BS: Dyslexia

Subject: RE: BS: Dyslexia
From: LadyJean
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 12:11 AM

I did cross pattern creeping as a child, when people made me. I didn't much car for crawling around and around the dining room table. But my parents were convinced it would make me normal. They spent a certain amount of time beating themselves up for "letting" me walk too soon.
I was also supposed to walk like a chorus girl being a tin soldier, swinging the right arm, and the left leg, then left leg and right arm.
The crawling was a private affair, so if the grownups insisted, I crawled. I was not doing the silly walk! I got teased enough thank you.
That went double for the special sleeping position. A person's bed is her castle.
Learning disabled children are a tremendous disappointment. For the first four or five years of a child's life, you think you have a normal kid, maybe even a smart kid. Then he starts regular school, and struggles to get Cs. Instead of a genius who will make you proud, you get a high maintenance child for whom you have to make excuses.
So, some parents embrace unpleasant therapies. They promise that, eventually, you'll have a nice, normal child, and in the meantime, you can make her life miserable, for her own good.

Subject: RE: BS: Dyslexia
From: sue exhull
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 02:31 AM

Hi ladyjean, Im not quite sure what you mean, it sounds like you are saying "dont try to force something thats not there" am i right? I know of people who have done just that, not accepting the fact that their child has problems, its cruel, I havent done that with Katie, I constantly try new things so she can try to reach her full potential, but I accepted long ago that she will never be a brain surgeon :) to be honest, years ago, i said as long as she wakes up every morning that enough for me,and I still say that, but, its amazing how many people are quick to condem me for it, saying I arent giving her a chance, I should force things a bit more, whatever anyone does when they have a child with a disability they cannot win, it would seem, good job Katie is mine and not theirs, I say! any opinions??? best wishes sue

Subject: RE: BS: Dyslexia
From: dianavan
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 08:40 PM

sue exhull - From reading your posts, I'd say Katie is very lucky to have you as a mother. Learning disabled children are not always a tremendous disappointment but they are a lot of work. I think a good parent will always try to give their child the most opportunities in life. Its not easy to push and pull but who knows their child better? Who is in a better to make those decisions than the person who has to live with the results? Thats why kids have parent.

Subject: RE: BS: Dyslexia
From: GUEST,John from Hull
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 05:38 AM

Dr Mark Cohen-
I was diagnosee with dislexia wehn i was 13 years old, my reading is fine, my spelling is crap, [if i spelll big words here, i'm probably using a dictionarry].

Throughought [sp?] my working life, I have chosen jobs that do not need a great deal of writing/spelling, [van driver, slaughterman, baillif, soldier etc]


I do NOT want sympathy, [or special traeatmant], waht i do not want is arseholes like radewolf trying to diagnose me. wehn they have not even met me, thats waht pisses me off, he's an arrogant, up his own arse self opinionated wanker, he's also a weird bastard with an un natural interest in litte kids [other peoples opinin not mine, [ive never met the bloke, and don't wish to].

Subject: RE: BS: Dyslexia
From: dianavan
Date: 24 Jan 05 - 12:39 AM

John from Hull - Perhaps what Mark Cohen was saying is that learning to read is more difficult for dyslexics than for others - it is not impossible but it is often delayed. Many dyslexics do become good readers but their spelling skills suffer throughout their life. This may also be due to a poor visual memory.

But heh, don't sweat it. Everyone has their cross to bear. Be happy that you can walk and talk. You probably can hear quite well, too. We all have some imperfection.

Subject: RE: BS: Dyslexia
From: Teresa
Date: 24 Jan 05 - 12:57 AM

Oddly enough, my spelling is great, but I am dysnumeric, or so I call it. I get numbers swimming in my head backward and forward when I try to do arithmetic. I transpose phone numbers constantly. I also have a horrible sense of direction. Well, actually, I can re-create the route, though half the time it's exactly backwards!

Teresa

Subject: RE: BS: Dyslexia
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 24 Jan 05 - 05:35 PM

My sister was stopped on the highway by a dyslexic state cop. He was checking for I.U.D.s   ***SMILE***

Art

Subject: RE: BS: Dyslexia
From: GUEST,McKnees
Date: 24 Jan 05 - 08:40 PM

I have carefully and painstaking read this whole thread and so many things have struck a cord with me as things that I do or things I did that I am now wondering if I am dyslexic. I want to ask if anyone who has been diagnosed as dyslexic has drawn upside down. I also want to write a part of this message how I used to see the written word, so here goes. Wheniwasyoungeranditriedtoreadtherewerenospacesbetweenthewords. I wondered if this was possibly dyslexia. Does anyone know because I would feel that all the name calling and the belting from the teachers were not totally mhy fault.
McKnees

Subject: RE: BS: Dyslexia
From: Peace
Date: 24 Jan 05 - 08:51 PM

Dear McKnees,

Straight up, that type of thing is disgraceful to the teaching profession. NO teacher has the right to belittle a student, and I don't care WHAT the circumstances are. I was a student once, too, and I went through some of that. Anyone who does that should do us all a favour and get another line of work.

The condition you describe is ringin' a bell with me. Possibly someone will answer you before I get back. I will look though and post within the next 48 hours.

