My 16 year old daughter was finally diagnosed with Orthographic Dyslexia in 6th grade after many years of tutors and tests etc. She takes advantage of supports offered by her high school and has a private tutor but is still basically white-knuckling it through the academic part of high school. Luckily, she is flourishing socially and in theater so that's a godsend!

I would like to find her a US college counsellor who can guide her to colleges and programs that might be a good fit for her scholastically. Once she is in the school, we will have her sign up for the resource center etc. We just want someone who understands her struggles to help her choose a program and a school with this in mind.

Does anyone have a recommendation for a counselor or resources that have helped you navigate this complex and seemly high-stakes system?

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Tools like Spellcheck, Grammarly, and GPT catch my mistakes, but they don’t help me learn. As someone with dyslexia, I’ve struggled to track and improve on my most common typos.

I’m brainstorming an app called tyypo.app It identifies your top mistakes and helps you learn them over time. Think Grammarly and Duolingo combined. Before building it, I want to ensure it solves a real problem for others in the dyslexic community.

Would a tool like this help you? Are there specific challenges with spelling or learning from mistakes you’d like it to address?

Your feedback would be invaluable in shaping this idea. Thank you for sharing your thoughts!

Here is a link if you would like to learn more tyypo.app

I have never disclosed my dyslexia to my employer since I have never asked or thought I needed an accommodation, but I have thought about it. I feel disclosing it to my supervisor would explain some of behaviors and awkwardness at work to them. I naively hope that would open some dialog that would make me feel better like my secret is out of the bag and now I will be more comfortable. I don't think that it will help, but I wonder if anyone else has opened up to their supervisor and the outcome.

Anybody here diagnosed with dyslexia later in life, as an adult or a teenager?

• What was your experience like in school as a child, particularly with reading (books) and writing?

• Also, what are your native languages? As far as I know, phonological differences between languages can make dyslexia diagnoses trickier in some cases.

Basically, anything you’d like to share about your experience?

Dyslexia has been the central humiliating issue of my life. I have always, from a very young age, had drive and ambition to simply better myself. This, in large measure, explains my relatively modest decision, as a high school student, to take a few mainstream classes I was allowed to take, as a special education student.

When attempting to add a Spanish language course to my schedule, the teacher standing outside her classroom door, asked me why I wanted to take her college prep. Spanish class, because she said that I was not going to college.

Years later, after graduating with my master's degree, I met her in the school, as I was working temporarily as a substitute teacher. She condescendingly asked me what I was doing lately. I responded by telling her that after completing my bachelor's degree, I have just graduated MBA school and was accepted to Vanderbilt University, Peabody School of Education, at the time ranked higher than Harvard University to do my PhD in education administration.

I would like to hear your experiences with being humiliated not just by average people, but by those in the education and psychology professions. One of my most remembered experiences was many years after being diagnosed with dyslexia and spending my entire public school career in Special Education classes, completing my undergraduate and graduate education, I was told by a University occupational psychologist that I did not have dyslexia, that I was just educationally deprived! What have your experiences been with synical discounting?

I would like to ask other dyslexics what has their experience been with having dyslexia and overcompensating and the possible exasperation and frustration it may cause. I have read about the many super famous people that have dyslexia and achieved beyond the hopes and dreams of others that have written them off. From my own experience, I believe this over compensation aspect of these people is a quite typical attribute of dyslexia. I personally, while not competitive, will make monumental personal sacrifices to achieve. But, it can have profoundly devastating consequences, if stifled!

This is pretty much my last hope, I think I'm mostly scared that it won't help me, and I'll feel defeated if it doesn't. Anyones thought and feelings? And thanks in advance

My career has been a complete nightmare. I graduated from undergraduate and graduated school with moderately respectable grades from non ranked schools. Many that graduated from these schools faced struggles starting their careers after graduating. But, my career struggles were much worse with dyslexia. There was always the need to calculate the risk of accepting any of the few job options I had. Then after accepting a job, there was the inevitable self doubt and anxiety of not measuring up and failure.

