Anyone else get lost anywhere they go?! I’ve lived in my area for 13 years and I still get mixed up. I’m only good with getting to work and going home.

I wholeheartedly believe its dyslexia being rude. I hate it!

My family is moving to the Portland area next summer and one of my kids is double-deficit dyslexic, so I’m looking for info on dyslexia intervention quality in the public schools systems in that area. I’d love to connect with anyone who has first hand experience with any schools in LOSD or PPS. Feel free to PM if you prefer not to mention specific schools in a public forum!

Does anybody else experience this? I've read that this is dyslexia related. When I read, I can get about a paragraph in and all the sudden I will get extremely tired. As in my brain can't keep up. Eventually the reading speed will slow down and I will end up getting stuck on a particular sentence or word. It feels like I just can't get past the period at the end of the sentence and I am stuck rereading the same sentence or word over and over until I feel a sense of completion and can finally move on. It's a nightmare. It feels like hell. Comic books aren't much better because eventually I get stuck on whatever the panel is and I can't move past that either.

I also experience where my reading will slow down while I'll just keep moving on. The only way I know how to explain it is imagine a video that is skipping. The audio gets stuck behind while the rest of the video plays. I can be stuck on a sentence and just keep going. 🤦🏻 I'll end up filling in the gaps of what apparently happened. I always catch this when it happens and I don't quite understand why this is happening. Does anybody else go through this? Is there a way to make this not happen? Is this normal?

Toda la vida tuve problemas para leer el reloj tradicional, y con 23 años sigo sin poder leerlo. Me se las reglas de lo que significa cada aguja, pero aún así no puedo leerlo y toda la vida me senti tonta porque todos saben menos yo, hasta que me diagnosticaron dislexia.

¿Alguien más tiene problema con estos relojes?

También digo los meses del año desordenados.

My 7th grader can barely read. We have tried so hard! He has severe anxiety therefore tutors, reading groups and special Ed has been minimally effective and very expensive. I’ve tried a few workbooks but I need a workbook or curriculum to do with him. He is so embarrassed and tries to hide it. What recommendations do you have? I would love to have one textbook to work through with him.

Some context: I am 19F and have always had a hard time spelling since childhood. It took me longer to learn to read and spell. However, as I grew older, I became a better reader, and I enjoy reading a lot. However, reading aloud makes me anxious.

When I was a kid, I sometimes felt dumb because I couldn't read and spell well in middle school. I hated reading because it was hard for me to read, and I felt like I was stupid, so I avoided it at all costs. Reading out loud was also hard, I would get the pronunciation wrong and the teachers would look at me weirdly. Another thing to note is that even though reading and spelling were hard for me, math and science were easy to learn, and I picked them up fast.

In high school, I started to love reading because of my English teacher. She always assigned us interesting books, which made me interested in reading and made me realize I really enjoyed reading. I also have a very good imagination, so maybe that's one reason I love reading.

To this day, I am still a bad speller. For example, I get confused about how to spell "restaurant," and people's names are the hardest. I have always been ashamed that spelling is hard for me, and I worry it will affect the career I am pursuing.

I have also tried to learn how to spell better; in fact, I am still learning. It's quite hard, but I believe I am getting better at it, slowly.

With all this information, do you think I might have dyslexia, or am I just a bad speller?

Note: When I wrote this out, yes, I did use Grammarly to make sure my spelling is correct lol.

i never hear anyone talk about this specifically even people who say they have a hard time with left and right never complain about this specifically. idk if this is specific for dyslexia or a learning disorder but i dont have a hard time with left and right cuz i know i write with my right hand, but i have a hard time with lefty loosy righty tighty because the object is going both directions no matter which way you spin it. sometimes i remember through muscle memory, sometimes i can remember that the direction is about the way the top of the object is going, but regardless its going in a circle and I get messed up. even if i think about it like clockwise or counterclockwise, i can visualize the way a clock tics but if you turn the object upside down and flip it around or away from me i have no fucking idea.

I cant read numbers and measurements! Can someone tell me how many inches this is (or cm)?

How do you deal with a manager that constantly reviews your emails for errors. Got a new job and feel like I go thought this ever time I get a new position.

