Eva is working with Celsius in math.

[conuly]

The temperatures aren't intuitive to her, but whatever. Some of what she's doing is identifying whether a temperature signifies "a nice spring day" or "snowy weather" or "a mild fever", which requires her to think. (It makes me think too, carefully saying aloud the procedure for converting from Celsius to Fahrenheit. I'm inordinately proud of being able to do that.)

Eva can work from the touchstones of 0 - 37 - 100 if she tries, but to help her out I gave her the same mnemonic I learned (and then passed on to Ana) two years ago: 30 is hot, 20 is nice, 10 is cold, 0 is...

When I told Ana that, she automatically finished with "ice". Eva said "freezing", which is true, but...

You know, now that I think about it, this is a longstanding thing of hers. She doesn't make rhymes. I mean, she CAN rhyme, if I tell her to give me a rhyme for bat she'll say cat and whatever, but she doesn't grasp where the obvious rhyme should go. I recite a bit of doggeral or a bit from a more hifalutin' poem, and at the end Ana will pop up with the obvious rhyme and Eva will say something totally different, and she doesn't even realize she's doing it.

Should I be concerned about this?

Comments

[steorra]

I know you've talked before about the possibility that Eva is dyslexic.

I'm not actually particularly knowledgeable about dyslexia, but I wouldn't be surprised if dyslexia-related difficulties with rhyming could show up in this way. There's a big difference between doing a process that doesn't come naturally when you know that's the task you're trying to do ("What rhymes with 'bat'?") than when it's incidental to something else and your attention isn't drawn to the fact that that process would apply in the situation at hand.

[conuly]

That's my thought, but I'm hoping for "Nope, totally normal!"