Posted: Dec 12, 2010 6:15 am
I've suspected I might have a mild form of dyslexia for a while. I don't have a problem with reading or spelling, per se, but I don't think I read in the same way as other people.
My real problem is with left and right. As a child, I wrote right to left as often as I wrote left to right, and I was hard pressed to tell the difference if anyone brought it up. If I see a sentence written backward, I have read it before I've realized there's anything different about it. I constantly confuse left and right, even though I'm right-handed. It just doesn't make sense to me that one side is left and one side is right, but when you turn around, they've switched. I know it sounds silly, but it's just never been intuitive to me.
It affects my math skills because I can't read the shorthand fluidly. I reverse the orientations of signs and numbers and mess up my calculations. I'm not bad at abstract math, where I have an idea of what's happening to guide my thoughts, but I fail at number-crunching.
My real problem is with left and right. As a child, I wrote right to left as often as I wrote left to right, and I was hard pressed to tell the difference if anyone brought it up. If I see a sentence written backward, I have read it before I've realized there's anything different about it. I constantly confuse left and right, even though I'm right-handed. It just doesn't make sense to me that one side is left and one side is right, but when you turn around, they've switched. I know it sounds silly, but it's just never been intuitive to me.
It affects my math skills because I can't read the shorthand fluidly. I reverse the orientations of signs and numbers and mess up my calculations. I'm not bad at abstract math, where I have an idea of what's happening to guide my thoughts, but I fail at number-crunching.