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Knowledge Zone#Dyslexia is a common, lifelong neurological learning disability that primarily affects reading, writing, and spelling due to difficulties processing language sounds (phonological processing) and linking them to letters, despite normal intelligence.
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SewBlue@Thebratdragon She goes to a school for dyslexia, since 4th grade. Avoiding the microaggressions and shaming that happens to dyslexics has weighed heavily on our education choices.
Her 2nd grade teacher confiscated comic books that caught her attention as "not real reading," not that she could really read them yet. She backslid 2 grade levels with that teacher. That school later told us they would pass her along but not bother teaching her to read.
We've had to work for years to undo the damage that school did to her.
She listens to books non-stop, but rarely actually reads them without the audio book going. (We buy 2 copies, print and audio, if we can).
This is different. No audio back up. No familar stories.
My dyslexic kiddo just got me the best Christmas she ever could.
She asked me if she could get a subscription to webtoons.
For reading material.
My kid is 15. Every ounce of reading fluency has been hard fought for. That she wants read, as severe as her dyslexia is, is a triumph.
It is making me well up just thinking about it.
Lydia Vvinters#WritersCoffeeClub 23, What’s a facet of the modern era of writing for which you’re thankful?
wel witout spellling end gramar chekkers of tecst to speach. my writin wold look a bid moor laik dis. zo Im not redy to let corporat greed highjack al the inofation regardin langguigh moddels. Both Speechify end gramar tools laik LanguageTool are teknically 'AI' zo ids alwais a litle hurtvol wen someone expressses hatret voor all of it. it keeps me fealing laik an impostor.
ᗪaveYou know I’ve been on #mastodon for years now and have never done an #introduction
I’m Dave, a mental health advocate and lover of all things #coffee . I love playing #chess and listening to quantum physics and theoretical #physics lectures for fun. No I don’t fully grasp them but man are they fun to listen to. I have a learning disorder that I just recently stopped having shame over. Yay #dyslexia . I am also a survivor of childhood sexual abuse and I am tired of being ashamed of it. I’m bipolar and have major depressive disorder as well as some ptsd. I use to help run a busy Emergency Room in #NYC until my mental breakdown. I’ve been battling for close to a decade since that breakdown for social security disability to no avail.
I love making people feel good. I’m silly and because of recently found crazy meds I’m feeling real joy for the first time since I was a child. Now if only my insurance would pay for them. On my 4th denial I believe.
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Cat WestFor any of my friends that are worried about me.
Don't worry I know the gift my God gave me. I will never take my life because I am suppose to be here for a reason.
I just wish I knew what it was already lol.
If you know me, you know when I put my mind to something I am a pitbull. (pitbulls are actually beautiful creatures) but you get the reference.
Well I just for the first time in 46 years started to love myself. And when I set my mind to something. Dave never does anything half ass.
This kid with a GED and learning disorder held an Executive Council seat on the biggest local unions in the country. Unmedicated....
He worked in a busy Emergency Room trying his best every single day you saw him in Brooklyn. Unmedicated
He sat on the board of directors of one of the oldest peer run non profit self help groups in the country dealing with the mood disorders he battles. Celebrating its 40th year this year. Fully medicated lol.
He worked a historic Presidential campaign in two battleground states. One of which he helped setup operations. Obama kinda deserved my unknown hypomania at the time. He deserved my best. And yes people with hypomania can make some of your best workers.
Look at what this kid that people gave up on did. Now just imagine if we start to believe in each other more?
I wonder what i'll do next. I'd really like to help people again.