Do you think Donald Trump&#39;s dyslexia contributes to his narcissism and sociopathy?

@TheHorse (205818)

• Walnut Creek, California

19 Jul 21

Just the facts, ma'am. (Dragnet.) I believe that Trump was in elementary school before diagnosis and treatment for dyslexia were available. See my comment to Kayla.

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Lena Kovadlo

@lovebuglena (43080)

• Staten Island, New York

19 Jul 21

I've not heard of him being dyslexic...

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@TheHorse (205818)

• Walnut Creek, California

19 Jul 21

It's been suggested for a long time. I can't remember if his niece mentioned it in her book. To me it's one of the best explanations for his inability to read and his inability to form good "arguments."

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@TheHorse (205818)

• Walnut Creek, California

19 Jul 21

@lovebuglena LOL! I've watched Trump over the years. I've never heard him make a truly coherent statement.

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Lena Kovadlo

@lovebuglena (43080)

• Staten Island, New York

19 Jul 21

@TheHorse He definitely speaks better than Biden.

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BarBaraPrz

@BarBaraPrz (45498)

• St. Catharines, Ontario

19 Jul 21

Is he dyslexic? I didn't know that, not that I want to know anything about him.

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BarBaraPrz

@BarBaraPrz (45498)

• St. Catharines, Ontario

19 Jul 21

@TheHorse He still is (a chld).

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@TheHorse (205818)

• Walnut Creek, California

19 Jul 21

I believe so. But he was a child before that diagnosis was "popular."

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@TheHorse (205818)

• Walnut Creek, California

19 Jul 21

@BarBaraPrz Yeah, the fancy psychologists call that "regression." Trump is still "fixated" and an age when he first realized he was "unloved" or "inferior."

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Kayla Tsukino

@kaylachan (57720)

• Daytona Beach, Florida

19 Jul 21

It's always possible. If it's not caught early (like many learning disabilities don't) he might not have gotten the help he needed in time or ever.

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@TheHorse (205818)

• Walnut Creek, California

19 Jul 21

I actually just did some (internet) research. Discussions of "dyslexia" (difficulties in understanding written or spoken language) go back to at least the late 19th Century. But its acceptance as a treatable diagnosis goes back (as I understand it) only back to the 1960s. If I was in elementary school in the 1960s and 1970s, then Trump would have been in his elementary years in the 1950s, before diagnosis and treatment were available.

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@TheHorse (205818)

• Walnut Creek, California

19 Jul 21

@tallawah But (if you research narcissism) you will find a well of depression and insecurity beneath the surface. I love numbers, and wonder if I could help you overcome your fear of numbers. Teaching kids to love math has been a part of my ECE curriculum since Day 1, more decades ago than I want to admit.

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Kayla Tsukino

@kaylachan (57720)

• Daytona Beach, Florida

19 Jul 21

Which means, if and when the disorder was discovered in Trump, he would've been well into adulthood. I know the older a person is, the harder it is on them generally and they don't learn to cope correctly. I do believe and agree an undiagnosed disorder can lead to other disorders. @TheHorse

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Four Walls

@FourWalls (62172)

• United States

20 Jul 21

I don't know about him. I know that your new name provides much more information than I really need.

Especially if you marry a woman named Lucy.

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@vandana7 (98834)

• India

20 Jul 21

Am I missing something here...who s Lucy...

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Four Walls

@FourWalls (62172)

• United States

20 Jul 21

@vandana7 — Pony’s name, Lou Stuhl, is pronounced the same as “loose stool.” “Lucy Stuhl” would be loosey stool. Sick toilet humor from a guy full of horse manure.

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@TheHorse (205818)

• Walnut Creek, California

20 Jul 21

We would be the hit of any party.

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Lenore Plassman

@sallypup (57920)

• Centralia, Washington

20 Jul 21

Dyslexia is fascinating cause it delves into far more than reading. It grabs at math, too and how a person moves the body- I don't consider myself dyslexic but when I move too fast it is next to impossible for me to remember my left from my right- I flunked at participating in dog agility. Don't ask me to dance and do NOT demand I do much math, either.

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Lenore Plassman

@sallypup (57920)

• Centralia, Washington

20 Jul 21

@TheHorse You have dyslexic feet.

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@TheHorse (205818)

• Walnut Creek, California

20 Jul 21

@sallypup That may be the case. But I believe that Dog will help me overcome my deficiencies.