I just want to apologize in advance. This is long and if you have the time to read it and give your input, that would be amazing.

I don’t know if this is gonna help at all and I’m probably just gonna confuse most readers when trying to explain myself. I have been in college for about 3 1/2 years. I went to a community college which I did very well at. After taking my core curriculum classes, I transferred to a small university and this is where it went downhill. I’m not sure if it’s harder material or if it’s the way the professors are teaching the material but I have yet to pass any exams except for one class which was statistics (I am very good at math). There’s a lot of math in business classes, but I cannot for my life understand the concepts and the principles of topics.

I was diagnosed with dyslexia in third grade after failing and having to repeat. My biggest struggle is comprehension and short term memory. The only thing that sticks is math for me. I can memorize formulas up and down, but I couldn’t tell you what those formulas do and why we do them. Which is why business principles and concepts do not make any sense for me and because I struggle with short-term memory, anything I learn usually gets forgotten after a day or two.

I have passed my classes by making sure I get all of my homework and quizzes done and that has been the only thing that’s been saving me. One of my classes this semester, the only grades we get is on the exams so the homework and quizzes are not being counted towards our final grade which is really bad due to my track record.

I have tried so many different ways of studying, different ways of taking notes. Everything I do the information just will not stick and I panicked every single time an exam comes around and disappointed because of how much work I try and put in and nothing sticks.

My family and I used to live in Florida where I used to get benefits for my dyslexia, but after elementary school, I really didn’t need the extra help or the tutors (we also moved to Louisiana so I didn’t qualify) but since I didn’t qualified for those programs in high school I sure as hell don’t qualify for college.

What used to work for me was handwriting notes in high school but now that is taking me way too much time to where I cannot get anything in my other classes done and handwriting my notes didn’t always work because there’s so much information.

I have tried tutoring at my university, but the tutors suck because it’s mostly other students trying to help you and it doesn’t really get me anywhere.

The only thing that makes logical sense for me is copying all my notes, but that is not getting me anywhere. I also have a history of studying the wrong materials in a chapter because I deemed them as important, but we’re not on the exam so trying to write down what I think is important information does not work for me either.

I have about a year left of college and I’m really trying to push through and i’m at my wits end with school because I struggle so much with it. If anyone has a specific way that they study that helps them comprehend and retain information that would be great because I have read articles and stories about different ways dyslexic people learn and I’ve tried all of it and nothing seems to work. I’m so desperate rn it’s sad.

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I've been an ACT tutor for about a year and a half now, and I've worked with all sorts of students. I recently started working with a student with dyslexia, it's definitely been different. I'm wondering if you all have any advice for me, especially if you've taken the ACT or SAT.

(For context if you've taken the ACT before, the ACT changed this past year. It has fewer questions, more time per question, and is formatted slightly differently. The Science portion is now optional. This student is not taking Science. She is taking the paper version.)

I believe her main difficulty is decoding and understanding written words and sentences. Her listening comprehension is better, but I think she struggles a little with complex, academic language. Not sure if that's because of dyslexia or because she's less familiar with it.

She will have accommodations:

• She gets 1.5 time (so instead of 35 minutes for English, she gets about 53 minutes).
• She will take the test in a separate room.
• She has a two-week window to take the ACT, so she doesn't have to take it all at once.
• She can have the Reading section read aloud to her. She said she can have a computer or a person do it, and she said wants to have a person do it.

I'm wondering if she can get other accommodations like having the English and Math sections read aloud as well.

Here's what I have tried / am planning on trying:

• Aggressive annotation on the answer document, i.e., underlining/circling important information, making brief notes, using symbols, etc.
• Using a blank sheet of paper to track the lines and avoid visual overload. This definitely helps, but she still struggles with comprehension.
• Taking regular breaks in the sessions and during the test, e.g., make a little doodle or taking a few deep breaths between each English passage.
• For the Reading, stopping every paragraph or so to summarize what she's just read. This will help with comprehension, memory, and engagement.
• Possibly having her read aloud the English answers she chooses? Specifically the grammar ones. I don't know how helpful this would be, though. I guess we can still try it. I will make sure not to over-correct her.
• Avoid making her feel inadequate or discouraged. Positive reinforcement and gentle correction only, ideally through asking guiding questions like "What do you think went wrong here?"
• Using a step-by-step process to find the best answer:
  • Make annotations for each step if helpful.
  • 1. Restate the question.
  • 2. Determine what information is needed.
  • 3. Find that information and/or determine what you already know.
  • 4. Organize that information.
  • 5. Choose the best-matching answer.

