Dyslexia

kEn_sct said:
money is a valid argument. It costs the goverment nearly nothing. The government payes 10,000 pounds a year for me to uni anyway. Im on a 5 year course so thats a total of 50,000. now compare that to the money i got for my dyslexia £2880. thats only 5.8% extra per dyslexic student. so on the grand scales of things its nothing.

And also you sure your flatmates cheated the test??! its extramly hard to fool the test. As when you have an interview with a phycologist, they are trained to spot if your "faking it" and the way the test works it would be very hard to fake anyways. If the did compleatly fail it that Phycologist should be fired!!!! and its people like that that give dyslexia this bad image.

Anyway to all those who are saying "dyslexia is fake", "read more" "dont be lasy."
iv covered this in earlyer posts so i sujest you read them, you seem to just come across ignorant and i get the feeling you get your information for a tabloid article or at the pub.
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Jesus - how do people like you get to go to university. No wonder degrees in this country aren't worth the paper they're printed on any more.

edit - I thought I'd highlight the errors. Also there is the lack of proper capitalisation when beginning a sentence or the use of upper case I.
 
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dirtydog said:
I don't believe there is a medical reason for your English to be that bad, sorry.
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When your eyes altinate so you can miss a whole line of text or when you see a "d" and read it as a "b" or when you randomly switch letters around when reading and join two words together to make an intierly new word. Try learning to spell.

I can only spell by how words sound. So get off your high horse and go somewhere else because your attacks are childish and perfetic. Grow up.
 
I think there's a huge void between what it means to be dyslexic, and what it means to have poor reading and writing skills.

We're all human. If someone taps you on the back and says "hey, your lower than average reading/writing ability isn't your fault", then you're likely to accept that over the alternative (which might be: not too bright, didn't listen in school etc.). It's human nature. It's the same reason why fat people tell you it's all glandular. It removes any sort of responsibility from the person. It gives them the "it's not my fault" get-out.

I have absolutely no doubt that there are people who are genuinely dyslexic. I think these people are a minority though. I think there's far more people who have been given the option "what would you prefer: just poor language skills, or an affliction that excuses poor language skills."

Reading and writing skills aren't the only things that have been caught up in this way. There's Dyspraxia, which serves as "I can't do sport" get-out. Then there's Dyscalculia, which gives a wonderful "I'm no good at maths" get-out.
 
8igdave said:
When your eyes altinate so you can miss a whole line of text or when you see a "d" and read it as a "b" or when you randomly switch letters around when reading and join two words together to make an intierly new word. Try learning to spell.

I can only spell by how words sound. So get off your high horse and go somewhere else because your attacks are childish and perfetic. Grow up.
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Everyone makes mistakes like that though. Most people check their work properly though. I am forever missing out words or spelling things retardly. It doesnt mean i'm dyslexic, it just means i'm not very careful when i first write it.
 
8igdave said:
When your eyes altinate so you can miss a whole line of text or when you see a "d" and read it as a "b" or when you randomly switch letters around when reading and join two words together to make an intierly new word. Try learning to spell.

I can only spell by how words sound. So get off your high horse and go somewhere else because your attacks are childish and perfetic. Grow up.
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Why don't you use a dictionary on your browser out of interest? Sure it won't be completely infallible but you'll at least spell words like 'pathetic' correctly.
 
Nitefly said:
I appreciate your point, but it is difficult for me to say that anybody in an A-level exam is truly pushed for time. I plan out essay-based answers to every question that I can think of prior to the exam to give me the best sporting chance, and I still can't finish the papers in time (Masters level).
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They are tough. But your going under the impression that we finnish the papers too. I oftern don't manage to finnish my papers. It's hard for me because of my other eye condition i get head aches and eye strain and start getting slower and slower. Im very good at maths, which is a dyslexic trait. I did the first half of my 2 hour paper in about 30 minutes and the second half took me the full time to finnish, not because i was stuck but because I start reading the questions wrong or i get an answer and relise i had a minus sign missing. I read plus's and minus's ofern the wrong way round. Its tough.

I can work out a single question incredibly fast but give me a lot of them and ill be writing total rubbish by the end where im reading things wrong from tirdness.

There certainly are reasons. You can only really appreciate them if you know somebody who is truly dyslexic.
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Its a pitty these ignorant people beleive they know it all without even experiancing it. There is no hope for them as i imagin they go about their life the same irritating people. Pritty much just trolls tbh.
 
