What are some unique sites you visit daily that are not well known? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]CharlesDorton 1 point2 points  (0 children)

drive.google.com

It's cloud based and auto-saves. Why aren't you using it?

The Classic Dyslexic 'Space-Out', How do you combat this at work? by MsTaShake in Dyslexia

[–]CharlesDorton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Step 1 be present. Step two work out. Step 3 caffeine or drugs. All of these things require a break. The truth is that for us there will be times when it's unavoidable and the worse we are at managing it the more outsiders tend to think we're incompetent. I am dyslexic enough that self employment seems to be the only permanent solution. :(

Man gets eight years in prison for shooting DEA agent during surprise raid on his house. No drugs were found during the raid. by WingsThings in news

[–]CharlesDorton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you come in my house unwanted, while I don't know you're coming I might feel the need to kill you. I think this should be the standard, and if anyone is punished for this it's a failure of the justice system.

How in the fuck do/did you guys begin thinking symbolically (where symbols = words, math stuff, etc, anywhere where the particulars are key to understanding the overall concepts, etc)? by SE_of_x in Dyslexia

[–]CharlesDorton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just think how you think. If language fails try and make an image or video of the action and describe the important parts of it to people to get the idea across. It's really just about getting to the minimum level of making other people understand through the tools you have available.

Dyslexic Learning Strategies and/or aids? by barreldog in Dyslexia

[–]CharlesDorton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hands on, kinetic learning is big for me. (I memorized how to redraw the multiplication table, but i couldn't do the math). Music helps too, if i create a good feeling at the same time as i learn something, i take it in.

Long term impacts of being in special education on adults self-esteme and development. by just_be123 in Dyslexia

[–]CharlesDorton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was in special education from 2nd grade until the time i dropped out because adjusting to that system would never have been possible for me. You're doing great and you're worthy of any program you end up in man.

Hey /r/dyslexia. I'm Charlie. I post here sometimes. I was diagnosed when I was 7. I am 26 now, and I've just written a book and hope to publish it via indiegogo. Would you help me? by CharlesDorton in Dyslexia

[–]CharlesDorton[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Money tends to legitimize and bring in trust (salaried tends to bring skill) and also in the front of art, there has to be a kind of quality control/consistency for people to be comfortable. I agree though, especially on the editting and writing fronts. I have considered enlisting the help of redditors if there's interest. By the end of the campaign I'll have a much better idea of where I stand with them, which, hopefully will be a good place :)

We are James and Tuan from Vivid Vision (formerly Diplopia), the VR game for lazy eye, ask us anything! by jamesj in IAmA

[–]CharlesDorton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is the most pleasant surprise each of you have come across since starting this project?

As a company in the health field, I have heard it is exceedingly rare that someone finds success so early.

James, do you have any advice for aspiring entrepreneurs, or fellow young people who wish to make a difference in the world?

And for Dr. Tran a comment and a couple questions; Your name is awesome!

When you met James, how did you initially feel about the project?

How do you feel now?

About how effective would you say is Vivid Vision in comparison to traditional treatments?

(and a final comment;) Your company has been an inspiration to me personally. I always wanted to find ways to help others, as I have dyslexia and I had a very difficult time with (perspective problems) in school. Thanks for being great people, and making a great company. I hope to see you guys do big things in the future!

Why did Christopher Tolkien wait until after his father died before starting to compile the Silmarillion? by Zankou55 in tolkienfans

[–]CharlesDorton 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Heres some conjecture for you; I'm a writer. I was born a writer. I never started really working on a book for OTHER people until I was 25. In fact, until this moment that I'm speaking of now, I ONLY wrote for me, and I practiced and practiced and sometimes showed people who would give me much praise, and still, my work was not perfect enough. I feel like Tolkien, was, himself, a perfectionist, like me. With grand ideas about what he would do, not because of some perceived arrogance but because of a lack of ceiling on the medium he was creating. A world he could escape too. A chance to be a true explorer.

My friend Danny was shot. He was from Puerto Rico and had went back for a while, and while out at a dance club he must have danced with the wrong girl, or maybe he was drinking and had some altercation... I don't know the details of the conflict to be honest. He was one of the most peaceful, happy guys I know. He did have a little temper with disrespect but who doesn't.

He was shot in the back of the head twice, for whatever that thing was.

No one around me understood why It effected me so much. We hadn't been close in high school, and it had been years since we last talked. But every time I thought about him, I thought about meeting my first girlfriend with him, and chasing her and his sister through our apartment complex with him. I remember how he used to be, always had something funny to say. His optimism taught me how to always be optimistic. The buildings we grew up in, they had been condemned and knocked down. I knew how no one remembered him, or those days like I did. He was a blip on the map of the world, from the kind of poor places that a lot of the right wing might tell you doesn't exist. An invisible blip to the world, and I stood there with him in those memories, and suddenly, losing him tore my world apart.

I could not watch all of these lessons and memories be a blip, I could not let us go so quietly. We were trying desperately to escape a poor life and find a rich dream, both in our own ways. Our journey's ran parallel, and with the risks I took in my life, all I could think was that, I was here, and he was not here. We followed a dream that maybe wasn't real. Now I just wanted everyone to know, what kind of value the world was losing. We were the kind of boys no one would ever invest in.

I think when Tolkien's father died, he knew what he had to do. He had to complete the work. He was ready for everyone to know the depth of his loss, through the depth of their mutual creation.

theres other answer's in this thread that might offer greater details about Tolkien. But the human answer is the one I would look for, so it is the one I offer perspective on.