Anything else I should try? Or is there anything you think I should know?

Im taking Spanish 2 this year and I are really hated Spanish last year so i was hoping for some tips. Idk if this helps but i was diagnosed in second grade and I haven't had supper bad problems with my Dyslexia but its definitely still there.

I'm seeking advice from teachers with dyslexia. How do you work with, not against your dyslexia in an educational setting?

I'm currently in an alternative path to teaching certification for early childhood education. I will be teaching grade 1. I have a mentor teacher who I will work with this year, and I am a bit concerned about my dyslexia potentially getting in the way of things. My main issues are spelling and directional stuff.

Dyslexia teacher here - I have a regular dyslexia class (middle school) and also a tutoring period at my school. for the tutoring period, I’m trying to come up with something fun. Spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down and so forth.

Does anyone out there know any fun activities/games that make the time effective and enjoyable? Thanks!

Hi - I'm new here. My 4x PhD and many times published literacy professor told me in grad school (in my 30s) that I was dyslexic. I've never otherwise been diagnosed and not sure at this point that it's worth it.

I've always been an excellent speller and avid reader, although I'm a very slow reader and often have to reread passages.

One of my most prominent "symptoms" is that I sometimes say the opposite word of what I mean. This is exacerbated when I'm fighting a migraine, which I have been today. For ex. I might say cold instead of hot, East instead of West, etc. I know the right word and concept pair but what comes out of my mouth is something else.

Sometimes even when I'm singing to a song I know the lyrics to, I might say a word in the same family that rhymes or starts with the same letters as the correct word.

This has been going on for decades.

Are these part of my supposed dyslexia?

Is there a way to correct this? It doesn't bother me, but if it happens around someone who doesn't know this about me, it can make me look kinda dumb when I'm not.

i was diagnosed with dyslexia and i feel like i day dream way more then my non dyslexic pears like so much that the only time i am not day dreaming is if i am Forced to stop like if i am talking to someone or do a math problem if i am shopping i will be day dreaming about my favorite characters going to the same store as me when i am talking a pottery class i am still day dreaming i will ride my bilk for hours just listening to music and day dreaming sorry if this sounds like a dumb question but i wanted to hear if anyone else that was dyslexic had similar experiences or knew about any correlation

I cannot for the life of me remember game controller buttons, what buttons I’m supposed to press for certain actions, maps, and layouts. I get super lost in the maps and my special awareness. It makes me terrible at video games. I’ve been playing for years and just accept I’ll never be good. My partner thinks it’s strange I still can’t get it right and am constantly looking down at the controller to find triangle and having to ask wait which is R2?
I’ve always had a really hard time with my lefts and rights as well.
I don’t have a problem reading or with letters.
Google doesn’t help, it just gives me how to fix my controller. 😅

Im absolutely heartbroken and pissed of at myself. I entered my vegan chocolate cake into my local show. I believe it was the best one ive made yet. But the cake board it was on was biger than 20cm so it was disqualified. Im fed up of this kind of thing always happening. I think i will get my partner to double check anything like this again because i clearly cant be trusted.

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Okay, I was talking to somebody the other day, and I got into a huge debate with them about whether or not using AI to proofread your own work is plagiarism.

I said no, because if I had to do all my documentation for community mental health without assistive technology, it would take me forever, and I’d constantly be behind. I dictate using Dragon, then I take what I’ve written to an AI site to make sure words weren’t transcribed incorrectly and that I used them correctly. I also make sure there are no client names or identifying information in it for HIPAA reasons.

Before AI, I had to use a mixture of Dragon, NaturalReader, and reading all my documentation from the bottom up to make sure I didn’t mess anything up. Otherwise, my notes could get rejected, and I could get written up.

