Introduce yourselves

[meebs]

So, although we all might know each other from elsewhere on CF, how about we introduce ourselves and why we are here.

Whether you be a parent or person who knows a person with Dyslexia/dyspraxia or anything related, or you have the conditions(s).

 

[RedTulipMom]

Hello. my name is Karen. I am married to Michael. I have an 18 yr old son Joey with Schizo-Affective disorder. I have a 2 1/2 yr old son LUke that was recently diagnosed PDD-NOS with Dyspraxia. And i am due June 3 with a little girl. I am here to find out more about Dyspraxia.

 

[meebs]

Hello Karen and thanks for looking. Im hoping these forums will be a good way for anybody who needs help or encouragement.

I sure need to know about others.

I will introduce myself properly on monday when i can have net access again



(Ps: What is PDD-NOS may i ask? and congrats on the new baby!)

 

[Abiel]

Abiel (Tracy). Eight year old son provisionally diagnosed. Beginning to think she may have it too!

 

[Barnabas71]

Hi my name is Tony and - yes I suffer with dyslexia. School was a drag. I was so glad when I left, but ofcourse with my lack of formal qualifications I was destined for some years to under take boring and hard manual work. That was until lukiley my dad started up a hi-fi manufacturing company which fortunatly really took off, and this helped alieaviate all the finanshial preashers on me, paying my mortgage and what not.

I had all the I.Q. tests when I was 11 years old, and they allegedly showed an above avarage score even though I could only do about two thirds of the test which was not spelling or mathamatical oriented. But my spelling was, and still is, atroushoures. I have done this post deliberatly with no spelling checks whatsoever so you can all see what a pain -- as well as a humiliation the condition really is. I usually run my medium to biger posts through "word".

Still you CAN make it in life if you suffer in this way, Richard Branson founder and head of Virgin is a perfect example, and Lord Heseltine is another. I now work in bussiness myself, though in a relativly minor capacity, and I find thinking through concepts and stratagys in the way I plan things very easy -- this is common with a dislexic mind I'm told??? I often spot opportunitys which other people miss, so I suppose there is a silver linning, in what is all to often a really grey cloude.

 

[Abiel]

Nice to meet you Barnabas71!

 

[meebs]

Hi my name is Tony and - yes I suffer with dyslexia. School was a drag. I was so glad when I left, but ofcourse with my lack of formal qualifications I was destined for some years to under take boring and hard manual work. That was until lukiley my dad started up a hi-fi manufacturing company which fortunatly really took off, and this helped alieaviate all the finanshial preashers on me, paying my mortgage and what not.

I had all the I.Q. tests when I was 11 years old, and they allegedly showed an above avarage score even though I could only do about two thirds of the test which was not spelling or mathamatical oriented. But my spelling was, and still is, atroushoures. I have done this post deliberatly with no spelling checks whatsoever so you can all see what a pain -- as well as a humiliation the condition really is. I usually run my medium to biger posts through "word".

Still you CAN make it in life if you suffer in this way, Richard Branson founder and head of Virgin is a perfect example, and Lord Heseltine is another. I now work in bussiness myself, though in a relativly minor capacity, and I find thinking through concepts and stratagys in the way I plan things very easy -- this is common with a dislexic mind I'm told??? I often spot opportunitys which other people miss, so I suppose there is a silver linning, in what is all to often a really grey cloude.

Welcome, yes i understand all what you mean (though its a pain when you do spell check and it doesnt understand the word you want to find!). You seem to have a positive mind set about it which is cool.

 

[BigToe]

*snuggles* for all of you.

I do hope more people find this thread and can know they aren't alone here.

One of my cousins has Dyslexia and I know it has been a struggle for him to overcome and not feel stupid as a result of it.

 

[Buttermilk]

Welcome Barnabas71

 

[GodsGirl]

Hello I am GG, some of you know that I have dyslexia and dyscalulia. School was always a struggle so much that D's were ok and C's were like A's for my family for me. They accepted F's as long as I really tried. When I was in college one of my professors mentioned it to me then a friend who was also a professor. I got tested and sure enough. Then I started going to classes for dyslexia and dyscalulia. My dyslexia is better managed than my dyscalulia. I have gotten though alot easier with having the dyscalulia instead of the dyslexia so one at a time type thing.
I read my first series of books last year it was the Narnina Series. I finally read "A Catcher in the Rye. " Not one of my favorites but I got though it and only had help on a couple words.
I do not post alot lately because our house is very busy right now. You are all in my prayers though. I know how tough going though this can be. Parents keep postive you wouldn't be here looking for help if you weren't doing your all.

 

[meebs]

Hello Godsgirl - its nice to hear from you

 

[meebs]

Dyslexic and dyspraxic

I had problems at school, i was actualy deaf for sometime then hearing improved. - i was hyper couldnt concentrate and always got into trouble. i was shy, didnt know how to act around the other kids and got bullied. i learned to speak late in life and tie shoelaces. I taught myself direction and which hand is which and also taught myself train times (24 hour clock - which i work better with now)... this was by focusing.

