Anyone else struggle with dyslexia and other learning disabilities such as myself?

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I have been professionally tested for learning disabilities. I have had it my whole life. I have always struggled with it. I laugh it off a lot but I tell you there are rude people out there that say hurtful things. they will never understand how my brain works and just asume im stupid. I won't get into the countless times I have been humiliated and called out about having learning issues. My disabilities include spelling words backwards. spelling things wrong. getting turned around when it comes to directions. i need step by step, 1 at a time instructions. I have memory problems. I have problems doing simple math. I'm a very slow reader. and have a hard time comprehending books/paragraphs/ short stories. I needed a test reader all through school and collage.

bedroomdweller · Accepted Answer

Being humorous about it helps. The more people see it really bothers you or hurts you, the more they will pick on it and target it. If you give the impression you aren't vulnerable to your imperfections, even though you are, no one will mess with it.

In the mean time, work on it as hard as you can and overcome it.

I don't have anything serious but I had speech problems as a child. Supposedly, I had a hard time pronounciating words and emulating sounds. Later on, when I was in school I was diagnosed with ADD. Math gave me a lot of problems in school and most of high school.

It was very tough for me to stay focused on things and literally took me years to overcome it (I'm 28 now).

Now I am trilingual, second time in university while working (was previously in that situation before). Have had numerous jobs, and was recognized for my efficiency in several of those, and currently I am studying a science career. All the insecurities I had growing up because of those shortcomings are vanished at this point. Taking a proper IQ test helped because I score average, I think slightly higher even.

I hope you get treatment/therapy, introspect and work it out on a personal level to move on from that and become a confident individual. Good luck

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

those who judge others like that are the stupid ones, no one is perfect. schools do this bullshit and they seriously need to stop. they make things more difficult on everyone anyways. school is also bad for a persons health. because of all the stress it causes and loss of sleep. which actually causes learning issues. so, in my opinion if school never existed we would have a lot more healthy and smart individuals in the world. and I'm glad I dropped out of school when I did. I just couldn't take that bullshit anymore.

Goldilocks24 · Accepted Answer

Eh just some good old fashion PTSD

Decentguy · Answer

yup.
im struggling with Dyselxia, ADHD, Dysparaxia, since birth.
i really hate dyslexia
and i've been humiliated a lot in my childhood because of dyslexia, and not just humiliated, but beaten the shit out of too, by many teachers, a and people.
some people still make fun of my disability though
i know completely how you feel. because we both are in the same boat

N192K001 · Answer

Slight dyslexia. With that, my reading pace was always slower than everyone else's and spelling is an issue at times.

hi2712 · Answer

I have attention deficit disorder which makes it really hard to focus during class for prolonged periods of time. It causes me a lot of trouble when I was in elementary school.

SuccessfulHornDog · Answer

I have ADD and it can be tough to focus on work but I have developed approaches that have allowed me to succeed

capturemyheartnow · Answer

I have no such problems.

Yanoa_Yanza · Answer

My brother does

thestrongoxknight55 · Answer

My old friend dakota

Anyone else struggle with dyslexia and other learning disabilities such as myself?

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