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Subject: Re: My Life Update

Author:
Mike (Happy)

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Date Posted: 20:29:36 05/05/10 Wed
In reply to: mark kane 's message, "My Life Update" on 05:30:29 04/08/10 Thu

Giday Mark,you are so right. I am 58, I started school at the age of six in East Africa.
All through my school life I struggled with most of those things you listed.
I didn't suffer with all( maths good and loved sport) of them but the reading and spelling was the biggest problem with me, you hit the nose with testing we tend to freeze up. No matter how hard I tried, I just could not improve.Through life every job and trade i just had to put the extra mile in to pass exams etc. Until I found web sites like this, I though I was just a dumbass, I have never been tested,but happy now reading all material out there and know I am dyslexic.(not in a bad way)
I read a lot of books, don't know but with age I seem to be getting less of a task, I have a good job, so just enjoying life.

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Mardi
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Date Posted: 08:40:13 05/21/10 Fri

Really is being so mean necessary? Isn't is easier to say that there is no cure for Dyslexia because the actual "disease" isn't a learning disability, but a different way of thinking. Therefore a cure is not needed...one simply needs to learn to learn as a Dyslexic person should learn (in pictures) and not in patters of orders of letters and words. That, my dear, is a fix. The actual disability comes from over concentrating in order to make since with the pictures in our "mind's eye' what we are being told we are supposed to be seeing. As we start to over concentrate and in effect over work our brains...we cause ourselves to create fundamental errors. (that being...to see what really isn't there, so that our 'minds eye" can finally see something on a page.) Read "The Gift of Dyslexia, by Ronald D. Davis. He is Dyslexic as well as the author. He explains all this very well in his book. If reading is difficult for you..then I suggest you go to audible.com. You can purchase it there...download their reader and have it read to you. It's a life saver, let me tell you.