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Subject: Re: Advice for helping my dyslexic wife

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Drew

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Date Posted: 05:56:00 12/24/10 Fri
In reply to: Laura 's message, "Re: Advice for helping my dyslexic wife" on 17:31:46 12/20/10 Mon

Imagine being a smart person and being capable in every way, sometimes even more than just capable, but then not be able to do the most simplest of tasks like remember your own phone number or misspell the same word over and over again for your entire life. Undiagnosed dyslexics (and ones that are in denial) feel dumb when they can not do the simplest of tasks that they know they should be able to handle. That is why we hide it. We hide it because we feel nothing is wrong with us and in some way we must be dumb, but there is no way we are going to let anyone know this.

The worst and most common help I would receive is when someone would say:
"This is how I would do it and when you do it this way it's really simple."

This is telling the dyslexic person that we are just like you and if we can't do it this simple way then we must be stupid.

After receiving this advice it would make me hide my dyslexia even more. Because I was just told that an idiot could do it this way and me "supposedly" a capable smart person could not do it.

Bruce Jenner has a nice 2 hour documentary that I saw on TV and I'm sure you can find it on the internet. Get her to watch it and see if she can identify with it.

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