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Dyslexic

I’m dyslexic. I found out about it only when I was in college. Truth is, I didn’t know much about it before than. I had some problems during elementary and high school but I guess no one in our incredible schooling system knew about it either (or care to). Let’s say I wasn’t a bright student most of the times (I had my good years though). Some of my high-school or non-high-school tales may find their way here one day (wink, wink).

Anyway, my dyslexia is kind of mixed, sometimes I may mean one thing and write something similar but different as it was in my previous post where I wrote “feather” instead of “fever”. Sometimes I will write something totally different like “truck” instead of “schoolbag” or something along those lines. The more common mistake however is when my brain is not synched with my hands. Obviously our brain works much faster than our hands (in most people at least) but they are synched so what we write (or anything else we do) will work in a timely manner.

Well, with me, sometimes my brains runs way faster, and when I type, I miss words, sometimes whole sentences. When I read it back to myself, I wonder where that great sentence had gone. One of the most common problems is when I mean to write “can’t” but write “can” instead. Now, I’m used to read everything I write before I do anything with it, not always, but most of the times. I caught myself writing things that look stupid because I miss letters or words.

Not that I need to comfort myself, but I just remembered that I read somewhere that on a grand scale, dyslexics are on average smarter than the non-dyslexics. So tongue out to all of you.

posted by TheBlurredOne at 10:48 AM