My son was expressing frustration about his low working memory when my husband spoke up, "It is not a disability. We have an alternative way of our thinking, and it has gifts. Here is just one - programmers with low working memory have very few bugs in their code, because when they troubleshoot, they don't assume things are a certain way - they have to recheck line by line, and so they catch the errors."

I love that my son has someone who helps him understand he is wired the way he is supposed to be wired, and it is up to him to find ways to adapt to the things he has to deal with and to embrace ways it gives him an advantage.

I wouldn't have been able to think of a single gift from low working memory.

~Lisa
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