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My husband was a war refugee. He was brought to a foster home and sent to school in his new country after a year of missed education in his native land. His teacher thought he was cognitively deficient, when actually his cultural references were just too different.

He went on to get an MD and a PhD.

I moved a lot as a child to various countries because of my father’s job. There were no international schools in most of them, so I had to scramble to learn the language, and master different curriculae. Did you know math is taught VERY differently from country to country? That was my hardest challenge. I too became a scientist, but to this day I don’t really like math.[/quote]

Trauma can look a lot like low IQ, ADHD, even autism. I have PTSD due to childhood sexual abuse. The abuse occurred during some very critical math development years. I was good at math before the abuse. It was my favorite subject. During the abuse, I learned virtually nothing. I had to learn basic math years later when my brain was not in crisis mode. I’ll never be a physicist, but I’m not stuck doing manual labor either. [/quote]

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