Diselectric

      Dos explains his disability.

      As a student, I enjoyed going to school, the breaks and going home. I did not enjoy the classroom part of school and never really grasped why it was the primary focus of childhood.

      It was not until I was an adult that I was made aware that I was diselectric. A diselectric citizen has a lot of difficulty understanding a lot cultural matters. For example, a teacher makes a statement about something and you happen to be lost in some wonderful day dream and miss it all, then, you are examined on this matter. You haven’t got a clue and then, it is pointed out to you that the future of mankind is totally depended on you being aware this matter. Poor sod, they look at you knowing you are diselectric. This condition was previously referred to as a no hoper, a dunce, a bit slow that one.

      It is a common miss-conception that diselectrics only have trouble spelling and recognizing words. However, this is only a small part of the symptoms.

      The functioning of the brain can be reduced to small electrical pulses or energy moving along pathways and being logically switched to the next logical pathway, therefore enabling the citizen to exist. A bit like a model railway, it can be simple or complex.

      For a diselectric, the switching doesn’t always work well and the little electric pulses go to the wrong switches. Sometimes, being rejected or sent on a completely wrong pathway. Therefore, ‘dis’ is short for distressed and ‘electric’ is the pulses.

      Before this condition was identified and I was simply a no hoper, most citizens would be polite or ignore me. Now I am recognized as a diselectric, now most citizens politely ignore me.