I am looking for a neurological or medical syndrome that would include
all or at least a multiple of the following symptoms: learning
disabilities, auditory processing problems, white forelock, cleft
secondary teeth enamel, possible Long QT syndrome, poor spacial
relations, poor judgment, accident prone, distracted attention,
fixation on an idea. The individual is not mentally retarded (has an
IQ of about 100).

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 12 Feb 2004 20:21 PST

There are several known syndromes associated with a white forelock,
and they sometimes include hearing problems, cleft palette or lip, and
possibly, forms of retardation.  But I have not seem them asociated
with behavioral or information processing types of symptoms, such as
spatial relationships, or overall "poor judgement".

Are you familiar with these syndromes already?

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 13 Feb 2004 06:32 PST

collage707-ga,

Thanks for posting a comment regarding your concerns.  Just to
clarify, Google Answers is a public forum that can be viewed by
anyone, and that permits anyone to post a comment.  The unfortunate
and uncalled-for comment about the "regular teenager" was posted by
someone who is not a Google Answers researcher, and who will NOT be
answering your question, I can assure you.

Please note that the names of the GA researchers, like myself
(pafalafa-ga), are highlighted in blue/purple typeface, that you can
click on to see a researcher's track record.

If I or any other researcher has information that they feel can answer
your question, we will post it as an answer, and you will be charged
the $50 fee you have offered.  But if no one comes forward with an
answer (which may be the case--you have asked a particularly difficult
question), then you will not be charged anything other than a fifty
cents listing fee.

I hope this clears things up a bit, and best of luck.

Sounds like any regular teenager!

Hi. Are you the one who said that this sounds like a teenager?  I hope
not.  This is a totally inadequate answer. The individual is 45 years
old, had slow development as a child, not walking until two; was
identified as learning disabled in first grade; His 2nd teeth came in
with unjoined enamel in the back, and each had an empty vein to be
filled. "sprouted" the white forelock at age 9. He was mainstreamed in
school with special "pull out" classes for reading. He had average
grades and tested with an IQ of 100 on untimed intelligence tests. He
is very literal in conversations, does not understand metaphors, etc.
He is unable to drive because of his poor sense of spacial relations
and slow reaction times. He attended a college that had a learning
lab,where the books were on tape. He did average work. He tries to be
a very responsible person, has worked from age 10 (selling
newspapers); majored in human services and works in a variety of
nursing homes, group homes, etc. He saved enough $ to buy his condo
outright, and he had a good amount of savings in the bank. He was
recently dx'd with auditory processing problems, but has no hearing
deficit as such. Sometimes, when you ask him a question, he seems to
blank out for about 5-10 seconds. Behaviorally, he has had few friends
in his lifetime because of his not picking up interpersonal cues. His
poor judgments may be products of both this and his overriding need to
be "a regular person."  For example, he had a penile
implant(irreversible) at age 28 at the urging of a woman he was
seeing/he was offered microsurgery by his urologist, but turned it
down at the woman's insistance. More recently, he made friends with an
individual to whom he gave access to his apartment. This person forged
$80,000. in personal checks, as well as persuading the subject to
borrow his credit card--on which he charged thousands of $ illegally,
then assaulted the subject. (The case is now a pending criminal case
against the perp, and the subject has an order of protedtion).
It seems apparent that there is some sort of neurological malfunction operant.

I have tried to reasearch this on google and some of the medical
sites.  He does not fit the criteria for Waardenburgs Syndrome or
Picbald Syndrome.

I was hoping that in paying the $50. to Google that I might get some
sophisticated research on what might be going on with this fellow. If
the answer to the above is that he's just a typical teenager, I would
want to cancel my order. Possibly someone other than the researcher
posted this comment.

Hello pugwashjw-ga.  Thank you for your clarification about others
posting on this site. I am unable to tell from the above if you are
telling me that there is no answer at this time (meaning that you're
not going to work on it further) or if you're simply saying that you
don't have an answer yet. Just let me know
if there's still a chance of this being researched further. Thank you.
LJW

Hi.  I'm not pugwashjw-ga.  That's the person who posted the comment
about the teenager.

I'm pafalafa-ga.  I worked on your question for a while, but was not
able to come up with an answer for you.

There is no answer to your question, yet.

However, there are many other researchers here, several with a great
deal of knowledge and experience in medical issues.  They are all able
to see your question, which will remain active until March 13.  If
anyone feels they can answer the question before then, they will post
an answer for you.

Hope that clears things up.

Hello Pafalafa-ga
Sorry I got your name confused with the other person who posted. It
seems like he/she is intentially imitating a like name.  Anyhow, I
appreciate your efforts and have taken note that my questions will be
posted until March.
Thank you,
Collage707

Hi collage707,

On Google Answers, people other than researchers are allowed to post
comments. Sometimes this gets confusing for customers! You can discern
who is a commenter and who is a researcher from the color of the text
in which the name appears.

For example, my name, as well as pafalafa-ga's, will appear in blue
underlined text. The blue text also indicates it is a hyper-link,
meaning you can click on it, to find other work by that researcher.
People who are not researchers, and leave comments, have their name
appear in black, non hyper-linked text. Only researchers can post in
the "Answer" section. I hope this has cleared this matter up a bit for
you!
Regards,
crabcakes-ga

Hello,
Thanks to all the "-ga's" out there trying to help me.  I now
understand how this works.
Thanks for the clarification
Collage707-ga