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Subject: Re: unhelpful reaction from family Author: Gary [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 17:06:00 10/08/10 Fri In reply to: Rose 's message, "unhelpful reaction from family" on 17:43:34 10/04/10 Mon The biggest problem that I have with other people is that they don’t understand what dyslexia is, they think the only thing happens are you turning your letters around. They are ignorant to all of the symptoms that are accompanied with it. Trying to explain it to them is like trying to explain to a blind person what a cloud looks like. I have quit trying to explain it. What I should say is I have quit telling people that I have it, unless I think that it will benefit them or someone that they care about. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: Re: unhelpful reaction from family Author: Steven [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 09:40:17 11/11/10 Thu Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes. What you fail to understand at this stage is that most non-dyslexic people have a very linear mind. It can only think in straight lines, like a computer, it can only think in the way that it has been taught to think (programmed). It is highly logical and analyses one thing at a time in a yes or no fashion eg. "If you have a Phd, then you cannot be dyslexic because you can read and write, stupid." If you are expecting non dyslexics to be able to look at this in a variety of different ways and angles,and to "see" the problem, then you are asking them to think in way that they simply cannot, you are being unfair to them.