Rather mild cerebral palsy. Also makes spatial and symbolic thinking difficult for her, so the graduate-level Symbolic Logic course requires loads more time and tutoring than her intellectual peers. A 50-piece jigsaw puzzle with no picture on it would be frustratingly difficult because she can't mentally compare the edge-shapes; she has to try each piece with each other piece.
Only very intelligent people get full funding as philosophy grad students. Only brilliant people do so on top of mental soft spots like that.
(Fortunately, abstract verbal thinking isn't affected badly; in fact, she was literally off-the-charts in a test that required her to repeat as much of a spoken story as she could. She got it word-for-word and matched the tester's inflection.)
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Date: 2008-05-30 04:04 pm (UTC)Only very intelligent people get full funding as philosophy grad students. Only brilliant people do so on top of mental soft spots like that.
(Fortunately, abstract verbal thinking isn't affected badly; in fact, she was literally off-the-charts in a test that required her to repeat as much of a spoken story as she could. She got it word-for-word and matched the tester's inflection.)