Dyslexics Untie!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Or, how I am realising that I may need shock therapy?

So, I have dyslexia. Since I guess I have always had it, I learned a long time ago to just deal with it. I know that when I am typing something, no matter the fact that I watch my fingers when I type to make sure I am hitting the correct keys, I must double- and triple-check before I hit enter. I know that I will 99% of the time swap an initial “s” for “c” and vice versa (example, I will type “come” instead of “some” – funny example, since both are actual words, but even if it’s not an actual word, I do it) so if I type a word that is supposed to start with either letter, I double- and triple-check that word! I know that if you say something to me, while I am looking away, there is a good likelihood that I will have to ask you to repeat it – and I know if I do that, I should be looking at you when you repeat it. I know my limitations, and I adapt.

GAH! All that said, lately, I have noticed that my dyslexia has found a new way to trip me up – in my spoken communication. No joke. We’re not talking about the already-known issue of losing common words (hell, it’s pathetic when you can’t remember the word for face!) – we’re talking full-on nonsense coming out of my mouth.

It’s been happening for about a month. I’ve noticed that rather than searching for the right word, my brain just inserts some random word into the sentence. Last night was the worst so far. While on the phone with a gf with whom I don’t get much chance to speak, it was my son’s bedtime. I sent him to go wash his face and brush his teeth. He comes back into the living room and begins watching television. Since it was past bedtime, I asked “did you brush your teeth like I told you?” No. I didn’t. I asked, “did you brush the table, like I told you?”

Yes, my friends, I asked my son if he had brushed the table. I caught it, corrected it and then got ribbed for a full 20 minutes by my gf as to why on earth I would expect my son to “brush the table.” Ugh.

Honestly, is there any hope? Or will I sound like I have dementia by the end of the year? Maybe I should talk to my doctor? I donno…GAH!!!

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I’ve been noticing a little more of this in my advanced age as well (I’m 26). I don’t know what spurred it. It’s not even major. It’s minor…it’s incredibly minor, but I recognize it when it happens.
Now that I think about it, it could have started much earlier. I used to have trouble between “b” and “d”…also “left” and “right”, so it may be related.

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Funny enough, left and right is easy, East and West not so much. When I give directions, I will say “right of North” and “left of North” – otherwise, I will mess up. I never had the visual thing of mixing up p/q, p/g, or b/d – guess I lucked out there. I also don’t transpose numbers anymore than the average non-dyslexic. My problems are quite literally more about my brain being non-communicative with the rest of me.

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I have dysgraphia, and I also can’t spell. I never had any problems like you describe. Because of my job, I have had a lot of contact with people who have dyslexia, and never heard of it either. So your symptoms sound unusual and interesting.

Congratulations. :slight_smile:

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Gee, thanks. I also have scitopia, perhaps some of my unusual symptoms have to do with that? I don’t know – I am just a weirdo, lucky me! :smiley:

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How many dyslexics does it change to take a light bulb?

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Trhee?

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I fear I am getting senile. Or perhaps all the anethesia from my too many surgeries have ruined my brain. In the past 4 weeks I have put my contacts in the case without adding cleaner two and half times. I awake to find them dried out. Yes, they will rehydrate, but it is just embarrassing. If I had been drunk I would not be as concerned. I would have a different problem, but one I could figure out a solution to. The half time I think concerns me the most. So I get one contact put away and put solution in and then just forget to finish the second one? I sucks getting old.

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Though I’ve never been diagnosed with dyslexia. I tend to do the switching thing but it almost never happens with letters for me. It’s always numbers that trip me up. I can read a number three or four times and I’m sure that I’ve got it right. Then I’ll look again a minute later and I’ve got two of them transposed.

It made engineering school fun, let me tell you.

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Did you hear about the suicidal dyslexic? Threw himself behind a bus.

And then there was the dyslexic agnostic insomniac. Stayed up all night wondering if there really was a dog.

Thanks, try the veal, I’ll be here all week.

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I’m currently doing much better over all, and what I was doing three years ago has stopped. I was trying to type a sentence and something not related would end up on the page. I would try to type “I like you.” and end up with “Eat the purple dog.” All of it was spelled incorrectly of course. I’m happy to recognize choose is not how to spell choice and what letters go with a sound in a word. It’s impossible to sound out a word if you don’t remember that. Slowly my ability to type something besides nonsense is improving. Whoot!

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Technically, this is called dyscalculia.

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That sounds like a dyslexic vampire.

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Funnily enough, the will be a show on this weekend about this subject.
Actually, it’s a pour fart series.

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When I went before the commitee to get my MS, I wrote (and said!) “isocahedron” several times. Pronounced it “eye-SOAK-a-heed-run.”

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Wow! You do what I do. If I don’t check what I am typing, I will do the same thing. One day, while chatting with my husband online, he asked me to not proofread before hitting send – it was scary how little of it made sense. I will be saying in my head “the world is a big enough place” and will instead type out “everyone likes bagpipes with ice cream.” The scary thing is, I am an excellent speller. I don’t have any issues other than the “ie” “ei” thing, you know? I have even found the way to get around that problem – if it looks right to me, it’s wrong. How simple, right?

How have you fixed this? I actually just had a talk with my husband about the increased frequency of the stuff I have been doing and I am going to go to the doctor to make sure there isn’t anything else that might be causing the new stuff – I have never had the verbal thing where the wrong word just comes out. Anyways, I want to know how you have managed to improve your issues, maybe I can work on it, too.

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My daughter is dyslexic and in high school – imagine the teasing she gets when the wrong stuff comes out of her mouth. Actually, the psychologist asked about this symptom when she was being diagnosed, so I guess it is a recognized symptom. We were told there are about 300 different variations of dyslexia, so YMMV.

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I feel for your daughter. I was never tested until I was like 24-25. One of my friends’ mother was doing her doctoral thesis thingy on scitopia vs dyslexia (apparently scitopia often is mis-diagnosed as dyslexia) and she wanted a test subject. She basically went “holy crap, how did you even finish school as messed up as your brain is?” What a compliment :rolleyes:

The truth is that I just learned to adapt, and luckily, while I often have had to search for the right word – this wrong word just coming out thing is really new. I guess that’s why it concerns me – it’s something I have never had to deal with before.