who knows anything about dyslexia? I ask because . . . (details IM because it's too much just for the header here . . .)
Posted by
call me ishmael (aka pacrat)
Apr 24 '15, 13:38
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okay, so, I've known for a long time that I have some form of dyslexia. had trouble with math, for example, when i was in grade school into Jr. High, and to a bit of a degree in high school . . . and I still cross numbers and stuff from time to time even into adulthood (checkbook balancing has been enraging a few times because I mixed numbers a few times on the math and it literally took FOREVER to find my little errors, even when I was staring right at it and the number switches weren't registering in my head) . . .
and sometimes, I think it's the dyslexia when i 'misread' things, and sometimes the words seem to get crossed up and everything when i'm reading over something. there have been times when I've had to read something several times to get the wording right.
anyway, here's what I'm getting at . . .
can dyslexia be to blame when you're looking for something and see it but don't realize that's what you're looking for? here's what I mean from a real-world example that just happened to me . . .
I was trying to find some files / documents on my external hard drive pertaining to a research project that I did last year for one of my college classes. I've always made a point to save *everything* for a long time after use just to make sure if it would ever be needed again or not, and this being a research paper that I knew I'd want to keep and revisit later, I made a point of saving a digital copy in my files specific to the class that I did it for.
I literally just spent the better part of 15+ minutes looking through multiple file folders for the stuff, not seeing anything. I was beginning to panic, thinking that all of it had been deleted somehow. The problem turned out to be that I was looking for a file folder named "research paper" (or something similar), and the stuff I was looking for ended up being in a folder titled 'assignments' . . .
so, ST, do you think that this was an issue of dyslexia confusing me, or was it that I just had a really major brain fart of the more innocuous type? I swear, though, it's like i was looking at that file folder and it just wasn't registering in my head to think to look there for it . . .
I'm about to turn 45. I honestly do think that it's time I got tested for dyslexia and see what options I have to deal with this.
okay, enough personal info sharing. back to what I was doing, and I'll be back presently to see if anyone bothered to read this far into my rant . . .
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