Same story for most of us over the age of 50. Schools didn't pick up on Dyslexia / ADHD or any artistic spectrum. You was classed as "Thick and stupid then put in the "Dunce Class" and people would describe you as "A problem child or slow Lerner or he is just a active child" So you grow up thinking you are and not till you are a lot older do you find out, that you are not these things. In my 30s I found out I had dyslexia, 40s diagnosed with Depression and 50s confirmed I have ADHD in 2022. Taken almost 2 years to get on to medication for the ADHD and now starting to address my Dyslexia. When you tell others you have these, they are shocked, because your spelling, gramma and comprehension is so good. They have no idea how long it took me to get it right and if they saw the first attempt, they would never guess it was from me. I have always been good at sports, art, photography, seeing things others don't, visualisation, imagination and creative in finding new ideas, but I cant put them down on paper, yes I know we use a laptop now lol, but to document them is too much for me to cope with. My children, I have 4, only the youngest female has Dyslexia, ADHD and Aspergers. All others have no signs of anything. How do I know, because both my younger daughter and I left school with no qualifications but all the other children, all went to college then University and all have Degrees, 1 child even has a PHD in ADHD in adults and lectures at Cambridge and Oxford. It is still hard to do most things, like comprehension and we have great avoidance skills to get out of them.
I have heard more talk about Dyslexia in the last couple months than my whole 79 years. I am Dyslexic and Aphantasic from birth. Although I knew few in the U.S. with Dyslexia, I have 4 friends in Ecuador, all professional people. When I was growing up no one knew about Dyslexia, so I ended up with glasses. I do not agree with most of what I hear and I am so amazed at so many interpretations of Dyslexia. But every Dyslexic I know is different. My letters moved and faded in and out. And I still reverse numbers. At 18 I started to train my eyes. Each Friday night I would stop at the book store and pick a book off the New York Time Ten Best Seller list. I made my self read at lease one book a week. I was actually memorizing the English and like you mentioned, words became pictures to me. Although to it took lots of training, I needed to read to get a good college education. I have a degree in psychology and law and two minors in accounting and computer science. AT 79, I still take college classes on line, which is a habit. To keep my licenses and certifications while working I needed 22 learning credits every other year. I am addicted to learning. I do read backward and I can ready upside down. About 6 months ago was the first I needed glasses for distance and still read without the use of glasses. I believe that without Dyslexia and Aphantasia I would not have had such a successful life and traveled the world. I created and ran two companies to help elderly who had been exploited, abused and/or neglected. After being oncall 24/7 for 20 years straight, at 68 I moved to South America and have a great townhouse in a tourist town on the side of a volcano. I hate phones and rarely carry one, but still keep 3 computers active. Never in my 79 years did I look at Dyslexia or Aphantasia as a handicap. More as rewards.
Hi Marlene, thank you for sharing this. We agree with you that dyslexia has many positive rewards and that we should focus more on those. With this movie we intend that people understand dyslexia better and see it as a phenomenon that is provided by evolution to make our society better. We flourish by diversity!
I read Upside down. I cannot any more. They worked really hard with me to read right side up. I also have more audio problems with letters and numbers. Physically they don't fade in and out but in my hearing they do.
I can read right-side-up, upside-down, and sideways. Lately, I've been entertaining myself in fast-food lines by reading through the signage attached to the windows. What is that, inside-out? Reading books is mechanically trying, but understanding the text is easy. My vocabulary has been very high since the 5th grade or so. My spelling always lags far behind my reading ability.