Long after I was first diagnosed with dyslexia, I was placed on ADHD medications. From what I understand, many dyslexics are also misdiagnosed with ADHD. Did the attention deficit medication help or harm specific aspects of your dyslexia? Please, be specific about what areas of your dyslexia was effected in your response. Thanks.

I have been reading for years that piracetam and certain vitamin help improve dyslexic symptoms. I have also read that nootropics are quite controversial. What have your experience been and have you found any medications, nootropics, or vitamin supplements that have helped?

I'm trying to figure out a tech accommodation set up for a dyslexic kid to use at school and for studying.

So far, I've found reader pens and tablets. I prefer android, but I'm open to apple, if it really is more helpful with dyslexia.

Ideals for a tablet:

• remote parental controls
• dyslexic friendly book apps, and if they require data / cellular to use them.
• Text to speech capabilities
• headphone compatability
• stylus / pen compatibility

Ideals for a reader pen:

• headphone compatibility

Any suggestions for other accommodations that have helped you or a loved one are welcome, and greatly appreciated.... Thank you!

I realized today… I don’t think I have ever read the word “stared” correctly in my entire life.

Is it just me or do many people who struggle with spelling and reading immediately get looked at as if they have dyslexia? I know people with dyslexia, and my dyslexia compared to theirs is weird; I feel like a Neanderthal. I was in the last grade of group 8 (the final year of elementary school in the Netherlands) and had the spelling level of the end of group 3 (early elementary school) and the reading level of early mid group 4 (mid elementary school), and then other dyslexic kids say that they don't even notice it.

First of all, I am Tunisian, and here most people do not know the meaning of dyslexia, including me. It's a new term. I study in high school In the literature department so i focus on three languages arabic, french and English and with next year they gonna be 4 languages (spanish) but i have problem i can't read especially in french I can't concentrate in class and I m just trying to be hidden in that class so my teacher doesn’t tell me to read it. In my department, reading fluently is really important . Almost all of my class read fluently, except me. This will affect my Academic level . This really worries me and I want to fix it but I don't know how and recently I know that this condition has a name and its name is dyslexia So can someone tell me if this is dyslexia or not? And can I fix it? And thank u

I'm finding school very hard recently i feel like it's all piling on-top of me. I put in a lot of work to get the grades I get and I feel as though it just comes easy for all my friends. My exams are in a few weeks and I'm really struggling with English comprehension, just grasping what the contents of the comprehension are any tips? Aswell as getting my answers down on paper I feel like I know them in my head but cannot transfer them on paper.

Hello guys, first of all excuse my English, English isn’t my first language, so please be easy on me.🌺 and please note that I’m not trying go get a diagnosis. Where should I begin? Let’s start from my childhood, I have always thought that I was a weird kid, I was the last one to learn something from school, couldn’t write with my right hand properly and was punished for that, I had no sense of directions, I got lost to go home from school by myself, it was until I turned 8 yo that I could remember my way home. I thought my suffering will end once I grow up older, I am now 29 yo, still can’t remember anything no matter how easy it is from the first time, I learnt to write with my right hand and my hand writing is way better than with my other hand, I speak French, Spanish, English and Arabic but I still somehow think that I’m dumb in everything except learning languages. Do you want to hear another weird thing about me? My hair is very bad from the right side, prettier and thicker from the left side. My left hand and my left leg are stronger. When I go to a new place, my view to this place changes when I go there for the second time, it’s like for instance I see a window in the left side of a house, when I go the second time I see that same window in a different side of that same house 😵‍💫 I feel like my brain is damaged or something, does anyone share the same weirdness? Take care y’all

I'm not sure if this is an appropriate place to post this, but I'm feeling extremely helpless right now.

I've been in my admin job for over a year now. When I took the job I thought it would be administration completely. Writing emails and stuff can be tricky for me, but I actually have a bachelors degree in English, so despite being dyslexic, I cope pretty well. Things might slip by me thought. Anyway, I thought I'd be just doing admin for this company, but as I've worked there, my job has turned into admin, accounts and project management. I now have to prepare and finalise documents too, on top of everything else. And sometimes these documents aren't in English, but I have to check them for mistakes, even if I don't speak the language. So, checking for things like if the sentences end in the right spot, stuff I would struggle to do in English, let alone Greek or Latvian.

