I use Saffari as my web browser and it has a spell check however i have only just learnt the spell check is American. So it confuses me even more when i spell a word right but it says it is wrong i then spend ages getting confused over the word.
i hate it when spell check does that especially when i dont know how to turn off american spelling so i spell words in english but it tells me its wrong when i know its right and then i dought myself. grrr at spell checkers lol
I find it annoying when frms and things have a bit that says, and I quote, "do you have a learning disability? (such as dyslexia)"
No one ever mentions Dyspraxia on forms and things and if you say you have a learning disability people always jump to the dyslexia conclusion. I have no problem with dyslexia as my brother and my dad both have it but it's annoying having to explain that you have dyspraxia which is not the same thing.
Anyway... Rant over...
The world is just illusion always trying to change me.
You will find wonder wherever you can, and spread joy whenever you are able.
I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, divide within me. - Frankenstein.
Does anyone know anyone who has faked there tests?
I know two people who have. And they really did fake them. They spelt words wrong and other stuff just so they could get extra time on our exams (just did my GCSE's) and I did not even get extra time 'cause my school did not want to retest me!
They came up with Dyspraxia instead of Dyslexia. I just find this so bad. How could they just make it up? There are real people out there who need the extra time because they find things difficult. The only wanted the extra time so they could write more.
It just really pisses me off!
and if you say you have a learning disability people always jump to the dyslexia conclusion
thats interesting, becuase i alwasy assume that people think a learnign disability means you have a visible mental difficulty, and couldnt actually function in society etc. Infact, on my UCAS form, dyslexia was a seperate option to learnign diability. I've always thougth people didn't take it seriously as a disability.
my cousin has dyspraxia, and someone i Know through canoeing. So i can udnerstand to some extend how hard it is to live with.
"I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell." -Picasso
"No, painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war." - Picasso
'I have scars becuase I have a past; but they, like my past, do not define my future'
the last job i had said do you have a learning difficulty i have dyslexia and there reply was "thats not a learning difficulty" i was fuming.
i managed to get extra time in my college exams but because i stayed up studdying the nights before i used the extra time to sleep... not quite what it was meant for.
thank you so much for that post on all the famous people with dyslexia!
it made me smile:)
"They say time heals all wounds. I don't agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessons, but it is never gone." - Rose Kennedy
thats interesting, becuase i alwasy assume that people think a learnign disability means you have a visible mental difficulty, and couldnt actually function in society etc. Infact, on my UCAS form, dyslexia was a seperate option to learnign diability. I've always thougth people didn't take it seriously as a disability.
I kind of feel like that about mine. I don't tell people I have a disability because I presume they'll think there's something really wrong with me when, like dyslexia/dyspraxia, in the right environment I'm just like any other person and you'd never guess there's anything different about me.
Those who don't like dyslexia being termed a disability/learning difficulty, what would you like it to be labeled as? I don't know what other phrase could be used off the top of my head.
aww, i think its really horrible when people judge dyslexia as not being serious.
although i do not suffer from it, my brother and cousin do, so i know what it is like for them.
I found it very upsetting with the rage on the other thread because after all, people are on this site to help and not judge. We all say the words 'people judge us even though they don't know what its like to be in our shoes,' but doesn't it sound like people are contradicting their own words, just with a different subject?
I wasn't being nasty on the thread, but i still got some people raging at me for something i was ONLY aiming at the question, and not at sufferers of dyslexia.
I find it very upsetting when people rage at me for being judgemental, when i know for a fact i'm not. I can only understand and sympathise with people who have got these difficulties.
Anyway, my essay over.
I might be a grammar freak, but this is when people are talking and not writing things down. Nobody can be perfect - i bet i have loads of mistakes in just this!!!
lol
WE ARE ALL HUMAN. LET US HAVE OUR IMPERFECTIONS BECAUSE IT WILL MAKE US STRONGER TOGETHER AND FIND SUPPORT.
Which is hilarious because the grammar in that sentence is awful!
Dicky!
well... these were not the brightest people on earth to be fair lol. Basically steriotypical chavs, half of the time I could not understand a word they said when they tried to insult me lol
my learning support teacher at college always used to say "you are dyslexic you are better than them" when ever someone had said i was dumb for being dyslexic so now if i do something slightly silly or something really intelligant i always say "i am dyslexic i am better than you" and just walk away lol
i loved my learning support teacher she was call eddie and was lovely, she never told me i had spelt something wrong she would say "you've missed out or added a few letters" it made me feel like i wasnt thick because i know im not thick.
my learning support teacher also told me if it hadnt have been for my dyslexia i would have got a A in my photography AS..... stupid writting portion.
Does anyone know anyone who has faked there tests?
I know two people who have. And they really did fake them. They spelt words wrong and other stuff just so they could get extra time on our exams (just did my GCSE's) and I did not even get extra time 'cause my school did not want to retest me!
Yes I do know a few people who have done this, or have had pushy parents that have fought against psychologists to get a diagnosis because they have believed there must be a reason that their child wasn't achieving as highly academically as they had hoped for. My Mum is a primary school teacher and her view is that dyslexia is what many middle-class parents will try and get their kid diagnosed with if they aren't doing that well at school, whereas ADHD is what more working-class parents who can't discipline their child properly will claim they have as an excuse for bad behaviour.
Were I dyslexic or had ADHD I would probably feel really angry at those kind of people, who try to manipulate things so they get a diagnosis to work it to their advantage. But then I guess humanity is what it is and you always get some who work the system to their own benefit and to the detriment of others.
hiya, i have dsylexica and possible dyspraxcia (dont think thats spelt right) and was diagnosed 3 months ago at the age of 19 for going to uni, but i have been told ive had dyslexic tendencies since i was about 9 so i kind of always knew. but i dont see it as a bad thing that should be hidden because i have always got alot of support and i use laptops and for my alevels a scribe in exams aswell as getting extra time.
i do worry that when i finish education though it will be a bad thing to have as i wont get support anymore and i dont think you could really blame bad spelling and grammer and slow reading on dyslexica in the business world. it would be interesting to see if anyone who is actually working finds it difficult dealing with it?
Hi all.
I'm Kel.. most people know i have dyslexia and also irlens syndrome. i find my reading is effecting MUCH more than my spelling and thats always been the way.... I always found i understood words and i could use them to speak and write pretty well (if you ignore me getting b's and d's mixed up and things) but i could read things in a setence and them make sence at once. Over time i've learnt ways around my difficulties and i'd like to think (other than when i'm tired) its not the noticable.
I'm a lecturer and peole in work dont usualy notice.
I wasnt diagnosed till i was 16 but in school i was put in special support groups for reading and writing. I hate it when people think its not a really problem and think were just illiturate because its not true...
It effects (for me) things like left and right ALOT..never gve me directions.. and also things like ability to do up shoe laces (i can now) and to understand reflections being the opposite an stuff...mhm
“Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.”
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It effects (for me) things like left and right ALOT..never gve me directions.. and also things like ability to do up shoe laces (i can now) and to understand reflections being the opposite an stuff...mhm
I'm exactly the same on all counts.
"I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell." -Picasso
"No, painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war." - Picasso
'I have scars becuase I have a past; but they, like my past, do not define my future'
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Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover,
I must have you!"
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I have very mild dyslexia, but it manifests when I have to read aloud. And I often mix up numbers and acronyms, and use wrong words because they look similar to the word I should use.
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