Posted: Dec 11, 2010 1:28 pm
Just wanted to see who else has Dyslexia and their experiences with it.
I don't think my writing is too bad, and whilst my reading could be much better it's not too bad, but I still struggle with it.
With reading; I'm slow, the page appears to glow (especially the holes in letters), my eyes jump around the page confusedly, I find it difficult to find the next line of text in a block of text, if there are images in the text they confuse me because my eye wants to look at them the whole time, I assume what words are going to say and often get them wrong.
I have trouble with the relationship of spoken and written words. For example, I'm pretty sure that where I live people pronounce chimney "chimley" and so for years and years I thought it was indeed chimley and when I saw chimney written down I was like, wtf is this word...? I think a lot of my trouble is that people do not speak clearly or properly where I live in South London.
It frustrates me that words are not spelt how they sound to no end. I get angry about it. I'd be fine if everything was phonetic and everyone spoke properly.
Why is atheist ei when the rule says "i before e except after c"?
I struggle with maths ridiculously. I find it hard to think of numbers as abstract things. 1 HAS to mean 1 thing. It can't just be 1. That makes no sense to me. So obviously when you take larger numbers I can't mentally keep track of them and it becomes impossible.
I cannot do anything except adding. When I need to subtract, I take the lower number and count up to the higher number. I cannot understand how subtracting can possibly be easier than this, but everyone thinks I'm mad.
I still can't read an analogue clock face. Well, I can, but it takes SO long that by the time I have it's changed time, so it's pointless.
My memory is appalling. (Appalling is one of those words I just can't remember how to spell, despite using it all the time. It should be "appauling" given how people pronounce it and even when I do remember the u, I forget it has 2 l's. Sigh.) I think poor memory is why everything else is so hard. I forget everything. It's frustrating for me and those around me.
I've been diagnosed 3 times and always received support. Recently, I received a Macbook Pro, printer, scanner, dictaphone, software and some other stuff for free. (Don't see how any of it helps with my dyslexia on my uni course since dyslexia doesn't effect my ability to illustrate in the slightest, but I shan't say no.)
How does dyslexia affect you?
I don't think my writing is too bad, and whilst my reading could be much better it's not too bad, but I still struggle with it.
With reading; I'm slow, the page appears to glow (especially the holes in letters), my eyes jump around the page confusedly, I find it difficult to find the next line of text in a block of text, if there are images in the text they confuse me because my eye wants to look at them the whole time, I assume what words are going to say and often get them wrong.
I have trouble with the relationship of spoken and written words. For example, I'm pretty sure that where I live people pronounce chimney "chimley" and so for years and years I thought it was indeed chimley and when I saw chimney written down I was like, wtf is this word...? I think a lot of my trouble is that people do not speak clearly or properly where I live in South London.
It frustrates me that words are not spelt how they sound to no end. I get angry about it. I'd be fine if everything was phonetic and everyone spoke properly.
Why is atheist ei when the rule says "i before e except after c"?
I struggle with maths ridiculously. I find it hard to think of numbers as abstract things. 1 HAS to mean 1 thing. It can't just be 1. That makes no sense to me. So obviously when you take larger numbers I can't mentally keep track of them and it becomes impossible.
I cannot do anything except adding. When I need to subtract, I take the lower number and count up to the higher number. I cannot understand how subtracting can possibly be easier than this, but everyone thinks I'm mad.
I still can't read an analogue clock face. Well, I can, but it takes SO long that by the time I have it's changed time, so it's pointless.
My memory is appalling. (Appalling is one of those words I just can't remember how to spell, despite using it all the time. It should be "appauling" given how people pronounce it and even when I do remember the u, I forget it has 2 l's. Sigh.) I think poor memory is why everything else is so hard. I forget everything. It's frustrating for me and those around me.
I've been diagnosed 3 times and always received support. Recently, I received a Macbook Pro, printer, scanner, dictaphone, software and some other stuff for free. (Don't see how any of it helps with my dyslexia on my uni course since dyslexia doesn't effect my ability to illustrate in the slightest, but I shan't say no.)
How does dyslexia affect you?