Hi, I'm fairly sure I have Dyslexia. Do any other trans people have it too?

Yep! In the worst way. The letters start really dancing around after I read for a wile.

Look it up in the dictionary, there should be a picture of me.

Dyslexia is often confused with several things similar or related to it.
You may want to read up on this... A.P.D. (Auditory Processing Disorder) and a bit about L.P.D. (Language Processing Disorder), both are linked with dyslexia but can also be separate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_processing_disorder. Yes, I have one or the other (or both), along with dyslexia.

I have not been officially diagnosed with any of this, but I have the symptoms of A.P.D. and dyslexia.

Quote from: Leslie Ann on September 28, 2008, 05:40:15 PMhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_processing_disorder

Interesting, I have 4 out of the 7 characteristics from the list on that page. I don't think I have the condition though since I have no trouble learning foreign accents or picking out details in speech/music.

Yep got it here, I've been tested and proven that I can't read/spell if my life depended on it. I've also kind of wondered if there was a connection but, I don't really think there is one.

p.s. I try to double check all my postings

I have the weirdest tick! I call it spoken Dyslexia.

The first part I attribute to storing people's names as a singly linked list in my head (yay programmers!) lol.. Basically what I mean is that when I don't get enough sleep I'll look at someone and call them the wrong name, then start going through people's names and finally say screw it, you! Brian, er eric, er jack... ah screw it.

The second part is I flip halves of words and whole words in sentences perfectly! I'll stand around talking like this weekend and say "I put my hand in a beer full of pitcher." Then I'll stop... and say dammit! haha. One time I tried to say something backwards and it came out forwards to my friend Brian. He couldn't stop laughing. :p Usually happens when I haven't had much sleep.

Wow, hey. Reading that, I'm almost certain I have APD.

I worked in retail, in a region I'm not from, and could not understand 1/2 to 3/4ths of everyone I encountered. I fit every item on the list from that link, some to a severity that's almost crippling. Thinking through something I listen to versus read instructions is like comparing a clumsy basset hound swimming through a pool full of mollasses versus an olympic swimmer in perfect still waters.

Not that I'd ever do anything about it. Socially I get along alright whenever I have to. I'm just... particularly bad with job interviews.

Ohhh Yeahhh.

I'm as slysdexic

Quote from: nerdychick on September 28, 2008, 08:22:25 PM

Quote from: Leslie Ann on September 28, 2008, 05:40:15 PMhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_processing_disorder

Interesting, I have 4 out of the 7 characteristics from the list on that page. I don't think I have the condition though since I have no trouble learning foreign accents or picking out details in speech/music.

For some reason English seems to be the worst language for the problem. It is suspected to have something to do with how we are taught to read. On the other hand, as they say, it can easily be confused with another learning disability. So you may still have something, just not this exact one, or maybe you are only a mild case (not everyone fits all the signs), or maybe totally normal.

yeap when ever i tell somone a phone number i tell them the number that comes after the number im supposed to be telling them

I've always thought I was dyslexic though had not formal diagnosis.
I had no end of trouble learning to spell. I still can't and it varies from day to day. Some days I know how to spell a word and others I just can't get it. I often can't see a spelling mistakes. I never had any trouble reading as long as imagery and emotion was involved. I have always found it effortless I don't even see the words. But I struggle with nonfiction. Nothing sticks. I prefer to be shown rather than learn something from a book. I struggled at uni because journals were almost incompehensable. It took too much effort just to process a line.

Weirdly my spelling is much better typing than handwriting. I think it is to do with my poor handwritting. I could never seem to create consistent letters. But never really struggled at school though except in the beginning. I ended up being good at writing stories and doing mathmatics and science.

I also think I have APD as described. I'm terrible at taking phone messages. I just seem to not process it somehow. I always end up saying stuff like "It was some dude with something about.... I think it was along the lines of..."I also have trouble with names and get hung up on words. I know what it is and what I want to say but it just won't come out. I know the word for what I want to say exists but it elludes me and I have to go for a long winded description. Happens all the time. It can be really frustrating.

Despite this I seem to manage. I have to really focus to listen even to casual converstion but I seem to be able to do it well when I want.

Woudn't it be weird if it were related to my non-binary gender? Perhaps it makes gender uncomprehensible to me...

I had teachers said they thought I had dyslexia or dyspraxia. I think it more from bad motor control from my birth because I have to hurry I so switch a lot of letters around, get words out of order, and just leave words out completely.

dyspraxia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developmental_dyspraxia

Anyways I hope it is not a trans thing because I'm not sure what that would mean about being trans if they are linked.

Anna

After thinking about it and reading some of these comments I don't think what i have is dyslexia, though I have had trouble remembering who's name goes with which person, and i often have to re-read sentences several times before I can understand what's written. I think my spelling is fine though, but it could be because I re-read.
I have ADHD though.

I saw a survey  that someone did on another site and the percentages of those that had dyslexic symtoms were fairly high with transsexuals. Now granted it was not a scientific study but it was interesting. While my words do sometimes come out garbled when I type and I have to go back and correct alot, I dont think that part is affected by dyslexia. My problem seems to be rooted in discalcula, which is a form of dyslexia as it relates to mathematics and numbers. I have always had a problem with that and without a calculator I am lost.

Wendy

Quote from: Jasmine on September 28, 2008, 06:15:47 AM

Hi, I'm fairly sure I have Dyslexia. Do any other trans people have it too?

Not me!

but I knew plenty of people who do suffer from Dyslexia who are not transsexual...

Dyscalculia.  I haven't had a formal diagnosis, but have been aware of the problem since middle school.  Prior to that, I just figured I sucked at math; turns out I understood the concepts and my work process was fine, but the numbers I wrote down were messed up--reversed, transposed wrong, etc.  It wasn't until a middle school teacher forced us to redo all incorrect assignments/tests that I noticed this pattern in my work.

Dyslexia isn't really a problem for me; letters are easy, but numbers seem to get mixed up somewhere as they travel from my head to a piece of paper (or vice versa).  It's an unfortunate problem for an engineering student to have, but I've managed to work around it.  I'm somewhat slower than my peers when doing math (I force myself to work slowly & deliberately, and continually double-check what I've written), but it's not too bad.  I also compensate by learning concepts so thoroughly that I don't have to spend time on an exam trying to remember how to do a problem, when I really need that time to keep an eye on my numbers & make sure I'm writing them down correctly.

I'm definitely dyslexic. I do fine typing but when I'm printing by hand I consistently forget which way letters face, especially P, R, S, p and q, b and d. It's more pronounced when I'm tired.

Karen Lyn

me too!

I had dysalgebra in junior high school and my father would get so angry trying to help me that he would get violent.  I don't know what I have really, I never had proper care but perhaps it is better not to know because a person can get focused in on something and kinda claim it.

Quote from: Kim6 on November 02, 2008, 12:52:49 PM
I had dysalgebra in junior high school and my father would get so angry trying to help me that he would get violent.  I don't know what I have really, I never had proper care but perhaps it is better not to know because a person can get focused in on something and kinda claim it.

Sometimes knowing allows you to counter for it though too.
Depends on the person.