I don't really know why I got hired to be honest, it's nothing to do with my academic background, and I've felt pretty out of my depth the entire time. However, nobody seemed to notice, I've had a handful of pay rises within the year and a half I've been there, I've received little feedback on my job, but none of it has been negative overall. But recently I've become so overwhelmed with the workload, and task that have always been a struggle for me, which nobody seemed to notice, have become big problems for my company. Such as customers asking for amendments, team members catching errors and having to bring them to my attention etc.

Today an error I made 2 weeks ago came back to bite me, and we had to have a meeting about the errors I made. The worst part is, I had really, really, really tried on this project to get everything perfect, and I really thought I had gotten everything right! Only to find glaring errors I have no idea how I missed. As in I checked the documents a good few times and it's like they just weren't there, and then suddenly they were, clear as day.

Earlier in the week, a co-worker tried to help me out by walking me through stuff I literally should already know, and himself and another co-worker said "just ask us to double check things, it's no problem", so I asked one of them to check my finalisation on a document. I checked it, they checked it, and another person checked it twice! there were STILL errors in it, and I just feel hopeless, because I asked for help, and the document was still sent back to the client with errors, and it's going to be my name on the project, so I'm the only person who can be held responsible.

I'm not in a position where I can be without a job, I have rent to pay and I really don't want to live off my savings, but I feel like it's only a matter of time before all of this unravels and I get fired. Like I'm scared I'll have to quit before they fire me.

I probably sound insane, I just feel so, so disheartened that even on projects that I give 100% of my efforts, I still fuck up royally. The worst part is, I'm actually baffled by the errors myself, because it's like they weren't there when I checked.

I don't know what to do, I like this job a lot, I get on so well with my coworkers, but I fear they'll end up hating me as a result of my incompetence. I'm really trying but I probably seem like I'm not, as I'm sure those around me can't fathom how I keep messing up, and making these kind of mistakes. I'm humiliated.

Hey yall hoping that I can get some help after having no luck with IDA resources. I found this pdf and does not look like there are any affiliated psychiatrists in South Florida. I am closer to Fort Lauderdale but located in Miami. I am trying to get analyzed ASAP so I can avoid getting fired from a new job at a fast-paced firm. I was diagnosed with ADHD as a kid, but parents never got me treatment and I just learned to live with it and think everything was normal that I was struggling with. After starting this new job I started to come to the realization not being able to read is reports well is not ADHD... Hoping some one here can provide me some resources.
So far I have found:

https://lifehealthsystem.org/

https://www.thepsychologyteam.com/

Not a question, just wanted to share a sweet story, about friends , we don't get to many of these people.

Some friends we met a couple years ago. Really are wonderful to me very dyslexic and my husband mildly dyslexic.

Them and there children are so good to us. They have found away to laugh with me never at me. And we have a great time.

One time we were hanging out. The husband got mad at me. He was really pi$$ed off. Then he said , I absolutely hate when you put yourself down. You are one of the smartest people I know, don't ever put yourself down in front of me! I almost wanted to cry.

They asked us to take a cruise with them in January, I asked them are you sure? They said oh we are going to have a blast!!

Just wanted share, some people are really good people.

When you use TTS tools to read aloud web pages, PDFs or EPUBs, do you usually turn on the music? It seems music can help for auditory learners to memorize better. For myself, I play some music without lyrics when listening to a document. But not sure, if it's a common practice.

(Asking this because I'm thinking of add a music entry on the UI of my TTS extension but don't know if it's necessary)

