Help for LD Adults...

I am looking for information on inherriting learing disabilites.

I would also be intrested in any findings you may have. My dads side of the famly all showed strong sines of simeler LDs to my own.
My father berly made it past the 9th grade, yet he became a formen for Diment lumber company. He is an amazing proplom salver. If he dosent have a part or it isent mayed any more, he makes his own. He is amassing, he has invented severl things and put them to good use. All will being almost completly eletaret.
I can only amagen what he could have dun, had the help in school ben avalobel and he hadent escaped in to alcohal.
If you have a moment to send me any info you may have, it would be gratly apresheated.
Thanck you much,
Toni

Hi-

I don’t know if learning disabilities are inherited. I suspect in some cases they can be. As for me, my mom was one of those kids growing up who was very intelligent, she skipped a few grades while in school, graduated high school at 16 and went to college early. My father was the same way. Both of my grandmothers though dropped out of school at the age of 13; my mom’s mother may have had problems learning; my father’s mother was an immigrant who learned English very very slowly, her English was very poor even after living in this country for fifty years. My guess is that if I inherited a learning disability it might have been from her. Actually this is my guess: my fathers family has a history of neurological disorders, my father and his sister both had/have Parkinsons; my father’s aunt has Alzheimers. I have a learning disability. All of these disorders involve some sort of malfunctioning or misprocessing involving information processed by the brain. I don’t know this for sure, but I strongly suspect this.

I’M LOOKING FOR A SCHOOL OR A TEACHER TO ASSIT ME, IN FINDING A NEW CAREER. IT’S LONG STORY !

Hm….I don’t know if my Learning Disability is inherited or not-but suspect that mine is largely due to my birth mother’s daily guzzling of the Coke and Bourbon every day she carried me…(And part of the reason she also had toxic plyciemia when she went into premature labor the night I was born… Three months early, no less!) My learning disability wasn’t the only birth defect I have - I also have a small hearing loss in my left ear,very small ear passages, a tendency to ear
infections- I was deaf till I was almost six….. However, I was adopted as an infant by a much older couple. So, growing up, I was the only learning disabled one in the family- still am, as far as I know…but growing up, after my Mom died, I had a really great extended family to look up to- Aunts Uncles, Cousins- and my Grandmother…LOL I think my biggest ambitions when I was a kid were to be taller than Grandma- she was only 4 foot 11, and had osteoporosis…(I’m 5 foot 3)…as intelligent as Uncle Leonard…(He’s a college professor)- I didn’t quite make that one- but I’m not bad- even with LD, I’m certainly not the dullest crayon in the box, but definitely not the sharpest…but not bad….(i.e. bad= ignorant.) LOL my dad teases me and says he knows trouble happens when I’m around- intelligence, a little wierd, and with LD??! God help us all! - or so Dad says…LOL..the other ambition? To be as special and a lady- like Mom, Grandma, and Aunt Ann…LOL…definitely didn’t make that one- belly- upped that big time! LOL…LOL and my cousins that ARE college educated still ask why I haven’t made it to college yet…my reply? “Still haven’t figured out what I want to do- or what I’m really good at, and I was born to do… ” LOL Starting to think I’ll never figure it out!
As for my Dad- he was a darned good machinist, with a yen to hunt Pheasant, go fishin’ at Beech Lake- skunk drunk, mind you…and wood working.. spoiling our family pets- (We have two, btw- Molly, a dog, and Abbey, a cat-both are spoiled rotten!)but no, my Mom or Dad have never had LD …
Nita