What Is Florance Syndrome The Maverick Mind? Florance Syndrome: The Maverick Mind is a brain that overuses the visual thinking pathway, the Opticoder and under uses the verbal thinking pathway, the Lexicoder. The Brain is equipped with these two systems for creating memory and filing and generating knowledge. Florance Mavericks often use the visual thinking pathway exclusively. Albert Einstein said that he never thought in words. He used pictures, schematics and diagrams to organize and understand his world. Dr. Einstein was considered to be retarded and sent to a school for retarded children in the 4th grade because he had trouble learning to read and write. Thomas Edison was home schooled because he found the code of language counter intuitive. Helen Keller, on the other hand, was trained by Annie Sullivan to build a system of thinking that did not depend on seeing or hearing. So at age 16, Helen passed the Harvard entrance exams fluent in 4 languages and graduated from Radcliffe cum laude. Although being blind and deaf was a significant threat to her cognitive sensory support, Annie was able to design a system to discover and groom her genius. The Mavericks are twice exceptional. They are fluent and exciting thinkers when they are able to use their visual Opticoder brains and they can feel inept when they are attempting to process language through their Lexicoder brains. To Dream The Impossible Dream Dr. Florance was faced with the most challenging program of her career when she realized her son Whitney was born with autism, deafness, and diagnosed with severe mental retardation. His problems were so significant that you could scream in his ear and he could not hear you. His arm was slammed in a car door and he felt no pain. He had no idea people were people. Read more. . .