Dyslexia!

[Dukat]

How many here have it?

I used to be kinda bad with it, but since highschool it hasnt seemed to have bothered me as much as it used to. Nowadays I dont often think about it or tell people I am/used to be dyslexic. In highschool I used to have to spend one lunchtime a week in a classroom on my own filling out sheets of those things you get in primary school with the dotted lines outlining letter that you have to trace over with a pen. It didnt help at all really, and part of the reason I dont tell anyone about it is because I'm worried they'll make me do it at work too! rofl

I was on CS the other day and some naabs were having a go at someone else for being dyslexic, saying the guy was stupid, that it took him twice as long to do anything than a normal person. It just kinda got me wondering, what is a normal person's perception of dyslexia?

For me, dyslexia is like that feeling you get when you say/think about a word over and over until you lose its meaning and struggle to spell it without thinking "hmm.. is that how its spelt? or maybe the x/y were the other way around", only I occasionally (rarely now) get it instantly when trying to spell a word. I sometimes get confused with left and right (I think everyone gets this occassionaly?) and, when I was younger I used to have alot of trouble with word/letter-replacement, I'd get mainly S's and F's mixed up, and B's and D's, as well as a couple of others.

I always remember spelling days of the week "thursbay" and "tuesbay", like a spacker lol but at the time I guess I just didnt see it / realise i'd done it, until someone pointed it out, but in primary school I'd do it every single day, some days I'd even double check to make sure i'd spelt it right, and then still get it wrong because for me the wrong spelling looked right.

Anyways, I just wondered what people thought about dyslexia, theres always the "Dyslexics have more fnu!" joke that always makes me chuckle, but I just found myself half wondering about it this morning, thinking about what the guys on CS said, obviously they were being harsh to piss someone else off, but I just half wondered "is that really what people think?".

Strange fact - despite being dylexic, I almost always spell dyslexia correctly, its about the only word that I can consistantly get right without having to go back and edit it

 

[Cemeterygates]

It don't make a person stupid...richard branson for example....he's done very fucking well for himself....don't think a "retard" as it can be percieved by some ignorant c*nts could pull off what he has. If my understanding of it is correct,it's just an issue with words...both reading or spelling,but in no way does it make a person "thick" or "stupid".

 

[Fafnir]

It don't make a person stupid...richard branson for example....he's done very fucking well for himself....don't think a "retard" as it can be percieved by some ignorant c*nts could pull off what he has. If my understanding of it is correct,it's just an issue with words...both reading or spelling,but in no way does it make a person "thick" or "stupid".

Agree, nothing to do with how smart one is, a dyslexic brain just works differently. But i have a different problem if i have to handwrite a long boring text i usually end up with writing reversed, but then i see it and start concentrating again, thank good for computers

And when i was younger i always wrote reversed but each letter was facing the right way, and their hights was like A was tallest while Ö swedish last letter was smallest. Gave my teachers a headache

 

[Dukat]

I've just been reading up on wikipedia (instant expert ftw!) and read this:

Cluttering is a speech fluency disorder involving both the rate and rhythm of speech, and resulting in impaired speech intelligibility. Speech is erratic and dysrhythmic, consisting of rapid and jerky spurts that usually involve faulty phrasing.

I used to be really bad with this, I never realised that it was to do with dyslexia, no one could understand me when I was really young because I'd be talking and would overtake myself and start saying words in the wrong order or merging them together, thats really quite interesting, I dont know why, seems so obvious now, but I really never knew. I only ever had this badly before primary school, so it didnt really affect me too much, still, interesting to know!

 

[Fafnir]

I used to be really bad with this, I never realised that it was to do with dyslexia

Well it might be dyslexia or just have you had too many beers

 

[old.Tohtori]

I only have dyslexia towards some languages.

No but seriously, only regarding porn.

No but seriously, no.

