CWTK Dyslexia- whats it like from the other side?

[Chaos-incarnate]

In light of the usual spelling and grammar nazi posts, I am starting this thread for those of you who have, or know someone who has, dyslexia.
What is it really like? I asked a dyslexic guy once years ago, he described it as " like trying to pin down wriggling moving letters and numbers to the page." Another dyslexic (in my opinion) I know does not believe he has it. He tells me he had it when he was younger but he just "got over it" one day. However, when I read his writing I have my doubts

They tell me my younger brother 'may' have dyslexia, certainly he has some type of learning disability but these days the kiddy shrinks are reluctant to 'label' children. When I ask my brother though he cant explain it to me- how he can read a word a hundred times and then have no concept of it the 101st time. Its like his brain just resets and the word gets lost. He gets very defensive about it, because he gets picked on at school a lot for being in the 'special' class. Hes certainly not dumb, but regularly pronounces common oft used words incorrectly and holds the record for funniest random family comments.

Stigmas are still alive and well it seems, and by what I read on here it doesnt look like it gets better when we get older either.

For a summary this site seemed to sum it up best with:

People with dyslexia - more often referred to as a specific learning difficulty (SLD) - have difficulties with reading, language and words for no apparent reason. Common problem areas include spelling, comprehension, reading and identification of words. Dyslexia isn't a symptom of low intelligence.

Ref: http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/dyslexia_explained?open

But I want to know what it really feels like, and how it affects your life. Feel free to write it anyway you like



Every single word of this post, excluding the quote, is completely out of my mind and may or may not pertain to relevant or irrelevant life experience as perceived and remembered by my aforementioned mind, contains no medical training beyond first aid, and is completely and utterly unprovable in any way shape or form for the purposes of this post/ thread/ forum/ life.

[NanoBear]

I've come across a couple of people at work who have the condition. Identified them by their use of colours to identify different products rather than the text (and the associated errors). I don't really know them too well, but in both cases they tried, and for the most part succeeded, to hide the condition through outward over-confidence.

[McGoo]

I don't have first hand experience, but I was chatting to a friend that does. He said his particular condition meant the when looking at text, he basically didn't see the black characters, he saw the white background. It wasn't until he was fitted with special glasses that he was able to read properly, but it took so many years he couldn't catch up at school.

[submit]

i have a friend who is dyslexic. He used to get a lot of shit given to him from the forums (perks of the interweb i guess).
people adapt to their environment and through his friends he slowly changed and learnt to fit in with others more.
I myself, has also learnt a lot from the bloke.
like the ability not to judge others no matter what the circumstances are.
the other ability, is to be a friend.

[BB6]

I have Dyslexia, but its only minor. I wouldn't say it's " like trying to pin down wriggling moving letters and numbers to the page." unlike your friends, mine is more subtle.

The way I found out about it, is when in primary school you have to read out loud in class, when someone else was reading out loud, and I was reading in my head, I quite often would read a word as a completely different word to what they read out.

Usually it is a word that starts and ends with the same letter, but I still have this problem today. I will read a sentence, realize that It made no sense to me, and double back and read it and it will take a couple of times until I figure out what I got wrong and it makes sense.

Mistaking a word for another word that DOES fit in the sentence but changes the meaning, however, can be interesting so I have a habit of proof reading everything I do, and double reading a lot of stuff.

[acegalaxi]

I think you need to ask someone from the D.N.A. - National Dyslexics Association.

[rharris]

For me it means i have to have a good menamary i never write things down i allways have people around me to do that .reading is not a problem but writing a letter is something i have never done in my life .ps i did not spell check this

[agrid]

Someone who worked for me had dyslexia, the reports produced were gibberish until they started wearing those pink glasses.

[AliastheJester]

For me it means i have to have a good menamary i never write things down i allways have people around me to do that .reading is not a problem but writing a letter is something i have never done in my life .ps i did not spell check this

Get checked for dysgraphia, it's a similar sort of thing but effects writing instead of reading.

