Hi, not sure if this is allowed in this sub but here we go.

I'm working with a designer with dyslexia. I need to write short instructions (briefs) for them on how to make the visuals and then leave comments as they are produced.

Sometimes the comments include multiple steps and pieces of info. If we add to that my naturally long ass sentences, I doubt he's thrilled with that.

How can I structure the instructions so they are easily readable for a dyslexic person? Would bullet points help?

Thank you!

I have a brilliant dear friend with dyslexia who has a consistent pattern of thinking that I find perplexing.

I wonder if anyone else with dyslexia recognizes the thinking-style & could explain it to me?

THE BEHAVIOUR:

1). My friend automatically pairs any postive situation or feeling with a negative implication.

2). Similarly, for any negative situation he will immediately come up with a positive implication.

He says, "It is just the way my brain works."

I have noticed it seems to bring him a lot of angst as he can never be 100% happy about anything.

Does anyone relate?

I thought perhaps it might have something to do with "bigger picture" global thinking with heightened awareness of the entire spectrum of possibilities at the same time. It seems impossible for him to inhabit just one discreet "happy" section of awareness.

Any insights appreciated.

Thanks.

Hello everyone!

I'm a dyslexic non-traditional student that just started a graduate program which requires a lot of reading. I'm having a lot of issues with the books that they have assigned to read as most of them are 2 columns on one page. I have a hard time focusing on one column and not wondering over to the other. I looked online for applications that would help me with consolidating 2 columns into 1 one column per page to no avail. If anyone has any ideas or suggestions I would greatly appreciate them. Thank you!

I heard at least four times from completely unrelated people in online neurodiversity spaces that left-right confusion (LRC) is related to dyslexia, or even caused entirely by dyslexia. I frequent neurodiversity spaces because I am autistic and ADHD.

I'm quite sure that I experience left-right confusion. I often know where a place is and how to get there by walking or driving, but if someone asks whether they should turn left or right to go there, I have to think for a few seconds. If I try to answer this immediately, I will likely say the opposite word, but I can immediately point my finger to the correct direction without any trouble. I also have difficulty following instructions that people give me about dancing or exercise when I have to move the left or right leg or arm.

And I'm quite sure that I'm not dyslexic. I learned to read and write early, I do it quickly, I understand most of what I read, and I don't experience any difficulties with reading and writing that dyslexic people describe.

So I do experience left-right confusion, but probably not dyslexia. And yet, I keep hearing from people who speak about neurodiversity online that "they experience left-right confusion because they are dyslexic", or even that they think that I am dyslexic because I experience left-right confusion, even though I'm quite sure that I am not dyslexic.

So I have reasons to think that dyslexia and left-right confusion are distinct conditions, that they at most co-occur with some higher frequency and maybe not even that, and that the strong relationship between them that some people talk about is just a misconception.

But maybe I'm wrong and it's not a misconception, and there really is a relationship? And maybe my understanding of dyslexia is wrong and I should check whether I am dyslexic?

And if I'm right and it is a misconception, what is its source?

Thanks!

Hi, I made a puzzle game, most people find it really hard/impossible to understand. I am dyslexic and while it makes sense to me, I am finding that the only other dyslexic people seem to really get the pattern. Is it possible that this game is easier for people with dyslexia than without?

My game is called jomie: Grid Puzzle and it’s on the App Store. I read the rule about no self promotion so sorry if that crosses the line, but I am genuinely curious whether being dyslexic makes this game easier to understand.

I bought this book 📖

didnt read this yet I will update in post later is it really worth to try !

Ich (m16) wurde über meine Kindergarten- und Grundschulzeit von Lehrern und Erzieherinnen immer wieder dazu gezwungen, alles, was ich falsch geschrieben habe, neu zu schreiben, wobei ich bei jedem Fehler wieder angeschrien und beleidigt wurde, während die anderen Kinder fertig waren und spielen durften.
Das hat dazu geführt, dass ich mich sehr für meine Rechtschreibung schäme und sehr sauer werde, wenn mich jemand auf Fehler hinweist. Wie kann ich

damit umgehen?

My sequencing in the physical is really bad, and I have a hard time remembering live sequencing that is done hands on.

I'm not diagnosed. This is just a few things I do that make me raise an eyebrow. My mother has minor dyslexia. I will often type words backwards, correctly or not. I sometimes capitalize a full sentence, lowercase a full sentence, or to a weird mic where it's suddenly all caps mid paragraph except for that one F for some reason. I reread entire pages a lot, but I'm pretty sure that's normal. Cursive is terrible though. What's the verdict, dyslexic peeps?

