quote:

ORIGINAL: MariaB

As a dyslexic, I have always found it hard to structure sentences. My punctuation is bloody abysmal and so is my spelling…. Thank goodness for spell check.
I have to admit, being online and typing as much as I do has hugely helped me in certain areas of written comprehension. I still get things wrong though and I still constantly worry about getting those things wrong.
One of the most difficult things for me is getting my thoughts down on paper. In my head I know exactly what I want to say but expressing it in the written word is often hopeless.
I can’t tell you how many posts I write and delete before posting. I sometimes read them out loud to my partner who more often than not says, ‘I didn’t understand a word of that’!! We are able to laugh about my odd tangents of the written word, as we are both dyslexic. I also have Dyspraxia, which makes things even more hilarious when I can’t pronounce a big word and sometimes can’t pronounce a simple one. People who know me would tell you that my speech is fluent and confident. They are right; it is fluid and confident providing I know to avoid certain words. It’s a little bit like someone who stutters avoiding all words beginning with ‘t’
Steve is a physicist and his background is engineering. His IQ is through the roof but its seldom he puts pen to paper unless its for a mathematical equation. I’m not so bright. He tells me I am which is kind of him but when it comes to keeping up with him I’m way back there.
And then of course we get the grammar and spelling pedants. I have been pulled up here far too often for grammatical mistakes. Only yesterday I was publicly belittled because of my paragraphs. My paragraphs are bloody awful and this is one thing that has just never improved no matter how much I write. I let it upset me, I shouldn’t but I do. I go away and dwell on it, question my intelligence before coming back here and hovering my finger of the ‘delete my account button’.
When you are dyslexic its very easy to spot other dyslexics. In general, Dyslexics will spend some time trying to get the spelling right and when they aren’t sure they have a tendency to use alternative words that they can spell. To someone else this often doesn’t read with any fluidity, especially if they have added or omitted words to modify its meaning.
I was diagnosed with Dyslexia and Dyspracxia at 13. Steve was diagnosed with dyslexia at 15 both of us were in the dunces class at school up until our diagnosis, both of us have been given an enormous amount of help and encouragement from the Dyslexic society, universities and colleges we attended. Both of us are over sensitive about our intelligence or lack of it. It’s easy to get paranoid, especially when you fail at something.

If we read something and we notice odd grammatical terms or strange spellings but we comprehend what that person is saying, should we pull them up publicly?
Do you really believe that Dyslexic people are so because they are lazy or just need to take an English class?
I know a lot of people claim to be Dyslexic when they haven’t been diagnosed and I believe there are far more undiagnosed Dyslexics than diagnosed ones.

Can we all be just a little more patient?

quote:

ORIGINAL: Level

Patience isn't always in great supply, but if I know someone's making an honest effort to communicate, then I try to make an effort to understand them.

A well intended suggestion: make sure your paragraphs are seperate, that makes it much easier to read.

quote:


Grammatical conventions operate in the same way. By insisting on a detailed, rigid way of doing things, they bring the vast majority of human beings within sufficient range of each other to ensure they can successfully communicate. In that sense, with you two, it's mission accomplished. The idea is not to be perfect, it's to ensure that you're within sufficient range of a rigid convention to ensure that other people can understand you.

quote:

ORIGINAL: MariaB
Only yesterday I was publicly belittled because of my paragraphs.

quote:

ORIGINAL: kalikshama
It was interesting to watch you master the paragraph issue over the course of this thread. If anyone else is wondering, you get the spacing by hitting Enter two times, not once.

quote:

ORIGINAL: DesFIP

The problem I find is that I cannot determine through a post who has a true problem and who is just using their phone to post and not editing what they wrote.

quote:

You can not let the grammar and spelling nazi's get to you.

quote:

ORIGINAL: MariaB
As a dyslexic, I have always found it hard to structure sentences... One of the most difficult things for me is getting my thoughts down on paper. In my head I know exactly what I want to say but expressing it in the written word is often hopeless.