Bruce

PS I once attended an interview held by a superintendent and school principal. I was applying for a teaching position. About ten minutes into it, they said, "How do you feel about the use of corporal punishment in schools?" My eyes popped wide open and I said, "Huh?" The principal said, "We use the strap here." I couldn't believe it. I shook my head and said, "Not in MY classes you don't!" I got up and remarked that since the interview was over I'd be leaving. That was 18 years ago. Hard to believe, isn't it? I received the strap many times as a student. Never taught me a darn thing.

BM

Subject: RE: BS: Dyslexia
From: mg
Date: 24 Jan 05 - 10:55 PM

I can write upside down and backwards two hands at once...I also could not tell if a book was upside down or rightside up...couldn't tell right from left till I was 12..couldn't catch a ball...but I was a mousy little girl who did well in school so they wouldn't have thought of me as having a problem. mg

Subject: RE: BS: Dyslexia
From: GUEST,Rod
Date: 25 Jan 05 - 12:03 PM

Does an agnostic dyslexic believe in the existence of Dog?

Subject: RE: BS: Dyslexia
From: Irish sergeant
Date: 25 Jan 05 - 04:39 PM

As a dyslexic person, I take mno offence. I have tricks I use to spell properly and Spell check is a God send. Guest Rod; How do I know that I'm seeing your name properly maybe it's real Dor. :~) I as never officially diagnosed as dyslexic but I did have a hell of a time in school because of it and it was only recently I discovered why. Kindest regards, Neil

Subject: RE: BS: Dyslexia
From: goodbar
Date: 25 Jan 05 - 09:09 PM

there's a teacher at my school who's dyslexic. it's crazy. i had her for a sub once and she wrote a bunch of crap on the board and it was all written backwards. we were all just sitting there like "what the hell?"

Subject: RE: BS: Dyslexia
From: GUEST,ragdall
Date: 25 Jan 05 - 09:58 PM

Bobert,
The information you wrote, 12 Nov 04 - 08:54 AM, about lexdexia sounds very much like problems that I have. I'd like to find out more about it. I googled "lexdexia" and found no information. Is it really a condition, or did you invent the word?

thank you.

rags

P.S. I also have the problem which Helen described:

I find it a very conscious experience using a typewriter or keyboard because I learned to touch type about 30 years ago but I still hit the wrong keys by hitting the key with the corresponding finger on the other hand, e.g. instead of an "s" (left hand, ring finger) I would hit an "l" (right hand, ring finger).

I've always attributed that to problems with "Laterality", Helen, not dyslexia.

Subject: RE: BS: Dyslexia
From: Bobert
Date: 25 Jan 05 - 10:11 PM

Ahhhh, sorry, GUESR ragdall, but I jus' kinds do a plyfill little thing with the word dexlexia and turn it into lexdexia... Like, fir lexdexics as myself, who cares... We certainly don't...

But, yeah, I was having a little private caht with another Catter this evening and she was tryin' to figure me out and a lot of me-to-figure-out is about learning disabilities...

Nowm we all know how jOhn from Hull is purdy dangedd bright an' I'd like to think myself as half bright but Lexdexics jusr dobn't ptocess inforamtion like other folkx. It ain't 'bout intellegence. Heck, Einstien was lexdexic, wasn't he?

(Dnged if anyone really knows, Bobert, since it weren't invented yet...)

Nevermind that last comment about Einstien...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Dyslexia
From: GUEST,ragdall
Date: 25 Jan 05 - 10:30 PM

Bobert,
Thank you for explaining. Sorry to be so dull that I didn't "get it". I had great hope that I'd found "the truth", or at least an excuse to explain my difficulties.

Subject: RE: BS: Dyslexia
From: LadyJean
Date: 26 Jan 05 - 01:11 AM

My advice for Katie is beware of therapies that promise miracles. Perhaps you are the remarkable parent who can love a kid who's a lemon. Lucky Katie. If you do, those therapies will still be a temptation. Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a normal child.
But if the price of normal is say, not being allowed to listen to music, which was also part of the DelCato therapy I endured, (I still feel guilty if I sing.) Question that therapy. Talk to other parents who've tried it. Find out what the critics say.
I decided some time ago that learning disabilities are nature's way of keeping smart people from becoming geniuses. You've met very bright people who coast through life, without ever making an effort.
Which doesn't keep them from having world class egos. I spent much too much of yesterday with a woman like that.
I can't coast, and I have a deep sense of my own self worthlessness.
I could never join Mensa. I couldn't pass the test. A friend who did join that organization for the super intelligent says she spent three days playing Crazy 8s.

Subject: RE: BS: Dyslexia
From: GUEST,yemi
Date: 26 Jan 05 - 09:27 PM

I have a question. An individual told me that as long as the first and last few{ cant remember exactly how many) letters of a word were correct one could identify the word. Has anyone herd that before? if so could you reply with a link where I could find more on this?

Subject: RE: BS: Dyslexia
From: GUEST,ragdall
Date: 27 Jan 05 - 03:09 AM

I have a question. An individual told me that as long as the first and last few{ cant remember exactly how many) letters of a word were correct one could identify the word. Has anyone herd that before? if so could you reply with a link where I could find more on this?

GUEST,yemi
I think that you will find what you are looking for here

rags