#dislexia

So we joke a lot on tumblr about media "rewiring our brain" and but most of the time the books we love do not fundamental change they way we live our lives.

Sometimes in unique circumstances through they do

Anyone who follows my blog or reads more Than three of posts may have noticed that I can't spell worth shit. This is because I am dislexic, maybe not as dislexic as some, but pretty darn dislexic. I hot diagnosised in 1st grade and attended resource room for language arts from second through 6th grade. I also whent to the resource room to take social studies and science tests so that someone could help me read out the questions. They wanted to test my knowlage not my reading comprehension.

I wasnt illiterate but reading was hard for me. My vocabulary, sentence structure and ability to parse ideas were all average or advanced. But my ability to get words off the paper and into my head or out of my head and down on paper were not great. But may parrents and teachers worked with me! My mom read to me! My dislexic mom read me thousands of pages of Brian Jaques' Redwall series. She took me to the library. And I checked out so many audiobooks. I loved stories.

So one day during Christmas break of 6th grade (11 years old) I got Alana: the first Adventure out of the library.

And I loved it!

And I needed to know what happened next!

And our library system didn't have In the hands of a godess on tape. It was only in print.

So I couldn't put it on hold and just wait!

I NEEDED to know what happened next.

So I put a hold in the paper back.

I got the book in the middle of January, and I sat down and read it in two days. Every moment I had free, I read, on the bus, on the toilet, when my math worksheet was done, I read.

And suddenly I could read! I'd spent years learing what words looked like and my brain could match the shape with the idea. The last 5 years of work paid off. And in could suddenly read, and I could read fast.

In my family of dislexics, we call it clicking, when you are finally able to recognize enough words by sight rather than sounding them out. But you go from reading slowly reading alarming fast.

Over the next few months I devoured all the tortall books. And any other mide grade novel I could get my hands on.

In three months my parents and teachers whent from fighting to get me to read to fighting with me to put the book down.

At the end of the year i God a class award for Being the biggest reader.

I went from the girl who hid that she couldn't read to the one who was famous for it.

I make random hc's that sometimes don't entirely even match the characters, I just find stupidly funny

One of them being, Dyslexic Divus Crewel! He wasn't diagnosed for a dumb amount of time, only when he got to NRC did Trein point out his struggles and convince his parents to get him tested

Crewel's parents only allowed it to go on so long because Crewel never struggled in school before, so the sudden shifting as he got older they assumed was merely a boy being a boy and acting stubborn

Anyway, Trein helped Crewel a lot with his disability and Crewel hasn't let it stop him, he also tells no one because he gets flustered when he screws up words–

Which of these TWO things has taught my dyslexic ass the difference between right and left better

A. All of the traditional tricks dyslexics are taught and share with eachother

Teeheehee

Maybe….overusing my brain power

This is just day UNO?!—