For those who don’t know what dyslexia is, it’s a disability that effects the way a person writes, sees and understands things. Most people believe that dyslexia is just seeing letters backwards, and not knowing how to read or write, well I’m here to tell you it is so much more than that. Dyslexia is not limited to the last three things that I mentioned, its a disability that effects the way you understand the world as it is. As for me, I have three types of dyslexia: Comprehension, putting steps in order (example: math formulas), and simple spelling. I am also a slow reader but I think that has a lot to do with comprehension. From second to sixths grade I went to a special school for kids with such disabilities.
While at this disability school they teach you how to read and write in such a way become a little bit of a disadvantage. Growing up I learned to spell by “sounding it out” which doesn’t always work, for example take the word “the”, sounding out the word the is not written the way it is spelled, meaning, I used to write “thu” and not “the”. This was probably the most frustrating thing to have to go through growing up, even till this day it frustrates me to the point of crying. Sometime dyslexia is really hard to deal with, you have to study three times harder, practice almost everything. I hear myself saying “why can’t I just be normal?” it can be very depressing. You can feel like you never do anything right and you are never going to get anywhere in life and let me tell you, that really sucks, that pretty much just ruins your whole week. Matter of fact I’m still going through that stage at this very moment, I’ve had a rough week and for the first time in my college student life I had to tell myself you can’t do this on your own anymore, its time to get real disability help. But, there is also a bright side, when you accomplish something that you have struggled with for awhile it makes you feel good that you never gave up and you are glad that you put yourself through all the humiliation and depression to get where you want to be, it is a great feeling to know that you can do it. I think that a lot of people forget about that part, that the only way you can fail is by giving up, and long are you try you can always get where you need to go.
I would to sit here any write some more but I want to save to issues that I would like to talk about later on in my blog. My next blog will touch on the subject about how dyslexia can effect a child through the preteen years.
“Your best friend is yourself but at the same time your best friend is also you worst critic, it’s hard to try and find the balance between finding peace with yourself and still be able to give your self that kick in the pants when you need it but, those you try to be whole are the one’s who will truly succeed in life.”
