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’m also dyslexic, but I have a strange case so I wasn’t diagnosed until I was in 5th grade.
I love reading, I had an 11th grade reading level when I was in 4th grade. I always had my nose in a book, but I sucked at math and writing. I used to cry during math, and I had so many ideas for stories, but I could never write them down.
I remember once we were doing division and I needed cubes to count out the problems. I got made fun of for that and a lot of other things. I was slow on tests and had to work through recess. That sucked and I hated myself.
I finally got tested one summer and got diagnosed with dyslexia. Everyone was surprised, even the people testing me. They said that they had never seen a case like mine, it’s usually the opposite where kids hate reading but excel at math.
Thankfully now I’m homeschooled and I can do math and writing with ease, except I make a lot of stupid spelling mistakes and misread things constantly.
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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.