As someone who STILL can't tell you the order of the months, and who wants to CRY when she's asked to multiply things without a calculator, I'd like to say fuck-you-very-much to Mr. Graham Stringer. And he obviously didn't do his fucking homework since dyslexia doesn't effect just reading. I had to go to a special afterschool program to address my dyslexia issues and in the 80s they only really worked on reading. They hadn't made the connections yet to math and sequences and handwriting and spacial awareness. I've worked my ass off to develop spacial awareness and hand eye coordination.
Oh and our mythical ailment isn't always a bad thing either. We're able to see problems in 3D instead of 2D which makes us wonderful people to have on a problem solving team. We'll come up with solutions you don't think about. Learning French is difficult but American Sign Language? While you're struggling to remember the different grammarical sequences we'll be busy making deaf friends because we GET IT.
And dyslexic people? We tend to be smart. Because we felt like morons in school, a lot of us come up with solutions to hide our "stupidity". Personally I memorized the SHAPES of words and I'd guess the word based on the context. I've known other people who would memorize passages in books to prove that they could read too. Despite feeling like an absolute idiot (even today) because someone says "I'll meet you at quarter to 3" and having no idea what that means. Or having to really concentrate to read an analoge watch, or having to ask the embarassing question "what month comes after March?" We're NOT idiots and we weren't taught wrong. Our brains just work differently.
So to Mr. Stringer who complains about the "dyslexia industry" (like there's a lot of money to be made teaching kids how to read using little colored blocks), fuck you, fuck you, fuck you very much.
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Oh and our mythical ailment isn't always a bad thing either. We're able to see problems in 3D instead of 2D which makes us wonderful people to have on a problem solving team. We'll come up with solutions you don't think about. Learning French is difficult but American Sign Language? While you're struggling to remember the different grammarical sequences we'll be busy making deaf friends because we GET IT.
And dyslexic people? We tend to be smart. Because we felt like morons in school, a lot of us come up with solutions to hide our "stupidity". Personally I memorized the SHAPES of words and I'd guess the word based on the context. I've known other people who would memorize passages in books to prove that they could read too. Despite feeling like an absolute idiot (even today) because someone says "I'll meet you at quarter to 3" and having no idea what that means. Or having to really concentrate to read an analoge watch, or having to ask the embarassing question "what month comes after March?" We're NOT idiots and we weren't taught wrong. Our brains just work differently.
So to Mr. Stringer who complains about the "dyslexia industry" (like there's a lot of money to be made teaching kids how to read using little colored blocks), fuck you, fuck you, fuck you very much.