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@TheHorse (205818)

• Walnut Creek, California

20 Jul 21

Heh. I have two left feet when it comes to dance.

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@vandana7 (98834)

• India

20 Jul 21

I think he forgot how to read - he had so many doing so much for him across so many years that it became use it or lose it problem.

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@vandana7 (98834)

• India

20 Jul 21

@TheHorse Even I am not smart then..evil grin.

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@TheHorse (205818)

• Walnut Creek, California

20 Jul 21

@vandana7

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@TheHorse (205818)

• Walnut Creek, California

20 Jul 21

Smart people I know read for pleasure. Large chunks of my personalty (for better or worse) come from authors I've read, like Mark Twain, P.G. Wodehouse, Earnest Hemingway, Tony Hillerman, Thomas McGuane, etc.

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@ShyBear88 (59283)

• Sterling, Virginia

20 Jul 21

Dyslexia isn’t a mental illness wouldn’t contribute to someone’s mental health. That speaking as a member of people width learning disabilities.

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@TheHorse (205818)

• Walnut Creek, California

20 Jul 21

So you don't think the sense of inferiority brought by learning disability in a "high pressure" family would contribute to Trump's adult disabilities? My acquaintence has suffered from issues similar to Trump's, but at a "lower level," of course.

@ShyBear88 (59283)

• Sterling, Virginia

20 Jul 21

@TheHorse learning disability and lifestyles his behaviors is more of how he was raise. Yes people with learning disability and disability see the world different we don’t always understand things depending where you are on the spectrum yes learning disability have spectrum. With proper testing, work with a person that has study learning disability while going to school gives you tools. Trump would have had the best of best depending on his family’s income. His learning abilities has nothing up with being a controller or having power or a certain power. Some one with less money or family not willing to push hard for there disability rights which by the way Trump himself was rude and disrespectful for a whole group of people with learning disabilities which one they would have live with a learning disabilities would never have said or done. Over all he is an old D I C K

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@TheHorse (205818)

• Walnut Creek, California

20 Jul 21

@ShyBear88 I remember him being disrespectful to people with disabilities.

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Anne Marie Guyer

@LeaPea2417 (36451)

• Toccoa, Georgia

20 Jul 21

I never heard that Trump was dyslexic.

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@vandana7 (98834)

• India

20 Jul 21

Pony was showing off his knowledge as a psychologist.

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@TheHorse (205818)

• Walnut Creek, California

20 Jul 21

It's a "working hypothesis" (with a lot of support) at this point.

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LindaOH

@LindaOHio (156271)

• United States

20 Jul 21

I don't know enough about the subject to comment; but I do know that he definitely has some sort of problem.

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@vandana7 (98834)

• India

20 Jul 21

Constipation. He looked constipated to me all the time.

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@TheHorse (205818)

• Walnut Creek, California

20 Jul 21

I don't remember exactly when I first heard the "dyslexia" hypothesis. He did got to elementary school before the diagnosis was well-known, so he wouldn't have gotten the help he needed.

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@TheHorse (205818)

• Walnut Creek, California

20 Jul 21

@vandana7 He did. But the thought of his bowels more than I can handle half-an-hour after eating lunch.

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Diana

@dya80dya (33550)

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20 Jul 21

I am not sure if he has dyslexia.

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@TheHorse (205818)

• Walnut Creek, California

20 Jul 21

Do you have an alternative explanation for his avoidance of reading?

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@TheHorse (205818)

• Walnut Creek, California

20 Jul 21

@dya80dya Maybe we'll learn more over time.

Diana

@dya80dya (33550)

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20 Jul 21

@TheHorse No.

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Jim Bauer

@porwest (78761)

• United States

20 Jul 21

What does Biden's dementia contribute to the American people now, and how does not knowing who is actually running the country affect us? How does it make the rest of the world view us as they are loading up their bombs ready to pounce on a nation that has clearly lost its strength under Biden (or whoever is calling the shots in the White House)?

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@TheHorse (205818)

• Walnut Creek, California

20 Jul 21

I'm not talking about Biden in this post. I'm just drawing a parallel between someone I know personally and Trump.

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@TheHorse (205818)

• Walnut Creek, California

22 Jul 21

@porwest Honestly, my life hasn't changed much since Biden took office. Im a bit "richer," but I was already getting "richer" under Obama and Trump too.

