Which of the above three have you personally experienced?
This is pursuant to a line of argument going on in the Dyslexia thread in GD.
Hrm, is there a way to edit the poll? I meant to have a ‘none of the above’ option…
Is done.
Those and more. I wrote my b’s and d’s the wrong way around, and put the tails of my g’s and j’s the wrong way around as well, as well as other issues. I spent a lot of time writing out lines and lines of letters, trying to teach my brain how to do it, I guess.
None of the above - I think I remember having some problems with b and d, but none of the poll options.
I can’t remember a time when I couldn’t read fluently. I taught myself before I started school. I don’t recall any writing difficulties. My elementary school was very big on writing so I feel like I would have remembered if it caused me any regular sort of problem.
Interestingly to the debate, I was late to speak. My parents had me evaluated at some point because they were so concerned – I may be getting this wrong but IIRC I was almost two and had a 20-word vocabulary – it was determined that there was nothing amiss. Eventually, I began speaking quite normally. (and now I won’t shut up 
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When I learned cursive, I had a tendency to draw an extra hump on the letter “M”. Does that count? I never had trouble distinguishing it from “N”.
The only one I experienced was the first but it got solved in about three minutes, so I don’t think it counts.
I said I did all, but aside from the misreading of words, which happens with some regularity, I don’t really remember the others. I learned to write my letters when I was three, and looking back on my first efforts, there were legibility issues. I believe this is perfectly normal, but it isn’t anything I struggled with for very long.
The country/county thing really stunned me. This is somehow special? I know I have no difficulties in reading whatsoever but it happens to me all the time. It’s just a thing.
Re. “country/county”, I think the issue is whether it’s something which you correct yourself or something persistant. The first case is not a problem, the second is.
I had a coworker whose name was Paco and who mixed a and o, which I think aren’t just the most common vowels but the most common letters, in Spanish. He’d be reading his own name off a presentation he’d prepared himself and read it as either Paca (Francine or “bale” as in hay) or as poco (a small amount) - and wouldn’t see where the problem was until someone made him try to spell out what was on the screen.
None of the above. I never had the slightest problem with reading, writing or spelling (math was another story). My kids are turning out the same way.
As an adult I still have problems with N’s. I would probably get better at it if I wrote more but the truth is that I write less because of problems like this so I get even more out of practice.
I have a little trick to remind me how to do cursive “b” and “d” correctly. They look just fine when typing though.
When I was teaching math in grad school I had a phase where every time I went to write a 5, an 8 came out. So I develped a kind of hiccup in my writting where I paused (ever so slightly) to collect myself before a 5.
Reading and writing are my best thing, so I’ve never had trouble with any of that. Now math? That’s a different story.
I took to writing and reading quickly and easily as a kid, I can’t remember having any difficulties. I read unusually fast, though, so I sometimes ‘misread’ word and I’m sure I’ve mistaken county for country and vice versa, so I chose it in the poll. I always catch those kind of mistakes quickly though (usually it’s obvious by the time you get through the next couple sentences that it doesn’t make sense).
FWIW I always struggled with math and was diagnosed with a mild learning disability when I was 13. Often called ‘dyscalculia’.
I was left handed and forced to write right handed. That led to horrible penmanship. I mirror wrote in first grade. Bad speller even today.
Thank goodness my love of reading overcame any mild dyslexia. I never have issues reading.
Me, too. Still do, in fact. I often have to pause when I’m writing (not typing) something to think through which way a b or d faces.
I learned to read when I was four and a half years old, and don’t remember having any difficulties. My older sister was learning to read, and I’d look over her shoulder as she put her finger under each word as she said it, and I just kind of inhaled the ability to read from watching her.
I used to, but then I got better at tying knots…
::d&r::
I’m thinking that many of us may not remember doing it if we did it when we were first learning to read and write. Of those who have had children older than first grade, how many remember their kids doing any of those things?
All of mine. Three out of four became excellent readers, one okay but doesn’t love it. One bloomed, the oldest, late but then jumped several grade levels all at once.
I have to double and triple check the word to see if it’s county or country. Every. Single. Time. Gah.
Other than that, no problems.
I learned cursive by copying my older sister’s writing. To this day, I draw the cursive capital I counter-clockwise instead of the intended clockwise.
My other handwriting problems include
- way too small. (One grade-school teacher fixed this; I think it was different one than she who fixed my left-handedness.)
- illegibility. My r’s and v’s look identical, meaning I sometimes have trouble interpreting a math formula I wrote myself minutes earlier. :smack:
My big problem these days is writing homophones. Not just the obvious “their” for “there” but mismatches as bizarre as “values” for “vowels”. (I caught that one previewing an SDMB post.)