6 Types of Dyslexia? 🤔

DYSLEXICS UNTIE!

When I went to school dyslexia was not a thing, you were either stubborn, stupid or lazy. The frustration I felt was intense. What really helped me were comic books because the text was bound in small speech bubbles and didn't move around so much. There were also contextual clues in the art panels that helped ground the text. Math remained a huge problem though. Only the "=" sign was my friend as everything else could change. I found personal coping mechanisms but if I'm tired or stressed things can still be unpleasant.

When I met my husband he had never been diagnosed, but I could tell he was dyslexic. He got diagnosed, got tutoring and learned how to read...in his thirties. He grew up in rural Alabama, and regularly got beat for not learning, not getting good grades. No one could know what he endured...he went on to get a good job, and gained so much confidence. I feel for anyone who struggles with this. God bless you 🌹

Please include a video on dyscalculia! I was diagnosed with dyslexia as a child, and with help adapted to it. But, no one ever brought up dyscalculia and the fact that it can impact numbers and mental math, I thought I was just bad at math!

I was more of a slow learner. When I was younger it was a struggle to keep pace with the rest of the students in my class. I remember once in Biology class kids use to make fun of me for my bad test scores calling me stupid. The teacher would post the test results of each student on a board every week. I hated going to that class knowing the humilitation that would follow. However, that all changed when this teacher realized my learning disability was due to poor auditory comprehension. She found that I have stronger visual learning that could be used to my advantage. She would tutor me using various objects to describe the characteristics of each subject and I would recall them much easier. So when the next test results were posted some of the students were shocked to see that I had the 2nd highest test score in the entire class. One student asked how did I got such a high score. I simply told him it was luck and smiled. Keep them guessing.

If you have dyslexia, audio books come in clutch

I struggled so badly in school due to my numbers dyslexia. It was a total unknown in the 80s. I did beautifully in languages, history and literature.....but math, total fail. I told my teacher that numbers flipped and floated in my head. She thought I was just making excuses. Wanted to be a vet but math grades ruined my GPA. So glad that kids today can be helped.

As a special ed teacher, I frequently had to explain to parents that "dyslexia" is an umbrella term that includes a variety of disabilities and problems. Reading and writing our verbal symbols requires a whole series of skills and abilities, and any one or any combination of them may need to be developed or compensated for.

I got diagnosed with dyslexia at 5 & received a lot of support as a kid that really helped, but that support totally evaporated when I hit university, and it made it incredibly difficult. There’s no support at all for dyslexic adults and it’s a real problem

When I was in school there was only one teacher in the entire county that even knew what dyslexia was. My mother had polio and kept us kids in sight by teaching us things. So I knew all my numbers to 100 and all the alphabet by entering the first grade. Six months later I was way behind. I failed every IQ test throughout 12 years of school. I studied at night until I knew the school subject forwards and backwards, but failed the test the following school day. My dyslexia was like there was an over achiever doing the filing in my brain who had no ability to do any filing at all. Before tests I know the subject matter, but the pressure of the test would make my mind go blank. After the test I could not only recall all the test answers but all the questions. This madness went on for decades... Relatives who knew I had dyslexia often took advantage of the fact that stress caused me to turn into a retarded state of ignorance. And they had a grand time making me look like a dumbass in public and they knew how to punch the right buttons to make me look foolish under stress. 3s and Es, 6s and 9s, ofter looked alike. In my mid-twenties I was working in broadcasting, eventually you learn to be the class clown and natural entertainer, but I found a place that gave IQ tests adjusted for dyslexics. I had been treated as broken all my life by my mother. However... I won an art scholarship in high school but was not allowed to take it because I was broken. While taking a dyslexic IQ test I found out that I actually had a higher IQ than my unbroke siblings. In grade school a principle told mother I was retarded and would never learn to read or write. I have three degrees today. I have written 130 novels. I've been published in magazines back when they were still read. How did I deal? When hung up, the dyslexic school out in Virginia taught me to silently run the ABC's in my mind when a word would not come to mind. Often this helps to bring the word to mind. Just remember, don't allow people to tell you that you are broken. Dyslexics usually have higher IQs and are greater achievers than the average people, like Cher Bono, Bruce Jenner, Albert Einstein and others... Enjoy the afternoon...

I diagnosed myself after i dropped out of high school. I ran a successful a business of my own. I just think differently than most. It works for me.

I love how all the different names for dyslexia are all rather difficult to spell. On a related note: I feel like proprioception probably needed a definition screen when it was mentioned.

