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Subject: Need help determining if I am dyslexic Author: Dexter (Jumbalaya) [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 17:09:06 02/07/10 Sun I am glad I found this forum. I think I am dyslexic. I would like to get feedback on my symptoms or tendencies. 1. My hand writing is rough. People have described it as "bad". When I write words they are often not straight or on the line. Some letters will be above the line, others right on, and some letters below. 2. I often must concentrate on numbers that have repetitive sequentual numbers. For example: 55393 , 885751,322350. I easily can transpose numbers. Numbers will at times swim or seem out of focus, unless I deliberately focus and concentrate on the number. Which I often do to overcome this issue. 3. I use my hands to count at times and will triple check counting things like money. Or, another good example is when I play poker, I have difficulty seeing straights in Texas Hold'em. Either playing against the straight I have difficulty seing it, or when I have a straight I often rely on counting with my hand or must go over the sequence in my mind several times to confirm to myself that I have it. I have memorized the "ends" of straights with face cards for example: Queen 8, Jack 7, King 9 in an effort to help me. 4. I am not a good speller of words and I often doubt my spelling even though the spelling is correct. Some examples would be: perform vs preform, Exellent vs exelent, Possible vs posible, repetitive vs repatitive or mezzanine vs mesonine. 5. Complex math problems are challenging because of stress or concern about getting the right answer but also how I organize or break down the information on paper. Interpretation of the equation will get jumbled in my mind and my thoughts will race. I will often misplace data, write down answers wrong which I calculated correctly on multi step problems, use correctly calculated data in a portion of a formula in the wrong way in another part of the math problem or be off by a few decimal places for example. 6. At times, especially if I am stressed or running late (Which I srtive to avoid most of the time) I may not be able to find things that are in plain site. I could walk by a particular item four times and not see it. I will look for the item in different locations but not be able to see it sitting on the table. Ugh..! When it is bad at times, it is like my thoughts or emotions will cloud my brain's interpretation of the visiual stimuli my eyes are seeing. 7. I am not an organized person by any means. 8. I do at times have problems expressing myself or draw a blank for a word I am searching for especially when anxious or nervous. 9. When I was a child. I played baseball and basketball but was terribly uncoordinated. It's funny, after writing this and typing out my thoughts and thinking about my feelings, I think anyone who replies to my question will resoundingly say "YES YOU HAVE DYSLEXIA". So, what do you think? Thank you for reading and responding to my question in advance -Dexter [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: Re: Need help determining if I am dyslexic Author: John Bradford [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 07:40:13 02/13/10 Sat The ten questions on our page here: Dyslexia Test are well researched and will provide a rough guide for you. Best wishes! .

[> [> Subject: Re: Need help determining if I am dyslexic Author: Sarah [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 19:02:46 10/04/10 Mon As I am reading these post I am more and more convinced that I might be dyslexic. I am 25, just graduated from the education program and I am working as an EA until I can find a job. Throughout the past few months I have learned a lot about dyslexia and the signs. I can't spell at all. I rely on my computer to help me with spelling, I cannot multiply or divide, I cannot read a map and get lost so often that I refuse to drive somewhere new alone. I get very frustrated with my inability to understand conversations. I tend to zone out during long conversations because I can't concentrate. I find looking at people's mouths helps sometimes but I freak people out with this. I have trouble speaking in public, I often mix up what I want to say. For example, today I meant to say "I went for lunch with my mom on Sat" but I ended up saying "I went for supper with my parents on sat" I realize this probably isn't a big deal but I went over what I was going to say over and over in my head and I still didn't get it right. I often find I stumble over words when reading out loud. I can read, I enjoy reading but I often find reading large bodies of text overwhelming. I am taking a course online right now and there is a lot of reading. I have discovered that my computer can read to me which does seem to help. I tend to get headaches when reading and I have had an eye exam that came back as 20/20 or better. I have glasses because I was complaining about the words floating on the page and my eye doc was thinking it was eye strain from too much reading. I am also learning how to play the guitar and I am finding reading music hard unless I colour code. I find I skip lines or read half of one line then half of the next. Does this sound familar to anyone here? What should I do? The test costs so much that I can't afford it either way. I need some coping strategies to help me. thanks

[> Subject: Re: Need help determining if I am dyslexic Author: Elizabeth (Always happy) [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 12:28:29 03/11/10 Thu The numbers you wrote - do they make you dizzy to just look at them? I think you might have a mild dyslexia. I am female, 40. A couple of years ago I realized I had dyslexia, and then it all came to its right place - all the frustration of not being good enough at spelling, no matter how hard I tried, the fact that I could study only if s.o. else read the textbooks to me. I was so happy when I found out I was dyslexic! It meant I wasn't a moron for not being able to remember my appointments, or for looking desperately for an address like 45 Whatever street only to find out it was actually 54! Or for not being able to write a phone number someone told me on the phone... Or for getting lost in my hometown.

[> [> Subject: Re: Need help determining if I am dyslexic Author: Rose [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 16:37:27 10/04/10 Mon that all sounds totally familiar!