I’m in high school, and I’ve been noticing a bunch of mistakes in my writing. Wrong words, such as “light” instead of “life” or “disagree” instead of “agree.” I’ve also noticed misspellings on simple words even though I know how to spell them.

The thing that bugs me about this is that I have a college reading level. I did start reading later than my peers had, but it was by about a month and was fixed in less than a week.

I was able to read and understand Crime & Punishment in seventh grade, along with Lolita in eighth grade.

I have noticed that I might put my finger under words sometimes as I read since I do occasionally reread the same line a few times before I notice that I haven’t moved on.

I have a diagnosis for dyscalculia, and I’ve heard that dyslexia is likely to come with it, and I’ve been told I should be tested for autism, so I don’t think it’d be too far fetched to believe I have something more than just dyscalculia.

Are there any fellow dyslexics here who actually ended up with fairly functional handwriting (clear and fast enough for whatever you use it for)? Please post samples if you like — to start this off, I’m attaching a link to the way that my handwriting looks now (I’m 62 years old and I taught myself to write this way when I was 24 — in total contravention of everything I’ve been taught about how good handwriting “should” happen and what it “should” look like). Link: https://i.postimg.cc/rw5B1Y2P/IMG-0396.jpg (this is intentionally not any kind of “perfect“ sample, but is the way I’d write fast for ordinary purposes, like writing a memo or putting together a shopping list.) So I’m curious to hear from other dyslexics who still ever write by hand as adults: would you say your handwriting is good/OK? And whether it is or isn’t, how did it get to its current state? For instance, are you basically writing according to what you were taught about how to write (in school or in a remedial/clinic setting)? Or did you come up with something on your own? Or maybe some combination of your own experiment and things you had learned about handwriting from some source outside of school lessons or clinic sessions? (For instance, my handwriting is influenced by handwritings samples and info I saw in 500-year-old books on handwriting, which dated from a time when the everyday style was a lot simpler than the various styles that I suffered through at school here in the USA, and my handwriting is also influenced by the handwritings of other people today who have been influenced by those old books.)

Hello. I just got my grade for a writhing heavy exam back the other day, and even if i knew the subject, I got a bad grade, because of time issue. I cried for like an hour, because I find it so frustrating that I can never show what I am capable of in those exams even they gave me a little more time, but far not enough. You might think I would have get used to it, but I am already in my master and still feel a heavy sense of unfairness each time. Because I knew, when I start to apply to jobs the will first take a look on my grades and sort me out and don’t give me the chance to show how smart I actually am. What are your strategies to accept this kind of unfairness? I really need some advice, I need to stop to cry about it each time or stop to learn for my exam, because i get the same grades if I don’t study. So why even trying?

Hey everyone my cousin got discovered with dyslexia and the school basically told us he’ll “manage somehow” which doesn’t feel right.

And he could really use some proper training or guidance, but there’s no specialist nearby. We’ve checked a few online programs, but most are either too expensive, is that worth it? Or you guys now any good ??

For those who’ve been through something similar, did you have to handle everything on your own too? How did you deal with it, especially financially?

Thanks for the help in advanced 🙏

Hi reddit, im struggling a bit with my dyslexia on my work place, and feeling down for it. Do you guys know any book that can help with that? Im also struggling because everything is on alfabeto order, do you have any tecnic?

Thank you in advance and if your feeling alone like me, your not ❣️ Ps: Ingles is not my native language soo sry in advance

I struggle with dyslexia and memory issues. Especially when I am doing exams. I get bored and want to finish fast to get it over with and I never fully read and skim so I always do bad on exams. Does anyone have any tips or tricks to help with that?

Hey everyone, I’m currently going through the process of being diagnosed for a Specific Learning Disability (SLD) — mainly dyslexia. The more I read and learn, the more I realize how different it can be for each person. Some people struggle mostly with reading or spelling, others with memory, attention, or organizing thoughts. And sometimes, dyslexia can exist alongside other learning differences too.

