Wade E. defines "obscure church history" as.....

[_Buffalo]

I think it's impressive that Wade can operate a computer given the extent of his learning disabilities. Kudos to Wade!

[_MCB]

I think it's impressive that Wade can operate a computer given the extent of his learning disabilities. Kudos to Wade!

I disagree with the literal meaning of your post.

i) General. Specific learning disability means a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, that may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or to do mathematical calculations, including conditions such as perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia.
(ii) Disorders not included. Specific learning disability does not include learning problems that are primarily the result of visual, hearing, or motor disabilities, of mental retardation, of emotional disturbance, or of environmental, cultural, or economic disadvantage. * * *

http://dpi.wi.gov/sped/ldcriter.html

Call his reading comprehension problems a product of cultural myopia, but not a learning disability. That disses people who have real learning disabilities.

[_Chap]

I think it's impressive that Wade can operate a computer given the extent of his learning disabilities. Kudos to Wade!

I disagree with the literal meaning of your post.

i) General. Specific learning disability means a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, that may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or to do mathematical calculations, including conditions such as perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia.
(ii) Disorders not included. Specific learning disability does not include learning problems that are primarily the result of visual, hearing, or motor disabilities, of mental retardation, of emotional disturbance, or of environmental, cultural, or economic disadvantage. * * *

http://dpi.wi.gov/sped/ldcriter.html

Call his reading comprehension problems a product of cultural myopia, but not a learning disability. That disses people who have real learning disabilities.

Wade himself has said he does suffer from a disability in dealing with textual material. I cannot recall whether he called it a 'learning difficulty'. But on the basis of quite a long online acquaintance, i would say that he is so strange as to be markedly abnormal in his intellectual functioning.

[_MCB]

I would rather call it cultural, lacking evidence for any other etiology. Sometimes people use a diagnosis of learning problems to excuse themselves from overcoming such problems. I know my research project has stretched my mind to do things that I once thought were beyond my abilities.

I have seen substantial evidence that Joseph Smith had learning disabilities, but that does not mean that WE has one.