Dyslexia - The Strange Genius Disease

i have an issue with the part on not being able to understand basic math

i have most of the signs..and this is taking FOREVER to type..exept the math. i flip numbers around, but i 120% understand the consepts of algebra perfectly fine. actually, i learnd to add pretty young (i can count fine)

You might have another type of dyslexia as well. If you notice, you incorrectly spelled these two words: "exept" which should be "except" and "consepts" which should be "concepts". My son has this problem. He was diagnosed with dysphoneticeidetic dyslexia. He has trouble with phonics as well as ideas (his interpretation of things).

i am dyslexic and i am a technical specialist - i am intellgent, but I though I was thick!

"Sequential thinking is the way a normal person views the world"

Hmmm, I have to disagree. What is normal? Being dyslexic myself I have met and spoken with different people with the same problem. I have delved further into the subject and I got to say that labeling dyslexia as a problem is wrong. The bottom line to me is that dyslexia is just another way of learning, period. The world is made more for sequential thinkers, but it should also be more accessible for us spatial/visual learners etc..

I have a brother who is 10years old suffering from graphical dyslexia... pls refer me a school in india at eastern zone at kolkata...where i could put him to educate him.. my family member is very worried about it...pls advice me immediatly

i am currentle having issus with identity have an IQ of 178 and yet i can't read a harry potter book after just watching the film i find myself seronded by people of all ages discusing that the book is far better being unable to read the first capter after lots of atempts left me sitting there listing to 7 year olds saying in detail what thay had mist out of the book. after a grate deail of thort i realise further that life is not fair as ever action has an equal and opersit reaction. Q.E.D i am left at the age of 17 considering suiside due to a huge lack of faith in my self. i just failid 1 paper in eatch subject at as but did extreamly well in the second of the 2 papers. it is driving me to the point of insanity and suiside. i know i won't comite suiside but the thort is very mutch there. but bot only that my mums side of the family are extramliy acedemic and my dads side extreamly artistic now i am left very mutch like my mums side of the family but i am left having to seem to work twice as hard as any other person i know to lean anything that has to do with any form of writeing. now i realice leaving this horribly long post will drive some of you to hate me it is filled with mistaces and is quite alot but i sat down and read the current posts and i am hopeing some one will do the same to my post

the stupid genius chris lloyd A.K.A tux in his room

Dear Tux, Have you considered investigating whether you have Irlen Syndrome/Scotopic Sensitivity? This is a visual perceptual problem that is the result of a person's sensitivity to particular wavelengths of light. These wavelengths of light are particular to each individual that has Irlen Syndrome. The person usually suffers distortions of print when they are reading or writing, and it usually affects their spelling too. If someone has Irlen, then it is easily remedied by the use of either coloured overlays or Irlen Spectral Filters (which are just coloured lenses that are worn as glasses). Both the overlays and the Irlen Filters filter out the specific wavelengths of light that the person is sensitive to. I strongly recommend that you go to the following website and investigate whether you may have Irlen Syndrome. everything that you have written above, indicates that there is a strong chance that you could be suffering from this problem. It causes a form of dyslexia called visual perceptual dyslexia. And remember, dyslexia literally means "difficulty with the written word" so it can have a number of causes, but Irlen is certainly one of those causes. Go to www.irlen.com and investigate for yourself.

Dr Joan Brien
Irlen Diagnostician

I'm in my 30's and only found out a year and a half ago that I had severe dyslexia while at university, it was fairly hard for me to accept as I was given a blow by blow account of all the short-term memory problems I have and other things, in a report, but there was also a certain amount of relief.

In time I became more accepting of it, while I was given plenty of support with my literacy I was not given help organising myself for study and found concentating very difficult, there were no books at the university on coping mechanisms - though I have found some since leaving university.

I can empathize with tux regarding feeling down, as certain elements of dyslexia are frustrating and when you can not make yourself understood it is difficult.

I found all your comments interesting, yes there are some difficulties experienced, though each person experiences dyslexia differently (according to the severity and type of dyslexia) and it is an advantage, once you find coping mechanisms.

I try to overcome my difficulties however long something takes and life afterall is not fair but being determined helps and experiencing difficulties can also help you to empathize with other people - this can be an advantage when at work and in life generally.

Plus I always think if Churchill and Leonardo da Vinci could achieve, then even if I have to work harder - so can I, so can everyone - achieve in time what you want, break your objectives down into small goals - (in some areas don't be afraid to ask others for support, particularly in the dyslexic associated conditions such as ADD and Iren Syndrome) but in short go for it, what is the alternative, accepting defeat.

