Gail Saltz
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209 appearances
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first heard Nov 2017
last heard Nov 2017
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You know, is it an attentional issue?
So they have high distractibility, which may be due to wiring, for example, in the default network of the brain, which regulates one's ability to decide when to attend and not to attend.
And as a result of that wiring, they also have differences in wiring which lead to increased number of unusual out-of-the-box thoughts.
They're often contained in daydreams and such.
And they have an ability to piece together those thoughts to come up with what end up being very productive ideas if they're not too impaired.
And so you find that a lot of people who really excelled
in the past, and even at genius level, at extraordinary levels, in the arts, and in the sciences, often fit into that middle of that U-shaped curve, where they have these very particular wirings that lead them to have those strengths.
It is a big question, and rightfully so.
Unfortunately, our current educational system, wonderful in some ways, is really lacking in dimensionality.
There are a certain set of standards.
It's totally uniform.
Everybody's supposed to jump through the same hoop on their way to the next place, and that's what they're rewarded for.
And we don't in our current system have much understanding of and allowances for the fact that many kids will be what I would call angular.
Their relative strengths and relative weaknesses are pretty disparate.
So it's not that they're, you know, pretty good at a lot of things and not too terrible at many things, but instead they are
They have some profound weaknesses in certain areas.
You know, if it's a learning issue, you know, that might be a very targeted issue like reading or speed of reading or auditory processing.
Or it may be, as you brought up, a problem with distractibility and impulsivity related to wiring issue in the default network.
Or it may be an anxiety issue, which is very common in childhood.
One out of every five kids will have an anxiety disorder at some point.
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