boltonbonce wrote:Sluffy, I used to work with a guy with dyslexia, and he had to submit a daily report on iPad, which was quite an intimidating struggle for him. He was helped, in part, by a dictation app, but this often got a few words wrong, leading to some hilarious outcomes.
I once asked him to explain to a non sufferer what it was like, and, after struggling for an answer said, imagine reading an article in which every word on the page has had two extra letters added to them randomly. He had to untangle every word. It's different for each individual by all accounts.
Not even sure they know what causes dyslexia. Read up a little about it, and it does often run in families.
I wouldn't have known Sluffy was dyslexic without him telling us, so his posts are fine. Until he gets financial.
I'm trying Sluffy, I'm trying Bob, but you're basically giving a Rubic Cube to a chimp.
But give me an A for effort.
Thanks for that Bonce.
Wanderlust is just trying to be somewhat vindictive in the sense that he is in his mind just trying to humiliate me, in an attempt to undermine me and what I say or have said.
It's self evident that he holds a number of firmly held views on a number of issues and is clearly obsessed with them as evidenced as to the outpourings he posts on here daily, week in and week out, for several years now.
I guess he's recently moved to tying now on several occasions, to humiliate me over my spelling and grammar, in presumably an attempt to make me limit or maybe even stop posting because I might become too self conscious or embarrassed over the mistakes I may well make.
Little chance of that happening though!
All this of course is because the views he holds and his obsessiveness over them obviously affect his judgements and outlooks and he clearly dislikes it when I show basic and obvious flaws in his copious and frequent outpourings.
I'm not bothered what he believes but I don't hold that Nuts is the right place for his anger and hatred.
If he wants to post stuff that is genuinely fair comment then that's absolutely fine by me but you only have to look at some of his posts (and my replies) to show that his bitterness in what he says is frequently not grounded in fact.
There's plenty of other social media where his hatred would be more than welcome - but it isn't wanted on here.
Anyway dyslexia.
It's hard for me to describe mine, I guess there are many variations to it, I've not really studied it, I simply accept that it is and has been apart of me all my life.
My nephew has been diagnosed as dyslexic and he holds a position of authority in the armed forces, my brother couldn't even read and write at the time of his 11+ but went on to hold a senior job in education, our father would never write anything if he could avoid it yet was a genius at maths. When I was little I remember being referred to the deaf clinic because my learning was apparently miles behind my class mates and the teachers most have thought that was because I couldn't hear the lessons - there was nothing wrong in my hearing it must simply because I couldn't spell words even though I could read at the time.
So yes, as far as my family goes dyslexia does seem to be somewhat inherited.
It didn't stop me going on to grammar school though and even passing my English Language 'O' Level. I remember the Head of English saying to me before the exam that 5% of the overall marks were for spelling and another 5% for grammar and I wouldn't be getting any of those marks, so don't worry about those bits and just use your time and strengths in other areas - which I guess I've done in everything throughout my life ever since.
When I left school I got a job in the Town Hall in a departmental finance office and one of the nightmare jobs I had was to write out the amounts on cheques to suppliers, in those days it was a big deal if you had to cancel cheques because you cocked them up in someway!
But I faced my difficulties and was smart enough to work around them. I went on to have a good career and as the years went on and things like spellcheckers become the norm things got a great deal easier for me.
The way I would describe my dyslexia is the classical way I guess and that is as a 'blindness'. What I mean by that is if I write something down, I see what is written as the word in my head and not as I've actually written it down. Similarly when I read it back I somehow don't 'see' the words/letters I've actually written but rather see the word that is in my mind.
A good example of this is that for some reason I have difficulty seeing a negative such as do not, will not, can not, etc, etc - the number of times I miss the 'not' out is incredible! I even read back what I've wrote specifically looking for things like this and sometimes still don't see them!
I 'see' in my head the 'not' even when it isn't there - there's some form of a disconnect between my mentality and the mechanism of what is on (or should have been on) the paper I've written.
I've been playing Wordle recently or more particularly a variation of it called Octordle, where you have a set number of goes to find 8 five letter words. I mention this because I've discovered that once I've found a few of the letters I just can't seem to easily visualise the word by mentally adding in another letter to them to create the five letter word but can easily do so if I simply write the three or four letters I have down. I don't know what the disconnect is but I seem to need this stepping stone whereas other people seem to be able to do this in their heads easily without it.
It is what it is though, it hasn't been an issue for me for years since computers arrived on the scene and even before then I could still function just fine and accept my spelling was weak but it didn't hold me back in any way.
Sadly Wanderlust has only raised this now simply because he has 'issues' and one of them is me!
As the good book says he should be looking to take the massive plank out of his own eye first before taking the speck of dust out of mine!
He's clearly got issues he needs to resolve but he clearly doesn't recognise that he does - so the hatred and bile from him in regards to his pet hates will just go on no doubt.
Fwiw I've just read this back before posting and notices three occasions above where I missed the 'not' out and also missed the word 'four' out completely!
I've no doubt there's probably other stuff too and if I notice no one has posted since my post, I often re-read what I've written again and amend whatever errors I find.
I do this simply because if I don't hold any respect for what I've wrote for others to read, why then should I hope they show some respect in bothering to read it?
It's only words on the internet I know but if I'm bothered enough to write something then I'm bothered enough to do so as best as I can.