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I am sure there are people who are only mildly dyslexic and others who are far more affected.Originally Posted by LDG
I wonder if there are different "degrees" of dyslexia? Because Gary doesn't really seem to be affected much by it other than of course the word forensic, and we do have the problem with left and right, and when on the Internet together, we have the problem with him saying "go up" when he means for me to scroll down and vice versa.
I am really good at pronouncing words and although I learned English when I was 12 years old I have no accent- well I have an American accent- what you would hear on CNN or other national news channel though nothing regional. Some of my friends learned English far younger and they still have a heavy eastern european accent...I am not sure what part of the brain controls the sounds and how well you can make out what you hear but it is indeed very fascinating. For me though, languages are definitely what I'm best at- but I don't consider math my strongest subject at all even though I am at georgia tech and did well (got and A and B) in my calculus classes- which for here is considered a big deal because you come from high school and go straight into calculus unlike at the more liberal arts oriented schools, and there is no class on linear algebra- you just learn it during the first few weeks of multivariable calculus. I enjoyed calculus and higher level math but I am terrible at algebra and geometry and the more basic math...I enjoy learning facts and something I can read and then recall in my memory far more than any mathy stuff though!! And I'm good at languages so if you ask me that theory about language and math being closely related doesn't apply to me..
A lot of times I feel like the way your brain is wired is not all just genetics it depends on what you first began learning as a kid. Like, I didn't go to kindergarten because I had a bad experience- my teacher threatened to put me in a basement ...soo yea my parents complained and nothing happened so they took me out of kindergarden. So the only learning I've had before first grade was when my mom read to me, and she did that a lot cuz she was not busy, it got to the point where I couldn't really read but I memorized what's on each page of the books. And I couldn't read until I was 7 years old. But I always had trouble with school at that early age because all of the kids had gone to kindergarden and of course the dyslexia..I feel like that sort of affected what I'm most comfortable learning though, specifically being most comfortable with learning facts and listening and understanding and remembering information...