Reply #35: Could be dyslexic -- Nelson Rockefeller was, & memorized all his speeches [View All]

[Hekate]

IIRC. Anyhow, "Thurston Howell" sounds intelligent and thoughtful.

The nice thing about being born a rich and powerful dyslexic is you can afford secretaries from the get-go, and that can compensate for the handicap. It's not a cure-all, because to get anyplace real you still have to have intelligence, ambition, and drive. But there's nothing like being rich and powerful from birth to get you into the right schools, graduated from same, introduced to the right people, hired in the first place, and so on -- despite deficiencies that lesser mortals would find very difficult to surmount.

My first husband M was/is very dyslexic. Back when we met in college no one even knew what that was. My Mom used to tutor other people's kids when I was growing up, and I had the impression that only lazy or dull people never learned to spell. Getting to know M taught me differently: he was intelligent and yet he worked like hell to decipher his textbooks and to spell and write legibly. He eventually got a Master's degree. In college he hired professional typists to clean up his term papers, but nowadays Spell-Checker is his friend.

I'm just sayin'.

Hekate