The dyslexic bookkeeper...
Not everyone is cut out for the positions they hold in business. One business owner I worked for often used the term Peter Principal where some people rise to a position where they begin to show incompetence.One woman I knew was the best draftsperson in the department and received a promotion that put her in a management position. The company did a disservice to her and themselves. Orders began to back up as she trained her replacement and she wasn't knowledgeable with the workings of the company, making a few bad decisions. Happy with the pay increase, uncomfortable with the demands of her new job, she felt she couldn't step down (as there was no longer a place for her) and decided to leave the company.
Lose/lose for her and the company who employed her.
Another boss was nice enough to use the phrase "We're all wired differently" describing how he tried to place people in the best positions they were suited for. We had one cabinet maker who owned his own custom shop. His business failed, not because he was a bad cabinet maker... he was very experienced and produced high-quality work. His weakness was an inability to manage the business end of his company. Working for someone else was the magic formula.
I think everyone has experienced a dyslexic moment now and then and accidentally transposed an address or some part of a phone number. Every week, I get mail in my box intended for a neighbor. In that case, it's laziness or fatigue. Sorting mail and being dyslexic would be a career disaster.
30+ years ago, I worked for a place before they went on computer where the bookkeeper constantly transposed figures. Mistakes were in her typing, hand written notes, especially phone messages, but the worst part was her accounting errors. It frustrated the owner for the time lost going back over ledgers correcting her mistakes. They photo copied all the checks and he had to go back to see there she transposed entries.
The position required multitasking that she wasn't good at, compounded by lots of interruptions of a small office where she would get flustered when things got really busy. It was more than dyslexia as she would often put callers on hold and totally forget them. They would call back angry!
I suppose there is hope for dyslexia.
Dyslexics of the world…..
UNTIE!!!!
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You're kinda focussing on how crap we are, but telling us how crap we are is the problem, not the neurodivergence.
And to honest, I often look at your blogs and wonder if you're a little neurodivergent yourself, but don't realise.
Just sayin'.
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My point is, neurodiversity is misunderstood, even by those of us who are wired differently. Most of us are clever-clogs enough to compensate for normie-world without even realising we're making allowances.
It just doesn't seem to work the other way round with much patience, thought, or compassion. I can't tell you the number of times I've been told off, berated and banned from using my best strategies by normies who thought the world revolved around their neurology, some of whom really should have known better.
Had the receptionist you spoke of as being incompetent not had a life-time of having her methods and strategies replaced with being made to feel incompetent, she likely would have had an efficient system in place to minimise errors just like everyone else.
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Traits of learning differences tend to overlap categories. People get diagnosed with the best fitting one, or more, but that doesn't mean they don't have traits of other categories.
Actually, I'm trying to remember if it is a dyslexic trait. I know difficulty with telling the time, difficulty reading maps and not being able to tell left from right are all dyslexic traits.
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The are code in Palm Beach County (Boca Raton, West Palm Beach) is 561.
My New York clients often remind people to pay attention to the area code so they don't hear later when they missed a call.
Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Leonardo da Vinci, and Pablo Picasso possessed some of the greatest minds and talents in history and they were dyslexic.
Being dyslexic does not stop the sufferer living a normal productive life.
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4 out of 3 people don't know how to work with fractions
Architectural drawings come to me in feet and inches.
For people not familiar with the conversion, a common mistake would be like this example:
3'-6" (three feet and 3 inches) that is 42" (forty-two inches)
I've seen cabinet makers miss that and accidentally cut material 36" (thirty-six inches)