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I mean Dyslexia of course. Do you have it?
I've come to realize over the years that I suffer from mild dyslexia. If you look at the symptoms I used to suffer from quite a few of these as a child:
http://www.dyslexia.com/library/symptoms.htm
Some of the classic symptoms I never had though. For example during my early ears I always read at an above grade level and had a similar vocabulary. I never had ADHD symptoms like some. I never many of the memory impairment issues, and math has always been one of my strongest subjects.
I've managed overcome a lot of them over the years but spelling is still something of a crap shoot for me. Some may have noticed that I write well but mix up words all the time. I find myself proof reading what I write all the time and yet I still miss stuff constantly despite knowing the mistake when I eventually see it. I have particular difficulty with double letters, i after e, certain vowel placement rules, and the like. I have a habit of writing one word when I mean another despite knowing the difference between the two. I need to memorize mnemonics to remember how to tell apart words that are phonetically spelled the same. Sweet and sweat, dessert and desert etc...
Do you or anyone you know have dyslexia in any form?
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)I'm not going to correct it due to how ironic this is.
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)Comes from being left-handed is a theory that I have heard espoused.
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)Who are dyslexic. It would surprise me if being left handed caused dyslexia though. I would think if there is such a correlation that the left handedness would just be another symptom.
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)I don't know why but, left-handed as a symptom phrase just made me lol.
Must be time for coffee.
Callmecrazy
(3,065 posts)applegrove
(118,677 posts)or get the vowels wrong same as you. I memorize whole words and am terrible at phonics. I write by scanning and rescanning the ideas I have written down. Didn't have trouble reading as a kid except out loud. No trouble with most kinds of math. No coordination issues. I can't tell my left hand from my right without thinking about it. Didn't know until recently that I have many of the problems and strengths dyslexics have. Dyslexics are good at 3D thinking and such. I'm glad I am one.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)And I belong to an organization that is trying to help:
http://www.tsrhc.org/dyslexia.htm