I'm not sure how many of you know, but I am dyslexic. Most of the time, I manage to get around this difficulty. I wear a ring on my left hand as a constant reminder of which side is left. I convert driving directions to "driver side" or "passenger side" And I always leave a little early to make time for the inevitable wrong turn.
It means that I read a little bit slowly and sometime I see entirely the wrong words. This can be highly amuzing with certain advertising slogans on billboards. (It took a mother explaining it to her small child for me to understand the t-shirt slogan "Dyslexics of the world untie").
In the last couple of days though, it's been a lot harder. I can't track a straight line without running my fingers along it. And no matter how hard I think about writing 69, it always seems to come out 96. I can't tell you what a pain this has been at work - where my job consists mostly of data entry (which means linking 2 bits of data that are written on the same line) and billing processing (a lot of writing numbers on various forms). Needless to say my productivity has fallen through the basement. Since even when I'm working at full pace I have trouble getting everything done. This of course causes stress, which in turn makes it harder to deal with dyslexia.
I'm beginning to get dizzy.
All I can do is struggle through it and hope that whatever's causing this will go away soon.
In the meantime, it seems like a good time to slip of into my own little world and figure out what's going on with my characters.
Posted by Becca at January 20, 2005 11:11 AMHave you had any change in your diet lately? Mine always gets lots worse when I have been eaing anything that is arificaly sweetened.
P.S. I had fun running in old language learning issues yet again when I was studdying Spanish...
Posted by: Andy K. at January 22, 2005 04:00 PM