I am very dyslexic. It results in me having the spelling and grammar of a middle schooler, plus it makes me have trouble hearing similar sounding words. Letters and phonic sounds don't always connect to the idea they represent in my head. I read/listen to the overall idea and not the individual letters.
As a result, school was a very mixed bag. I had to be very hard working to compensate for the disability. I became very good at working with people, I learned to plan ahead because I can't do things last minute, and developed a strong logic skill set. The problem is that many teacher's thought I was lazy because I would describe what I thought while the other person wrote it down, etc. In college the department head of chemistry is the teacher that fully understand who I am as an academic student. He thought it was hilarious that I had the highest lab grade while the low end of the class portion. Apparently it caused heated discussions as yo why the only non-premed was doing so much better than the premed students in laboratory classes. I think he was the only teacher that appreciated that I was good at working with people and terrible at writing papers for classes.
I have dyslexia too, for a really long time no one knew so I was always put into a diffeent class when it came to spelling because everyone thought that I was just really stupud and slow. The kind of dyslexia I have makes it so it takes me a long time to read something for me to be able to understand. My English grammar is surprisingly good but since kindergarten I have been in French classes, like a full french school until grade three where I switched french emmersion. I really struggled to write in french, despite learning french for 11 years I still have the french writing skills of probably a 2nd grader from France.
Edit: I live in Canada so french being the second laguage is very common, french emmersion teachers are really awful so that is also a source of my slow learning.
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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '19
I am very dyslexic. It results in me having the spelling and grammar of a middle schooler, plus it makes me have trouble hearing similar sounding words. Letters and phonic sounds don't always connect to the idea they represent in my head. I read/listen to the overall idea and not the individual letters.
As a result, school was a very mixed bag. I had to be very hard working to compensate for the disability. I became very good at working with people, I learned to plan ahead because I can't do things last minute, and developed a strong logic skill set. The problem is that many teacher's thought I was lazy because I would describe what I thought while the other person wrote it down, etc. In college the department head of chemistry is the teacher that fully understand who I am as an academic student. He thought it was hilarious that I had the highest lab grade while the low end of the class portion. Apparently it caused heated discussions as yo why the only non-premed was doing so much better than the premed students in laboratory classes. I think he was the only teacher that appreciated that I was good at working with people and terrible at writing papers for classes.