04 Mar 2014, 4:45 pm
pinkgurl87 wrote:
I like reading myself. I got my undergrad degree though it took me 8 years instead of four. I couldn't handle a fulltime course load so I took part time courses, maybe dropping down the number of courses could help. Personally I have a pretty big vocabulary so reading is not a big deal, it was the lectures that would make me anxious because so many people and stimuli, and also exams. I got involved with the center for students with disabilities at my school and they let me write exams in a room with smaller amount of people and that helped. I also got time and a half on exams I hardly ever used the extra time but I found it would calm my anxiety knowing I had the extra time.
There is a program called Kurweil where you scan your textbooks into it and it reads it to you. I have done that a few times but found I didn't need it but I know other people who struggle with reading that use that and find it really helpful. Also some people will tape the lectures so they can play it back.
Yeah, I love taping lectures. I tried Kurzweil and I also have extra time accommodations. Without the accommodations, I would probably be failing university right now and there's no way I could have handled a full courseload without them. Listening does help my comprehension if there are no visual stimuli around, which are more distracting than auditory things to me. The only problem with listening to a taped lecture is that it takes a lot of time to listen to it again in recorded form, compared to reading the notes taken during the lecture. Even if I have to read the notes over and over again. There is a program called Kurweil where you scan your textbooks into it and it reads it to you. I have done that a few times but found I didn't need it but I know other people who struggle with reading that use that and find it really helpful. Also some people will tape the lectures so they can play it back.
PerfectlyDarkTails wrote:
Ah yeah, I loved learning. For me it was college that I was physically struggling with reading, righting and comprehension ability. Even to the point it was suggested that I am dyslexic dye to the way I'm processing information, mistakes, reading speed and a lot of things.
Exhausting to the point of physical weakness, migraines and other things. The thing I found is that to use my Logical, Intrapersonal and visual/spatial learning style and transform the written learning material to something more understandable. This meant visualising the written work more logically by placing the material into real life scenarios, how other people are meant to interact with it and more vocationally by means of being physically more hands on and repetitively repeating it.
I can relate to all this. I had some slightly dyslexic word reversal thing as a kid; it went away with time. I am hyperlexic, though; I can read fast but I won't understand anything. I've realized I'm struggling to get through some of my classes only because the material is presented in a way that does not interest me, even though the actual subject is something I enjoy in a different context. For example, in my ASL class we had to practice family trees and our life stories. I find these things boring, but say if I could practice ASL by interacting with signers about interesting things like social issues or cultures, I would be eager to do that. I would probably learn lots, too. Sure, I force myself through the boring stuff as well as I could, but in the end it's actually more tiring than doing something you're interested and immersed in. Exhausting to the point of physical weakness, migraines and other things. The thing I found is that to use my Logical, Intrapersonal and visual/spatial learning style and transform the written learning material to something more understandable. This meant visualising the written work more logically by placing the material into real life scenarios, how other people are meant to interact with it and more vocationally by means of being physically more hands on and repetitively repeating it.
I found that when it comes to just words, I don't have the memory or ability to understand or recall facts and figured just by memorising it. But put it in a different way by transforming it into something more real, logical - a common sense approach of its concept, I am a literal information sponge. It a shame that school never catered or fully understood different types of learning beyond reading and I naturally fell behind and lost interest in school.
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Through my course, I had to manage work and rest. Good time management to allow enough time to recuperate. I got into the habit of scheduling everything based on the workload and free time against deadlines, devided by all the subjects and self enforced breaks using video games.
With jobs, I can't function at due speed. There's usually jobs out there that caters to more methodological approaches to doing work as opposed to just full speed ahead. I'm considered limited capable of working and cannot be expected to do any job, not without significant physical and mental health problems. I found Autism advocacy groups that cater me in finding work being on the spectrum.
I'm scared I might end up too slow at work, too. When I had an admin job I used to push myself to work as fast as I could because I was scared of being slow and wasn't sure of the speed that other people were working at. With jobs, I can't function at due speed. There's usually jobs out there that caters to more methodological approaches to doing work as opposed to just full speed ahead. I'm considered limited capable of working and cannot be expected to do any job, not without significant physical and mental health problems. I found Autism advocacy groups that cater me in finding work being on the spectrum.
When it comes to taking breaks while doing schoolwork, my challenge has been figuring out how much rest is not going to result in rushed work in the future. I tend to underestimate how much things will take me. There are some days I have more energy and can do more, while on other days, I find myself not paying attention well enough and then realize I'm tired. But I'll make myself work as well as I can, even if it costs me my health or whatever. I'm hard on myself and don't want to obligate other people to help me because I want to help other people. It's the only thing that has ever made me feel good. Without living for others, I would feel extremely miserable and would rather not live than be a drain. But that's me. Other people find happiness in other things. But not me.
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It would mean I need a highly paid professional job in my subject matter, be professionally trained long term, a job that's requires more thinking hands on approach, minimal communication, away from sensory overload and migraine triggers, minimal stress and assessable work that caters for balancing and other neurological conditions. I'd say I'm still waiting for that call from advocates that have found what I need.
I worked extremely hard on myself since I was in Grade 10. I used to have severe attention problems, couldn't organize myself at all, had no sense of time, etc. I've gone very far academically; I've learned strategies to work around my difficult areas and I channeled my efforts into something I felt I would be best at out of everything that is out there. I still need accommodations, but my challenges now seem transient compared to what they were years ago. I know how to self-advocate to put these accommodations in place, but people won't always accommodate. I need to live with that and just learn the skills I need to be qualified for the job I want and just put all of my efforts going down the best path. I realize that keeping up takes way more work for me than for most other people. Throughout the last 4 years, I barely read anything for fun, watched TV, played any games, etc.; I either spent my time on professional development (including work), studying, going to conferences/networking. The remainder (which tends to be only a couple of days per every 4 months) I spend maintaining my meagre social life within the autistic community, meagre because I cut it down for the sake of trying to keep up academically and professionally. It really is insane and I am one heck of a determined person...
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