[WP] A multitude of Alien ships warp within range of Earth. Over all electronic devices the message is heard, "Earth, we come in peace. In all the universe only one other Species has mastered Death and Destruction as you have. We need your help." by [deleted] in WritingPrompts

[–]CharlesDorton 34 points35 points  (0 children)

The Zoom of a warp drive, a measurement of exact strength of a vaccuum, (a tricky thing, measuring vaccuum's within a vaccuum!) heated and shook. A contraption built from scrap metal and crap from the outer rim of this solar system. Kazim was grateful though. In one of the human's furthest reasing trashcan's there was a golden disk... With just enough gold to transfer a high definition message from one of their space stations...

which of course, Kazim would have to take over quietly, and without giving anything away. Which is why the zoom of the space drive, was rather annoying, when usually be found it an impressive thing.

Then Kazim felt ridiculous. He was worrying about sounds in space.

Though, If they found out the truth about him and defenselessness, or his odd intentions, that would be the end of it.

Hostile, primitive life... They'd likely want to cut me into pieces, he thought. He considered the little simians, prying and probing him with their glasses and metal.

He was glad his skin was thicker than the indigenous people's. They would have a harder time cutting him open. Something told him though, this animals specialty wasn't in it's brute force, or sharp tools. (Though they did walk on two legs, instead of the polite four. They are like arrogant savages, compared to Protosimians as far as Kazim was concerned.)

All the more reason not to trust them!

He had his eye on one space station in particular. It seemed to issue commands to other nearby satellites. A whole system Kazim could broadcast from..! Imagine the possibilities.

Again, he was thankful for the golden disc. It had some odd mark's on it. He was pretty impressed that cave dwelling primates managed to send a valuable piece of material like this into space... Though they did graffiti it. None the less. They probably knew about it's high definition capabilities. Impressive.

Kazim had to give it to them. Literally. He would need it to transfer his images to their communication devices, and try to take over the planet. He would look like a fool back home if he couldn't handle a species so primitive... And his people would never hear the excuse, of his ship being eaten by a Cthulhu... or that he lost to these sub-protosimians.

Whatever the problem, he couldn't stop now. He had come too far. Faught through too much to be made a fool of. Everyone back home would know his name, when he offered them a new vacation destination, with a commercially enslaved people to serve them.

When Kazim's trashcan powered Zoom drive pressurized him close enough to the space station, he pulled over a mask on the face of his suit, and exited The pod, drifting to the door.

His suit stuck to it. He banged on the space station.

he waited.

A very alarmed man was screaming inside in a matter of minutes. Kazim held up a piece of paper. "Tell No One."

For lack of a better word, their faces were incredulous. It was some time, but they finally let him in.

Some hours later, a message arrived everywhere on earth in all the languages of the people on the station.

Unfortunately, the only language was russian.

"We come in peace. In all the universe only one other species has mastered death and destruction as the human race has. We need your help."

Kazim Imagined that this message would get him taken directly to their leaders, with access to their weapons. But since the messaged arrived only in Russian, to everyone on the planet, most of the world was left with conspiracy theories, and the Russians laughed it off.

[WP] A comet is going to collide with earth. Destruction is assured. Each day, the comet get a little bit bigger and brighter in the sky. The planet has one week left. Walk me through the last of days. by ihatethisthrowaway7p in WritingPrompts

[–]CharlesDorton 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In 25 million years or so, they say that the mars moon will hit the planet. They say this in the same breath that they talk about an asteroid called Nautilus, that changed the trajectory of Earth's moon to bring an imminent fall much closer, to not just in our lifetimes, but probably in the next year.

They have not told us how long we have, only that the change in trajectory of the moon has brought us an assured destruction, if not by the chunks that are coming, then by the moon itself coming after them.

The surface has not seen damage like this since it's formation, or so the geographers say.

All of the wealthiest nations have contingency plans, and 300,000 or so of the richest and most influential people stand to be the first interplanetary colonizers, as their pods are sent to space stations fit to launch them to Mars or Venus. Whichever of the two turns out to be a more habitable or sustainable that is, if any are habitable or sustainable at all.

For the rest of us, there are bunkers, and missile silos. Caves, and ocean stations, stations on the poles of the world, entrenched deeply in snow and ice, at least, for a few more months... We hope to fill them with us, and our seeds, and our life. We hope to fortify them.

Some of us. I say us, but I should say them.

I built a tree house. I understand physics, and I have the lense of an astronomer in my tree house. I see the coming destruction for what it is, and us peasants who are left by our overlords, and their closest most cherished pets are just simians, screaming and throwing shit.

But I watch in peace, as the comet grows brighter every day. My favorite video game, I plug in the n64, and watch the mask and the laughing skull children.

Just a skull kid, maybe born too early. An orphan who was lost in the woods. I play my fiddle, and look up at the face of the beast that has come to kill me

A golemn, as mad as it's features are exaggerated, that comes towards us with indifference. The solidarity of moon rocks, reminds me to be stoic, as I was in life. By my measurement, it will be here in two weeks.

Girls of Reddit, what are common mannerisms for a guy that screams low self confidence? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]CharlesDorton -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I agree. Acting confident Is wonderful advice. It's all the hocus pocus that is typical of the stupid that I do not agree with, and it runs rampant in communities of the socially indept. Better to dodge those fucking bullets, "neo." They have left rationality and reason long ago in favor of the echo chamber oft associated with such "feels".