"dyslexia"

[A Former User]

Dyslexia is actually kind of common. 1 in about 5 people have it. But I also get the idea that not everyone’s 100% serious when they say they “have dyslexia.” People seem to use it as an excuse for typos, misreading something, and accidentally typing the wrong word all together. For those who have it, it’s an actual struggle to read. It is a reading disability. Not a typing one. If you make a typo or type something wrong, don’t automatically call that dyslexia. It’s actually rather insulting when people get the disability’s symptoms wrong anyways. And it’s doubly insulting when people nonchalantly claim they have a disability/disorder when they actually don’t, while there are people that have it, and don’t use it as an excuse for every mistake. When people blindly claim they have dyslexia, it’s like being sick and claiming it’s cancer, but you don’t even get the facts straight and know what the symptoms for cancer is because all you know is “sick = cancer.” Some people seem to think “mistake with words” = “dyslexia.” Not every time is that the case, so please be more wise when you start throwing terms around. I could say this about every term people label upon themselves.

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Typing is effected by dyslexia, but just to clear things up, I mean mistyping and making general common mistakes/typos don’t equal you have dyslexia.

[Cursed Cucumber]

My dad and Ttp both have dyslexia, and I see how hard it can be. My dad has to use his finger to read or else he mixes everything up, and Ttp reads really slowly as well because of it. I read things wrong and sometimes say sentences backwards but that doesn’t necessarily mean that I have dyslexia too.

[A Former User]

Yeah

[Zang]

@Duchess well not necessarily im dyslexic and dyslexia is a reading and writing disability i know that cause people with dyslexia switch the letter b, d, and p around cause they look so much alike and i do it all the time and its not really us switching it up its our brains that are doing it cause we cant tell the differences between them and it concerted a learning disability not a reading disability i know that cause i had to go to classes for them in elementary to help with it

[A Former User]

…You are your brain-
I’m not saying anything you’re saying is wrong though

[A Former User]

If people said they are not their brains then they could blame everything they do on their brains

[finn.in.outer.space.]

Now let’s talk about the people who think that not being happy equals being depressed

[finn.in.outer.space.]

Because as a person with clinical depression it literally drives me up the fucking wall

[finn.in.outer.space.]

Granted, you can be depressed and not have clinical depression but depression is completely different than being sad

[Shasta]

My brain hurts trying to read all of this @-@

[A Former User]

@Alexandria Yeah, I know about the b’s and d’s thing. Im talking about when people don’t actually get words/letters mixed up and they blame mistakes unrelated to dyslexia, on dyslexia, even if they didn’t have it.

[A Former User]

@Alexandria said in “dyslexia”:

@Duchess well not necessarily im dyslexic and dyslexia is a reading and writing disability i know that cause people with dyslexia switch the letter b, d, and p around cause they look so much alike and i do it all the time and its not really us switching it up its our brains that are doing it cause we cant tell the differences between them and it concerted a learning disability not a reading disability i know that cause i had to go to classes for them in elementary to help with it

oh shit, i have dyslexia?

[A Former User]

Simply put, if you misspell a word you don’t automatically have dyslexia, if you’ve had a bad day you’re not automatically depressed, if you go from being happy to sad or vice versa you’re not automatically bipolar, etc…

[Xx_Midnight-skyz_xX]

@Duchess i have dyslexia and so does my brother its horrible when you know how to spell something then you spell something but then spell it wrong or when i read everything spaces out and its really hard for me my mum ordered overlays but they never came and soon im getting tinted glasses for my dyslexia

[ImperfectxxKio]

@Duchess my younger brother has it and one of my friends do too

[Xx_Midnight-skyz_xX]

@Duchess dyslexia is a big ready and writing disorder and i get that in school someone spels something wrong and then they say “i might have dyslexia” and everyday i go to school with a yellow tint on my ipad because i have to you Eplatform to read books the rest of my class is doing and its annoying when people joke about ut because they dont really know what its like for people with dyslexia

[A Former User]

.•´¨'°÷•..×🐇 🎀 Shaylene/kai 🎀🐇 ×..•÷°'¨´•. Yeah. I hope people don’t get upset I said it’s not a typing disability. While writing and typing out things are affected by dyslexia, I meant like typos and mistakes don’t all equal dyslexia.

[Xx_Midnight-skyz_xX]

@Duchess ohh ok ok makes more sense now

[Xx_Midnight-skyz_xX]

@Duchess I’ve only just now realised to typos I made 😭🙏

[Zang]

@513 well you have to be diagnosed with it by doctors or child specialists i was diagnosed with child specialists