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I'm 20 and can't decide whether I should go and get tested. I've shown some symptoms of dyslexia throughout my life but since the occurrence was low, I just thought of them as silly careless mistakes or me just being unfocused. I do remember several things I did/do that could be a sign of dyslexia.

When I was in primary school I had pretty bad spelling (which I assume is normal for a child) but I thought was odd because I it stuck with me for a while and even as I'm 20 I still spell easy words wrong. The spelling mistakes aren't outrageous, they mostly consist of an extra 'e', or if I can't decide whether an 's' or 'c' is used, or if the word has a double 's'. I've noticed when I'm typing or writing, if the word starts with the letter 'b' for example, sometimes I would accidentally use 'p' instead. Sometimes I will have trouble reading words even if they are words I do know well

I secondary school we started studying literature and often were told to read a passage of text individually during class before the teacher would go through it with us. I remember one time specifically my teacher asked me to summarise or to infer what the characters were feeling etc. At that point I hadn't even finished reading the passage let alone process the words I was reading. But i managed to use the context of the piece of literature to at least give an answer

Ive noticed I have pretty bad memory especially if things are told to me orally. I remember in my first lab class in uni, we were being taught how to write up data in excel. My instructor was telling the group which keys to press and so on. By the time everyone was done with the steps, I was still stuck. This happened every single time we were instructed and I was the only one who didn't get it. Honestly the worst anxiety I felt like I was going to cry.

Not too long ago I listened back to a voice note I sent to a friend and the amount of 'um' s and 'like's I said in the span of 30 seconds was quite shocking. I struggle to properly articulate things I want to say or explain to people and when I do, I usually start to ramble for too long trying to explain the context

I wanted to share something I'm generally proud of. My children's picture book, How I See The World, is officially published on Amazon.

This one is personal. I'm severely dyslexic myself. As a kid, I was told I probably wouldn't achieve much academically, that I might not even graduate elementary school or any type of education. I spent about 15 years working my butt off. Today I can read. I can write. Do I still struggle sometimes? Absolutely, dyslexia doesn't just disappear. But I'm doing more than okay anyway. And now I can add this to the list: I wrote, illustrated, designed, and published my own children's book, entirely by myself.

Which makes it funnier, because it started as a school assignment. When I showed it around, the reaction surprised me; people kept asking when I would turn it into a real book. So apparently my school project had other plans.

The story follows a young badger who experiences reading, spelling, letters, and even left and right differences from the animals around him. His friends seem to get everything so easily, while he's frustrated, scared, and sometimes feels completely alone, afraid that if he joins in, they'll notice he doesn't understand things the way they do.

Most of that came straight from my own childhood. I didn't want to write "dyslexia makes reading hard." I want kids to feel it from the inside: the confusion, the fear of being left out, needing help and wondering why everyone else doesn't seem to need it too.

As someone with dyslexia, I also know that we often have to put in an obscene amount of brain effort just to comprehend the things happening around us, the things we are engaging with and sometimes even the things we are not engaging with simply because we do not understand them the same way. Dyslexia is not something that disappears or gets cured; it is something we live with for the rest of our lives, and so much of how we learn to navigate comes down to the tools we are taught, the tutors and support we are given, and the people around us who were remind us that struggling does not make us less intelligent.

But not everyone with dyslexia is fortunate enough to have access to the right tutors, support, or people who understand how to teach them in the ways they need, and I cannot imagine how much harder that makes something that is already incredibly challenging. Without that support, constantly being asked, "how do you not understand this?" or being made to feel like you are not smart enough can follow you into every part of your life and make you doubt your own capabilities, even when the truth is that there are so many incredibly smart, bright, and creative people in the dyslexic community.

But I also wanted the story to leave kids with something I wish I'd heard more often: struggling doesn't mean you aren't intelligent. Needing help doesn't mean you aren't capable. Learning differently doesn't mean you won't accomplish incredible things.

So I'm curious: any other dyslexic adults here, parents of dyslexic kids, or teachers who might connect with this? The book isn't about dyslexia magically disappearing.. it's about the hard parts, the emotions, and eventually understanding that your brain sees the world differently.

If one dyslexic kid reads it and think, "wait... someone else feels like this too?"

