Curious about dyslexia

Originally Posted by Wayluya

The Their / There thing - LOL, yeah I can never remember or work that one out!! (don't bother explaining - I've heard it all, understand it easily for 5 minutes but nothing sticks!). But I would not call myself dixlecix.

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

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"

[fizzwheel]

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.

[G]

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.

[Bluepete]

"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......!

[Messie]

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)

Originally Posted by ThEGr33k

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

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

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 .

Originally Posted by fizzwheel

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.

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

Originally Posted by Bear

I'm not trying to belittle anyone who suffers from this problem, just those who say "I've got a problem so the world has to work around me" annoy me. !

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 . 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

Originally Posted by dizzyblonde

I'm not dyslexic, studied English Language.
My brother is dyslexic, as found to be at infant school, was told in a polite way that, he was too thick to do A'levels in secondary school(he struggled all through school).....then went to college and got a degree.....he certainly had the last laugh

Good on him I say

Maria

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.