Introductions and Brainstorm
I cannot tell you how exited I am to announce that I will be taking responsibility for learning disability sub forum!
I thought I should do a post explaining: my learning disabilities and my experiences with them.
Please feel free to share your own stories and what you have in the thread below! 😊
My learning disabilities:
I Have 2 types of dyslexia: Phonological Processing and Auditory Sequential Memory
Unfortunately despite it being called dyslexia it doesn't seem to only effect me with words but numbers too!
My experiences:
For me I am lucky to only have moderate dyslexia, but I mean its noticeable enough when you see my writing without spell check or when I am listening to a teacher go through a step by step process of something and I’ve got the answer 50000 when the rest of my class got 30 because I mixed up steps 2 and 3 but day to day I can get by without it being a massive inconvenience.
For me, my dyslexia was picked up, when I was 15 in my school and I went through the whole diagnosis process through my school, (hopefully something I will make a post on at some point).
I was ashamed for awhile about it as i was the only student in my class having these meetings and receiving this extra help which at the time i thought to be really embarrassing.
However, maybe a year after my diagnosis and once I had accepted this fact that i was in fact a little different and that was due to no fault of my own. I learnt to view it in a positive light and use my brain for things it was better at.
Do you have any suggestions of things you want to see in this sub forum?
@Azalea98
We are so excited to have you here and thank you for sharing your experiences!
@Azalea98 thank you so much for sharing. I learned a lot about how the process works and the progression of feelings through your experience. Thank you for being a part of this community and for being a part of the team!
@Azalea98
Hello there Azalea98!
Thanks for caring about learning disability sub forum! 
@Azalea98
I just now joined the group and it said something about helping others. I am a nerd that researched my daughter's learning disorders since 3rd grade when experts predicted an emotional disorder. I had no idea the costs and sacrifices to save her, but I do pay it forward. She's graduating this year near the top of her class and I know despite everything, she was reading at the .2 percentile reading fluency in middle school and 4th in accuracy. It's really complicated with a host of disorders like autism, sensory, ADHD, executive function, and so much more. No one would know she had a problem and she's planning on researching SLDs this year when she enters a research college. My career went from executive to freelance to save her.
I joined the group because I want to get back to self-care from draining myself learning how very messed up everything is in SLD education. We found the solutions, but it's a patchwork and not elegant. But, I had top testing and experts. She's a teen advocate and I sort of am. She speaks but with a simple hope message. I am unpaid paying it forward and about to get back into my accounting career full time. I am good with seeing the patterns in the disabilities - especially the gifted (twice-exceptional) kiddos and I'm good for helping people first entering the maze to see the clues and suggest the testing. The biggest problem at the beginning is teasing out the causes and getting a collaborative relationship with schools. I see a nightmare with Covid if simple measures aren't in place. like flickering monitors.
Her SLDs are reading, writing, and spelling. Her visual/reading issues alone have these dx:
Convergence insufficiency
Teaming/tracking deficits
Visual sensory processing disorder
Photoscoptic sensitivity/Irlen Syndrome
Suppression
Dynemkinetic, dysphonetic, dyseidetic, and surface dyslexia
deficits in visual processes, such as visualization, visual sequencing, visual memory, visual perception, and perceptual-motor abilities
Difficulties in maintaining proper directionality
Word reversals and skipping words
Short-duration, high-velocity, small jumping eye movements called saccades
Synesthesia
Depth perception
Fine visual – Motor control
Hyperopia
Extropia
Binocular dysfunction/Instability
Reduced Stereopsis
Diplopia
Accommodative infacility
Hyperacusis
Recruitment
Hyperactive labyrinth
Movement disorder
@Azalea98 My boyfriend has dyslexia . . . he reads outloud to his mom everyday. . . it helps him to see words correctly and they get to bond.
@Rebekahwriter13
That's amazing! It's so great he is actively trying to improve his ability to read aloud, I know how daunting it can be when you dont feel comfortable to do it and you get called on in class. It's also amazing he managed to turn this into a bonding experience ♥️
Thank you for sharing
Do you have any suggestions of things you want to see in this sub forum?
I would like tips on how to get resources or ways to get finanical help.
I have depression, anxiety, PTSD, several sleep apnea, anemia, pcos, and retina issues. . . all of my doctors simply think weight loss is a miracle cure, but I cannot afford diet food, and produce just doesn't last.
I also lost weight only to regain it plus some. Then my depression gets worst.
@Rebekahwriter13
Thank you so much for sharing♥️
I take time and consideration to read every message. After reading I saw that you might want to have a look at these other subcommunities as they focus on some of the issues you mentioned that you suffer with:
https://www.7cups.com/home/anxiety/
https://www.7cups.com/home/depression/
https://www.7cups.com/home/trauma/
@Azalea98 Thank you. . . I have been those links. . . in fact, I have daily questions I answer on them when i can.