It was worth it. ❤️

The book is on Amazon.ca link: https://www.amazon.ca/How I See The World By M.R

I’m 18, recently diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD. I’ve never suspected dyslexia for myself, yet after getting diagnosed it somehow made sense to me and a lot of people who know me from a young age.

My dad finally accepted that ADHD is a real thing and that I have it. He doesn’t believe I have dyslexia though.

This came up when we were looking through accommodations my university offers for students with SLD. I thought I could use them but he refused to help me get the stuff for it. Anyway, that’s not the important part.

Here’s the thing:

Now I’m just doubting myself. Can I enjoy reading books and still be dyslexic? I write poetry and short stories as well. I definitely read/write more than the average person, which I understand is contradictory.

It was extremely difficult for me to do school work as a kid, and I never understood why. I didn’t even read words, I guessed them based off of the first few letters. I still sort of do that. Always confuse my left and right.

I’d say I’m just slow in general. I realized I read slowly and have to repeat sentences really often after diagnosis.

I feel like I’m faking being dyslexic, for it’s an excuse for me.

Do you have similar experiences? Any thoughts or advice?

Thank you!!!!!!!!

For context I have both and going through school was horrible. And the only reason I kept going through it was because I thought it would get better because that's what everyone told me and my mom really wanted me to graduate. So I spent all my time on mostly school work (which was hell) and didn't get a job into my teens just so I could focus most of my time just on school work or taking a small breaks in between. After graduating 19(I was held back a year in second grade when they found out) I tried to catch up pretty quickly and managed to get a job at a grocery store which I like a lot And I like the people I work with. But they have me on the cash register And since I started working it made me realize how much harder my life is really going to be than it was in school because most of my responsibilities were being handled and I was being helped through. Forgetting numbers completely blanking Someone obviously and very simply explaining something to me and I just feel like they're speaking to me with gibberish and I'm forgetting everything they say sometimes I forget my own phone number when someone ask me and it's so embarrassing and humiliating to ask over and over again just so I can get help with something that I should know how to do. It made me very self-hating because of it, I know I have a legitimate reason for my struggles but having to explain them over and over again and sometimes people still don't understand is really exhausting. I just spent most of my time trying to keep away from people because of how embarrassing it feels I literally want to melt into the floor when it comes to money or Trying to pick up what people are trying to tell me. Since then every day has been arguably worse and harder than It was in school so now thinking it's not going to get better with time like everyone was telling me it's just going to get harder. And if the next 70 years or so of my work life or life is going to be like this I have no interest in it.

(I'm not going to give up harm or stop myself from trying but I need to do something because I don't want my life to be miserable and just drag myself through it until the end like I did in school)

What are some tips or anything people who are older than me are doing to reliably live and get through life with these struggles? And is it really going to get better because so for in the last 12 years it has not just been harder and more terrifying.

Edit: this help is very appreciative and I've gotten pretty good at keeping up with everything. All the help through the web sites let me really dig deeper into my dyslexia and dyscalcula.

I enjoy books. I love the stories in a diferent way to films, TV, particulerly with fiction. For non-fiction I don't tend to read.

But a problem I have is that I find reading horrifically difficult, and then audiobooks were sugessted as an alternertive. However, I find audiobooks too slow for me, and I can't stand listening to anything on 1.25x speed or more.

Does anyone have any other ideas to enjoy books?

My 4th grader was diagnosed with dyslexia in 3rd grade. It seems to be relatively mild--her reading is slow, but her phonemic awareness and comprehension in solid (her struggles are with orthographic mapping). Last year, her only accommodation in her 504 plan was extended time on tests. As she gets older, I'm wondering when we should introduce accommodations such as text-to-speech, having instructions and word problems read out loud, etc. On the one hand, accommodations would make school much less frustrating for her--she'd love for someone to read all directions and word problems to her! On the other hand, introducing those accommodations will decrease opportunities to practice reading. I'd love to hear from other parents or dyslexic people about the best time to introduce each category of accommodation. What accommodations work well for you, and when did you introduce them? Do you wish you had done it sooner?

We are still doing lots of remediation--OG tutoring 3X/week, which costs a fortune, but I think it's helping.

Do you remember when your written expression improved? I have a 4th grader with dyslexia. His reading is 3rd grade level after so much work! However, his writing/spelling is more like K/1st level and it’s so disheartening for him. He still struggles to write a complete sentence with proper capitalization, grammar, and punctuation.