 

[Dukat]

Well it might be dyslexia or just have you had too many beers

rofl yea, that was probably it, my parents putting john smiths in my bottle! damn them!1

 

[Cemeterygates]

IMO,it's kinda like the intelligent and educated thing.....an intelligent person can think for themselves and back up what they think with reason....an educated person has just had it drilled into them.....thats my take on it anyway. you can be shit at spelling/reading but be a real clever bastard in other fields. really pisses me off the way some people can be so quick to insult anothers level of intelligence based on their spelling/grammar/reading and such.

 

[old.Tohtori]

IMO,it's kinda like the intelligent and educated thing.....an intelligent person can think for themselves and back up what they think with reason....an educated person has just had it drilled into them.....thats my take on it anyway. you can be shit at spelling/reading but be a real clever bastard in other fields. really pisses me off the way some people can be so quick to insult anothers level of intelligence based on their spelling/grammar/reading and such.

Not to mention schooling etc.

People think i'm dumb(shut up you *points at the guy about to post*) because i only got basic schooling and such. Sure, i didn't sit in school for those extra 6 years, sucking up every detail with a hoover on ym brain, but that doesn't make me dumb. Maybe not booksmart, but i'm streetsmart to boot, and furthermore, i'm googlesmart *grin*

 

[Levin]

For me, as someone who has a mild stutter, I got a few looks and got a bit teased as a kid because of my stuttering. I'm a lot better now (although I still stutter a little sometimes), but throughout all these years I've sometimes felt as if people who didn't know me thought I was less intelligent, only because I had a hard time to speak at times. It's so frustrating there's no way to describe it. Or they might think i am anti-social because i didn't want to participate in their ventrilo sessions while playing MMOs.

I imagine it's much the same with dyslexic people - if you only judge them by how they write/type/spell, then you're just as narrow minded as those who judge people by their speech. So, because of my own experiences, I would never write off a dyslexic person as "dumb". Instead - kudos to those who acknowledge it and try to live with it.

 

[Mojo]

A very good friend of mine is Dyslexic, last time I spoke with him he was earning 180kpa as a High Level Security Cleared (SV) DBA.

Thinking about it, all my most well educated and high earning mates have some "gimpage" about them but yet they are the best, smartest coolest mates I could hope for.

 

[Cemeterygates]

Not to mention schooling etc.

People think i'm dumb(shut up you *points at the guy about to post*) because i only got basic schooling and such. Sure, i didn't sit in school for those extra 6 years, sucking up every detail with a hoover on ym brain, but that doesn't make me dumb. Maybe not booksmart, but i'm streetsmart to boot, and furthermore, i'm googlesmart *grin*

Schooling was kinda what i was gettin at with the educated thing dude...some uni folk i've made look stupid....in the field they have a degree...i made em look stupid....cos i'm a "brain dead spanner monkey"...yet made an engineer look a c*nt infront of his boss.....

 

[Azathrim]

My bet is that 95% of the people on these kinds of sites who claim they have dyxlexia in fact just are too lazy/stupid to attempt spelling.

Which is a mockery to those 5% that are dyxlexic.

(And then there are the majority who just doesn't have english as their primary language and thus misspells - like me).

 

[Huntingtons]

to me its all about schooling - if you have a speech inpediment or dyslexia it can be trained away. if you're trained correctly (im midly, very midly dyslexia (K/T is 2 letters i have problem with). i think it is to some degree me (and probably others) being impatient.

 

[Sparx]

i think alot of the time schools and doctors issue the dyslexic card too easy/quickly

 

[Fafnir]

to me its all about schooling - if you have a speech inpediment or dyslexia it can be trained away. if you're trained correctly (im midly, very midly dyslexia (K/T is 2 letters i have problem with). i think it is to some degree me (and probably others) being impatient.

Today yes you have schooling to help theese problems, they said i was mentally ill as a kid when i was writing reversed etc. But then a doctor said thats just something some kids do. But most stop at an early age, but i still do it when i'm really tired or unfocused etc.

And if i had been born 20 years earlier they would have forced me to stop writing with the left hand, since it was wrong to write with the left it still is in some countries.

 

[Fafnir]

i think alot of the time schools and doctors issue the dyslexic card too easy/quickly

Just like they play the ADHD card to fast when in reality the kid just better food and not all mcdonalds and suger.

