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Hello there my name is shawn I’m 39 from kansas city, mo and i have dyslexia. I been a lonely all my life. dont have any friends. been made fun off and still do. i dont have any family support. and my family use me becasue i can not catch on fast.
grow up in special ed. they told me college was not a choice for me. In high school i was on the honor roll all the way to my sinor yr. and could not a scholorship becuase i was in special ed. i went to college any way. i went to three college. two of them was jr college and they did not help me they told me college is not choice. and end up ay langton university where it took me 11 year to finish my degree. i keep floking class. i floke eight time. i did gradaute if it was not for my teacher helping. but now i’m back to where i was at before i went o college work % $ 5 to $8 dollor have hard to take test on the job i apply at. i’m just really treid of been lonly and not having any friend. my family dont understand what i’m going thrown. my mother alway tell me there nothing wrong with me. i’m at the end of my rope. i nee help.
HI Shawn
YOU are so not alone
Actually you are one of us.
Its hard to write when thats not your mode, but that is exactly what you got to do to get help some tiimes.
I totally get your picture with yr mom saying nothings wrong
and the others not having time…
YOu got to find, make your own support. (youve been looking in the wrong mirrors!)
I started my own support group called LD forward just to
pad my life with positive, constructive vibe. Its in San Francisco. Just remember
even though its hard, YOU ARE NOT DUMB, ACTUALLY YOU ARE QUITE ABOVE AVERAGE INTELLEGENCE IN MANY ARENAS.
YOU WILL SEE all your beauty or atleast glimpses of it if you dont give up- i know you wont.
Hello Shawn
I Have a Bachlors and I am also LD I started on the
rode to geting my degree in 1986 finally got it in
1998 I know of others that it toke longer but that is another story the shot of it is this lots of teachers teach to 2 or 3 of the diffrent whay to learn… well I will look for a reply
Mark
Hello Shawn
First off I would like in form you of some things (bear with me writing one of my probs )
one is there are many different ways of learning
the problem is that most schools teach to 1 or 2 general ways ( at least when I went to school and jugging form you age that is at the same time )
I have a bachelors (http://www.ozark.edu)
also I know some one that got her bachelors and is
also from Kansas city, mo now she is a teacher
well I will stop now and look for a reply
mark
thank you people for talk to me. I’m just getting more and more mad. about it. i went to bibly study and the pastor was asking me something i did not no how to answer it. i just sat there looking crazy i shock my head and said i understand, but i did not. i guess becasue people was in there and i did not wont to take up there time. i’m stoping going to church if i can not get on on one help. church to me are not trying to help. i di understand you need to pray but you need help. i’m not going to church any more. i’m really tried of this.
Hi I am from India I have had some of the probelems that you guys are having.I am 30 years old today and it was only last year that i cam to learn abour the fact that i have Deylexia.I was made to visit a phychiatrist when i was in my teens and even though my parents kknew about my deylexia they kept it from me for more than 15 years now .I never had any friends my father would hit me and abouse me becuse i failed in school, my older brother would treat me like shit and insult me in the presense of his friends because I was weaker physically and accedemically, I kept flunking in school and never went to collage becuase i never finished school.In India we dont have teachers who are trained to teach kids with dislexia instead of understanding the childs problem they get angry and just flunk the kid untill he is no longer elligible to remain in school then it becomes compulsary for the child to leave the school and go to another school , this is where all the failures are collected .I find it difficult to construct sentences properly I cannot express my self when I am talking to people its jus t impossible to to convey my thoughts accross successfully to the person I am speaking to,my concentration levels are next to nill, I cant catch a ball thats thrown at me I was no good at sports and this all led to me being extreamly depressed .No matter how hard I tried at school I just could not pass any test or examinations.I just kept trying harder and harder and I kept failing ,Everytime I flunked my confidence reached a new low,there came a time that I was so depressed that I thought of just getting it all over with .Thats when I started seeing a phyciatrist and that really helped me.I just wish my parents would have told me earlier about this problem I have but in their infinate wisdom they never told me untill last year when we were having a general conversation and it came up.I just lost my cool .It is so frustrating that they knew for 15 years and they never once told me about it,I could have done something got help or tried to get myself some help but thanks to them I just did not know.Their reason for not telling me : the doctor told them that there was no cure .
What the fuck kind of stupid reason is that fifteen damn years is not a joke but they still think that they did the right thing by not telling me.People who do not suffer from dyxlexia do not understand how important it is to know that you have it.It explains so many things,one tends to understand why he is not able to do the things that other people can do .I never understood why i could not excell at school even though I knew that i was not dumb,once i knew i have dyxlexia i could understand why i could never catch a ball that was thrown at me or why I cannot drive.Even brfore I learnt about my dyxlexia I chose not to drive because I knew that it was something that I could not do but I did not know why i could not do it even though people of lesser intellect were able to drive around in their daddys car.I kept getting made fun of for virtually everything that a normal person could so easily do and I could not do them.I have felt depressed and frustrated my entire life this could have changed 15 years ago but it was not ment to be.
as a dyslexic person i will say if i was told that there was a pill or a shot we could take to take a way this (problem) most people think we have, i would not take it. If i did i would be very afraid that i would lose the gifts that are in side me. Would it be worth it to trade my ability to write books or childrens stories so i could read faster or spell correctly? or see things in 3D or maybe think out side the box, which ( normal people cant do) but they try.
I will tell you i do have people who i have found that read every thing i write, so it wont be so bad. I know that all of us carrie a big tote on our backs because there is so much more than reading and writing with this thing. But somewhere i found it in my heart i no longer hate my self because shame. shawn your story touched me so much because you described how i used to feel, so i really wanted you to know you are not alone, and you are very smart, that is a dyslexic trait. 120 to 150 IQ. I hope some how you find your gift i know you have one, it is another dyslexic trait.
Shawn,
Have not heard from you in a long time. How are things? Let us hear from you.
Julie
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