Hello Marlene, Love, Love, Love your story. Maybe you can help me. A brief history of The Todd, that's me.. Born and raised in California. Parents divorced at 13. My brother and I lived with mom. Graduated high school, barely, joined the Navy to be able to go to Europe, a long time dream. Got a medical discharge after two years in the Navy, never left the U.S. Stayed in The South, Va. S.C., N.C. and Nashville for around 35 years. Watched a show on the Travel Channel about 5 countries in SE Asia. 6 months later, 1st Nov. 2011, at 49, alone, knowing no one where I was going and having never been out of the US, I flew from Seattle to Hanoi VN. and spent the next 6 months backpacking through Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia.....with the highlight being I got a job teaching high school students in Bangkok.....LOVED it!!! I was SO hooked!!! Never realized I was a closet adventurer. Fast forward to Jan 3rd 2023. I flew from Seattle to Manila Philippines, 2 weeks, HCMC, VN. and Dalat VN. 3 weeks. Phnom Penh 7 days, Siem Reap, 2nd time 1 week. Then onto Bangkok 2nd time 1 week. Then to Chiang Mai where I would spend 8 wonderful months. Couldn't find work teaching so...... Siem Reap I went. Got a job teaching math, English, geography and science for 2nd graders at an international school. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it. Hardest job I've ever had. I'm 62 now. My question is this, I have wonderful Khmer student, Sovanjeud(French)i, her mom loved French. 8 years old, spoke excellent English, if u spoke with u her u would think she was a native English speaker. Very intelligent and a wonderful artist. I told my class from day one that yes I would be teaching all the subjects mentioned before, but my main focus would be teaching them to read and speak English to the best of their ability. And I quickly realized that that meant reading along side of them everyday. Correcting every mistake they made. At first I was like "no way" this is just too much damn work. But as I said previously, I realized this is the ONLY way I have to improve there English. I told them that my reason for really pushing reading and speaking English is because it is the number one to make more money. I went into more detail with them. So everyday I read with them, probably 2-3(?) minutes per child. I met retired linguist from The States who recommended having them read backwards which seemed VERY strange to me. He explained the logic so I tried it and it does seem to work. Anyway when Sovanjuedi reads, actually she doesn't, I will read a sentence then she will repeat it and often times make up her own words to the story. I will then correct her and she will repeat. At first I was like what the heck is going on? I posted on FB the situation and several friends said it sounded like dyslexia. I talked to her about it a few days later and she was like "yes, I was diagnosed at 3 years old. Alrighty then. I tried tutoring her on breaks at school but that didn't really work. Obviously Cambodia is a developing country, and as such monies are very hard to come by. I asked her about her parents getting her a tutor, she said they can barely afford to pay her tuition for the school. Several students read their books very close to their faces/eyes. I know they need classes but the parents can't afford them. Very sad situation....but the people here are SO WONDERFUL.......especially the kids!!! Anyway I would love/greatly appreciate any type of advice/ideas you may have on helping this young lady. Many thanks in advance, best, Todd
Je vind dezelfde informatie ook op deze pagina: www.werkendyslexie.nl/dyslexie/hoe-werkt-het-dyslectisch-brein.html. Dit filmpje is speciaal voor onze Engelse website gemaakt: www.moveforwardwithdyslexia.com
Waarom noem je voetbal "soccer", terwijl enkel 4 landen (United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand) het zo noemen? FIFA: Fédération Internationale de *Football* Association
Same story for most of us over the age of 50. Schools didn't pick up on Dyslexia / ADHD or any artistic spectrum. You was classed as "Thick and stupid then put in the "Dunce Class" and people would describe you as "A problem child or slow Lerner or he is just a active child"
So you grow up thinking you are and not till you are a lot older do you find out, that you are not these things. In my 30s I found out I had dyslexia, 40s diagnosed with Depression and 50s confirmed I have ADHD in 2022. Taken almost 2 years to get on to medication for the ADHD and now starting to address my Dyslexia. When you tell others you have these, they are shocked, because your spelling, gramma and comprehension is so good. They have no idea how long it took me to get it right and if they saw the first attempt, they would never guess it was from me. I have always been good at sports, art, photography, seeing things others don't, visualisation, imagination and creative in finding new ideas, but I cant put them down on paper, yes I know we use a laptop now lol, but to document them is too much for me to cope with. My children, I have 4, only the youngest female has Dyslexia, ADHD and Aspergers. All others have no signs of anything. How do I know, because both my younger daughter and I left school with no qualifications but all the other children, all went to college then University and all have Degrees, 1 child even has a PHD in ADHD in adults and lectures at Cambridge and Oxford.
It is still hard to do most things, like comprehension and we have great avoidance skills to get out of them.
I am 47 I had suffered dyslexia on my whole life the thing that changed my life is a smartphone and a little button speech-to-text thank you
Dear Nathan, I'm sure our digital revolution and AI have more support for us in store. Gertrudie
Love how its a book for dyslexics, can’t we get a video? Is it available in audiobooks? 😂
Hahahaha, same!
I have heard more talk about Dyslexia in the last couple months than my whole 79 years. I am Dyslexic and Aphantasic from birth. Although I knew few in the U.S. with Dyslexia, I have 4 friends in Ecuador, all professional people. When I was growing up no one knew about Dyslexia, so I ended up with glasses. I do not agree with most of what I hear and I am so amazed at so many interpretations of Dyslexia. But every Dyslexic I know is different. My letters moved and faded in and out. And I still reverse numbers. At 18 I started to train my eyes. Each Friday night I would stop at the book store and pick a book off the New York Time Ten Best Seller list. I made my self read at lease one book a week. I was actually memorizing the English and like you mentioned, words became pictures to me. Although to it took lots of training, I needed to read to get a good college education. I have a degree in psychology and law and two minors in accounting and computer science. AT 79, I still take college classes on line, which is a habit. To keep my licenses and certifications while working I needed 22 learning credits every other year. I am addicted to learning. I do read backward and I can ready upside down. About 6 months ago was the first I needed glasses for distance and still read without the use of glasses. I believe that without Dyslexia and Aphantasia I would not have had such a successful life and traveled the world. I created and ran two companies to help elderly who had been exploited, abused and/or neglected. After being oncall 24/7 for 20 years straight, at 68 I moved to South America and have a great townhouse in a tourist town on the side of a volcano. I hate phones and rarely carry one, but still keep 3 computers active. Never in my 79 years did I look at Dyslexia or Aphantasia as a handicap. More as rewards.
