Re: Curious about dyslexia
 

I know you said not to but I couldnt help myself. :rolleyes:

The Their / There thing isnt too bad remember imo. Their = someones e.g. "Their bike". There means somewhere e.g. "Their bike is over there"

Re: Curious about dyslexia
 

slighty

I get letters jumbled up in words, and I can write a word down and then look at it and it looks "wrong" I cant really explain it, it just looks like I have the right letters in the word but in the wrong order. Or the word just looks like I have spelt it incorrectly even though the spellchecker says not.

I also have another thing where I can write down a colum of numbers and then I loose my place in the column when I'm adding them up, the numbers all jumble themselves up. Again its hard to explain.

I know I do stuff like this so I make sure I use the spellcheck and I proof read my documents through two or three times and I also get somebody else to check it through before I submit it. Same with the budget proposals, I normally type it all into Excel and get that to do the hardwork for me.

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I'm crap at spelling, punctuation and grammar.

I often miss out the 's' on the end of things as well.

I'm just incredibly crap, never been told I'm dyslexic though.

I can read things through twice, or three times when posting on this forum and it will still have a ton of mistakes in, because I read it how I think it should be and not how it is.

Personally I think its a load of ******** and just an excuse for being crap at things.

Re: Curious about dyslexia
 

"Diagnosed" with cross latteral dyslexia at 15 'cos my brother was having a lot of trouble at A levels and it's hereditary.

To be honest, it doesn't hold me back, even though my job is getting snowed under by more and more paperwork, I can do nearly all of it on a PC which checks it for me. I am (hopefully) intelligent enough to know the differences between the there/their and other similar pitfalls.

I have had a lot of help from the Royal Society for Help for Dyslexia, www.RSDH.com




and I have spotted the irony of using a PC to check my work 'cos I'm a PC etc......!

Re: Curious about dyslexia
 

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a quay and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its really ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect in it's weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
(Sauce unknown)

Re: Curious about dyslexia
 

No worries - that will be the OCD kicking in I guess :rolleyes:

IME the reading and writing stuff comes under the heading "use it or lose it" - I became pretty good at formal letter writing for work, either being very precise in my communications. or not :), as needed.....but change of employment stopped me needing to, and then the internet arrived - which has really b#ggered up me writing skills, especially me spelling :(.

Re: Curious about dyslexia
 

I don't think this is abnormal in anyway :thumbsup: We all suffer from that; but I suppose if you're looking more and more for it it'll eventually drive you neurotic!

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I agree with you here bear, I know of a few people who use their "problem/impairment" to act like the world owes them something. Sorry to stray away from this topic, but I was told that this particular deaf girl is suing Kingston University because she failed her exams. She thinks they failed her because she's deaf but this is untrue; she just isn't clever academically! She rejected the brilliant support system kingston uni offers so what did she expect :confused:. Im deaf and just get on with it, Sure there are things that make my life a little harder but theres always a way around it.

My Friend is dyslexic and she was the same; she just got on with it.

Maria

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Good on him I say \\:D/ :D

Maria

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Slightly off topic but I used to suffer from a syndrome called 'synasthesia' I think its called that anyway, when I was younger, certain words or numbers used to trigger a colour reaction so for instance 'home' might be orange or '13' might be red, its hard to explain and to be honest I thought everyone was the same, it seemed to vanish in my teens, wierd though.