Dyslexia
Hi, I just wanted to know if anybody else has dyslexia and how you are dealing with it. I have a type of dyslexia were my two brain halfs don t interact with eachother as theys should. In "normal" brains the two halfes communicate a lot with eachother and therefor "combine" different parts of the brain when, for example learning, while my brain halfs could be called asocial, because they just don t share information.
That results in me not having as many problems reading (although it took me way longer to learn as normal people) as other people with dyslexia, but I have major problems with spelling, numbers and simply learning things. Vocabs are the worst, I recognise the word, know I ve heard it many times before and also it s translation/meaning, but the other part of my brain, which stores these kinds of things, dosen t feel like sharing, or maybe never got the information because when I studied the forst half of my brain didn t pass on the information. I ve been trying to learn where left and right is for the past 18 years and still get in wrong a lot. It s ridiculous.
Numbers are my worst enemies. I always mix them up and say 45 instead of 54 or something, 36 instead of 63. Also my brain just can t comprehand when there is the same number in a row, like 00000 or something, to tell you if there are 4, 5 or 6 zeros in this row, I d need to tick off or cross out the zeros I counted already. Remembering numbers is pretty much impossible. It took me 5 years the learn my phone number and I still don t know my parents phone number or anything.
Everythings just really frustrating, especially when it comes to studying something and I often reach the point were I just want to give up on it all together because wheres the point? There is a high chance of me beeing incapeable of remembering it anyway. So I just wanted to ask if there are people with the same/a similar problem and how they get over this frustration or have any tricks to on how to study?
@Bonnes
Although its not nice to to have, I'm a little bit glad that I'm not alone here. I too have Dyslexia, but I also have Dyscalculi. So I switch letters and numbers all the time. I see that you also have problems with numbers. I always have to ask that people just say 5 6 5 instead of 565, otherwise I might call the wrong person or stand in front of the wrong house. ;)
I know your struggles with studying and it makes me frustrated too. It was discovered very late in high school, so the help came quit late. But it still it was helpful. I got 33% of the total time extra to work on my tests and the teachers were aware of my disability, so they knew that I could twist letters and numbers. For mathematics I always got a formularies, that that was helpful. Still it was hard to write the right formula form that paper down, but it went better. Still mathematics is not my favourite thing to do!
I recognise myself in your problem of remembering numbers in a row. I have that problem with remembering dates. So history wasn't my best course either ;) What helped a lot for me with this problem, was making a timeline. So that I knew which fact came first and which one after that. It helped me not thinking to much about the numbers and I couldn't make an error with the first number (1945).
With the letters, I made some horrible errors due to that. We once had to write a paper about a book. The book was incest. my spelling corrector was on the whole time so I thought it was fine. But no, my mum started reading and started laughing. I already knew I made (again) an horrible mistake. I wrote 'insect' instead of 'incest' in the whole paper. First I was made on her for laughing with my disability, but after a while I could laugh with it too. still in my life now, I need to ask my parents for correct the most normal things because I know I can make errors all the time.
Here on 7cups we also have an spellingscorrector! It helped me a lot here, It's the botton on the left were you can find it. Altough I believe your post was without any errors! (I hope mine is too! ;) )
So bonnes, I do understand you. I got the struggles with learning too and I still have them. I hope you can manage them a little bit now and that the people around you accept you with your dyslexia and that they keep that in mind that it makes learning not easy. Feel free to PM me about the struggles you have due to your learning disabilities or about anything else! :D
Haha I think that I'm forgot some words too ;) Hope it's understandable!
@Bonnes
Just want you to feel less alone. I also have dyslexia and “learning difficulties in math” (not dysculila for some reason 🤷♀️) and I can relate to how frustrating it can be, especially which confusing numbers. It is an ever going struggle, but we are enough without all our reading difficulties, and while it is hard to except, I know that while we may not be “productive” we are none the less valueblale.
Hope you can understand my dyslexic writing (autocorrect made it a lot better lol)
