they think she can care well for her child. All that emailing to convince people when she might be seen as not helping the case by chosing to put her son off medication. Of why ADD drugs were not the best course for her child. Congress involved in capping drugs.
I went into this case thinking that there is no media coverage like the autism-vaccine thing. A law helps make a conscious choice of sticking to cognitive therapy and shun medication.


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