I took an online test this morning and apparently I have “significant risk”. It think it may be overplaying my early years when I found spelling and reading difficult and which I’ve largely overcome or circumvented in later life.
In retrospect and to my own credit I suppose, I achieved A* grade in A level English as a mature student and found it relatively easy. I was even offered a place at Oxford doing English if i had wanted it, but the thought of it scared me and I couldn’t see a desired vocation coming from it. Also in the A level essays I frequently reconstructed sentences to avoid words I wasn’t sure how to spell to avoid minus marks. Not as easy as it sounds under pressure in an English exam.
However, even now I struggle to find the motivation to read novels as it’s too much like hard work and I still get bored easily. At primary school my teacher told my parents she thought I was “retarded” (yeah eat your heart out) not because of work results but because I was so badly behaved and disruptive in class. Apparently in one lesson I stood on my chair and put my fingers in my ears when the teacher was talking. I still instinctively get left and right wrong 90% of the time. When driving the car my wife has to give me hand signals for direction or I go the wrong way.
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Any stories from yourselves on this sort of thing?
Edit; my usual edits for misspells and word displacements.
In retrospect and to my own credit I suppose, I achieved A* grade in A level English as a mature student and found it relatively easy. I was even offered a place at Oxford doing English if i had wanted it, but the thought of it scared me and I couldn’t see a desired vocation coming from it. Also in the A level essays I frequently reconstructed sentences to avoid words I wasn’t sure how to spell to avoid minus marks. Not as easy as it sounds under pressure in an English exam.
However, even now I struggle to find the motivation to read novels as it’s too much like hard work and I still get bored easily. At primary school my teacher told my parents she thought I was “retarded” (yeah eat your heart out) not because of work results but because I was so badly behaved and disruptive in class. Apparently in one lesson I stood on my chair and put my fingers in my ears when the teacher was talking. I still instinctively get left and right wrong 90% of the time. When driving the car my wife has to give me hand signals for direction or I go the wrong way.
https://dyslexiastg.wpengine.com/
Any stories from yourselves on this sort of thing?
Edit; my usual edits for misspells and word displacements.