Sarah K Murphy

BA (Hons) Animation

I am 47 and qualified as a social worker last year compleating a masters in social work,I aslo have a 2-1 in criminology. I have been employed as a dutie and asesment social worker since decmer 2009.I have faile my six month probation period and have been given a further two months probation working in a children with dissablities team. I have just been told that iI will not be offerd a contract. I was firsttold that the problem was my ability to adiquitl do my duties ,however I have now ben told that it is my social work practice that is the problem. I have had a meeting with ocupational health recomending that I have support put in place however this has not hapend. The report also said that I have a learing disability and suould be conciderd diasbled under the Dissability Discriminatin act . My linemanager has said they do not now concider my sutable to ba a social worker.

I disagree. It is those teacher who have the disability in their inability to teach outside the box, to see things in a different perspective, to look at a subject in a different way, seeing how it relates to multiple seemingly unconventional things. In other words, they are not able to keep up with those of us who do not have a laborious, mono-processing mind of the “average person” (Average Person being those who solely live inside the average box as labeled in the standardized diagnostic test for learning disabilities.)

I believe the word is innovators. How do you teach Albert Einstein or Thomas Edison when teachers do not have the cognitive ability to comprehend our mind; rather they attempt to stuff us into their very limited world of the average. Thank god my great relative Thomas Edison wasn’t “normalized” with drugs nor bought into the attacks waged against his amazing diverse mind, dulled into the mediocrity demanded by American society.

I just turned 30 on April 13, and this morning I took a bunch of test and realize that I was dyslexic. I had an Exam last night in my marketing class, had all my notes, it was an open book exam. I did ok, but I was trying to figure what was the problem. Something inside of me said Lisa, think, look further, so I started to think about what could be the problem. It just clicked, I read backwards, numbers are backwards, then Dyslexia just popped up like a lighting bolt. I research the topic, went on Yale's website and found the center for Dyslexia, and declared my Dyslexia. My old sales manager pointed out to me a long time ago, but i was in denial.

I won art contest when I was 6 years old, gifted class, but had problem with words. I didn't see it in sequential order, and would do things backwards. My plan is to go to Harvard Law School or Yale :)

Lisa

Discussion on the subject - Dyslexia.

Dyslexia is a form of Intellegence NOT A DISABILITY. Dyslexia people, i.e, Students, and Older Students (Adults)
have a very genius gift, The gift is that a dyslexia to be academically classed as a Specailist in an academic subject.
Society needs to understand the that dyslexia is not a disablity but a form of ingenius intellegence.

By Anthony Bailey. (Professor of Music) - Music Producer.

I have just found out that I am dyslexic and cannot express enough how liberating my new findings are. Finally I am discouvering that It is a blessing to be dyslexic and I have been highly intelligent this whole time! I am so glad there are others out there who are just like me, and who understand me. I am so excited about this new discouvery, I want to tell others about it, help people with dyslexia, and make a difference in the world!

Dyslexia the Strange Prodigy Disease.
By. Dr. Anthony John Peter Bailey. Music Producer - SongWriter And Music Specialist.


Today the word ''Dyslexia'' is refered to as an learning difficulty / learning disbility. The Medical Propoganda Acts produced by the British Goverment state that Dyslexia is a - ''Difficulty / ''Disablity but NOT, Scientific (illm) - knowleage show that Dyslexia is - ''NOT A DIFFICULTY OR DISABLITY BUT A FORM OF IQ / GENIUS''. The British Goverment needs to undersatnd this and its left wing MPs so in the future the word ''Dyslexia The Mensa Genius Level of IQ, Rather than calssing it as Special needs which as a Dr. myself I am quite disscusted with because ''Society is wasting Genius on calling it a difficulty / disablity and as a Dr. I am quite Antagonistic against the Medical Propoganda Acts which produce it, I hope this have given you some thought because it is the TRUTH.

Dear Tony,

I just wanted to say thank you from the bottom of my heart for the words of encouragement and understanding on this post. Also, everyone else including Joan, Brian, and everyone in this blog. It is heart wrenching to be labeled slow and that's what my family doctor told me. I tried to explain to my family doctor of 25 years that I was dyslexic. I can't tell you how many nights and times I've cried myself to sleep and the frustration of everyday life. I just flew in from San Diego, and made the mistake of booking the flights backwards, my arriving and departure were backwards along with dates. How many times have I done that? I've done that a thousand times, or getting off in the wrong subway, confusing uptown, downtown, D trains, or C trains. I've flown to Florida, Boston, and contacted so many different universities or pschycologist only to find out no one can help me, or consistently being referred out only to get back to square one. Where can I go to get a proper diagnosis of dyslexia? Who can help me? How can I find a solution to a problem that hasn't been properly identified? I can't imagine what kids in elementary, middle school, or high school are going through. I'm aware that I'm Dyslexic and ADD.

