Does dyslexia exist?

[Treblaine]

Just out of curiosity, how does someoneone get tested for dyslexia?

You have to take a timed test one-on-one with an education psychologist. It is not one test but an ongoing analysis throughout childhood in education.

 

[willsham45]

I have a terrible short turn memory and reading skills, but a great spacial awareness and good at puzzle solving. The gap between the good and bad is huge...too great. This is sure signs of dyslexia.

I do think there are a lot of people out there who try to cheat the system, or are just plane dim, but some are genuine.

 

[Jezzascmezza]

Hel no.
Ther iz no such thin as dislexea.
Ar yu stupid or sumthin?

 

[willsham45]

Just out of curiosity, how does someone get tested for dyslexia?

Go visit a shrink who knows that sort of thing, they got tests you can do. The tests practice a number of different skills such as: reading and writing skills, shape recognition, spacial awareness, general knowledge, memory.
From this they can Analise the results see how you compare to others and work out a conclusion.

 

[Dexiro]

My brother has it so i'm fairly sure it does exist. I think it's just where people have trouble with conventional methods of learning.

My brother isn't particularly lazy and is well behaved at school, but he just so happens to have trouble reading and writing. On the other hand though he's pretty awesome at drawing for his age.

I think he was properly diagnosed. I'm not doubting that most people who say they have it aren't diagnosed, they're probably just too lazy to concentrate at school.

 

[Sinisterspider]

I'm fairly sure it does exist but agree that most are just a bit dim. But i know a guy who's really clever and he's dyslexic so it makes little sense to say his inability to spell comes from a lack of intelligence.

 

[UberNoodle]

I worked with a lydexic and he often put the numbered files in the wrong order, but it was more than just laziness - if you compared the component digits, you could speculate where and how he messed up. Besides the pun, true story.

 

[Patton662]

Most people who claim they have dyslexia are too lazy to check their spelling or double read their writing for mistakes. But there are people who have genuine dyslexia or dyslexia related conditions.

 

[dfcrackhead]

My mother does have dyslexia, she sometimes has to reread a single sentence 4 or 5 times just to get it right and understand what it's saying and because of that she was never able to go to college

 

[Kursura]

I don't know much about other people claiming to have it. I myself was diagnosed with it by an expert less than a year ago, so it?s pretty conclusive. Annoyingly it was too late for me to get learning support for the last 8 years of education (sigh).

 

[The Righteous One]

Well from a young age I was always told I was dyslectic. Never noticed much of it. Maybe people who are not that good at languages are giving the label dyslectic to soon.

 

[reg42]

You'd have to be fucking stupid to think dyslexia doesn't exist. Yes, it exists. My aunt has it, and so does my mom's ex-boyfriend.

 

[nondescript]

You know the phrase "It's easier to ask forgiveness than beg permission?" I submit: "It's easier to demand sympathy than ask for help." A lot of people are lazy. They don't learn, they don't try to learn, and when they're job or schooling or something important is on the line, they blame it on things they can't control. We saw this same trend with ADD ("My kid isn't uncontrollably wild and a brat, he's just got ADD. Welfare needs to give him Ritalin.") and we'll see it again with any other quasi-social inhibitor. Do these mental detractions from normal learning or behavior exist? Yes, although I doubt in as large a number as they have. And more importantly, they can be compensated. ADD people can learn to tone down and pay attention, so why shouldn't a dyslexic learn to read, write, and operate in society without pills?

 

[Valkyrie101]

No, it's a hoax.

I think it does exist, and is a problem for some people: I know people with genuine cases. However, it's often diagnosed when the problem is stupidity, or just to give that kid an extra advantage. I know someone who managed to fial his dyslexia test, so he retook it and managed to pass. So he gets extra time in exams.

 

[Jamieson 90]

I think it does but 99% of the people who claim to have it are just too lazy to learn proper grammar and spelling.

My exact belief. I've met a lot of 'dyslexic' people that use it as an excuse whenever they can't spell, but I've witnessed them first hand write perfectly on an important letter, like a job or college application.

I'm dyslexic and its a complicated condition, I have good days and bad days, I can find myself being able to spell the most complicated words yet some days I can't spell simple 4 letter words I just have a mental block. I hope you see things differently now because its exactly what you described that gives people the wrong impression of dyslexia.

Not really, see, it's not that it's 'on and off days', it is literally they are great when it's important and then just don't even try when it's on msn or texting. I'm not saying that dyslexia doesn't exist, nor is who I quoted, and I'm not saying that your condition doesn't exist, as I'm sure it does, it's just clear that there are a lot of people that claim to have it and don't really.

I can understand that people lie and to be honest that pisses off people who are genuinly Dyslexic such as myself as well as people such as yourself who don't have the condition.

 

[tsb247]

It most certainly does exist, and I know a couple of people who suffer from it. It would literally take them several hours just to read this page of posts, and they have quite a bit of trouble spelling as well.

I am also not too happy that the education system chooses to ignore dyslexia; leaving some children behind as others learn. There is a movement in my state to get the condition recognized in the education system, but I doubt it will gain much ground with all of the budget cuts going on.

 

[zhoominator]

I'm pretty sure it does exist. I do know people with the condition and have seen that it can sometimes be coupled with other disorders/conditions (one of my friends has dyslexia and something known as "cluttering" I think it's called). It isn't just laziness as some snobbish people would like to believe, and isn't just having difficulty reading as some of these self diagnosing twats seem to think. It's quite easy for people who don't have a condition to dismiss it (I've had similar problems myself, though I don't have dyslexia).

 

[TwitchierGuitar]

No. It doesn't. People who are said to be afflicted with this blame the inability to read on the fact that their brain doesn't work very well. In all actuality, It's just them not paying attention. If ou claim to be dyslexic Slap yourself in the face every morning. Thn pick up a book and don't put it down until you finish a chapter. epeat until you can fluently read. It's that easy. Sheer application of will and focus gets everything done.

 

[wkrepelin]

dyslexia is real as is dyscalculia. Dyslexia is not about laziness it is about the way that visually symbolic language is processed by the brain.

I work closey with a student who has dycalculia as well and they try very hard, I see them study for hours on end in the week, but they are just mathematically impared. This person will never have anything but the must basic calculatory skills without the help of trained proffesionals and, even then, will always struggle.

These people are not stupid or lazy they have a cognitive imparement with respect to processing certain kinds of information.

 

[not_the_dm]

It does exist but I'm not certain where I sit on the dislexia bench, if at all. I don't have any trouble reading, infact, my brain computes infomation 17.5% faster than average, but I get things onto paper 22% slower than average.
Go me...