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Subject: Re: DYSLEXIA

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Anthony

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Date Posted: 09:08:24 01/03/12 Tue
In reply to: Chrissy 's message, "DYSLEXIA" on 14:23:33 12/10/11 Sat

It does seem that what they call "the dyslexic spectrum" includes issues with spoken words as well. Strictly that shouldn't be called dyslexia, but there are already too many categories so let's go with that.

I read like a scanner, but I've always had problems with spoken words, when I was young my parents had me tested for hearing problems. I could have told them, I didn't have any trouble hearing the words, but sometimes they just didn't make sense to me. And when I talked I kept starting the same sentence over and over trying to get it right.

The result was that I grew up with a feeling that there was something everyone else understood and I didn't, and I had to fake it because I was expected to understand it too, and if people knew I didn't they would think there was something wrong with me. I didn't know where that came from until a few years ago, when I was talking to a therapist and told her what I've just described, and she said "Are you dyslexic?"

And I opened my mouth to say no, I read just fine. Then I remembered how many other things are covered by dyslexia, and this big light went on in my head and a whole lot of things made sense for the first time.

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