Thank you for explaining this. As a career educator for over 25 years, NOBODY ever gave us a useful professional development session about the different types of features of dyslexia. Only through my own desire and membership in the leading World language association did I finally learn about dyslexia any 15 years ago. There's been a general negligence in the profession. Teachers used to be given relevant training and were paid to go to conferences. Now, the administration get to go on these useful conferences. Do they provide training when they come back? Not once that I've ever seen. It's disgusting how the corporate movement to turn schools into charter schools even in the suburbs. Frankly, it's criminal.

I helped my dad get better with his dyslexia by getting him watching anime. He couldn’t rely on the voices to tell him what was going on because they were in Japanese. I specifically had him watching anime with subtitles. At first he had no idea what they shows were about but liked how it looked. Over time though he started reading the subs, but they go pretty fast. Now he’s at the point where he can read almost every word and can talk to me about the show. I still help with long or strange words, but he’s no longer illiterate.

I'm now in my 70's, but when I was 9 I was sent for hearing tests because it was thought that I must be partially deaf. Whenever anyone spoke to me I had to ask them to repeat what they'd said, sometimes several times. So people would then shout, or call me stupid. I was not deaf, but have always had a sound processing delay. When people spoke to me it sounded like a foreign language. The sounds were all jumbled up, and I had to replay them in my mind several times before they settled into recognisable English words. I was 60 when I was told that this was a form of dyslexia, and it was something of a relief to find out that it's now recognised as a problem. I still suffer from it today, and nowadays I often have to reread words as my brain misidentifies words when it sees them on a page. So it's not something that gets any easier as we get older, but we simply adjust to having to deal with it second by second every day. Being left handed didn't help either, as my handwriting was very poor until I watched a left handed teacher writing when I went to secondary school at age 12, and finally learned how to write without smudging every word. However, at junior school I remember my teacher holding up my exercise book so that everyone could have a good laugh at my struggling attempt at writing. Especially as we used inkwells in those days, and dip pens. So I was constantly scratching the page, and smudging what I'd just written as I moved my left hand over the words I'd just scratched into the paper. Thank goodness for ball point pens! But they were too late for me in Junior school, sadly.

Thank God for Mrs. Brown, my 3rd grade teacher in 1977. She took a kid who couldn't read or write his own name who should have failed 2nd grade and was so mean to him. She kept me after school every day and taught me to memorize words by sight..thousands of them, then taught me phonics to figure out sounds from sight..I went from total illiteracy to reading at 12th grade level that year. I grew up, graduated from high school early, went to college and earned a degree in physics. Then another in Geology and another in education. I taught for 30 years everything from 6th graders to University students. Mrs Brown had started teaching before World War Two. She had never heard of dyslexia. She did however know how to effectively teach and fix learning problems. Her modeling helped me to pay it forward many times to help struggling kids. Lysdexia...ha..😂

I’m 61 and also dyslexic. Many years ago I read a book titled, the gift of dyslexia, which helped me understand my brain and my children’s brain, that in itself was life-changing. Also, I am an optician 🤓 the eye doctor I work for,has studied prisms in glasses, and the dyslexic brain 🧠 Many dyslexic children could benefit from a slight bit of prism their glasses,👓 She showed me how my eyes would track better with a slight amount of prism placed in my glasses. I did order a pair and try it but since I was already 60 years old, I had a struggle adapting to them,so they took the prism out out. I do believe ,as a child, that would have been life-changing for tracking words on a page.

Here in South Africa our sons OT didn't know about dyslexia. They weren't taught this at varsity. We asked her if our son could have it because my father did. It was all new to her. I still can't believe it. How many children don't get help because the teaching system is lacking

Excellent explanation -first time I've seen my early reading issues described - neglect dyslexia. I was left to sort it out for myself. When I was about 8, still unable to read, I taught myself to read music and to play the piano. At school, we were regularly assessed for reading age, and mine was always 5. Until one day, I suddenly jumped to 14, the top of the scale. I understand now, reading music was teaching me 'visual tracking'. Music, of course had a feedback loop, I knew instantly if it sounded wrong.

My life was ruff, teachers were short with me and didn't seem to have time to help me. My dad noticed that I had a wide vocabulary and had me tested at the Calhoun clinic in Jacksonville Florida. He knew something was going on. I was diagnosed with dyslexia. Knowing what was wrong is super but no one knew how to help me. I taught myself to read over the summer of 1971 with some paper back star trek books I desperately wanted to read. I think that we as dyslexics see the world in a different way. I didn't go to HS but later on in my early twenties went to the college of New Rochelle In NY. I went from restaurant work in my teens and early twenties to sales. I specialized in office supplies and furniture. I was in the 100k income range by the late 80s. I took a GED test in 78, that was my ticket to the future. My wife has 3 masters degrees and retired as a nurse practitioner.. I am proud of our daughter Jessica who received a masters of fine arts. The thing that saved me was not giving up. Blessings to all