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I got diagnosed at 6 and now I’m in the top 1% in the world in maths,geography, history and more. I couldn’t read till the 3rd grade, however I used my weakness to a strength and it worked.
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." Our differences are a strength.
Assistive technology was a game changer! Use it! It made me independent in school and I didn’t have to rely on someone to spell things for me or lose my train of thought trying to figure out how to spell a word on my own.
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Can you imagine me being dyslexia as a medical student while my family didn’t want me to seek for a professional help? It’s very hard going through all these years by myself reading every page of a book very slowly😢, being bullied for always repeating every line that i’ve read just to understand it and not to lose the paragraph line. I , who are very slow at remembering fast speaking of words/numbers while your teacher (doctor) is very sensitive when you asked him/her to repeat/confirm the medicine doses one more time.😢
I whent through all the schooling and no one ever mentioned my dyslexia I always thought I was stupid and got in to trouble and put out of secondary school
25 years later and I still remember the day Mr Carter went tomato red as he screamed at me for going into a part of the gym we weren't allowed into. To this day I've never seen a man get so angry so fast. I watched him make my teachers cry on more than 1 occasion. The man ruled with an iron fist and a temper hotter than the sun, but he was clearly good at running a school.
I was diagnosed in the early 70s I did have a teacher who knew about this back then she helped me to get this right my issue still is maths just can’t remember it I have tried over the years and now computers forget it I do not retain the information and it’s to much to know to do things on them it’s over load for me
Dear British Dyslexia association- please can you do a kick ass video about ‘Low Latent Inhibition’. It is very good for empowering and understanding dyslexic people (& self-understanding self advocacy, self-compassion)? #Iamdyslexic
What if I find it hard to sometimes understand the sentence when I read it ? I find it hard to put words in the right order when I right it . I have to read what I wrote down many times & sometimes I can tell it doesn’t make sense .
My story. I was always good with numbers, but I couldn’t read or spell. I managed to hide it for a few years. The lad at sat next to could read & write, but he wasn’t good with numbers. So we was top of the class. Then they split us up. I was drop into the bottom class. Then I moved up to secondary school. I was put in the special class, however I was really good at maths, so they moved me into the main school. I was coming top in maths, doing well in science, but really struggling with the English class. There was only one teacher who ever took time with me. He knew I understood the subject, but he couldn’t read my exam paper. So he read out the questions, I told him the answers, then he wrote it down. That was the early 70s. I mainly work in the coal mine. But I did get a job there where I had to write reports. Doctors hand writing can best explain it. I did a dyslexic test when I was 40 - 50. I’m now 64, and have just started open uni. I have got the software to help me, but it going to be difficult as I’m doing science. I really hope the kids of today get the right help