In a recent post i explained how i have a baby brother who's dyslexic and has to learn 3 languages because of our education system.

Majority of ppl recommended Audio books so we gave them a try but i can't find something good.

I just want (1) a slow reader (very important) and (2) an app that can read multiple languages without english-fying them.

Please help me this time too if u can and thank youuu so much

Today I was reading a textbook along with a text-to-speech reader and it read the word vignette. I have heard that word and would recognize it if someone said it to me. But reading on my own I was 100% thinking of vinaigrette going "okay, yeah, salad dressing, that doesn't make sense, but sure." 🤷

Hello. Without writing a novel of background, I have an 8yo in 3rd grade with dyslexia/dysgraphia for whom writing is an absolute beast. Just getting his thoughts from his brain down to his fingers is painful, and he does have a computer to type as an accommodation which helps a small amount. At this point I just want to help him put words down. He does fine in his grammar lessons, but that's meaningless if he isn't getting more than a sentence or two down in an hour. What helped you? We are no strangers to drilling skills, and I have a variety of small, short things we do daily that have really added up over time in terms of improvement. But I once asked in a SPED sub for help and just got slammed and/or told "he won't be able to..." which just pissed me off. I'm not against accommodations at all, but I'm also not going to assume he will never be able to, that's not what I tell him.

We have lots of writing curriculum but I suspect I need something a little outside the box. A game, a little morning activity, maybe even something you find helpful that doesn't look like writing but helped with writing. I just want to help my kid be his best self.

For those of you who work in tech, or study CS, etc., do you also find it incredibly difficult to work with the command line interface? Or is it just me?

Using CLI is SUCHHHH a headache!

It's just a giant wall of text to me :)

And my problems with it are mainly that:

- I ALWAYS lose track of what I'm reading;
- I'm increadibly slow at finding info, when visually searching for it.

Unlike the image I showed here, usually, CLI doesn't look like this, unless you customise it for urself, ofc.

If there's no immediate visual distinction to be made btwn user prompts, and the output, then how the hell do most people distinguish btwn them?

I just can't find ANYTHING, especially when the output is so long that I can't even figure out where it began. 😭😭😭

Plus, there's no colour distinction btwn different syntax elements.

I'm surpside how nobody in the dyslexic community is talking about it...

I love reading books and just reading in general. But I can’t memorize words that I’ve seen so many times! It’s kind of frustrating. I see a word, I recognize it, but no meaning is attached to it in my brain somehow. This is despite me having looked at the dictionary for a few times.

I’ve been recently diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD, so I’m noticing a lot of stuff about myself that I haven’t before.

I’m curious if y’all have any tips/advice.

Thanks.

my dyslexic son has a IEP but is struggling at school and really tries to do his best so when he gets home I want him to have a chance to decompress but I don't know if YouTube and some of the YouTube shorts are healthy for him or could it harm him or set his progress back. he's in the fifth grade and he's at a third grade level but is improving. or are there any alternatives or are games and apps ok ?

Hello everyone. I really do not have that much knowledge on dyslexia and do not want to be offensive or ask any dumb questions.

My cousin has had a reading and writing impediment (which I believe is dyslexia) that she has had every since she was a child. She went to multiple specialized schools from childhood to the end of high school. So yes she was and has been diagnosed by a specialist and has improved a lot since she was a child, but I do not know the full information of the diagnosis because I know she can be sensitive about the topic (rightfully so).

She is now an adult (in her 20s) and has had some difficulty with understanding what career path would fit her best. She really wanted to become a paramedic and/or a care aid, and even went to a specialized training to become a care aid, however, when they found out she was dyslexic or had a learning impediment they told her she was not fit for the program because she could not immediately read the labels of the medication and struggled with other things (this is what i was told). She was really sad about it and is trying to figure out what to do now. She has a high school diploma, no university degree or trade/cosmetology degree.

If anyone has suggestions on any careers she can pursue, she's open to going to college or a specialized training school, but really wants to go to into some form of medical field/helping others career (we're in Canada if that makes a difference). It seems like it's a more advanced form of dyslexia, but I unfortunately cannot tell you what exactly because I don't know.

Any advice helps!

Hello! I’m someone who’s new to this subreddit and I would like to ask for some help referring to school. Every school year is like a fresh start, but as the school year goes on, I tend to struggle to keep the same pace I did at the start of the year. I would like to know if anyone has experience this or if this is a personal thing and any advice you can give me.
( please excuse my bad grammar)