Orglethorp
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Forgive me if chit chat isn't the right place for this, but this is neither a PTSD discussion nor is it a research article that I have to share, so I'm not sure that it fits anywhere else.
I just spent the weekend at my boyfriend's family's cabin with him and most of his family (one brother didn't come). Every time the men went out to do something "manly" (gathering fire wood in the snow, setting rabbit snares, etc.) I took the opportunity to help his mother out and chat with her. (To be clear, I wouldn't mind doing those other things either, but I wanted to spend time with his mother.) She was very curious to find out more about me and wanted to know what I thought of her son, and she started (predictably) telling me what he was like as a child. He's a man of few words, and I already knew from conversations we'd had before that he had trouble learning to read / still reads slowly. His Mom says he had trouble acquiring language altogether, and that the two hemispheres of his brain don't control opposite sides like they should.
Now, hold up, that's not the way it works! I've heard of partial & complete disconnections of the corpus callosum, but I've never heard of a reversal of hemisphere control. (She explicitly stated "the right half of his brain control the right half of his body, and vice versa, not the other way around like the rest of us.")
I've been trying to figure out what exactly this is, mostly because the former psychology student in me is really curious. Google keeps telling me about people born with little or no corpus callosum connection, but it seems like people with that family of disorders often have trouble with non-literal language, humour, fine motor skills and spacial awareness. This doesn't fit. He's a carpenter, he's a hunter, and he's a bit of a musician. I've never heard him tell a joke, but he definitely appreciates jokes.
I also know that while he struggled with language all through school (to the point that he wasn't required to do a second language in high school), but he did graduate, and he did go back and do a 2-year college program, and apparently had no issues in college. I've also heard from his mother that his father struggled in school, didn't graduate, but then also was able to go back to college in his 20's without issue.
For a timeline reference, he's 24. For whatever else it's worth, his younger brothers do not seem to share these difficulties. The middle brother is finishing up an engineering degree, and the youngest brother is in his final year of high school now and planning to go on to university for computer science.
Anyone have any ideas?
I just spent the weekend at my boyfriend's family's cabin with him and most of his family (one brother didn't come). Every time the men went out to do something "manly" (gathering fire wood in the snow, setting rabbit snares, etc.) I took the opportunity to help his mother out and chat with her. (To be clear, I wouldn't mind doing those other things either, but I wanted to spend time with his mother.) She was very curious to find out more about me and wanted to know what I thought of her son, and she started (predictably) telling me what he was like as a child. He's a man of few words, and I already knew from conversations we'd had before that he had trouble learning to read / still reads slowly. His Mom says he had trouble acquiring language altogether, and that the two hemispheres of his brain don't control opposite sides like they should.
Now, hold up, that's not the way it works! I've heard of partial & complete disconnections of the corpus callosum, but I've never heard of a reversal of hemisphere control. (She explicitly stated "the right half of his brain control the right half of his body, and vice versa, not the other way around like the rest of us.")
I've been trying to figure out what exactly this is, mostly because the former psychology student in me is really curious. Google keeps telling me about people born with little or no corpus callosum connection, but it seems like people with that family of disorders often have trouble with non-literal language, humour, fine motor skills and spacial awareness. This doesn't fit. He's a carpenter, he's a hunter, and he's a bit of a musician. I've never heard him tell a joke, but he definitely appreciates jokes.
I also know that while he struggled with language all through school (to the point that he wasn't required to do a second language in high school), but he did graduate, and he did go back and do a 2-year college program, and apparently had no issues in college. I've also heard from his mother that his father struggled in school, didn't graduate, but then also was able to go back to college in his 20's without issue.
For a timeline reference, he's 24. For whatever else it's worth, his younger brothers do not seem to share these difficulties. The middle brother is finishing up an engineering degree, and the youngest brother is in his final year of high school now and planning to go on to university for computer science.
Anyone have any ideas?
