Dyslexia

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Does anyone else have dyslexia and as? I hear every one saying there hyperlexic, but no one saying there dislexic. I am just lonely being the only one.

Im dyslexic. so don't feel bad

Thanks that helps!

I took a diagnostic test my senior year of high school for the more traditional learning disabilities (I went to an LD school), and it said that I had dyslexia and ADD. I was diagnosed with ADD when I was five years old but a diagnosis of dyslexia does not make much sense at all, given that I have never experienced any noticeable difficulties with reading and I received a perfect score on the spelling portion of the test. In fact, misspelled words really bother me whenever I see them.

Don`t Feel Bad I Have Dyslexia Too

I am supposedly dyslexic, & would say I agree.

Unfortunately (or fortunately, perchance), my obsession with having correct spelling & grammar has eluded any dyslexia recognition.

Being told to speed read, how can anyone speed read? It's impossible - for me.

When I'm not concentrating hard enough, I'll misplace syllables, miss out syllables / letters, write words down incorrectly, though possibly acoustically correct (perhaps,
"eye" for "aye"; "someing" for "something"). Usually though, I'm able to find mistakes during a proof read, & correct them. This makes writing essayes (there's a good example which I'm not going to correct), or any work whatsoever quite laborious.


As the head of "special needs" in my school (of which I attend the 6th form) asked, "do you find you have to look at every word"? I thought, well doesn't everyone? Though I replied a simple "yes".

Perhaps it is a tradegy that they missed it up until a few months ago, but I would say it's quite an acheivment, in a way, to have passed through school in the top sets, whilst harbouring AS, SPD & Dyslexia.

In first grade, I was diagnosed "learning disabled." I attended a class to help me learn how to read better and an after-school program, too. Luckily, my reading comprehension level soared to college level by fourth grade.

I do remember a very embarrassing incident that involves a mistake dyslexic children are supposedly prone to make. In third or fourth grade (don't remember when exactly), we had to make inventions and demonstrate simple prototypes. Mine was the "Cleanup Crab," which would go around picking toys up and putting them away for you. I used a hallowed-out milk jug and construction paper to make the crab—complete with paper claws! Unfortunately, on the label, I wrote "Cleanup Crap"! Back then, I thought the word crap was an obscenity equal to the word sh*t and was quite embarrassed when someone pondered aloud, "What's that? Cleanup Crap!"

clean up crap! omg i need a tissue! ohhh god that's too funny.

though you know, it might as well have been called Clean Up Crap, after all it was was made for picking up crap, huh?

Poor orginisation and a dreadful short term memory is typical of dyslexia.
I have mild dyslexia, I often make mistakes with my writing. How ever I read quite well. Though of course I intially had difficulty learning to read, say my alphabet, and my timestable.

It has held me back in exams where I cannot articuulate as well as I would like due to not knowing the correct spelling of word I wish to use.

I transpose digits during math (and chemistry/physics) almost constantly, but I think that's more of a function of my brain not paying attention to what I'm doing than anything else.

I do not have dyslexia. In fact I became a fluent reader earlier than anyone else in my family.

This thread is 18 years old. None but the above poster are still active on this site. But the topic is still relevent.

Both opposites seem to crop up among autistics. Dyslexics, and hyperlexics. But I couldnt say what the stats are specifically.