Hi Marlene, thank you for sharing this. We agree with you that dyslexia has many positive rewards and that we should focus more on those. With this movie we intend that people understand dyslexia better and see it as a phenomenon that is provided by evolution to make our society better. We flourish by diversity!
I read Upside down. I cannot any more. They worked really hard with me to read right side up. I also have more audio problems with letters and numbers. Physically they don't fade in and out but in my hearing they do.
you must have a heavy duty light bill like me, je je (NOT)
I can read right-side-up, upside-down, and sideways. Lately, I've been entertaining myself in fast-food lines by reading through the signage attached to the windows. What is that, inside-out? Reading books is mechanically trying, but understanding the text is easy. My vocabulary has been very high since the 5th grade or so. My spelling always lags far behind my reading ability.
Hello Marlene, Love, Love, Love your story. Maybe you can help me. A brief history of The Todd, that's me.. Born and raised in California. Parents divorced at 13. My brother and I lived with mom. Graduated high school, barely, joined the Navy to be able to go to Europe, a long time dream. Got a medical discharge after two years in the Navy, never left the U.S. Stayed in The South, Va. S.C., N.C. and Nashville for around 35 years. Watched a show on the Travel Channel about 5 countries in SE Asia. 6 months later, 1st Nov. 2011, at 49, alone, knowing no one where I was going and having never been out of the US, I flew from Seattle to Hanoi VN. and spent the next 6 months backpacking through Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia.....with the highlight being I got a job teaching high school students in Bangkok.....LOVED it!!! I was SO hooked!!! Never realized I was a closet adventurer. Fast forward to Jan 3rd 2023. I flew from Seattle to Manila Philippines, 2 weeks, HCMC, VN. and Dalat VN. 3 weeks. Phnom Penh 7 days, Siem Reap, 2nd time 1 week. Then onto Bangkok 2nd time 1 week. Then to Chiang Mai where I would spend 8 wonderful months. Couldn't find work teaching so...... Siem Reap I went. Got a job teaching math, English, geography and science for 2nd graders at an international school. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it. Hardest job I've ever had. I'm 62 now. My question is this, I have wonderful Khmer student, Sovanjeud(French)i, her mom loved French. 8 years old, spoke excellent English, if u spoke with u her u would think she was a native English speaker. Very intelligent and a wonderful artist. I told my class from day one that yes I would be teaching all the subjects mentioned before, but my main focus would be teaching them to read and speak English to the best of their ability. And I quickly realized that that meant reading along side of them everyday. Correcting every mistake they made. At first I was like "no way" this is just too much damn work. But as I said previously, I realized this is the ONLY way I have to improve there English. I told them that my reason for really pushing reading and speaking English is because it is the number one to make more money. I went into more detail with them. So everyday I read with them, probably 2-3(?) minutes per child. I met retired linguist from The States who recommended having them read backwards which seemed VERY strange to me. He explained the logic so I tried it and it does seem to work. Anyway when Sovanjuedi reads, actually she doesn't, I will read a sentence then she will repeat it and often times make up her own words to the story. I will then correct her and she will repeat. At first I was like what the heck is going on? I posted on FB the situation and several friends said it sounded like dyslexia. I talked to her about it a few days later and she was like "yes, I was diagnosed at 3 years old. Alrighty then. I tried tutoring her on breaks at school but that didn't really work. Obviously Cambodia is a developing country, and as such monies are very hard to come by. I asked her about her parents getting her a tutor, she said they can barely afford to pay her tuition for the school. Several students read their books very close to their faces/eyes. I know they need classes but the parents can't afford them. Very sad situation....but the people here are SO WONDERFUL.......especially the kids!!! Anyway I would love/greatly appreciate any type of advice/ideas you may have on helping this young lady. Many thanks in advance, best, Todd
Love what you have put together its important that we educate our selves[the other creative thinkers dyslexic people ]thank you for that
Thank you
How can I buy book
Klinkt interessant , helaas kan ik niet alles begrijpen ivm dat het Engels gesproken is .
Je vind dezelfde informatie ook op deze pagina: www.werkendyslexie.nl/dyslexie/hoe-werkt-het-dyslectisch-brein.html. Dit filmpje is speciaal voor onze Engelse website gemaakt: www.moveforwardwithdyslexia.com
I don't understand pronountion of Name pls write
See the answer below. Gertrudie Boersen.
Waarom noem je voetbal "soccer", terwijl enkel 4 landen (United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand) het zo noemen?
FIFA: Fédération Internationale de *Football* Association
Hi Jake, I have no reason to offer here, but I hope you liked our explanation on conceptual thinking! Gertrudie.
It's from association rules football. a-socc-iation. socc-er.
I am From India
Good to know.
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Excellent 👌🏻