David sucks at scrabble and similar word recognition games. He is visually challenged in that way. He would make a lousy shepherd, for example, because even if a count showed that sheep were missing he would be at a loss to identify which particular sheep were lost. He works best with language in a state of creative flow, such as writing and translating poetry.
I've never played Scattergories. I have non-hyperactive ADD (the quiet kind), and with recall exercises I'm unlikely to recall something I wasn't paying attention to in the first place.
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Date: 2008-08-10 02:43 pm (UTC)David sucks at scrabble and similar word recognition games. He is visually challenged in that way. He would make a lousy shepherd, for example, because even if a count showed that sheep were missing he would be at a loss to identify which particular sheep were lost. He works best with language in a state of creative flow, such as writing and translating poetry.
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Date: 2008-08-10 03:20 pm (UTC)I am very good at Boggle, although I'm still training myself to go for 5-letter words first. There is a strategy to playing.
But, of course, in a room full of poets, I could easily play some other game, such as Mad Libs or "write the next line"-type stuff.
How do you feel about Scattergories? It's not word recognition--it's recall.
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Date: 2008-08-10 03:30 pm (UTC)