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I have heard people say this many times when discussing LD or dyslexic kids - "they will eventually find success because they will gravitate to something that plays to their strengths".  Do people who claim this not realize that there are plenty of unsuccessful people in this world?  l have a friend whose sister is in her early 40's who still lives with her parents and has never really worked. A guy who lived in my neighborhood growing up is in his late 40's and has always worked a series of minimum wage jobs (that he keeps getting fired from)  Both of these people come across as very normal and seem to be of at least high average IQ.  But they have certainly not found success.  Many people never do.   I am genuinely confused by what people mean when they say this. [/quote]

DP. I realize this. It’s easy to be optimistic about my child with an LD. But reality is that most kids with LDs will struggle into adulthood. For sure, no child is completely immune from adolescent pitfalls, but kids with LDs are even more susceptible. The adhd kid who becomes obsessed with video games? The dyslexic child whose self worth becomes so eroded she looks for validation in all the wrong places? The 2e student who becomes riddled with anxiety? For every wildly successful dyslexic there are probably three who are below the poverty line. For every kid with slow processing who finds a niche in IT or some other STEM thing, two others haven’t left their parents’ basement. A 2e kid gets into MIT. Another three 2e kids never gain meaningful employment.

I do think being UMC gives these kids a safety net other kids with LDs don’t have and will give them a huge advantage over even their mc counterparts. 
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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/12443331_Prevalence_of_dyslexia_among_Texas_prison_inmates
[i]Approximately 80% of prison inmates are reported to be functionally illiterate. We hypothesized that poor single word decoding (the chief feature of dyslexia) accounts for a significant percentage of that rate. We studied 253 subjects selected randomly from more than 130,000 Texas prison inmates. Among them, we conducted a cross-sectional sample survey of recently admitted Texas inmates, beginning with social and educational background and followed by an educational test battery that included measures of word attack skill and reading comprehension. Deficient performance was defined primarily as single word decoding performance that measured below the 25th percentile on the Woodcock Reading Mastery Test. We found that 47.8% of the inmates were deficient in word attack skills. Word attack skills were detected in each group defined by gender and ethnicity. Nearly two thirds of the subjects scored poorly in reading comprehension.[/i]

https://add.org/undiagnosed-adult-adhd-a-high-cost-for-society/
[i]Between 25 and 40 percent of prison inmates have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and most are undiagnosed and untreated. This is an alarming overrepresentation considering that it’s estimated that only 4 to 8 percent of the general population has ADHD. What is most concerning is that often criminal activity and incarceration could have been prevented if ADHD symptoms were properly identified and treated.[/i]

But yeah, lets worried that some rich kids might get a slight edge over other rich kids in a rich school.
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