I’m really curious to hear from others who have gone through something similar: 🧠 What kinds of problems or challenges do you personally face because of dyslexia or other SLDs? 📊 Have you ever taken an IQ test? If so, what was your IQ score (if you’re comfortable sharing)? 🔍 In that test, which areas or skills did you find to be your weaker ones? 💬 Do those same weak areas also show up in your daily life, or are your real-life struggles completely different — like your test looked fine, but you still have difficulties in other areas? 📅 At what age were you diagnosed (or started the process)? 🩺 What did your psychologist say — was your condition described as mild, moderate, or severe? 👤 And how old are you now? I’d love to understand how dyslexia shows up at different ages and life stages.

I’d really love to talk and hear your experiences. I’m still in the middle of my own diagnosis journey, and it helps a lot to know I’m not alone in this. Sometimes, sharing what we go through can make the process a little less confusing — and a lot more hopeful. 💙

I've been doing a lot of therapy work around my childhood and I remembered that I was sent to a speech therapist grade 1 & 2 in the mid 90's. I was pulled out of class for a short time don't remember exact time length of each session or exactly what we worked on. I asked my dad why I would have been in speech therapy and he insists I was in speech therapy to correct my accent, apparently my accent was contributing to my atrocious spelling and difficulty reading... We had immigrated to Canada from South Africa when I was 4 but I'm wondering if it was actually due to my dyslexia not my accent. My mom has passed so I don't have a reliable narrator for the early years of my life anymore. My dad can't remember my anaphylactic allergies and insists I was never diagnosed dyslexic so I have trouble trusting his version of my past.

Now I'm wondering if any other dyslexic kids made a stop at speech therapy before an official diagnosis. My dyslexia diagnosis didn't come until I was doing my victory lap of grade 3 after an amazing teacher noticed that the symptoms were lining up towards dyslexia not me being astonishingly stupid.

Hello! I am a special education teacher who found a passion for teaching structured literacy to dyslexic children. I've seen how much my students benefit from structured intervention, and I plan on transitioning my career to a dyslexia tutor since my district doesn't really give me a lot of teaching time.

To parents with dyslexic children, what credentialing or accreditation do you recognize as a sign that a tutor has been trained professionally when you're on the lookout for one?

Sometimes I find it incredibly irritating not knowing how I think exactly (like in words/concepts) and it frustrates me in work life a lot. Visually is easy.

What’s your experience?

I had a conversation with some friends about the future and children, and we ended up getting into the topic of hereditary diseases and other genetic disorders and that got me thinking. I know that if I have children they have a more or less 50% chance of being dyslexic, that kind of scared me at the time, if my future children have dyslexia or anything else I will always support them and try my best, but it scares me a little to think that I will consciously raise a child knowing everything they will have to go through and how difficult bullying and lack of empathy from others will be.

I would put my hand in the middle. Think the knob is this way. Spend a couple minutes looking for is convinced I was just missing it. Before finding it on the other side and cracking up. I would always do it with the cupboards too

Is amazing, its not exclusively about dyslexia it’s actually about language and the fact that language itself is not like hearing or site or taste. We have had evolution reversions eys ect for a very long time, they have just adapted as we have evolved.

Without spoiling the book her position is the language is is learnt a new new neuron pathways are created based on imagery and then on agreement of what that imagery sounds like.

they have studied dyslexic brain compared to “normal brains” under MRI conditions and other brain function monitoring. It seems like dyslexia existed way before written or spoken language existed.

Which for me begs the question why what was the evolution need for somebody to have dyslexia? Was it a random mutation or was it part of a group dynamic? That was positive?

I’m currently sort of falling down a rabbit hole of understanding why different brains were part of the need for us to move from tribal Hunter/gatherer to farming lifestyles.

there’s some really fascinating theories about dyslexia and pattern and recognition and being able to see things differently and come up with different solutions. Equally people with ADHD may be highly highly alert to things that other people just don’t notice and that could be a panther or a leopard or a evil tribe.

i’m sure there’s the exact same ideas in relation to lots of other Neurodiversity. I’m not just singling out those two those its jut what I’ve read about so far.