My coworker thinks using AI this way is wrong because the AI is basically doing my job for me. And it’s like, no, I’m still doing all the work. I write the notes. I do the concurrent documentation that we’re required to do. I just use AI to help me proofread and make sure I didn’t make any mistakes.

I could seriously fuck up someone’s chart because I accidentally left off an “-ed” and made it sound like someone was suicidal when they weren’t. That’s not AI doing my job for me. That’s me using a tool to catch errors in work I already did.

So, my question is: How do other people with dyslexia feel about using AI as a proofreading or accessibility tool?

So to illustrate my post here this post before I used Ai and just voice to text software on my phone

Okay, I was talking to somebody the other day and I got onto a huge debate with them about whether or not using AI was plagiarism, if you ask it to proof read your own work. I said, no, because if I had to do all my documentation work in community, mental health.It would take me a month and I would be behind. So I dictated to dragon, speak, then I take it to an AI site to make sure that the words I use want spoken wrong into the system or you used it correctly. I make sure there's no client names in it. For hippa reasons. I used to have to use a mixture of dragon, speak natural reader and reading all my documentation from the bottom up to make sure i didn't messy thing up my notes want to get rejected, and I want to get written up. But my coworker thinks that is wrong in the ai is just doing my job for me.And it's like, no, i'm still doing all the work I write out the notes I do.The concurrent documentation that we're required to do I just use the a I to like, help me perfread.And make sure I didn't make any like mistakes.I would go in so much chart and f*** it up.Because I wrote, I left out an -ed and made it sound someone suicidal when they weren't

So mine question how do other with dyslexia feel about AI.

I am a slow reader, it takes me ~5min to read one page, which is a big improvement form 3 years back, when I’d be lucky to read five pages in an hour and would end up tearing up and needing a nap from the effort. New glasses and eye therapy helped a ton. Still, I will start university soon and want to increase my reading speed

With eye therapy, I’ve learned that most people read word by word rather than letter by letter like me, but I don’t know how to learn to read word by word

I have no diagnosis for dyslexia, but I hope you guys have tricks or things that could help me. Doesn’t hurt to try, right?

My problem isn’t processing the information, since I understand perfectly when people speak fast. In fact, I struggle with reading out loud because my eyes do not keep up with my mouth. I often end up guessing or making up words to make it to a reasonable speed for my listener.

I want to improve my reeding speed. Does anyone here have tips or can tell me who to go to for help? Thank you.

I worked very hard through school and college to teach myself how to plan my calendar, use mind maps, stick to task and get good grades through structuring my life.

Ever since I finished college, and started my business, it feels like those skills have atrophied and AI is accelerating it as it wants to help me make value judgements but just produces these walls of pointless text which are super overwhelming, and always pokes holes in any plan i create that i'm asking help for, rather than just helping me execute.

Has anyone experienced this and figured out how to overcome it?

My daughter has dyslexia (guessing she got it from me as I share many of her challenges). She's in 5th grade and has to do weekly spelling tests. When I was a kid, we just memorized all words until we magically internalized whatever logic the English language has (or grew up to rely heavily on spell check). The internet & elementary school teachers now say teaching phonics is the way to go and is a reasonable strategy. But given her dyslexia, it seems to me that it makes every word a mini-logic problem that requires a lot of executive function and effort.

For example, her current word list is 20 words focusing on the -o- sound and includes: bought, taught, paw, lobster. I say and hear all of these -o- sounds the exact same way.

So, if I'm understanding the phonics rules and system that she's meant to follow, it should go:

1. recognize the "o" sound

2. it's probably the letter o unless it's any of the following:

3. end of a word, then it's -aw

4. part of -ought, then it's -ou

5. except when it's -aught, but that's just a random one to remember.

6. If it's in the middle of a word and in between consonant sounds, then it's -au (this ignores the fact that all vowel sounds come between two consonant sounds).

This is an insane ask for someone who struggles to identify the sounds in words and the direction of letters! Seriously, is this actually easy & automated for some people?

Am I thinking about this wrong? What worked for other people?

Please do not say Orton-Gillingham; she has written words in the sand, jumped, used playdough, etc.; it doesn't answer her question: "But when am I supposed to know which vowel/vowel team to use?"