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inability to interact with others. • Talk about using your brain to its full potential! Ben Pridmore is a world champion memorizer who memorized 96 historical events in just five minutes. It took this accountant just over 26 seconds to memorize the order of a shuffled deck of cards. His trick is to create associations between the items he is memorizing. • Ever wonder why you can’t tickle yourself? It’s because your brain is able to distinguish between unexpected touch and your own touch. • Research confirms that brain waves are more active when you are dreaming than when you are awake. If you’re average, you’ll have between four and seven dreams a night over the course of one to two hours. • Think about it! The average brain does just that — It produces about 70,000 thoughts on a normal day. • Certain scents can trigger memories, for example, the smell of roses might bring a family member’s funeral into vivid focus. This is because the olfactory nerve, the one that registers smells, is very close to the amygdala, that part of the brain connected to emotions and their memories, and also to the hippocampus, an area associated with memory. If these areas are damaged, the ability to identify certain scents can be affected.
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understanding jokes. • Although dyslexics have struggles with language, they are frequently gifted in other areas, such as mathematics, science or the arts. Although Albert Einstein couldn’t memorize simple lists, including the order of the months of the year, he could easily solve complicated mathematical equations and formulas. Brilliant inventor Thomas Edison patented approximately 1,200 items during his lifetime. Edison spent just three months in public school, before his mother chose to deal with his learning disability by homeschooling him. • Many dyslexics turned their attention to athletics for success. Texas Rangers pitcher Nolan Ryan, boxing champ Mohammed Ali, decathlete Bruce Jenner and Olympic diver Greg Louganis have all triumphed over their disability. • When painter Pablo Picasso flunked out of school due to reading difficulties, his art professor father spurred him to develop his artistic abilities, a gift that was evident at a very young age. It’s also believed that Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, evidenced by his notes, written right-to-left, a trait exhibited by many left-handed dyslexics. • In the entertainment world, actors Tom Cruise, Patrick Dempsey and Orlando Bloom have all battled the effects of dyslexia. Bloom states, “You have all the information you need, but find it harder to process… It’s a lack of access.” Jay Leno was advised to drop out of high school but proved his advisors wrong when he achieved a bachelor’s degree in speech therapy. • Although dyslexia makes language comprehension and writing extremely challenging, that didn’t stop Fannie Flagg from pursuing a writing career. She became a successful novelist and screenplay writer, nominated for an Academy Award for the script of her novel “Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café,” a 1991 movie blockbuster.
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