 

[Sparx]

Just like they play the ADHD card to fast when in reality the kid just better food and not all mcdonalds and suger.

Exactly

 

[Marc]

Did you hear about the dyslexic alcoholic? He choked on his own vimto.

My mate has it really bad. I remember once when he was at the post office and the guy behind the counter asked him to fill out a form. My mate, in front of about 30 people said to the guy behind the counter, "can you help me? Im dyslexic". I felt so sorry for him.

 

[Guest]

i have aids mouth as well, i famously cant spell unless i type REALLY slowly and sometime when i am pissed or really tired i can't get my words out or if i can its all fucked up....

 

[Moggit]

to me its all about schooling - if you have a speech inpediment or dyslexia it can be trained away. if you're trained correctly (im midly, very midly dyslexia (K/T is 2 letters i have problem with). i think it is to some degree me (and probably others) being impatient.

I am Dyslexic, i went threw all my school life with it not being diagnosed even tho im a horibal speller, maths well dont ask me to work out any math puzzles without a calculator and reading out lound was just imbarrasing my schools just kept telling my mum i was lazy, i even over heard my teachers calling me just plain stupid. It was not untill i had done my gcse's that a friends mum who had just passed her degree so she could test people at her school noticed something i had writen her daughter. I went threw 5 weeks of tests and she diagnosed me with dyslexia. There are a lot of people out there including my brother who think by saying there dyslexic is an easy way threw school. my younger brother asked the same lady who tested me to test him and he was diagnosed dislexic he was helped all threw school got special tinted lenses to help him read. Then when he was 20 he admited to me he failed all her tests on purpose to be diagnosed dyslexic. I have met meny people like my brother who try it on.

for anyone on here who has been tested for dyslexia im double purple what tints are you ?

 

[Ezteq]

i'm not dyslexic at all but when i hand write my name i generally do a d instead of a b lol its really wierd and i dont know why it happens, it doesnt happen with any other letters i write. However, saying that my e's do look like 5's and have occasionally been mistaken as o's and some of my other letters look like things theyre not, but this isn't down to dyslexia, its just bad penmanship.


damn the interweb

 

[Raven]

There was a kid at primary school who the teachers said was dyslexic, he was just pudding bowl stupid though, some farmers kid, think his parents were brother and sister (the whole family was like something off jerry springer)

Went to upper school with someone who had it really badly, was rubbish at the usual maths/English lessons but excelled at metal work, wood work etc, doing very well for himself as an engineer now.

I have moments when I just can't write a word, not that I can't spell it, I just put letters in the wrong place, if i try to write it again it happens again so sometimes have to take my time over hand writing.

 

[Celven]

Of course it doesn't make a person stupid. It's just that people can't understand why it takes dyslexic people longer to process information. They just can't pet themselves in their shoes because they've never had this problem.

It's just a matter of being unable to empathise with dyslexic people. My opinion? I have a dyslexic guy in my class but really I just see him as how he is as a person. He is a great, intelligent guy (very good at maths and science), he reads a bit slower when asked by the teacher but that's all.

Nothing wrong with dyslexics, nothing at all.

 

[Moggit]

one of the main signs of dyslexia is geting your D,G and B's mixed up. i was a right laugh at school when i had to write on the board.

The Bog has a Done and has Gug a Dig Hole for it.

after that one i was not alowed to write on the board again they thought i was taking the piss.

and for anyone who didnt get that it was ment to be:
the dog has a bone and has dug a big hole for it.

one of the reasons i read slower when reading is the words on the page look like there vibrating and it takes me longer to decipher the words. there are couloured tints you can get to put over the pages every one is diffrent and certain tints can help the words become more stable

 

[Dukat]

for anyone on here who has been tested for dyslexia im double purple what tints are you ?

Never been tested with anything like that - who did you see to get these tests?

I just got told I was dyslexic and that was that, there goes my lunch hour once a week - I hated it, I think it was a good thing in a way, I hated it so much that I spent alot of my own time trying to get past it so I wouldnt have to do it anymore.

