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BEING DYSLEXICI dont like to be told that I am silley or stupid. Alistair, age 9 Being dyslexic Writing Sitting in class I can almost feel my brain going all tangled up and I come out feeling knackered and drained. Starting any substantial piece of work is a real task. I don't know how to start and to organise any ideas I might have. When I am writing sometimes I might leave out the odd letter, which isn't too bad because you can still read what I mean. Sometimes I miss out words which makes it a bit harder but sometimes I miss out huge chunks of sentences and don't notice until I read it through and don't understand what I've written and I can't remember what I should have written. When I was at school I would read the piece of work that the teacher had marked and find 'careless mistake'. And this made me angry because when I do a piece of written work I have to concentrate 110 per cent and 'careless mistake' implies I wasn't trying as hard as I could.
Reading When I am reading I understand what is being said totally. But when I have finished and try to recall what I have read my mind is blank. This makes answering questions on a piece of text very hard and takes a lot more time than it should. You may think it is an easy half hour's work but it will take me a lot longer and will be very hard and I'll get flustered and panicked, which only makes it harder to concentrate and it just doesn't happen naturally. Start reading. Stop reading. Try to remember what I have just read. Read again. Panic. Wonder how to transfer print into my own mind. Can't. Shoulder and neck tense up and get all tingly. Start tapping pen and feet, getting more and more worked up. You know when you open a bottle of Coke and pour some into a glass, more than half is bubbles and say you put your ear to the glass you would hear the roar of the bubbles all bursting - that's what its like inside my brain.
Why does this happen? Why is it so hard? Before I start any work I always have ideas but when I attempt to put them on paper they disappear or I have no idea how they would fit. This annoys me. More than that it scares me and just makes me more tense.
Memory If we say that someone's memory is like a net - some nets have small holes so nothing escapes and some nets have big holes so some things escape. Some nets have been damaged and have rips and tears in them so it is unpredictable what stays and what escapes. My net was made by someone with no knowledge of what a net should look like or what its functions should be. Part of my net has big holes, another part small holes and the rest is a tangled mess of rips and tears and gaps. As a result I have little say of what I catch in my net and of the things I do catch I don't know how long they will stay there. People look at my GCSEs and say I managed to do well enough, which makes me think they think there's not much of a problem. Who knows how I got them, maybe through great teaching. All I know is that I hated almost every moment of school from when I was about 7. Colin Orton, age 17. He achieved 10 GCSE's, A* - C. He wrote this before dropping out of his A level course. Dislexser
I always seem to miss out on things like Cubs and swimming badges because something I could do or rember the week before dident stay in my mined when I needed it for the proper test. Alistair
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