If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn't know what a circle is, doesn't know what red and green are, and doesn't know what right and left are, by the time he learns those things, the rest of the class is far ahead of him.
But there is merit even in the mentally retarded legislator. He asks the questions that everyone is afraid to ask for fear of seeming simple.
I'm very slow. I'm a slow learner.
I suspect many people have the problem that they type much more slowly than they think. Consequently, they keep resynchronizing their thought processes with what they have typed so far, and they match a later part of the thought with an earlier part that they have typed.
The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.
My intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.
The word gap leads to an achievement gap and has life-long consequences
I was not developmentally disabled, but didn't mature at the same rate other kids did.
You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside.
It can take a surprisingly long time to get from one part of my mind to another.
Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.
Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late.