My coordination fine but balance was bad.

I have difficulty with maths (though i like it). Ok with english in fact good reader up to a certain level (but not the level i should be and actually i do skim read). I do misread and get letters the wrong way round. I do mispell too.

I get easily confused - poor organisation (writing this is hard!), bad handwriting, im easily distracted no focus. im sensitive to light, small sounds (like eating or rusting of paper and pens) in need comfy baggy clothes - mainly trousers - in fact im never 100% comfortable anyway.Im a bad sleeper. I cant stand crowded places or very fast paced environments (though i did manage it in LA one holiday by myself ) cant stand to be touched and need my personal space. I get frustrated easily especially with communication - i often stop and stare into space I lose things easy too and i can be clumsy though this has improved.

the only thing that is helping me improve on all aspects is my karate.. i enjoy it - though the social aspect freaks me out i can cope and now talk to others. and have made good freinds.

this is what i can get of the top of my head. Im thinking of getting extra help for my social anxiety and innability to concentrate and other things but im nervous they will just tell me to go and learn to cope.

Thanks

 

[Paulos23]

Hi, I am dyslexic, but you wouldn't know it by looking at me.

Early on my mother knew there was a chance that I could get it from my father, so she encourage me to read and gave me some early tools to cope with it. But she never told me why I had to do all this extra work.

It wasn't until collage that I was officially diagnosed with dyslexia. When I asked my mother why she didn't tell me, she said I didn't need to know and I would use it as a crutch. She was right. Through my first year of collage I used every program and advantage the collage gave me for my dyslexia, including longer test times. None of it helped and my grades dropped. So I withdrew from the programs and went back to just doing the same old and things picked right back up.

Today, I always have a book in my hand, and I don't really think about it at all.

 

[meebs]

Hi, I am dyslexic, but you wouldn't know it by looking at me.

Early on my mother knew there was a chance that I could get it from my father, so she encourage me to read and gave me some early tools to cope with it. But she never told me why I had to do all this extra work.

It wasn't until collage that I was officially diagnosed with dyslexia. When I asked my mother why she didn't tell me, she said I didn't need to know and I would use it as a crutch. She was right. Through my first year of collage I used every program and advantage the collage gave me for my dyslexia, including longer test times. None of it helped and my grades dropped. So I withdrew from the programs and went back to just doing the same old and things picked right back up.

Today, I always have a book in my hand, and I don't really think about it at all.

Wow - thats kind of cool. Guessing and caught early.

I was diagnosed at 24 -school thought i was an attention seeker (for someone with a social anxiety that sounds weird but never mind!).

 

[Paulos23]

Wow - thats kind of cool. Guessing and caught early.

I was diagnosed at 24 -school thought i was an attention seeker (for someone with a social anxiety that sounds weird but never mind!).

Well, I think the key to any learning disability is catching it early and training the child to deal with it and think that is normal. Else when it does become a problem it gets harder to prove due to kids that use it as an excuse even when they don't have it. It really should not be an excuse, but it can mean extra work. (Even for the teacher, who probably doesn't want to deal with it).

 

[Abiel]

Well, I think the key to any learning disability is catching it early and training the child to deal with it and think that is normal. Else when it does become a problem it gets harder to prove due to kids that use it as an excuse even when they don't have it. It really should not be an excuse, but it can mean extra work. (Even for the teacher, who probably doesn't want to deal with it).

This is so true. My lad started to struggle at school when he noticed his peers were writing so much better than him- his frustration increased, and eventually he stopped trying. Hopefully we are now at a turning point.

 

[meebs]

yes caught earlier the better sadly

im scared of going to the docs for extra help (in case im turned away) but i feel i have no extra option, college help isnt working and unlike Paolo going back to normal conditions doesnt help as they didnt help in the 1st place!

 

[Barnabas71]

Thanks to all for your kind warm welcomes

I think it can be overcome to a degree but writing is always a bit difficult for me. As I said in my CF profile I had to do a lot of very hard/boring manual work for some years becouse of my lack of formal qualifications.

I have just published a 23 thousand word website all about holidays in a region of Spain. I started it at the end of June last year and it has been a lot of hard graft, but am glad I got there in the end. My family were supprised at the end result -- there also kindly re-checked the spellings for me though I had checked it with the software I was using. My sister's university thesis was only 12 thousand words!!! So it shows what someone with deslixia CAN achive if they put their mind to it. It just takes that much longer than everyone else.

Just stick at it is my advice

 

[cassie121]

Yo,
My name's cassie. I have a learning disability that falls in several categories. I have problems with motor skills particularly fine,bilateral control, and visual motor skills i also have a disability in reading and writing. However I'm twice exception .

 

[meebs]

Yo,
My name's cassie. I have a learning disability that falls in several categories. I have problems with motor skills particularly fine,bilateral control, and visual motor skills i also have a disability in reading and writing.

hello and welcome

However I'm twice exception .

im lost on this bit!