"Because I'm really obsessive about learning it and loving it and wanting to immerse myself in it.
Mukaddes and Herguner (2007) presented a case report of severe autism associated with this duplication, with minimal speech, stereotypic behavior, and lack of eye contact, joint attention or play; the father of this patient exhibited the same duplication, and was described as introverted, obsessive and learning disabled.
JoAnn Dahlkoetter, a sports psychologist in San Carlos, Calif., said that she had previously helped obsessive marathoners learn to cope with pain so they could break three hours.
Most of the new wave of teen movies – which, after the brief late-90s explosion of Scream, The Faculty, Ghost World and its ilk, is actually the "third wave" – portray its characters as wise-arses rather than actually learned, obsessive (about music, girls, haircuts, etc) rather than analytical.
To a mildly obsessive youngster, it seemed that learning about these things would be a very fine thing indeed.
Learning disabilities (LD) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) or obsessive and compulsive behaviors (OCB) are also common [ 7- 10].
Attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), conduct disorder (CD), obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), obsessive compulsive behavior (OCB), developmental disorder (DevD), learning disability (LD), mental retardation (MR), pervasive developmental disorder (PDD), psychosis (Psy) and neurological abnormality (Neurologic).
Here is a cruel, obsessive, self-absorbed man, who, in learning the error of his ways, also learns that nothing is his fault.
Genetic variations in NMDA receptors have been implicated in the genetic susceptibility to neurological, psychiatric and learning disorders, e.g. obsessive-compulsive disorder [ 12], attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) [ 13], dyslexia [ 14], schizophrenia and bipolar disorders [ 15], Parkinson disease and Huntington disease [ 16].
Importantly the taskforce failed to acknowledge that obsessive 'teaching to the test' can actively undermine learning.
