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[quote=Anonymous]I have a similar profile to your son, OP. I am dyslexic with very poor working memory, and after I learned to read the way it impacted me most was math. It isn’t just the ability to memorize and recall things like formulas, but the ability to hold information in working memory and manipulate it. That’s often needed for math and physics. I ended up with an advanced degree that required graduate level statistics and epidemiology classes, and they were HARD. Super interesting, I liked them, but hard.

I am also a tinkerer. I used to take apart phones and clocks when I was a kid, and now I build stuff in my free time.

Let your kid keep his options open, but also make sure he knows that lots of careers he doesn’t even know exist will be open to him. He doesn’t need to decide now, or in two years, or even ever, really. I just made a total career change at 50. If he wants to be an engineer but can’t handle the math yet, he can do something else now and do the engineering later, if he still wants to.

And meanwhile - get that boy into a shop. Wood shop, metal working, textiles, whatever. I am a woman and the smell of pine shavings is one of my favorite things. All our bookshelves and garden structures are handmade. When I am stressed I design and build something. I don’t build for a living, but it is still a meaningful part of my life.[/quote]

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