Dyslexia help!?

Question

I have just been tested postive for dyslexia.

I am a AS student and dyslexia has not been known to have been in the family. Can it just pop up anywhere or does there have to be a link?

i am getting alot of support out of the college but for me an dmy family its all new so i need some help on understanding this difficulty.

Answer 1

Wow, you were just diagnosed?  You must have masked it well.  I would go on google and look up Dyslexia to get  general information on it.  Good luck and remember even Einstein had learning disabilities.

Answer 2

Yes even though it runs in my family I know children with dyslexia that have no previous family members with it.  Dyslexia is when the brain does not perceive the written word the way that most everyone does. Most people think of is as making mistakes between p's and q's and b's and d's that is the most commonly known signs but not the only ones.  My daughter and I mix letters up with in words, words with in sentences and leave out words or add letters to words were they don't belong.  For instance when My daughter was in the lower grades she would add e's to all of her words because she knew that e was the most used letter in the alphabet.  When she would read for more than a few minutes the letters would jump off the page at her so that she would lose her space frequently.  There are a lot of sites that can explain exactly what it is in the brain that goes wrong but I'm not really sure that it matters. You will learn to deal with it, I did and I went to school in the 60's when little was known about LD's and now I read at least two books a week and I love to write.

Answer 3

I have some dyslexia, only with numbers, and in my experience I've found out that if I am very conscience about it is more persistent, when I don't think about it less.