I was typing an essay about the Dutch golden age, and when I re-read it I couldn’t make sense of it because of “dutch and ”clutch”

Is this dyslexic or just me glitching out? So these little fellas LOOK like Cows. Jump and are the size of Goats but are actually Sheep. My brain sees the pattern and instantly thinks cow even though i know they are not they are sheep but the jumping is then making my mouth want to say goat. By trying not to say cow I'm defaulting to goat even though I know they are sheep. So long as I don't think about saying anything I know and my head tells me they are sheep. As soon as I go to speak I want to say either cow or goat. Its like I can feel the mess up happening but can't quite fix it. I could write down what they are correctly but saying it it'd come out cow which I know is incorrect. Know what I mean? 😅

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I am sick of not being able to get my point across ever. I have so much in my mind I want to say but it never comes out right. If i spell/type it most words are misspelled/ don’t even make sense kn the context. Also it i say it out loud I sound like a mess and I’m so hard to follow just talking in circles. I wish I didn’t feel this way I hate that I have to stop for minutes all the time while typing just to try and figure out how to spell a simple word. I wish I could be normal I’m tired of using this excuse when someone asks me what I mean.

I am not dyslexic myself, so I wanted to talk to someone dyslexic to get a better understanding.

I have a dyslexic colleague at work and she can get quite emotional when she asks me to check her work. She will repeatedly remind me she is dyslexic and be quite insistent that I look at her work. I don't mind checking it over, but despite her saying I can take my time with it, she normally wants me to look at it straight away.

I don't particularly like being rushed, especially as we have different job roles. I am a receptionist and she is a librarian, so I can be really busy dealing with customers when she wants me to look at something. I have tried bringing this up to her, but she keeps saying she doesn't expect me to look at it straight away, despite her repeatedly asking me to look at it. I just find it very confusing. I have tried to bring this up to my manager and other colleagues, but I was told to just do the task when I can.

I have also noticed, when I give her feedback, she can become really defeated. I have been working on improving this by adding positives about what I really like too, and that seems to have helped.

We work in a library, and a lot of her job focuses around writing, and I just want to get an idea of how to support her. I have autism and ADHD myself so I can accidentally be really blunt sometimes, but I working on improving that.

I really want to be able to help, but I feel really unsure how to so I would appreciate any advice. I especialy want to help her feel more confident in the skills she has, as she does sound like she is really struggling when she talks to me.

We recently got some books on adult dyslexia in our library so I am planning to start reading them too.

Around the time of kindergarden/1st grade I was brought in for testing and diagnosed with dyslexia. In the same year, I was also tested and qualified for the gifted student program. Despite being gifted, I couldn't keep up with the dyslexia and had to be pulled out for those special classes. Unfortunately, the next year I moved schools. This new school didn't put me in a dyslexia program for one reason or another and I haven't been back sense. The rest of my early school years I had to work around being dyslexic. Because I'm also gifted, I was able to work around things somehow and flew under the radar. Fast forward to my junior year and I am brought in for testing again for autism. Suprise, I have autism, as well as some other stuff that isn't relevant to this story. But what didn't show up was my dyslexia. I asked about it, because I reported my initial diagnosis, but they said I didn't qualify anymore. This is very confusing, as I know I still very much have dyslexia. I have to deal with it everyday. But from a clinical standpoint, I am "cured."

My child has had errors his entire life with blending sounds. He currently has /l/ , /s/, /r/ and even /th/ errors. I am wondering would sylvan be able to help him even though he's not a little kid anymore ? He is dyslexic , adhd as well as autistic. Any tips welcomed !

Hi, my daughter is now in Y13. She wants to study medecine. She is working hard but find a balance schedule till now as she does a lot of sports. Do you think medecine studies are suitable for dyslexic and Adhd. I am worried about her mental health. Thank for your answers.

Hey guys,

I (28f), who is dyslexic, had a little miscommunication over text with a coworker (30f) We were planning a meeting and I had misread what she had sent and didn’t process the three clarification texts afterwords on the day. She got short with me and I shut down. Now I feel incredibly stupid and embarrassed. How do I cope without making a mountain out of this. All advice is welcome thank you!