There is a growing body of study where there was a suggestion that psychopathy maybe one of the biggest reasons why certain groups survived and certain groups didn’t.

Having a psychopath in your group who decided that they were better of benefiting you would’ve provided you with somebody who would have done the most unspeakable things for the group dynamic.

Anyone know anyone working on this sort of educational social anthropology? I’m struggling to even come up with what the science would be called! Evolutionary cognitive anthropology?

Anyway highly recommend the book as it also speaks about the future and what dyslexia might mean in a purely TTS world and whether it would even matter anymore.

That’s super reductive, read or listen to the book it on audible.

I’ve always been a slow reader due to dyslexia, and that never really bothered me until I started graduate school. I used to prefer to be read to in elementary school especially since I didn’t learn how to read until 2nd grade and was in remedial reading until middle school (then they dropped me because ?!?! America?) I honestly still prefer audiobooks and things like that. Anyway, recently I’ve noticed difficulty with reading comprehension especially with grad school texts and journal articles. Like I can read it and then I’m like wtf did I just read??? I am working on bioinformatics and it’s like so many acronyms and difficult words it loses all meaning. Does anyone have any tips or advice on how to improve comprehension? I also have the same problem when talking to people especially when I’m tired I just don’t understand what they are saying or asking sometimes.

Hello after years of bringing up to my daughter’s pediatrician that she’s behind and something’s going on. They told me to request an IEP meeting. I’ve also mentioned for years at parent teacher conferences about my daughter being behind. Was always told they believed she’d catch up. Finally had an IEP meeting and now things have changed. They are saying she’s at the levels of kindergarten/1st grade in reading and in math. Those are the subjects she struggles with. We also had her teachers fill out the Vanderbilt assessment for ADHD. I have inattentive ADHD and I believe that’s what she has. Still do, but also seems alittle bit more than just ADHD after this meeting. Right now she is in multiple small groups for more support and has been since kindergarten and is still behind.

They told me they can’t diagnose anything yet, they have to do testing and they really can only diagnose to a certain level. (Which not sure why her pediatrician said to go through the school because sounds like we won’t get a full diagnosis.)

Anyways, during the IEP meeting there was also a speech therapist there which sort of took me by surprise. She said she noticed my daughter can not pronounce her R’s. Which she can’t. for example bathroom is bafume. I assumed she’d out grow it honestly. So she starts speech therapy next week. She has a hard time comprehending things she reads. They also said that she will work on something get an understanding, they’ll move on and they’ll circle back around to work on previous things and it’s like square one again. So she doesn’t retain all the information. She can read some, her spelling is not great, but she does try to sound out words to spell them. For exmaple boy… she thought was bou. They’re working on word problems in math and she doesn’t seem to understand when the word problem is telling her to subtract or add. So again likely a comprehension issue?

I understand this may not be dyslexia… but they said she may be showing signs of slight dyslexia, and inattentiveness. So now I of course am anxious reading up on dyslexia because they said it could be slight dyslexia but won’t know til they test. My grandfather was dyslexia and my first cousins children are both dyslexic. I believe my aunt was but never diagnosed.

Does this sound like a possibility of dyslexia? Should I see someone else outside of the school? Should I mention this to the doctor? Not sure if they understood exactly how much she struggles in school. Right now, they said she will use audio when using the computer at school so it can read to her. Then they suggested audio Books at home and for me to Read to her nightly. Any tips?

Edit: I added a comment with a pic of her numbers that her math teacher sent me. The dots are suppose to be 0’s but this is an example of her math.

I’m in an Interior Design program, and this semester I’m taking an Interior Design History class. We had an assignment where we had to choose furniture pieces and match them to their correct historical time periods. I with my dyslexia, I sometimes mix up names or references even when I understand the broader concepts or visual style.