Jono8 said:
Everyone makes mistakes like that though. Most people check their work properly though. I am forever missing out words or spelling things retardly. It doesnt mean i'm dyslexic, it just means i'm not very careful when i first write it.
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I'm just awful at proof-reading. I have been sending off applications for law firms recently (they have to be perfect, pretty much) and I can read something through 5 times out loud and not pick up the mistake.

Naturally, this means I have 3 people proof-read the damn things for me before they get sent off, yet still, mistakes slip through. I made a change which didn't save, then couldn't pick it up again when I proof-read it outloud over 5 times. Suffice to say, having reached the reached the quarter finals of both competitions, I look forward to competing again next year :(

Rejected.
 
8igdave said:
They are tough. But your going under the impression that we finnish the papers too. I oftern don't manage to finnish my papers. It's hard for me because of my other eye condition i get head aches and eye strain and start getting slower and slower. Im very good at maths, which is a dyslexic trait. I did the first half of my 2 hour paper in about 30 minutes and the second half took me the full time to finnish, not because i was stuck but because I start reading the questions wrong or i get an answer and relise i had a minus sign missing. I read plus's and minus's ofern the wrong way round. Its tough.

I can work out a single question incredibly fast but give me a lot of them and ill be writing total rubbish by the end where im reading things wrong from tirdness.



Its a pitty these ignorant people beleive they know it all without even experiancing it. There is no hope for them as i imagin they go about their life the same irritating people. Pritty much just trolls tbh.
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No. We are people with different opinions and thoughts. Unfortunately you may meet a fair few of these people through your life.
 
kEn_sct said:
weather you belive it or not there is. your belief has no effect on it existing. Tey suport your argument with some facts/source/personal experiance
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I choose to think people who get THAT many elementary words wrong are taking the **** quite frankly, or are incredibly lazy. In fact the word that best sums it up for me is pathetic.
 
Nitefly said:
I'm just awful at proof-reading. I have been sending off applications for law firms recently (they have to be perfect, pretty much) and I can read something through 5 times out loud and not pick up the mistake.

Naturally, this means I have 3 people proof-read the damn things for me before they get sent off, yet still, mistakes slip through. I made a change which didn't save, then couldn't pick it up again when I proof-read it outloud over 5 times. Suffice to say, having reached the reached the quarter finals of both competitions, I look forward to competing again next year :(

Rejected.
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That just means your not proof reading very well. If you take it slowly, word by word, letter by letter you can't fail.
 
8igdave said:
They are tough. But your going under the impression that we finnish the papers too. I oftern don't manage to finnish my papers. It's hard for me because of my other eye condition i get head aches and eye strain and start getting slower and slower. Im very good at maths, which is a dyslexic trait. I did the first half of my 2 hour paper in about 30 minutes and the second half took me the full time to finnish, not because i was stuck but because I start reading the questions wrong or i get an answer and relise i had a minus sign missing. I read plus's and minus's ofern the wrong way round. Its tough.

I can work out a single question incredibly fast but give me a lot of them and ill be writing total rubbish by the end where im reading things wrong from tirdness.
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I do sympathise for you, my disgruntlement is not aimed at people who truly suffer.
 
Jono8 said:
That just means your not proof reading very well. If you take it slowly, word by word, letter by letter you can't fail.
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Well, apparently you can. 'Screen blindness' is the correct term, I believe.

I haven't got a disease or anything, I'm just not great at that particular skill.
 
Nitefly said:
I'm just awful at proof-reading. I have been sending off applications for law firms recently (they have to be perfect, pretty much) and I can read something through 5 times out loud and not pick up the mistake.

Naturally, this means I have 3 people proof-read the damn things for me before they get sent off, yet still, mistakes slip through. I made a change which didn't save, then couldn't pick it up again when I proof-read it outloud over 5 times. Suffice to say, having reached the reached the quarter finals of both competitions, I look forward to competing again next year :(

Rejected.
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Theres should be a firm you can send work off to to be proof read. Books must use it, wonder how much it costs.
 
8igdave said:
No you are simply a person who argues about something you know nothing about. That doesn't make you right. It make you stupid.
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:rolleyes:

Calling me stupid isnt going to get you anywhere. I am simply of the belief that dyslexia as a disorder doesnt really exsist. There are many people, even some experts and psychologists, that share the same view
 
Jono8 said:
That just means your not proof reading very well. If you take it slowly, word by word, letter by letter you can't fail.
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not true. dyslexics brain doesnt actually process the difrence. especialy subtle ones. like ie ei le el etc. when you read over it your read it as the right way round, also words that sound the same but have difrent spelling are a nightmare.

The problem with this is not just with letters. numbers are often read the wrong way round. infact when i read 2 digit number i normaly read the back 2 front.
 
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