dyslexics or former dyslexics?

[Eddi]

Are there any dyslexics or former dyslexics here?

Participating on these forums obviously means you can read and write, so how did you come to be able to read and write?

I’m a former dyslexic, I was diagnosed as a child. I was tested!

But I managed to over-come the condition.

At school I simply could not learn to read and write.

There was nothing they could do, I made zero progress. They taught and taught but I could not learn. Nothing worked.

But thankfully we were able to afford private lessons with a specialist tutor.

And by the age of ten I eventually caught up, in a matter of mere months.

And in time became more literate than many of my peers.

But I couldn't spell properly until my early 20s!

I am now fully literate but cannot cope with big segments of text, I find these very daunting. I must confess that here on RF I won't read something if it is a massive, chunky, dense body of text.

And it takes me ages to read things, I’m a slow reader. But I managed to get a university degree!

I’d like to hear other peoples’ stories.

 

[Spirit of Light]

Are there any dyslexics or former dyslexics here?

Participating on these forums obviously means you can read and write, so how did you come to be able to read and write?

I’m a former dyslexic, I was diagnosed as a child. I was tested!

But I managed to over-come the condition.

At school I simply could not learn to read and write.

There was nothing they could do, I made zero progress. They taught and taught but I could not learn. Nothing worked.

But thankfully we were able to afford private lessons with a specialist tutor.

And by the age of ten I eventually caught up, in a matter of mere months.

And in time became more literate than many of my peers.

But I couldn't spell properly until my early 20s!

I am now fully literate but cannot cope with big segments of text, I find these very daunting. I must confess that here on RF I won't read something if it is a massive, chunky, dense body of text.

And it takes me ages to read things, I’m a slow reader. But I managed to get a university degree!

I’d like to hear other peoples’ stories.

I have some form of dyselexia, especially in writing and yes i have noticed it when i read back on my own OP or thread answers here. But i do my best to cope with it.

 

[Lyndon]

my brother is dyslexic, when he was about 12 I gave him the Stanford Binet IQ test and he scored 170, he's still a little wacky but he has been successful as an Electrical Engineer, and now works on the electronics for back up battery power supplies for lighting when the regular power goes out, seemless transition.

 

[ChristineM]

Are there any dyslexics or former dyslexics here?

Participating on these forums obviously means you can read and write, so how did you come to be able to read and write?

I’m a former dyslexic, I was diagnosed as a child. I was tested!

But I managed to over-come the condition.

At school I simply could not learn to read and write.

There was nothing they could do, I made zero progress. They taught and taught but I could not learn. Nothing worked.

But thankfully we were able to afford private lessons with a specialist tutor.

And by the age of ten I eventually caught up, in a matter of mere months.

And in time became more literate than many of my peers.

But I couldn't spell properly until my early 20s!

I am now fully literate but cannot cope with big segments of text, I find these very daunting. I must confess that here on RF I won't read something if it is a massive, chunky, dense body of text.

And it takes me ages to read things, I’m a slow reader. But I managed to get a university degree!

I’d like to hear other peoples’ stories.

I was diagnosed as a teenager and corrective measures prescribed. Before diagnosis is was considered unteachable so i missed a lot of important schooling. After diagnosis caught up enough to pass exams within 2 years. So even unreachable there was obviously something being absorbed into that brain of mine.

My dyslexia causes the colour red to bleed into its surroundings, unfortunately most colours contain ref. The solution was green tinted glasses that filter out enough of the red to enable me to read.

 

[Deeje]

My husband was dyslexic and so is my grandson. Both managed to achieve a measure of success by persevering despite the inability to learn easily from the printed page.

I read a book called “The Gift of Dyslexia” and it changed my whole attitude about this condition. I had assumed that it was a deficiency, but I came to realise that dyslexics are actually more gifted than those who can easily lift words off a page. Their brains are wired very differently and all that is necessary is to teach them the way they learn.

Imagery is important. I noticed this particularly with my grandson. He would study the pictures in a book before he tackled the words. The image set up the words for him.

 

[ChristineM]

My husband was dyslexic and so is my grandson. Both managed to achieve a measure of success by persevering despite the inability to learn easily from the printed page.

I read a book called “The Gift of Dyslexia” and it changed my whole attitude about this condition. I had assumed that it was a deficiency, but I came to realise that dyslexics are actually more gifted than those who can easily lift words off a page. Their brains are wired very differently and all that is necessary is to teach them the way they learn.

Imagery is important. I noticed this particularly with my grandson. He would study the pictures in a book before he tackled the words. The image set up the words for him.

I was (and still am) far more visually aware than text. I think that was the biggest factor in moulding my career as an artist

As is said, a picture is worth a thousand words

 

[ratiocinator]

Are there any dyslexics or former dyslexics here?

Participating on these forums obviously means you can read and write, so how did you come to be able to read and write?

I’m a former dyslexic, I was diagnosed as a child. I was tested!

But I managed to over-come the condition.

At school I simply could not learn to read and write.

There was nothing they could do, I made zero progress. They taught and taught but I could not learn. Nothing worked.

But thankfully we were able to afford private lessons with a specialist tutor.

And by the age of ten I eventually caught up, in a matter of mere months.

And in time became more literate than many of my peers.

But I couldn't spell properly until my early 20s!

I am now fully literate but cannot cope with big segments of text, I find these very daunting. I must confess that here on RF I won't read something if it is a massive, chunky, dense body of text.

And it takes me ages to read things, I’m a slow reader. But I managed to get a university degree!

I’d like to hear other peoples’ stories.

I was diagnosed when I was about 13 but my problems were mainly with spelling and writing (getting 'b' and 'd' muddled up and things like that). I was late learning to read but by the time I was diagnosed I'd got over that and loved to read.

They gave me a general intelligence test at the time and told me I was way over average so I could almost certainly get to university in the right subject, so that kind of inspired me and I did well in maths (once it stopped being about mental arithmetic, which I still can't do) and science and did get a degree.

Computers and spell checkers meant that I stopped worrying so much about the spelling and writing and now I seem to have got over most of the problems and have even become something of a pedant with spelling (can't stand seeing "your" when somebody means "you're") - don't know what that's all about.