Comments for Dyslexia, Disability, and Deception: What Five Experts Say at http://www.rightsidenews.com , comment 1 to 2 out of 2 comments http://www.rightsidenews.com Sun, 21 Mar 2010 03:30:51 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.rightsidenews.com/200911027111/culture-wars/dyslexia-disability-and-deception-what-five-experts-say.html#comment-5246 Sir, I, too, am a severe dyslexic. When the computer "mouse" first came out, I had to hold it upside down just to get it to move right which was a real pisser because that little mouse ball kept falling to the "top" of it's casing and I couldn't get it to make contact with the points on the inside. Took some rather creative problem solving, but I got it to work! The "standard" dyslexia (as it was explained to ME when I was told that was what I had) was said to be the reason I would "reverse" letters - so instead of C-A-T it came out C-T-A or T-A-C most often - it was NOT a matter of not being ABLE to spell, it was that the letters would get scrambled when they were translated onto paper when I wrote - Get this - I would WIN spelling bees by standing with my BACK to the judges and my eyes closed. Yes, I know everyone is different, but there were MANY who whined about "poor them" because they were crappy spellers. They just didn't want to do the work. NOT saying YOU are one of them! I'm JUST saying. . . it is what *I* saw. When I was a kid, my dad taught me how to play chess, he was constantly having to correct my moves because the COLORS of the squares AND even sometimes the pieces kept reversing - so I would try to move "my" bishop across the board and end up on the wrong color. (heheh didn't help me win, Dad would just laugh and put the piece back where it was and tell me "nice try kid, now do it again and this time keep to the right colors!" or "Hey, anyone can win if they play with TWO queens, yours AND mine!" LOL, great memories, but still symptomatic of the deeper issue. In your letter above, you do not reverse or scramble letters, as I was told the [i]typical[/i] dyslexic would, you just plain misspell them. And that might be what some[i] could consider[/i] to mean by lazy (Again NOT saying you are! Just pointing out what it might look like to others who didn't know). If you can't spell a word, USE the "spell check" - even THIS cheap little comment application has a rudimentary spell-checker. Case in point: "I fairly discusted by what I read" that is not the result of a severe dyslexic, that is the result of poor grammar. The misspelled word is spelled with a "G" NOT a "C" and if you didn't know that, this application has it underlined in red. The sentence should read: "I'm fairly disgusted by what I read." You totally ignored the "am" after the first *I* or even making it a contraction "I'm". Second sentence, the word "experience" has an extra 'a' in it - again spell checker to the rescue. Of course, if your proof read your comment you probably would have caught these errors, so again, perhaps you felt you were being called "lazy" because you ARE [b]doing[/b] what lazy people do! . . . either you didn't want to take the time to proof read it, take the time to look back over it for the red underlines and try to correct, or you just didn't care - (translation: apathy is also sometimes considered lazy). Your comment is riddled with similar misspellings, again NOT letters which are scrambled, but the correct letters totally missing - so if this is any example of how you are in the "real world" then it is no wonder that some might consider your demonstrated inability to form a proper sentence, or to even get the right letters somewhere in the near vicinity of the word you are messing up enough evidence of your general intelligence and/or your level of commitment to doing the work necessary to correct what you are AWARE is a challenge to you. Refuse to be a "victim" my friend, take[i][b] responsibility[/b][/i] and FIX the problem, at least to the BEST of your ability and THEN claim the disability (yes, it is spelled with an "i" not a "y" as you did). - Texas Frog Soup Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:23:35 +0100 http://www.rightsidenews.com/200911027111/culture-wars/dyslexia-disability-and-deception-what-five-experts-say.html#comment-5225 I fairly discusted by what I read . None of these so called experts seem to have experiaence with individuals who are diagnosed as dyslexic . Just like those adds on tv your baby can read , some people do really have a hard time comprehending what they read , and yes I belive that the cookie cutter term of dyslexia is used to represent a much broader band of dysabilitys . I am agravated that these " experts " will make it sound like those with learning dysabilitys are just lazzy or trying to use the system . Let me tell all of you fools , I don't recive any money or assistance from anyone , I am dyslexic (severly) and I can read I just don't like to because I have to work at it (It's not fun) , I do have bad spelling , and I never have been able to hold a job for more than a year , pluse I have no friends and am largly misunderstude by my own family . If anyone thinks there is some benifit out of this for me I chalange you to point out just where the hell I've been lazy and how I'm just using the word as a lable . I do agree with the implied thaught that our educators don't have a clue because they don't . But just because you fools want to sell books don't call me an underachiver because god damm it I try every bloody day only to be kicked back into my hole by idiots like these. PS: How comes with all these frickin experts out there ? not one of them can report on their work with a dyslexic , no they think they know it all , just like bleeding someone to cure a stabing wound . If people want to have understanding then maybe they should just ask tha dyslexic and stop trying to get rich with their B.S. opinions !!!!! Yes I'm pissed !!!!! - Tim Coleman Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:28:56 +0100