I'm wondering if there are any tests that can be complete at home that can help with diagnosing my child with dyslexia or any other learning disabilities. My child is 7 years old and I really need to get him diagnosed as soon as possible.

Thanks

Hi, I'm not dyslexic, but I have a friend who is and I personally love writing letters to my friends, so I was wondering if there's anything I should do to make my handwriting easier for her to read. I can also just start typing them because I've heard that's a lot easier for some to read, but any tips you have are greatly appreciated.

My handwriting is primarily cursive (because I don't like how my print handwriting looks), but for most of my friends at my new school, I write in print because a lot of them don't know cursive as well, so it's just easier. However, because a good 95%+ of the things I write are in cursive, even when I write in print, I sometimes don't lift the pen off the paper enough, so I'm already trying to stop doing that.

I'll post a picture of my handwriting in the comments, so you can see how it currently is. And if it's better to just not send letters, I'd be happy to do that as well (I don't want to make my friend struggle to read more than she already does), but I just wanted to know if there were any tricks I should use.

Thank you for any advice you have to give me! :D

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Hi! I am a Senior in high school and am diagnosed with Adhd and dyslexia. Prior to my diagnosis, I did poorly in school exept for math. Now, I am an honors student who is admitted to a highly prestigious university for engineering for the fall. I have developed skills to combat my learning disabilities and actually use them to my advantage but i’m still worried. For context of my current academic statistics: I have a 36/36 on my ACT (standardized test) and above a 4.0 and am taking several ap classes. I am really good at calculus and physics but really not good at english. I have experience in engineering but i’m scared my learning disabilities will make it hard for me to succeed in the field even though i am very passionate about engineering. Please let me know your thoughts and if anyone has any advice or has a similar experience?

I have diagnosed dyslexia and PTSD, mentioning that to help give some context.

Do any of you experience full-on anxiety attacks when you make a mistake caused by dyslexia and others notice it?

Here are a couple of examples of things that have happened to me:

• In a group message, I reminded everyone to bring snakes on the trip instead of snacks. I read the message back to myself at least five or six times and still didn’t catch the mistake. Someone made a joke about it, and I ended up feeling really bad about it off and on for about a week.
• I mixed up Tuesday and Thursday while trying to reschedule an appointment. I went back and read our text messages multiple times, and it clearly said Thursday, but my brain was convinced it said Tuesday. I panicked and tried to reschedule, only to realize the appointment was never on the wrong day to begin with. Even though nothing actually went wrong, I still feel awful for bothering someone over a mistake that only existed in my head.

I know these things aren’t a big deal logically, but they still get to me. Does anyone else experience this?

So I think in the next couple of months I'm gonna get my adhd diagnosis (I def have it) but I was wondering if I should ask to get tested for dyslexia, but I'm having doubts. Basically I do read a LOT. Like a lot of fiction/fantasy (basically reading for fun) tho these past few years I've fully parked myself in fanfiction. But I read a lot. The reason I'm thinking of getting a dyslexia test is cause I do this thing where in math, I constantly mix up numbers (like writing 4427 instead of 4472, etc) so a lot of silly mistakes in my working. I'm in my last year of university, but I'm still getting my lefts and rights mixed up. I usually have a hard time following if someone's giving me multi step instructions (for eg stuff like my mum giving instructions for a simple recipe but unless I write it down it does NOT stick). I have a hard time comprehending my school textbooks and articles, so I tend to look for summaries online instead, but that might be cause I'm lazy idk. It just takes so long to read the textbook and filter the unnecessary parts to get to the meat of the point that I just don't read them anymore. Actually I've never studied off a textbook in my life except for math. Same thing with articles. It's like they write it in this very 'serious' non colloquial English that it takes time for me to comprehend. The thing is I feel like a lot of this might be adhd and/or personality quirks cause I don't really have a hard time reading, and my trouble with spelling isn't really there anymore (mixing b's with d's, etc kinda reduced by the time I was in 4th/5th grade). So yeah, opinions?

