Her son was diagnosed with polyenia (otherwise known as ADHD) at the age of 6. Polyenia is her preferred term as there is no reference to the negative language of “deficits” and “disorders”.

It is no longer reducible to coincidence that so many inventors, artists, architects, computer designers, radiologists, and financiers have a childhood history of dyslexia. The inventors Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell, the business entrepreneurs Charles Schwab and David Neeleman, the artists Leonardo da Vinci and Auguste Rodin, and the

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in the most perverse inversion of philosophy and morality - any person who fails to learn through compulsory schooling is regarded as having a “learning disorder”. And yet it is culture which has a “schooling disorder”.