Today I learned +

[Ryujin]

Scatman Crothers was the voice of Hong Kong Fuey.

Hong Kong Fuey; number 1 super guy?
Hong Kong Fuey; quicker than the human eye?

 

[Mad_Jack]

That's pretty stupid. But honestly, this is teenagers since the dawn of time. Were you not one of those once?

A teenager, sure.
But I've never been a dumb teenager - my problem was being too smart for my own good.

(I protested my mother's smoking by blowing up her ashtrays with homemade firecrackers when I was ten...)

 

[Autumnal]

Hong Kong Fuey; number 1 super guy?
Hong Kong Fuey; quicker than the human eye?

He and no other!

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

A teenager, sure.
But I've never been a dumb teenager - my problem was being too smart for my own good.

(I protested my mother's smoking by blowing up her ashtrays with homemade firecrackers when I was ten...)

I think you and I have very different ideas on what constitutes a dumb teenager error.

Can I give you some advice? Please don't tell me how smart you are, as subtle as you might think you're being. There are many intelligent folks out there, and thinking you are smarter than most... that doesn't lead to anything good, in any aspect or at any stage of life.

Just say something that makes me think you are interesting. And all people are interesting, even when they think they are not.

 

[Ryujin]

He and no other!

He's fanriffic!

 

[overgeeked]

TIL that there’s some overlap in ADHD and dyslexia, to the point where fonts designed to help readers with dyslexia can help readers with ADHD. Being a font nerd I looked up what types of fonts generally help and some specific fonts. The most popular fonts designed for dyslexia give me a headache just looking at them, but seeing that monospaced and/or sans serif fonts can help, I loaded Courier Prime onto my eReader to see if it helps. Weirdly, it really does. Though not so much with Courier Prime Sans. Familiarity helps, and I’m incredibly familiar with Courier Prime, though Courier Prime Sans was brand new to me.

Also TIL there’s a language learning method that’s almost perfectly designed for ADHD language learners. Stephen Krashen‘s comprehensible input theory. Looking forward to trying that out.

 

[MoonSong]

Also TIL there’s a language learning method that’s almost perfectly designed for ADHD language learners. Stephen Krashen‘s comprehensible input theory. Looking forward to trying that out.

Sorry for being pedantic, but Krashen's is a theory, not a method. A theory explains and informs teaching, an approach guides teaching, and a method prescribes teaching down to materials activities and regimes.

 

[Thomas Shey]

TIL that there’s some overlap in ADHD and dyslexia, to the point where fonts designed to help readers with dyslexia can help readers with ADHD. Being a font nerd I looked up what types of fonts generally help and some specific fonts. The most popular fonts designed for dyslexia give me a headache just looking at them, but seeing that monospaced and/or sans serif fonts can help, I loaded Courier Prime onto my eReader to see if it helps. Weirdly, it really does. Though not so much with Courier Prime Sans. Familiarity helps, and I’m incredibly familiar with Courier Prime, though Courier Prime Sans was brand new to me.

Also TIL there’s a language learning method that’s almost perfectly designed for ADHD language learners. Stephen Krashen‘s comprehensible input theory. Looking forward to trying that out.

Huh. Given I'm absolutely dyslexic, and suspect I have some ADHD (became really a thing a bit late in the day for me to get diagnosed (they only started diagnosing dyslexia in my early childhood), that's interesting.

 

[Autumnal]

I switch my Kindle device and apps to sans serif fonts a couple years ago and it helped a lot. I’ve also kicked the font size up a little, and that also helps. I can read the next size down, but the larger one is just more comfortable and I can read a lot longer with it, and many fewer eye strain headaches.

 

[overgeeked]

I switch my Kindle device and apps to sans serif fonts a couple years ago and it helped a lot. I’ve also kicked the font size up a little, and that also helps. I can read the next size down, but the larger one is just more comfortable and I can read a lot longer with it, and many fewer eye strain headaches.

Yeah. One absolutely massive benefit of eReaders is font choice. I tried reading long text works on a standard backlit screen and that sucked. Once I got an eInk eReader my reading took off. Still slow compared to some because of the ADHD, but I’ll take what I can get.