Genuinely cannot read it

I found this subreddit only to complain about how I am tired from dyslexia. I am not guilty for having it. I was just freaking horn with it. I know four languages fluently (writing,listening,speaking), I read a lot of books and scientific literature, I always try to make my brain work and develop it. And I still have troubles with pronunciation words sometimes and writing, BUT IT DOESN’T MAKE ME LESS SMART THAN I AM. I remember arguing with one already ex friend of mine, because in a certain period of his life he was forgetting what he did or said. And I tried to explain him, that “ look dude, u told that” and he would be like “no ,I didn’t “(for 100 fckin time). And once we started to argue about that, I argue really well because I have prove or explain my opinion nicely. And he told me that sometimes I confuse letters/words when I speak or write and then looked at me like at stupid girl and gave me an arrogant nasty smile. I WAS SO PISSED. Or when people try to correct me the whole time like I am a dumb and very poorly educated person. I understand that those people have low self esteem if correcting someone makes them feel 100000x times better, but I get tired and aggressive as hell sometimes. I also hate when people joke that they are dyslexic just cause they are too lazy to use the right grammar. I want to enter a pretty competitive university and asked some questions on subreddits about them and sure people made fun of little amount of mistakes that I made. Yes, I make grammatical mistakes, but it doesn’t mean that I am dumb and not deserving of entering a decent university.

Reading exhausts my eyes and I retain way more when I amnt forcing myself to look at a page in discomfort. I want to be able to just walk around and study. Help me please 🥹

Hi everyone,

I hope you are having a great day. I have just launched a letter mirroring Chrome browser extension and I'm hoping to get some feedback on it.

It's a very simple browser extension that lets you flip/mirror individuals letters.

Link: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/letter-mirroring-for-dysl/npnfeecidjlljeoocdnopijijdpgnceg

Please let me know if you have any questions and I'll be happy to help.

All my life I (33F) was told by my Dad that I have dyslexia. Only recently have figured out what it means for my personality and how it's affects my life. Also, I'm sure I have ADHD but it's too expensive to get diagnosed. I didn't have any help at school for any of it. Mostly just have had to deal with it myself. My Dad would say that it could make it seem like you are reading backwards. That you will have to read things over and over again until they make sense.

Firstly, I can read backwards and upside down, so that wasn't it. Secondly, reading things over and over again doesn't help. I don't like reading, nor do I have the concentration power to keep at it for a long time. This results in if I have read something, I'll read one word wrong and I'll keep reading it wrong and then believe that is how it reads. Also, if there is a lot to read then I try to speed read it and miss things.

Reading things wrongly has recently been stressing me out a lot. At work, I have my colleagues send me requests for things they need done. I had one today and I read it wrong when she sent it though a few days ago. After I found out what it actually was, it took me a minute to set up and take it down to her but she had changed her mind by than and started doing something else. I didn't say anything, just took it back up stairs and felt defeated. I plan to open my requests up individually, even if they are a repeat from someone else and look at it closer but I'm just so upset that I have let her down again.

The speed reading got me in to trouble last week. I was told about these important projects coming up and I had to have them ready to go at this time and date. No exceptions. I looked at the document, got what I thought were the information I needed to complete my task and didn't read anymore. I got the equipment ready super quick and easy. No problem. Then the due date came and I had my manager call me up the night before saying where ... is? I missed some equipment. This resulted me coming in an hour early to fix the mistake. Stressed the hell out of everyone.

The other problem I have is my brain shutting down when I'm stressed. At work if a colleague is upset with me and comes to confront me or try talk about it, I go into freeze mode. I can't think of anything to say but 'yep' and 'ok'. Even if I do think of something to say, my social anxiety kicks in and it doesn't let me say it. I can email them and try work it out just fine but that's about it. Time and space is what I need but it's still super stressful not being able to articulate things when ever I want to.

It’s one thing to be helpful, it’s another to be so harsh and condescending about it. Especially when people have actually learning disabilities related to it.

And I don’t just mean myself. You don’t know what random people might have.

Hello,

I’m new here.

I’m a late diagnosed Autistic and ADHD.

I’ve also wondered if I have dyslexia as well and should I get assessed.

I don’t think I have all of the classic symptoms so just wanted to see if anyone relates.

I love books and reading. I can’t remember being behind with reading at school (many moons ago!)

But I had to have special education classes for spelling and maths.

I struggle to pronounce new words, remember names or pronounce new place names.

I struggle with math problems and need a calculator and I need to use a spelling app as I often need help with certain words. Like is it center or centre they look the same for me.

I’m not great at foreign languages either. I wish I was but can never get passed the very basics like a handful of words.

I know it’s not a sub the help with diagnosis but I’m on my ND journey and just want to double check if anyone relates before I move forward. Thank you!