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Talk about the Defenders! Speculate, discuss, squee and debate. There's a thread for each episode so you can discuss what you've watched so far without being spoiled for future episodes - click on top level view to see only the first comment in each thread and stay spoiler-free.

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(frozen comment) Re: To people who watched Iron Fist: A Very Important Question about Danny Rand and education

[(Anonymous)]

Not the anon you are responding to, but I don't think they were implying that reading disabilities don't exist or downplaying them.

I think we are all just maybe working off of varying definitions of "comprehension" maybe? Like... there are things that reading levels measure amd things they don't measure as well. The act of reading can encompass a lot of different processes - vocabulary, understanding grammar and syntax, cultural interpretations, specific formal training on types of documents (understanding poetry is different than academic papers vs. legal contracts), etc.

I think what we're all trying to understand here is when thinking about Danny's background, what is reasonable to assume he is or isn't capable of. Especially because the canon itself is too wildly inconsistent and sparing in his backstory for us to properly get a sense of it.

(frozen comment) Re: To people who watched Iron Fist: A Very Important Question about Danny Rand and education

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Yeah, that's one of the reasons I was trying not to use 'reading levels' terminology, because I find that they don't really measure what they say they do and I don't actually understand the intuitive difference between them.

Yes, that's what I've been meaning. And the canon is so poorly written and thought out that I don't think any of our understandings are actually necessarily 'right' or 'wrong'--we just don't have enough information.

(frozen comment) Re: To people who watched Iron Fist: A Very Important Question about Danny Rand and education

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for standing to my defense :)

It's entirely possible that we're thinking about 'comprehension' differently. I don't think that's the issue right now, though.

Nah. Right now, anon is insulted because anon's friends are apparently disabled (which they decided I'm denying), but anon forgot to mention that. Just out of curiosity, was that part clear to you? Is it just me who hasn't jumped to the right conclusion?

(frozen comment) Re: To people who watched Iron Fist: A Very Important Question about Danny Rand and education

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

My actual offended part is that you seem to be making general statements framed as absolute statements that are factually incorrect. And that you seem determined to condescendingly make it about my ~~personal feelings~~ rather than what I've actually said.