"Brain wiring that effortlessly recognizes faces, animals and other symmetrical objects can be thrown off by letters and numbers, leading to reading difficulties. A restless nature was once helpful to people who needed to find food sources in the wild, but in today’s classrooms, it’s often classified as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder."
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Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang in a NYTimes.com article called Get Your Kids The Fuck Outside or something.
My brain isn’t wired for the modern world.
Something I’ve known since the first grade.
