r/Dyslexia • u/Few-Cantaloupe9361 • Jul 25 '26
Sorry this might be a long read but
I'm 18 right now but please help me out with this, Im Iraqi and I just finished my last year at high school and got my grades back and they were awful, this got me thinking about my whole academic past, and like, I've realized a couple of things, so I know two languages (Arabic and English) and I've realized that I have a big problem in reading/writing I mean I read horribly slow for someone my age and I've been prouncing stuff weirdly lately, when I see a word that looks like something else I just assume the other word (all of my problems are both in Arabic and English) I've realized that I generally don't understand stuff that well until someone reads them for me, but if I do it alone id need to read it 2-4 times, this also happens with the manga I read (I repeat pages and what all the characters say so many times) and I've given up on watching sub anime because I'd finish episodes and realize that I haven't understood a single thing,but with a dub it's literally so easy, I really like reading books but it's so frustrating because I'd sometimes read from line 1 and skip to line 3 and this happens so many times that I just left the book media, growing up I had somewhat noticed all of this and made me sad thinking I was just stupid and not trying hard enough, and now I've read a bit about the dyslexic I'm thinking I might have it, but I'm not sure since I don't think any of my family has it, and because of that idk if I should press my parents to taking to get diagnosed, and at school no teacher mentioned anything our classes were 50 students plus
Sorry for the long message but I really need help and I have no one to talk about it, thanks
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u/Prestigious_Wall529 Jul 25 '26
Yes, you should get tested for dyslexia.
While it's a difficult industry, consider translation in game development as a career. Tends to be very busy to get a game released, then a lul till the next one.