BY DANIELLE POSS Pen Name Lewis Carroll Most

BY: DANIELLE POSS

Pen Name: Lewis Carroll

Most Known for: His most well known works are: Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

What Disability Did He Have? Carroll was Epileptic and deaf in one ear from a previous illness. He also had a stutter making it hard for him to carry on conversations with adults.

A neurological disorder marked by sudden recurrent episodes of sensory disturbance, loss of consciousness, or convulsions, associated with abnormal electrical activity in the brain. Symptoms: Temporary confusion, a staring spell, uncontrollable jerking movements of the arms and legs, loss of consciousness or awareness, and psychic symptoms. EPILEPSY Can be focal or general Epilepsy. A group of related disorders characterized by a tendency for recurrent seizures. Non- identifiable causes could stem from genetic influence, head trauma, brain conditions, infectious disease, prenatal injury, and developmental disorders.

Effects of Dyslexia on Carroll • Feeling of falling down a hole while growing or shrinking. • Micropsia growing or shrinking is cause by partial epilepsy or drugs. • Feeling of weightlessness • Sense of growing unreality, made him feel strange like another person.

Overcoming his Epilepsy He read and told stories to children. He felt that surrounding himself with non-judgmental young minds made him more at ease. Being able to dive into storytelling, writing, drawing, and photography allowed him to release everything he was thinking.

Hmmm… I Did Not Know…. • Micropsia is a form of migraine which is also called the “Alice in Wonderland Syndrome”. This gives off the feeling of getting bigger and smaller like Alice did in the story. • The Mad Hatter that Carroll wrote about ( My All Time Favorite!!) was said to have Heavy Metal Poisoning. This was common from the hat felting industry in those times. This is why he was so “mad” • Carroll always dreamed of being a Priest. He never made it but he was a Deacon.

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Resources • http: //onceuponatime. wikia. com/wiki/Through_the_Looking-Glass • http: //nowastedink. com/2012/04/18/book-review-alices-adventures-in-wonderland/ • http: //dog 4 deeds. com/2011/08/24/epilepsy/ • www. gradesaver. com? author/lewis-carroll/ • www. examiner. com/article/alice-wonderland-has-its-roots-lewis-carroll-s-disability • www. disability. about. com/od/Celebrities/p/Lewis-Carroll-Epilepsy. htm • Power point Bing image searches.