How Dyslexia effects my brain

(I hate the wording!)

Lets start with reading. I hated reading as child. Only because it caused more stress and frustration than enjoyment. Imagine reading and having to stop every other sentence to sound out a word you didn't know. I have always had a large vocabulary but spelling it out and writing words I want to use is a different story. I have a hard time recognizing the same words that I use in my vocabulary. Needless to say my spoken vocabulary is much higher than my written. Back to reading, I know I personally have this issue and I'm sure there are other Dyslexic guys and girls that have this. I get really tired and my eyes get sore during long amounts of reading. Back in my other post I talked about "How Dyslexia works with the brain", I talked about how the your eyes take twice as long to transfer data to a Dyslexic brain. For example: A non-Dyslexic brain takes the images (data for the eyes to the brain) which is originally upside down and flips it. The Dyslexic brain does that process twice. Your eyes are working twice as hard, and become twice as tired.

Here is the big thing about writing for me. I have enjoyed writing since high school but there are challenges I have to face every time I write. My brain can not proof read. That sounds really odd I'm sure. When I proof read for some reason I read what I wanted to write and not what is actually there. Now I use a software program made for Dyslexics called "Natural Reader"; it's changed my life in a non corny way. Moving on, my brain does do the normal flipping letters like most outsiders think is Dyslexia. The word "if" becomes "it" or "in". The word "me" becomes "be", etc. I will type the wrong past tense or present tense.  I'm also a really bad speller. There is a name for this issue that 80% of Dyslexic people have. It's called "Dysgraphia", I will blog about that next.

The area that I hate the most is Math, more so Algebra than anything. The reason isn't really that math is horrible as much as I always flip elements in the equation so then the solution is wrong. I have had some really really horrible Math teachers over the years, some in high school and a few in college.

I hope my personal troubles and insight will help others. That really is the reason I am doing this. If you like the blog please sign up to follow it. If you would like me to talk about a topic post it in the comments. Thanks again.