I never really saw people getting it easy by saying they were dyslexic, I never got special treatment, at college there was a guy with a learning disability (not dyslexia afaik) who got extra time for assignments and exams, but at primary and highschool the only different treatment I got from everyone else was one lunch hour a week in a classroom with the "special needs" teacher doing sheets and sheets of these dotted letter tracing. It was like lines, I really really hated it tbh.

 

[Moggit]

it was the woman who tested me for dyslexia who showed me the sheets. its only really valid if you a have the money to pay for the tinted glasses and when my brother got them they were £400 or if you still at school. you should be able to ask whoever tested you.

heres a good link The British Dyslexia Association - Eyes and Dyslexia.

My brother always got copies of notes from the lessons from his teachers, he also was alowed to use a little recorder to tape all his lessons and was alowed to do all his work on a laptop.

I think how much help you get depends on the school your in.

when i went into 6th form after i was diagnosed ( the school let me doing even with crap grades as they screwed up and didnt test me when my mum suggested it) i was alowed to to record all my lessons and all the teachers were advised if i asked for extra help they had to do it. i think it may have been the fact they were worried i was going to sue. but i have never had to do any dot to dot crap nor did my brother. i guess it depends on what type of dyslexia you have as there are many forms

 

[Dukat]

it was the woman who tested me for dyslexia who showed me the sheets. its only really valid if you a have the money to pay for the tinted glasses and when my brother got them they were £400 or if you still at school. you should be able to ask whoever tested you.

heres a good link The British Dyslexia Association - Eyes and Dyslexia.

My brother always got copies of notes from the lessons from his teachers, he also was alowed to use a little recorder to tape all his lessons and was alowed to do all his work on a laptop.

I think how much help you get depends on the school your in.

when i went into 6th form after i was diagnosed ( the school let me doing even with crap grades as they screwed up and didnt test me when my mum suggested it) i was alowed to to record all my lessons and all the teachers were advised if i asked for extra help they had to do it. i think it may have been the fact they were worried i was going to sue. but i have never had to do any dot to dot crap nor did my brother. i guess it depends on what type of dyslexia you have as there are many forms

Yea, probably true, doubt my parents could've afforded the glasses at the time either Interesting to hear about other people's experiences.

It sounds like you had a more severe form of dyslexia to what I had, mine was mainly speech and writing, the speech problems had almost completely gone before primary school, the writing i still suffer from nowadays a little but seeing as I type most stuff its not so much of an issue.

Sounds like you went to a good school though, may I ask how long ago it was? I started highschool sometime around 1995/96 I think, I'm also out in the country, very rural area, so I guess that would affect the level of support available too.

 

[Huntingtons]

I am Dyslexic, i went threw all my school life with it not being diagnosed even tho im a horibal speller, maths well dont ask me to work out any math puzzles without a calculator and reading out lound was just imbarrasing my schools just kept telling my mum i was lazy, i even over heard my teachers calling me just plain stupid. It was not untill i had done my gcse's that a friends mum who had just passed her degree so she could test people at her school noticed something i had writen her daughter. I went threw 5 weeks of tests and she diagnosed me with dyslexia. There are a lot of people out there including my brother who think by saying there dyslexic is an easy way threw school. my younger brother asked the same lady who tested me to test him and he was diagnosed dislexic he was helped all threw school got special tinted lenses to help him read. Then when he was 20 he admited to me he failed all her tests on purpose to be diagnosed dyslexic. I have met meny people like my brother who try it on.

for anyone on here who has been tested for dyslexia im double purple what tints are you ?

By schooling i ment how you were trained @ school when they learn you're dyslexic and i wasnt claiming that i was using it to get easy of school. its only something i've recently thought i might have been. about concentration i just ment that some who have a very mild form might just lack abit of concentration (which i might do). not saying anything about anybody - its merely some thoughts on the subject. just so were clear

(only reason i see why you qouted me was to tell me i was wrong of sorts)

 

[angrymoon]

I was diagnosed extremely late into my school career, I failed most of my major exams before I got the evaluation. When I was given leaflets my life up to that point seemed to make sense.

Left school to do what I want to do, music career with a £17K/year apprenticeship on the side...

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