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Jim Bauer

@porwest (78761)

• United States

22 Jul 21

@TheHorse If you are going to make assertions about Trump, you have to consider Biden in the argument, because it is worth comparison, especially when the choice to unseat Trump caused us to have Biden, and we need to evaluate whether or not we gained something or lost something. I think we traded good policy for bad policy, competence for incompetence, leadership for who the eff is actually at the helm. And I think we did all because we did not like the guy in the Oval Office. Not because he was a bad president. And I think that kind of reasoning at the polls is dangerous.

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Arunima Singh

@arunima25 (85328)

• Bangalore, India

20 Jul 21

I was not aware that he is dyslexic. Well it might and might not. I have taught many dyslexic kids and have a daughter who struggle with learning disorder. Yes, she has problem comprehending the subtle meanings but is brilliant otherwise. Many dyslexic kids are smart enough to pick up coping skills to mask their shortcomings.

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@TheHorse (205818)

• Walnut Creek, California

20 Jul 21

The dyslexic guy I know struggles to comprehend the written word, even in adulthood, and also struggles with social cues. I don't think it's been "confirmed" that Trump suffers from dyslexia, but his reading struggles are consistent with such a diagnosis.

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Arunima Singh

@arunima25 (85328)

• Bangalore, India

26 Jul 21

@TheHorse Dyslexia stays life long. People learn to cope with it with training and figuring out on own what works for them. I had no idea that Trump has dyslexia.

Meggan Moore

@Meggan (337)

• United States

8 Mar 22

My science teacher in high school had severe dyslexia and was a genius (just couldn't spell!) He was extremely logical. My son has dyslexia and his brain is so far more advanced then mine could ever be. I am not a fan of Trump personally, and like others I felt we were walking into WW3 with him. I was surprised that when you took away his crude talk and just focused on what he did, that we had come a long way in the country. I personally don't believe dyslexia has anything to do with being a narcissist, I think being a narcissist has everything to do with it.

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@TheHorse (205818)

• Walnut Creek, California

8 Mar 22

I think he may have had an underlying sense of inferiority in his younger days. But I'm not sure.

@TheHorse (205818)

• Walnut Creek, California

8 Mar 22

@Meggan Agreed.

Meggan Moore

@Meggan (337)

• United States

8 Mar 22

@TheHorse I think it is how they are raised and how their parents act.

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ultraman cosmos

@id_peace (14005)

• Singapore

20 Jul 21

I did not know that he is not able to read like us. I will be more relax with him from now on since he could not read in the way we normally read.

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ultraman cosmos

@id_peace (14005)

• Singapore

21 Jul 21

@TheHorse Even when I was young, this is something that was not well known as well.

@TheHorse (205818)

• Walnut Creek, California

20 Jul 21

I do feel for the man. And that diagnosis was not well-known when he was a kid.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (458230)

• Switzerland

21 Jul 21

Considering Trump’s difficulty with complex (and not so complex) sentence structures, I believe that he has moderate dyslexia. The fact that he is arrogant helps to stay ignorant.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (458230)

• Switzerland

21 Jul 21

@TheHorse I think he has an inferiority complex because of his father who considered him "an idiot", that did not help to move on and be less idiot.

@TheHorse (205818)

• Walnut Creek, California

21 Jul 21

I think so too. A part of his "arrogance" may have stemmed from his sense of inferiority over his troubles with reading and language comprehension. I may do a bit of psychology reading about the "genetics" of dyslexia, narcissism, and sociopathy today. In most families, genetics and environment are "confounded."

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RasmaSandra

@RasmaSandra (73473)

• Daytona Beach, Florida

20 Jul 21

It could be possible one way or another the guy needs a lot of help,

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RasmaSandra

@RasmaSandra (73473)

• Daytona Beach, Florida

20 Jul 21

@TheHorse remember what happened with Reagan, Now Reagan was not a bad president but by the time he took office again he already had Altzheimers

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@TheHorse (205818)

• Walnut Creek, California

20 Jul 21

@RasmaSandra I do remember that. I guess that makes me old. The fact that we survived Trump...I see it as a testament to the power of Democracy.

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@TheHorse (205818)

• Walnut Creek, California

20 Jul 21

Alas, I don't think he'll accept help. I just hope he does his time and fades from the spotlight. I am a strong believer in American Democracy.

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Kelli M

@spiderdust (14741)

• San Jose, California

21 Jul 21

I hate to give the man excuses, but I will say that if his parents ignored his difficulties and had him pushed on through rather than helped as a child, it likely contributed to how he turned out as an adult. However, he has the resources to help himself now.

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