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Re:A Tale of Two Teenagers and the challenges of gifted stud... by wharvle on Saturday January 06, 2024 @08:51PM (#38897575)
> I can write dozens of pages of highly analytical and technical text without making mistakes in real time. I can speed read complex texts and memorize them with a high degree of precision.

> From the “language” perspective I feel highly gifted and unusual. Not so much on the mathematical side. I almost have a disability with mathematics.

I feel this. “Rough draft? LOL why? I can write a perfectly-structured paper beginning-to-end without having to re-arrange so much as a paragraph, and I don’t make grammatical errors or spelling mistakes that I don’t catch instantly. What’s the point of all these ‘writing steps’?”

Around age 35 I started occasionally making errors in typed text, and not noticing until re-reading it. Leaving out words. I started substituting homophones! I never, ever did that at all, before! Aging sucks.

[edit] I feel, specifically, the brilliant-at-language and hindered-at-math thing, that is. The rest of this, I’d say you’re a fair bit brighter than me. I just took to language naturally very early and have crazy-good spatial reasoning. I feel dyslexic trying to read math, though. I do OK as long as things are algorithm-focused, which is why I can have a career as a programmer, but when it’s equations and proofs, forget about it.

Re:A Tale of Two Teenagers and the challenges of gifted stud... by anonreeeeplor on Saturday January 06, 2024 @11:30PM (#38898437)
Hyper verbal.

Word engineer.

It’s less respected and talked about in tech but a very real capability.

Re:A Tale of Two Teenagers and the challenges of gifted stud... by sshine on Saturday January 06, 2024 @09:31PM (#38897821)
> Around age 35 I started occasionally making errors in typed text, and not noticing until re-reading it. Leaving out words. I started substituting homophones! I never, ever did that at all, before! Aging sucks.

I had perfect grammar and spelling until ~30. Then it went downhill.

It coincided with dating more illiterate women. So I always attributed this development to letting go of an attention to detail that went unnoticed: What's the point of writing or speaking correctly when nobody around you can tell the difference?

It might be age rather than environment, although I doubt it. I also don't really mind.

My code hasn't become less type-safe.