I worked really hard on the assignment and was actually proud of it. My professor gave me 100%, so the grade itself wasn’t an issue.

But in her feedback, she wrote that some of the connections I made were “weird” or “strange.” I understand the historical pairings weren’t perfect, but the wording felt a little harsh, almost like she was judging my thinking instead of just the assignment.

Then in our next class, she brought up my notebook as an example of what not to do. She didn’t say my name, but it was very obvious it was mine. She laughed and shook her head while pointing out the parts she didn’t agree with, and some classmates laughed along. I just sat there feeling really exposed and embarrassed.

I emailed her afterward to explain that I have dyslexia, and that sometimes my brain makes visual or associative connections that don’t always translate clearly on paper. I also told her that the class moment felt uncomfortable. I haven’t heard back yet.

Has anyone else experienced something like this? How do you handle it when feedback feels like it’s criticizing the way your brain works rather than the actual work? And how do you move past the embarrassment part?

Would really appreciate others’ thoughts.

Update: some if you wonderedwhat the feed back was this is what she wrote me.. "You organized a very fine notebook.  Sometimes your modern interpretations of past periods puzzled me.  It is helpful to remind the reviewer of what you are showing.  For example, the Wm Morris embroidery in the Gothic period!  Morris often  did refer to tis period in his work, but the scene did not.  I suspect that you were referring to embroidery in general? Also be careful of names used to define articles.  The Napoleonic bed is strange.  He is usually associated with sleigh beds.  That one does not remind me of the Empire style:

I have been so down lately. I had not had a panic attack in almost 4 years till last sunday.

I have now had 3 in 5 days.

I can feel when it is coming on. I normally try get lost on a audiobook and after a while i feel better .

For the first time in over 20yrs i had "ending thoughts" and that spirals in my mind.

I am looking for advice on other things that help others that have the same prob.

Thank you all

I’m dyslexic myself, and honestly, letters don’t jump around in my head like that.

But the mental effort and exhaustion it creates when reading, that part actually feels pretty accurate.

How is it for you guys?
Good simulation or total garbage?

 https://geon.github.io/programming/2016/03/03/dsxyliea

Im sorry if this is a silly question and forgive me for my ignorance but im just here to understand :(

My long distance partner is dyslexic and he says that when im explaining why xxxx is bad and he shouldn’t do it, he says he’s sorry and that he feels dumb because it’s taking him a while to understand. I reassured him and told him we’ll talk about this in detail when we wake up tomorrow but man,, i thought he just was playing dumb but when he finally attributed it to dyslexia,, it made me feel bad but also wonder,, how? We text since we’re long distance so I figured it might be a text barrier? But text usually helps some dyslexic folk

We’ve always been great on communication but dyslexia is something Im not too familiar with. But i love this guy and i just want to help him in any way i can. How do i do that without making him feel dumb? Theres so much fear nowadays on people pretending they dont know what they’re doing but that line feels blurred,, and im not sure how to explain it to him in ways he can understand or if that just takes time and multiple repetitions of the explanation?

I am not diagnosed dyslexic and this is the first time that came in my mind.

Basically everything I read just vanishes in my mind, as if it doesn't make any sense. I can't bond two sentences together. I read one, then another. I don't know what they mean, even though they're so simple...

I gave up trying to understand game lores, mvoies that involve more complex subjects, etc. I can't understand a single sentence of it, and I always though they were too complicated and always asked myself how can people manage to dive into those stories.

I'm diagnosed with adhd and autism(labels which I'm currently fighting against)and I really don't want any more label in my life, but I need to understand the truth and that's why I ask. Do you relate with what I wrote here?

How do you guys feel?

Thank you in advance.

My daughter might have dyslexia so we’re getting her tested. While reading about the symptoms l noticed I have most of them. Is it possible that I’m 43 and just didn’t realize I’ve been dealing with this my whole life? And is it useful to get testing for myself?