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Not sure on relevance to dyslexia, but I figured dyslexics would likely have the most experience with this issue. I usually use tts to read things out (natural reader and read aloud extension on chrome) but because of the strange formatting in digital textbooks it’s basically impossible to use them.

Does anyone know any potential workarounds or TTS readers that might be able to circumvent the insane formatting in textbooks?

Ok, I’ve always struggled w reading but like didn’t mind the shape of the words. I hated looking at letters and writing them but didn’t mind while reading. I recently got glasses and now the letters are actually clear and I didn’t realize they weren’t. Now that I can see the letters I genuinely hate them. So much. I grew up rlly rlly hating letters esp the ones that look alike it rlly confused me why out of all the arbitrary shapes u could make, why make them all the same fucking shape in different directions???? Genuinely I fought my teacher and parents on it for quite some time. I’ve been reading though that dyslexics don’t actually mind letters that that’s kind of a myth so now I’m kinda confused? Like is that not dyslexia? My brain bounces back to the left off letters that face to the left. Ik that’s v specific but idk. I have most all the of the other symptoms, but I’m just wondering if (any) other ppl with dyslexia have this symptom too?

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I will say I have diagnosed autism so that may be affecting me too. I have a super bad memory, like I forget words and I forget the order of the months and the alphabet. Anytime I need to like alphebetize something or write a date I have to go through the months/alphabet and even doing that I still get the order wrong. I also read things wrong a lot? Like ill look at a word and read it as a completely different word. I also have to reread things multiple times to comprehend them. And I struggle with grammar, texting, and spelling, I rely on spell check a lot. Does this seem like dyslexia and if it does should I try to get a diagnosis?

Does anyone know how to find an online EBLI tutor and average cost? Thank you!

Hi, Kurzweil is the program my university used and I can not for the life of me get it to ignore footnotes and headers (I have clicked the thing). This is an issue across all documents. If anyone knows how to fix this or what is going wrong please help. I'm a History major as much as half the page can be footnotes, and doing it manually is driving me insane.

I was recently diagnosed with dyslexia (21F), however, I was diagnosed with a pretty bad speech impediment in Kindergarten, as well as put into ELD class (I grew up speaking two languages). I ended up doing speech therapy for a few years, as well as taking ELD tests every year just to make sure I was caught up with the rest of the kids. What sucks is that ELD tests were way too easy for me, but I struggled significantly with reading/writing compared to all other subjects. I thrived in math, music, and art (much of which didn't really involve significant reading) and the only reason why I wasn't really "suspected" to have dyslexia was because I was doing tutoring and Kumon outside of classes. This allowed me to have significantly more time prepping for materials necessary to succeed.

All this being said, was anyone else diagnosed with other disorders instead of dyslexia when they were younger, or had a speech impediment and dyslexia at the same time? Is it common for people to have both dyslexia and speech impediments?

Does anyone else despise board games, especially ones that require words, memory, speech, reading, etc? I feel like nowadays all board games require some sort of reading/writing component, even just instructions, or reading out loud prompts / responses. I actively try to avoid having to play any type of board game because i'm so scared i'll embarrass myself or be made fun of because I can't pronounce, read, or remember something during the game.

Hey guys, I avoided college for years because of my learning disability. I began a few years ago and have been able to get A’s without doing any readings, but I want to get out of this bad habit, do you guys have any tips to help with reading textbooks?

sorry, not sure how to phrase this as a succint question. The kid i babysit (11) does everything out of order. When he is searching for something through kitchen drawers, he wont go left to right, top to bottom. He will start from the middle. And when he’s doing his homework he’ll do it in a seemingly random order (like its not hardest to easiest, or backwards.) One of our neighbors, who is also dyslexic (close in age) does the same thing. so, i’m thinking it’s related. Is this a documented phenomenon?

I have a writing assignment but every time I sit down to write something I end up just sitting and starring in to space. I’m embarrassed about the final product before I even start. Does anyone have a strategy do get myself to just do it