the other is @webdevMason, who seems to have a heightened sensitivity to children’s growing minds (in some way that i’d love to hear her try to put into words)
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Think there’s a balance here though. Mason is onto something for sure. Maybe I needed to be forced to learn reading but not forced to read once I did learn. The pressure of reading x amount was fucked for me. Now I’m learning to read what I enjoy even if it’s at a snail’s pace.
Do you think that if you hadn't been forced, you wouldn't have wanted to keep at something that was hard? Maybe, but kids attempt difficult things over and over all the time, *against* the advice of adults —it's the force that makes failure sting.
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The typical school lumps a bunch of similarly-aged kids together and tells them what they ought to be able to do if they're not lazy and stupid. Did you go undiagnosed for 20 years without the slightest idea you could use some support? Of course not. You had to try to hide it.
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Kids are naturally "lumpy" — they're stronger in some areas than others, they don't all intuit the same way, and they do depth-first searches if they're given any opportunity at all to purse their own interests. It's why most end up thinking they're dumb, at one time or another.
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I guess my answer is that I can’t be sure. I do think, to your point, that the forced reading was definitely not helpful. It turned something difficult into something miserable. I’m more likely to overcome difficulty than misery.
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Especially as a kid! I think we forget. Left to themselves, kids put tremendous effort into what they do. They wreck themselves attempting skateboard tricks. They spend hours revising lego structures. This is part of a drawing I did as a teen — where did that patience come from?!pic.twitter.com/mRHhhRXET5
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