The good news is this whole experience allowed me to move to New York, and I'm trying to get into the Columbia University Postbac Pre Med program. My heart is telling me that I want to help people (Med School and pschycology) and also play the violin. I started my first violin lesson at Julliard from my music teacher who has been performing violin since age 3, and also graduated from Columbia Med School. The sound of the violin makes me cry and it touches me at the core. I love classical music, and if it wasn't for me listening to Mozart everyday I'm not sure where I would be. I can see myself performing in front of thousands of people. I would love to compose music, and mix the violin with rock, or jazz, why are there limits? What seems to amaze me is that Albert Einstein (played the violin), Mozart, Leonardo De Vinci, are all Dyslexics, Genius, Polymath's, and our society looks up to them as the fore fathers, but yet what about the people that are living today we label them as being different, less, crazy, because we don't conform to the norm. Everybody thinks I'm crazy for wanting to go to Med School at 30, and taking violin lesson. When is it ever too old to learn? I'm sorry but I'm curious about life and I don't want to be any other way. I still ask questions like a 3 year old and cry like one too. I'm crying right now as I'm writing this from my heart. We haven't even come close to understanding how the brain works and how music is the key to unlocking the doors and getting our brains to connect. The field of neurology has barely been taped into, and we don't even know how music might even be used at children's hospital to combat cancer, or that cell phones cause cancer, we are nothing but a bunch of ions. Well, I pray that God is with me and will guide me through my journey. I also hope that these tears and struggles were for nothing and that I may help someone someday.

Warmest,

Lisa DeBoer

Please email me at lisadeboer13@gmail.com if you have any suggestions of where I can go for help.

Eureka! I have always struggled with spelling but have been excellent at drawing, maths and science. I am a Radiotherapist and am half way through my second degree. I was lucky, I was privately educated

This is a nice article, but what about us adults that are in our 30's, 40's and 50's etc.. what are we suppose to do with this information. we are trying to find a job and or better our self in our jobs. we don't have the time or resouces (money) to be re-taught.

I think you are a retard if you have dyslexia and your life will be hard. Who wants to hire you. You can't read and write. My daughter goes out with one and I am * , she has so much potential, she is on the Dean's List in college and she has to pick a goddam retard to get involved with of all people!!

Probably the dyslectic retard that your smart daughter chose is a much better person than you are and can offer her love, support, understanding and acceptance just as she offers him these valuable things by accepting him as he is. It's a pity that a SMART person as you cannot see that!

Dyslexia is the more socially acceptable twin sister of Autism (Autism is the ugly monster that eats your kids?!?!) since all people with autism think in pictures, and all people with dyslexia think in pictures they are one and the same. Only autism has such negative connotations and stigma, no one who is dyslexic will accept the fact that he/she is also autistic!!!

hi .....

I don't understand dyslexia, personally. It is really annoying me as I have always known that there is something wrong with me but never really felt it as I've always been intelligent enough for no teacher to notice (they were all really shocked when asked apparently).
As you put to someone below, I've been told that I have Irlen Syndrome and I now use a yellow overlay, which really does help; I have heard that these help normal people anyway though.
I'm not sure whether my problem is dyslexia though and I've just been granted 25% extra time in exams but I'm not completely sure if I'm entitled to it. I do get a lot of the symptoms though, including severely bad short term memory (yet superior long term memory) and I often have to read things at least 5 times and even then don't follow. On the other hand, as you can see, my spelling is very good and is in the top 5% of people, despite the fact that I get the "What's that word? Y'know, that one which means . . ." feeling considerably more often than others.
I also wondered if it might actually be some other related form of learning difficulty - like dyspraxia (is that how you spell it :L) or dysgraphia or something.
Also, I always say I'm terrible at English because I really am compared to Maths (I just got 92.5% on a GCSE paper a year early) but I can pick up foreign languages really easily. I don't understand - what is it/what should I do? etc.

Some very talented dyslexics are: Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Leonardo da Vinci, Auguste Rodin, Erin Brokovich, Walt Disney, Winston Churchill, Cher, Whoopi Goldberg, Tommy Hilfiger etc.

I wonder how many of them where left handed. I feel his article explains how my mind work. I'm left handed. I was curious if this had anything to do with it.