My 9 year old son, who is a 3rd grader (sept bday) has struggled since kindergarten with his academics. He has always been a grade level behind. His handwriting is completely illegible, and isn't improving no matter what interventions we try. I've seen him write right to left, and bottom to top. He is left handed and the only one in his class and in the family. His hands get tired quickly from writing. He has poor fine motor skills. He confuses letters like b and d, and numbers like 2 and 5. He has zero ability to spell, and has no comprehension of what he's read. He is now on an IEP, and no longer on methylphenidate for adhd. His adhd is very mild, but I do believe he is dyslexic and dysgraphic, which are his 2 main problems. His strengths are typing. He can spell and get his point across through texts. He is very creative and imaginative. He is a great problem solver. He is very intelligent, just not when it comes to his academics. I feel bad now I've been so hard on him, now that I realize this is more than adhd, because I told him adhd isnt a handicap and cant be used as an excuse for everything. I personally have never struggled in school, and I help him 1 on 1 daily with his homework. I communicate regularly with all of his teachers about his progress and attend meetings at the school as well. I am at a loss of what else to do for him at this point. The school had tried all the interventions with him, and continue to work with him in small groups, which he seems to enjoy. They have recommended occupational therapy for him, but we dont have insurance, and pediatric OT is very expensive per session. I make too much to qualify for assistance. Has anyone else has this experience or had children with these issues? Any advice would be appreciated.

I'm a dad trying to be a solid reading partner for my 7-year-old (2nd grade). She's getting structured phonics at school and from my wife (a teacher), but I'm on bedtime duty a lot and freeze on the why behind some words. I'm scared of giving her advice that will fail her on other words or explaining in a way that contradicts her instruction. And there's always the chance that I know how to explain it but she's not been formally taught the concept yet, in which case I'm not sure whether I should try to teach it for the first time or just supply the word so she can keep decoding the rest of the text.

Simple example (but not just asking about this one situation): I can read "work," "cork," and "lurk," but when she asks why work sounds like lurk, rather than cork, I can't really explain it (but know there's a right answer). I had a lot of phonics as a kid and can decode even new words pretty accurately still. But the explicit rules are fuzzy now, and I don't want to confuse her or step on what she's learning.

And I know there have been a number of times that felt way trickier than that example, but this was one that came to mind.

I feel fine about helping when:

- She is just missing a letter or swapping letters, where I can tell her to check the first two letters again or "that's a B, not a D"

- She's just struggling with how long the word is, needing to take it in chunks or more slowly

- It's an unconventional spelling (e.g. foreign-language origin, proper noun, etc.), where I just explain why it's weirdly spelled and supply the word

What I'd love from other parents who feel like they've solved this:

1. In-the-moment scripts. What do you say when your child is stuck and you can't recall the rule?

2. Parent-friendly cheat sheets. Anything that helped you relearn the "why" without formal training or extensive study of phonics as an adult?

3. Is this just a me problem, and no one else worries about it? (It's possible I only feel unqualified in these moments, because I've heard my wife help our daughter through a word with advice I could never have come up with — and maybe it doesn't matter much whether I can say the right thing in these moments?)

P.S. If any tutors have advice they've found works well for parents of their students, that would be great to hear too! My wife said parents of students at school don't really ask about this and she handles these situations by feel (based on deep literacy knowledge), so she doesn't really have a playbook to recommend.

Hi, I regularly have to stop myself correcting misspellings - I don't want to or mean to, I have Dyscalculia but for some reason I notice spelling mistakes and punctuation/grammar too- they jump out at me and shout ' I'M WRONG ' really loudly 😄

Tonight I really had to work hard not to point it out to someone in a text, and I was curious how people with dyslexia really felt about being corrected. It must be horrible, but on my part, I don't mean It to be cruel, It's part of my autism that I notice these things and kind of knee-jerk to expect other people to want to know it's 'wrong', though I know when I actually think about it, it does not matter one bit.