# Ask the learning disabled student. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 22, 2002, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-learning-disabled-student/144368 "2002-12-22T11:16:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SmileyDeath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@SmileyDeath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmileyDeath)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2002, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-learning-disabled-student/144368/1 "2002-12-22T11:16:20Z")
Ask me any questions you have. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2002, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-learning-disabled-student/144368/2 "2002-12-22T17:29:53Z")
Why are you here? At the SDMB, I mean? What do you want from us? What are your expectations from this message board? Do you understand why the rest of us are here? Do you understand what we expect from other posters by way of behavior? ---
**Author:** ![whistlepig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/73ab20/32.png) [@whistlepig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whistlepig)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2002, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-learning-disabled-student/144368/3 "2002-12-22T17:44:26Z")
Did you attend your last IEP? When do educational rights transfer to you? ---
**Author:** ![robertliguori](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@robertliguori](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robertliguori)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2002, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-learning-disabled-student/144368/4 "2002-12-22T17:58:04Z")
What grade are you in? What country? ---
**Author:** ![Early\_Out](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Early\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Early_Out)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2002, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-learning-disabled-student/144368/5 "2002-12-22T18:31:15Z")
[hijack] > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Duck Duck Goose \* > \*\*Why are you here? At the SDMB, I mean? What do you want from us? What are your expectations from this message board? Do you understand why the rest of us are here? Do you understand what we expect from other posters by way of behavior? \*\* In what way, shape, or form are these questions about **SmileyDeath’s** learning disability? Or have you just been apppointed the sole arbiter of SDMB practices and standards? If you just want to beat up on a new, 14-year-old, learning-disabled, bright, sometimes funny poster, perhaps another forum might be a better place. :rolleyes: [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2002, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-learning-disabled-student/144368/6 "2002-12-22T18:43:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Early Out \* > \*\*[hijack] > > In what way, shape, or form are these questions about **SmileyDeath’s** learning disability? Or have you just been apppointed the sole arbiter of SDMB practices and standards? > > If you just want to beat up on a new, 14-year-old, learning-disabled, bright, sometimes funny poster, perhaps another forum might be a better place. :rolleyes: > > [/hijack] \*\* I was going to ask if he wants to pet the rabbits, but now you got me feelin’ all guilty. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2002, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-learning-disabled-student/144368/7 "2002-12-22T19:10:14Z")
What is your learning disability? ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2002, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-learning-disabled-student/144368/8 "2002-12-22T20:15:12Z")
As owlofcreamcheese opined in another thread > [@](#): > > he’s new… hes 14… he posts a lot… he uses alot of smiley faces. and he wonders why they teach math. He’s not “learning disabled”, he’s just not particularly good at math, a bit of lazy student and a major league attention whore. Pretty much a standard, everyday 14 year old. ---
**Author:** ![Early\_Out](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Early\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Early_Out)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2002, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-learning-disabled-student/144368/9 "2002-12-22T21:36:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by astro \* > **He’s not “learning disabled”, …** Actually, in [this post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=2712605#post2712605), **SmileyDeath** indicates that he _does_have a learning disability, though he doesn’t say what it is. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2002, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-learning-disabled-student/144368/10 "2002-12-22T22:16:42Z")
Early Out, read the OP again. > [@](#): > > \*\*Ask me any questions you have. \*\*I did. I think it’s appropriate to ask whether a 14-year-old with a learning disability really understands what this message board is about, or whether he considers the SDMB his own personal Internet playground. Basically, I wanna know why he’s here. So I asked. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2002, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-learning-disabled-student/144368/11 "2002-12-22T23:06:03Z")
