STOP PICKING ON PEOPLE WITH DYSLEXIA!

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Yeah, I would be happy to only have Asperger's. It's the co-morbids that are the real kickers!

The only thing I ask of people is that they use the edit button instead of making a five post rant.

Is that too much?

Depends on the circumstances.
But feel free to flame my ass,
when I put up a series of posts
all at once. 'Tis a pain in the ass
to quote from the post window, on
this bbs system.

I only know how to quote the entire previous post and that makes it tricky when wanting to reply to various paragraphs in turn. I can cut the copied text down but not insert comments between each point. There must be a trick to it that I haven't learned yet.

The leftmost of the little tools,
the one that looks like a paragraph,
allows you to quote selections.

Ah, thanks for that.

My son has Asperger's Syndrome, severe dyslexia, speech and language probems - oh the list is endless. The school has been less that helpful and I came on this website to see if we could get any tips and advice.

I can't believe that someone would be so disparaging about someone with an ASD making an attempt to communicate. I can't even imagine what my son goes through each day not being able to read and write and becoming increasingly frustrated. I hope he never comes across such dreadful discrimination if he ever decides to post on a forum like this looking for advice. Just getting words out is such an effort - to expect someone with dyslexia to spell perfectly and have beautiful punctuation is just unbelievable.

I've been on many forums and have never seen such an unsupportive posting. :(

I think this thread shows that people like belittling people just because they cant spell or do the wright punctuation i cant and have been belittled many times,

Yeah we have spelling problems they have bullying problems. A spell checker can solve alot of our problems but they will still be the same bullies.

Shoudlnt people understand others diasbilitys this is what this website is for isnt it somewhere where people understand your disabiltys ? am i wrong

Its the whole lack of or reduce empathy. I consider myself fairly weak in most all areas so I think that allows me to personally be more understanding to a range of aspie problems(because I have them ).

People should be able to communicate anyway they want without the thought of being criticised for a comma being in the wrong place or a mispelt word,

One thing that I've really noticed is that aspies are not necessarily very tolerant of other aspies. It depends on the individual of course, but one example is the parents I've met who have aspie children (including grown up children).

Quite a few of them expect their kids to be "normal", not realising they have aspie traits themselves. Maybe seeing their kids have similar struggles to them is too hard to handle or maybe things were easier when they were growing up.

I was rather upset on another forum when a whole bunch of people got stuck into a newcomer who had spelling and punctuation errors and wrote long paragraphs. By the time I got to the forum (had been gone a few days), the person had got discouraged and stopped posting.

Its partly a human thing. People just find it very hard to relate to problems they do not have.

People should PM me if they are being ridiculed for their writing skills.

It puts people of from posting,

Ill pm you next time it happens,

Likewise, PMing the person responsible might help
even more. Mods and Alex are less likely to be able to
deal directly with this issue. But telling someone, to their
face, as it were, what the problem is, is more likely to get
results.