Mad Doug Biker
Just a damaged guy.
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dyslexia rant
- Thread starter stuee147
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... makes a change from me misspelling grammer ... 
Mad Doug Biker
Just a damaged guy.
- Location
- Craggy Island
4, anal retentiveness is a whole new ball game
*Goes to say something but then changes his mind!*
Spinney
Bimbleur extraordinaire
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- Back up north
You mean this bit?
I assumed the ??????? was elegant short-hand for 'WTF is it with some people who don't like someone's posts but keep reading them, why do they bother?', and hence an imaginative use of the symbols available within the standard keyboard set, and not a mistake with the standard conventions of written English.
winjim
Straddle the line, discord and rhyme
Me too. ie one of these :You mean this bit?
I assumed the ??????? was elegant short-hand for 'WTF is it with some people who don't like someone's posts but keep reading them, why do they bother?', and hence an imaginative use of the symbols available within the standard keyboard set, and not a mistake with the standard conventions of written English.
GrasB
Veteran
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- Nr Cambridge
Worse that that, because they don't 'understand' dyslexic logic the suggestions are 9 times out of 10 completely wrong. In this case Goggle & bing are your friends on this one spell the words phonetically in either of them works quite well for occasional miss-spellings but it gets very laborious if you've got a lot of words you miss-spelt in a post.
subaqua
What’s the point
- Location
- Leytonstone
being dyslexic can have its bonuses. mate of mine thought he was buying a warehouse, which isn't what he ended up with !
different people have different skills and abilities . doesn't bother me what anybodies particular abilities are as long as they are decent people.
different people have different skills and abilities . doesn't bother me what anybodies particular abilities are as long as they are decent people.
I couldnt give a toss about someones spell and grammar in a post, mine is appalling but I do try. My other half is dyslexic, like the OP she holds way more qualifications than I ever could (PhD, chartered something or other, and a very senior management role) What really makes me want to scream is peoples use of 'text' speak, there really is no excuse for it, it comes across as being very thick and/or immature. I have on more than one occasion received an email, from so called professional colleagues, littered with Text speak, I just bin them and refuse to answer them, then the inevitable question about 'did you get my mail?' to which i respond with 'yes but I couldn't be bothered to read it, because it was just gibberish, if your keyboard has stopped working get IT to replace it... ' or some other sarcastic retort.
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
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- Meanwood, Leeds
Lol, gr8! Hugz
Over The Hill
Guru
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- Ridden off into the sunset
I am with you all the way on this one.
I am not full on dyslexic but have problem areas like spelling. It was undiagnosed at school and I spent most break times copying out spellings 50 times. It did not teach me to spell but did teach me to stop writing and leave school.
It is an odd one as I can be as pedantic as anyone still with a miss-placed apostrophe.
The type of criticism you point out is different and comes over as rather nasty. A while back William Hague ripped into John Prescott in a very catty way and was rightly criticised for it. It probably goes right back with "educated" people looking down on the peasants.
On the plus side you may find you are either very good in other areas or have learnt a coping strategy to overcome difficulties that has developed other areas. For example I never could learn times tables, just would not stick in my head. But I coped (and still do) by getting very good at mental arithmetic. If I want to know 8x8 I don't just think 64, I have to do 10x8 minus 2x8 quickly in my head but I think it is done in under a second.
This gives you a good brain for problem solving. Certain things I am really good at and you may find you sort out things and come up with ways round things better than others.
It all seems to balance out, with most of us being good at some things and bad at others. Dyslexia seems to knock some of us off centre a bit but that then either naturally or due to coping strategies we get very good at other things.
I am not full on dyslexic but have problem areas like spelling. It was undiagnosed at school and I spent most break times copying out spellings 50 times. It did not teach me to spell but did teach me to stop writing and leave school.
It is an odd one as I can be as pedantic as anyone still with a miss-placed apostrophe.
The type of criticism you point out is different and comes over as rather nasty. A while back William Hague ripped into John Prescott in a very catty way and was rightly criticised for it. It probably goes right back with "educated" people looking down on the peasants.
On the plus side you may find you are either very good in other areas or have learnt a coping strategy to overcome difficulties that has developed other areas. For example I never could learn times tables, just would not stick in my head. But I coped (and still do) by getting very good at mental arithmetic. If I want to know 8x8 I don't just think 64, I have to do 10x8 minus 2x8 quickly in my head but I think it is done in under a second.
This gives you a good brain for problem solving. Certain things I am really good at and you may find you sort out things and come up with ways round things better than others.
It all seems to balance out, with most of us being good at some things and bad at others. Dyslexia seems to knock some of us off centre a bit but that then either naturally or due to coping strategies we get very good at other things.
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Over The Hill
Guru
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- Ridden off into the sunset
Also, was someone having a joke by calling a spelling based problem "Dyslexia" FFS!
Saluki
World class procrastinator
- Location
- ...Norwich over the water.
Actually people do pull you up over a stammer. They also make a 'winding' motion with their hands to indicate that they want you to hurry the heck up. I just say "most people are too polite or intelligent to make comments about my stammer" which is not best polite on my part with the implication of that statement but it tends to take the wind from people's sails.
I stammer and I have dyslexia. I also have a couple of degrees and was doing fine until I had to spell 'Australopithecus Aferensis' a lot (A/Pith/A) - oh I copied that from one of my old text books but there is no guarantee that I got it right. As long as my meaning was clear, my lecturers didn't mark me down for my atrocious spelling. I have blue glasses too, it keeps the bloomin' words still and stops them changing colour too. Added to that I have Synesthesia but count that as an advantage
The whole pulling people up over a badly spelled word is seriously bad manners. You have a good old rant, and have one for me as well.
Some of us who deal with their dyslexia on a day to day basis have put in a lot of work to 'overcome' as many of the problems as possible. My spelling is horrendous but I can spot a badly spelled word a mile off which is really helpful and means that I can use a spellchecker. I don't use dictionaries much though. Unless we are playing scrabble! Stupid things, half the words start with the wrong letter anyway.
Stuee,
just a suggestion that I have seen work well elsewhere: why don't you mention that you are dyslexic in your signature? If you said something like "sorry if my spelling isn't great, but I am dyslexic", then no-one will bother you with corrections, I'm sure.
The only other thing that you can do, as you have done in your post here, is to keep everything well separated. Lots of paragraphs/ breaks make reading a whole lot easier compared with a wall of continuous text.
just a suggestion that I have seen work well elsewhere: why don't you mention that you are dyslexic in your signature? If you said something like "sorry if my spelling isn't great, but I am dyslexic", then no-one will bother you with corrections, I'm sure.
The only other thing that you can do, as you have done in your post here, is to keep everything well separated. Lots of paragraphs/ breaks make reading a whole lot easier compared with a wall of continuous text.
