Any Aspie's out there who have conquered a reading disorder?

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Hi everyone,

I'm new to this whole support group thing so let me tell you a little about myself. I'm 20 years old, male, and I spent 12 years in special ed two in community college and now I'm starting at Ithaca College and for the first time I'm living away from home and my mom can't help me with my hw. Math has always been my worst subject and fortunately with the help of tutors I managed to pass statistics and fulfill that requirement last semester. Science has been worse for me. I tend to be very good at writing when I'm thinking aloud if I have the time to do it. But right now what I'm trying to deal with is my reading problem. I'm plenty literate but for some reason my reading comprehension is poor. Basically what happens when I read a textbook is I get eye strain and I can't really stop myself from going too fast because it's so anxiety provoking. I usually enjoy a novel when I'm read to by a person next to me or on a tape. I am soon going to get free audio versions of my textbooks, but my concern is that the voice that will be reading to me is a computer voice and I don't find them very clear. So I guess what I'm wondering about is if I need a tutor, an educational therapist, or if any kind of tinted glasses would help. I know that young kids are better able to be treated for this, I'm just hoping it isn't too late for me. I think that my dad has a similar problem and he does not have Aspergers but he thinks he has ADD and I think I have that too. So if anyone has any tips for how I could learn to read better or if anyone has stories to share about how they dealt with problems similar to mine please do respond.

It's not too late for you and that age stuff doesn't mean a thing. Kids are just treated more commonly because learning disorders are though to be kids' problems. I'm very dyslexic and in college.

What works best for me is sunglasses (because tinted glasses are expensive) and if I'm having a hard time reading a novel or something, I sometimes make a card about the length across as long as a page of the book and maybe 5cm high. Then in the center, I cut a window large enough only to show one line of words on the page. I think the problem with reading disorders is our minds want to look at all the information on that page at once and reducing the amount of words we look at helps a lot.

Another problem is keeping rhythm when reading. If I keep going back to re-read things, I tend to take too long to read whatever I'm trying to read and eventually get tired. If I have some form of music with a steady beat or even a metronome playing, I find it helps me to read at a smoother rate and thus read more.

Thank you so much! I'll investigate the possibility of tinted glasses or sunglasses.