How Learning Disabilities have advantages in them when doing certain tasks

1. Learning Disability or
Environmental Advantage
By: Cameron “Kami -Sama” Aaron

2. Genetics of ADHD
● SorCS2,DRD4,DRD5 Genes
● Altered dopaminergic function
● Environmental Factors
● Children who have ADHD usually have at least one close biological
relative who also has ADHD
● At least one-third of all fathers who had ADHD in their youth have
children with ADHD

3. Genetics of Dyslexia
● ROBO1 on chromosome 3, DCDC2 and
KIAA0319, on chromosome 6, DYX1C1 on
chromosome 15 and PCDH11X on
chromosome X.
● A 50% probability of a boy becoming
dyslexic if his father is dyslexic

4. Benefits of ADHD
● Risk takers
● Sex appeal
● Able to escape reality

5. Benefits of Dyslexia
● Big picture thinkers
● Think with more details
● Artistic
● Better visual spaceal
● better predictors of the future

6. What does this all mean about our evolution
● The positive within the symptoms

7. Correlations in my own data
● Learning disability is often passed down
from the father
● Dyslexics think in pictures a lot
● Dyslexia and adhd are more common than
ASD
● ADHD are adventures

8. Conclusion
● You are better than normal

9. Special Thanks to
Dr. Susan Baum

10. Bibliography
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