Welcome to DiRhody.com! - The first home on the web for "Is It A Cheetah?" with the permission of its author, Stephanie Tolan. We are dedicated to providing you with the best and most reliable information on children who are highly gifted and above and also have learning disabilities.

Since 1996, we're still your number one resource for

Highly Gifted Kids with Learning Disabilities!

And we've helped many children as we taught their parents to help develop their strengths

while at the same time helping to develop their weaknesses without pushing them WAY too hard.  

And then they grew.....

Please join us now as we also celebrate exceptional talents in adults!

"The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this:

A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.

To him...

a touch is a blow,

a sound is a noise,

a misfortune is a tragedy,

a joy is an ecstasy,

a friend is a lover,

a lover is a god,

and failure is death.

Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - - - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating."

-Pearl Buck-

I'm often asked just what DiRhody means and how it's pronounced.

We'll, the name was given to me by a very dear online friend a long time ago.

It means Diane from Rhode Island. And with that comes the pronunciation!

Who's DiRhody Anyway?

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