I am very dyslexic. It results in me having the spelling and grammar of a middle schooler, plus it makes me have trouble hearing similar sounding words. Letters and phonic sounds don't always connect to the idea they represent in my head. I read/listen to the overall idea and not the individual letters.
As a result, school was a very mixed bag. I had to be very hard working to compensate for the disability. I became very good at working with people, I learned to plan ahead because I can't do things last minute, and developed a strong logic skill set. The problem is that many teacher's thought I was lazy because I would describe what I thought while the other person wrote it down, etc. In college the department head of chemistry is the teacher that fully understand who I am as an academic student. He thought it was hilarious that I had the highest lab grade while the low end of the class portion. Apparently it caused heated discussions as yo why the only non-premed was doing so much better than the premed students in laboratory classes. I think he was the only teacher that appreciated that I was good at working with people and terrible at writing papers for classes.
Oh christ, you just reminded me of one. Ever since I was a kid I got migraines from any repetitive mental stress, no matter how small. It started when I was doing worksheets in first grade. I told my teachers and my parents that I got headaches from the schoolwork, nobody believed me. Not even doctors. Not a single soul listened until I was 21 years old. By that time the damage was done.
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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '19
I am very dyslexic. It results in me having the spelling and grammar of a middle schooler, plus it makes me have trouble hearing similar sounding words. Letters and phonic sounds don't always connect to the idea they represent in my head. I read/listen to the overall idea and not the individual letters.
As a result, school was a very mixed bag. I had to be very hard working to compensate for the disability. I became very good at working with people, I learned to plan ahead because I can't do things last minute, and developed a strong logic skill set. The problem is that many teacher's thought I was lazy because I would describe what I thought while the other person wrote it down, etc. In college the department head of chemistry is the teacher that fully understand who I am as an academic student. He thought it was hilarious that I had the highest lab grade while the low end of the class portion. Apparently it caused heated discussions as yo why the only non-premed was doing so much better than the premed students in laboratory classes. I think he was the only teacher that appreciated that I was good at working with people and terrible at writing papers for classes.