NONDUALITY AND 'LEARNING DISABILITIES' OR WHICH CAME FIRST, THE CHICKEN OR THE EGG?

Depends what type of situation is being addressed. For instance, in cases of someone being born with a different functioning brain, a differently abled person, then that is something that is physical. For instance, someone who is on the autism spectrum. There are many cases of people with these types of differences, most all of them still intelligent (usually higher than average intelligence actually), but different than the normal so-called. It’s the same with dyslexia. There are also mental illnesses and mood disorders. These things, though I am no doctor, are actual real things though some liberal minded and radical people think that these are inventions by some conspiratorial hand. Having worked on the front-lines extensively for years with people with different learning modes, with other people with severe mental illnesses like paranoid schizophrenia, and many other people besides, I do believe in different learning modes, and in mental illnesses. Some of the ways in which people like this appear in the world are as enlightened people, people who have broken through something, - and there can be a stare into space. And maybe it is the real thing also. It’s hard to know. So, I say all the above to point out that: Oddly enough, though I am talking about Oneness, mind, words, writing, talking,- appears to take place in duality (though in actuality it does not- the words appear even in silence)- but for conversation sake,- we have to label things and make some decisions and designations. One of these is that: Mental illnesses, learning disabilities, or simply on another hand, strange, interesting, and eccentric people like artists, poets, writers, and even many non-duality speakers,- does not Nonduality make,- is not nonduality, is something else altogether and can sometimes be mistaken for nonduality. Nonduality should never be an excuse for not dealing with an organic brain disorder, or with a learning modality difference, or so on.

 

All that being said,- if a person for some reason was firstly awake, was ‘satori-ized!,’ experienced some sort of moksha, freedom, bliss, awakening, shift, whatever term suits the reader,- then…………………………….what the psychiatrists term ‘affect,’ or presentation, (the way a person moves, speaks, listens, daydreams, thinks, so on-) in the world,- can appear quite different and strange and the person can be misdiagnosed by a professional, by his or her peers, by him or herself even. This is a very important point. There is not, though it is changing slowly, a model that is accepted and known about in Western society that allows for a seeker, a finder, a liberated person or someone searching for such. I myself, for whatever reason, - it is impossible to know which category (first paragraph or second) or a mix of the two (talk about complicated there), - was in the school and church and wherever just staring out the window. So staring into space and staring out the window was the joy, the excitement, the intrigue, the natural inclination. Pure existence experiencing somehow itself. And I was fine, more than fine. Existence or whatever this all is, is magical, weird, intriguing, mystical. If I had to talk or have to talk to someone it is an act in a way. You learn social cues on what to say like, ‘How are you today?’ ‘Oh me? I am fine. Thanks for asking.’ What a nice day out. Or, ‘its seems like we might get some rain later.’ Well, have a nice day, and take care. Nice talking to you.’ What is more, in compensation, in talking, in school, in whatever interaction- for some weird reason- you can get really good at compensation. I received multiple scholarships to universities. I told the academic advisor that it’s really not what it looks like, - and he said, don’t worry, if all else fails, we will make a lawyer out of you. He had the transcripts in front of him, and me, - but he believed the transcripts. And I had a difficult time. The best of compensators can’t compensate forever. Every dog has its day unfortunately.

So, what is the point trying to be made? It is something like this:

1) Some but not all people, tend to stare into space a lot, like to a noticeable extent where others around them would comment or politely or impolitely ask if something is ‘wrong’ with that person.

2) This stating, IMHO,- in my humble opinion, can be due to some kind of disorder on the one hand, or can be due to having had an awakening or awakenings, and not existence, not a person really, is staring through from space to space.

3) It can be a mix of a disorder or condition and an awakening.

4) The person picks up that they are different, and learns to compensate.

5) Some persons compensate really well, and can appear not even normal, but graceful, intelligent, interested, even charmed or charming. Meanwhile, they are just acting, - not to be deceitful, but to make you more comfortable, to make the situation comfortable.

In conclusion, I have no conclusion. That is all what just came out. 

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