[rharris]

Get checked for dysgraphia, it's a similar sort of thing but effects writing instead of reading.

thanks for that i will cut copy and paste that into Google and have a read never herd of it before

[filbert]

i don't know what i have since it was assumed that because i did well at school and can spell pretty much anything that i must be fine plenty have it worse than me.

but i have to read everything multiple times until it makes sense or end up zoned out looking at the pretty light patterns in the spaces between words, and when i write i sometimes find myself writing 3 or 4 words ahead of what i was actually meaning to write and have to correct it so i prefer computers.

I guess it doesn't actually affect me that badly since i still manage to read faster than most if i manage to focus and can type pretty quickly too, but i have ended up driving trucks when everyone thought i was going to have multiple university degrees.

[shan]

Through school to the more boystruss and out spoken of the IN crowd --you are an easy target.
The school system (old system) had a habbit of leaveing you out, written off early.
No one really knew anything about it.
Branded a stupid trouble maker,

The hassel with makeing way as an adult,
Paper work is every where.
There has been more than one ocasion I have been well fucked over for mony purely because I have been baffeled as to what to do.
With work things are much esier , I am pritty good at what i do, I keep big expensive machines running.
The employers have a choice I give them,
Do you want your machine to run,
Or a story on why it Dosent,

My Hand writing is something that just dosent make sence to me or anyone.

People dont get it, cannot bend there brain arround the fact simple things can be a struggel, especialy when someone who is so bad at the written word can do well through life.
Most who know me have no idea how words have been a big issue with me.
After all , we talk to people mostly , only write here and there.
At least thats how I get by.
Getting good at the writing thing now I think to myself,
haters gonna hate- nothing new there.

[Cbr1k]

I have it and deal with it fine. I have a 135 IQ so it certainly doesn't hold me back. I like to think that I think of solutions no-one else does.

As for reading I have a lot of trouble with black text white background. The words around the one I am reading seem to move around and actually appear grey instead of black.

The most annoying thing for me is typing in numbers. I get shit around the wrong way so often

Sometimes the fact that numbers on the phone are in a different order to the ones on a keyboard bother me and I stuff up dialing the phone. lol.

[filbert]

as someone who finds your posts are usually worth the time to read Shan i have to point out that either your typing is improving in leaps and bounds or i'm learning to read it, even the words you battle with are able to be read easily if you say them aloud, you pose a challenge but i've tackled harder in life haters gonna hate, keep at it

[agrid]

Problem-solving is how I judge the intelligence people I interact with, but unfortunately job applications are based on the written word and many don't make it past my desk.

[AliastheJester]

Problem-solving is how I judge the intelligence people I interact with, but unfortunately job applications are based on the written word and many don't make it past my desk.

So are essays, exams and other forms of assessment.

[Chaos-incarnate]

So are essays, exams and other forms of assessment.

True, but oral examination is offered in a lot of places now- Tafe for example. (And some place called Langtrees?)

[Igglepiggle]

I got left behind in English at a young age but I did really well in maths. I was put up a year and went from one to three but I didn't get out of year 3 English until year 5. I guess I grew out of it by presenting myself as if I knew what I was on about then the brain started to follow.. still need spell check but I'm good at using big words and professional structure of literature now but this has only come about after I was 18 or so.



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[Davids]

I have dyslexia as well. It seems like we all have similar affects, some worse and a few not as bad.
I had a lot of trouble with it while I was going to school back in England. In primary school, I was pulled out class for four hours, three times a week and taken to another school that specialised in teaching kids with dyslexia. Although it did make an improvement in my reading and spelling, it also meant that I fell behind in other subjects.
Buy the time I went to high school, I was so far behind everyone else that there wasn’t much point in me being there, so I wagged school quite a lot. I didn’t get bullied like a lot of the other kids with the same problem, mainly because I was good at sports and had a lot of friends. The problems that I once had with reading, although I still have it, the effects are no were near as severe. The spelling has also improved, mainly because I can use spell checker on the computer and I have been learning to visualize and remember what each individual word looks like, so when I write it down if it looks the same as I remember, it must be correct.

[Chaos-incarnate]

For some random reason I felt like bumping this thread.
And I'm getting this weird craving for something that goes with irony...maybe I'll go kick a dyslexic til it goes away.