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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am the PP whose son reads poetry. I am dyslexic as well. My family knew "something" was wrong, and I was assessed in the early 80's for a learning disability. My parents eventually stopped the assessment for fear of having me labeled. Since they didn't really know what to do for dyslexia then, and because diagnosis was so different, not sure whether it would have made any difference. I eventually learned to read, but didn't understand until learning about dyslexia for my son that you COULD segment words into little tiny sounds. I learned to read by recognizing the shapes of words. And spelling? I have already had to retype four or five in this paragraph that spell check caught. I wanted to write the work "odyssy" to describe my son's journey up above, but spell check won't recognize any of my attempts to spell it, so I wrote a different sentence. My working memory is very poor, so math is very difficult. I can't remember phone numbers or other strings. BUT. I went to a very good college, and a stellar graduate program. I devour books for the pure joy of it. I have a job I love and am very good at. Clearly, I have compensated. My hope for my kid is that the early training in reading helps rewire his brain enough that he isn't limited in his life choices by his dyslexia, the way I was. I wanted to be a doctor, but couldn't memorize and do math well enough to get through chemistry.[/quote]

OP here. Thank you so much for this. I'm sorry you struggled in school, but if you've have so much success without support, imagine what our children can accomplish with support! My child has some other diagnoses to complicate things, but supporting her academic learning will make everything else easier.[/quote]

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