Yeah, you’re right on the technicality, **DDG** , but it still sounds like you’re sitting behind a great big desk, interviewing **SmileyDeath** for th’ job of SDMB member. Are you saying that having a learning disability may impair the ability to interact with others on a messageboard, in particular this one? That such a disability may impact on the ability to “understand what we expect from other posters by way of behavior”? ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2002, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-learning-disabled-student/144368/12 "2002-12-22T23:45:58Z")
Well, gee, I’m sorry it sounds like a job interview, I really can’t help that. What other ways are there to ask someone what he wants without actually saying, “What do you want?” _“Hi, there, Smiley, you great big hunk of lovin’ manhood, how in the world are ya? Here–have a cookie! Oh, and by the way, what do you expect from this message board?”_ 'Zat better? > [@](#): > > Are you saying that having a learning disability may impair the ability to interact with others on a messageboard, in particular this one? That such a disability may impact on the ability to “understand what we expect from other posters by way of behavior”? > [@](#): > > I think it’s appropriate to ask whether a 14-year-old with a learning disability really understands what this message board is about, or whether he considers the SDMB his own personal Internet playground. ---
**Author:** ![Primaflora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Primaflora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Primaflora)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-learning-disabled-student/144368/13 "2002-12-23T00:10:35Z")
A bit of precision in the OP would help. Precisely what LD’s does Smiley Death have? Agraphia, dysgraphia, CAPD, dyscalculia, dyslexia? Or something else? DDG while I fully sympathise with your POV and had the same reaction, it is OT for the thread. I can’t think of a specific LD which deals solely with messageboard etiquette 😉 ---
**Author:** ![SmileyDeath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@SmileyDeath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmileyDeath)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-learning-disabled-student/144368/14 "2002-12-23T01:42:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by whistlepig \* > \*\*Did you attend your last IEP? When do educational rights transfer to you? \*\* Sorry in the lateness of my post’s guys. Do you mean what I get to choose as part of my IEP? I think if I wanted my iep to change I culd get it too. ---
**Author:** ![SmileyDeath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@SmileyDeath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmileyDeath)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-learning-disabled-student/144368/15 "2002-12-23T01:43:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by robertliguori \* > \*\*What grade are you in? What country? \*\* Grade 9 and Canada. More specifically B.C. ---
**Author:** ![SmileyDeath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@SmileyDeath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmileyDeath)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-learning-disabled-student/144368/16 "2002-12-23T01:44:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Duck Duck Goose \* > \*\*Why are you here? At the SDMB, I mean? What do you want from us? What are your expectations from this message board? Do you understand why the rest of us are here? Do you understand what we expect from other posters by way of behavior? \*\* Yes. I joined becasue I’m always in learning something new. I’ll never be bored thanks to the SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![SmileyDeath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@SmileyDeath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmileyDeath)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-learning-disabled-student/144368/17 "2002-12-23T01:45:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kat \* > \*\*What is your learning disability? \*\* I have dysgraphia. ---
**Author:** ![SmileyDeath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@SmileyDeath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmileyDeath)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-learning-disabled-student/144368/18 "2002-12-23T01:47:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by astro \* > \*\*As owlofcreamcheese opined in another thread > > He’s not “learning disabled”, he’s just not particularly good at math, a bit of lazy student and a major league attention whore. Pretty much a standard, everyday 14 year old. \*\* Uh, no. I’m not a lazy student. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![SmileyDeath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@SmileyDeath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmileyDeath)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-learning-disabled-student/144368/19 "2002-12-23T01:49:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Primaflora \* > \*\*A bit of precision in the OP would help. Precisely what LD’s does Smiley Death have? > > Agraphia, dysgraphia, CAPD, dyscalculia, dyslexia? Or something else? > > DDG while I fully sympathise with your POV and had the same reaction, it is OT for the thread. I can’t think of a specific LD which deals solely with messageboard etiquette 😉 \*\* Dyslexia, probably. But I can understand what you guys say. ---
**Author:** ![SmileyDeath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@SmileyDeath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmileyDeath)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-learning-disabled-student/144368/20 "2002-12-23T01:51:02Z")
Argh. I’ll try and answer multiple question’s in one post next time. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-learning-disabled-student/144368.md?page=2)