How can you write with your Dyslexia ? (Tips for Dyslexic Writers)

Many times people ask me:  ''How can you write so well and be dyslexic ?''

The thing they don't understand it's that dyslexic people can read and write just like you with some practice and tips.


So here I give some of my personal tips to helps every Dyslexic writers in the world to write better.


1. Practice,  Practice,  Practice, and Practice reading books and writing;  learn news words,  keep a notebook,  enjoy it and never feel down or discourage when you don't know how to write something just ask and learn.  


2. Plan your writing with Bullets points.


3. Take your time,  it's important to take your time.


4. Content is the most important thing in your writing not your spelling. 


5. Write in different colors,  this can really help you.  Like me I prefer write in  red and blue this is more easy for me to read later.



6. Do some research.


7. Write Note before you put it on paper or on the computer  (bullet point note).


8. Fill your bullets points (pc),  just add more informations.

9. Don't rush, the more you rush the more mistakes you will make (take an hours or more if you want to write something very good).


10. Use technology like Microsoft corrector,  spelling check,  autocorect, detected word,...


11. Use a dyslexic font, there are several available online to buy and download. Find the one that works well for you.  They are fab and finally for me,  at least,  it has stopped the B and the P getting muddled up.


12. Write short, simple sentences.  For me I realize than when a sentence it's too long I just get lost.   So I decided to write simple sentence using subject-verb-object.   And also to keep my paragraph short as well to don't get lost. 


13. Avoid any type of Abbreviation.  Me I just cannot keep track with this when I write and I forgot if WA means weight average or something else.


14. Give your work space, like using one more space after the period.  This will help you keep in track with your essay. 


15. Read at least 4 times each sentences to see if their is a mistakes in it (read it latter not just before you write it, and correct it.  And do it also later.).

  
16. FINALLY NEVER GIVE UP, YOU CAN DO ANYTHING IF YOU WANT IT.

How Manga help me with my Dyslexia ?

First of all let me tell you What are manga?

This is stories told using the medium of comic, with a lots of pictures accompanying the text. However, this definition is a little to simplistic. A Manga is a medium of visual storytelling with graphic and pictures, that is originates from Japan. A Manga book is usually slightly thinner, that means that they require reader to start from the back of the book due to Japanese language being read from right to left.

A Manga can be in so many distinctive style, with large text, eyes. An anime is its a film do from a manga and that use the same artistic style.The most popular manga and anime in the world was Pokemon or Dragon Balls. 

Some people assume that manga is only for children because of the success of children's cartoon, like Digimon, and possibly due to the cuteness appearance of some manga characters. This is not the case, people of all ages can read manga, and it covers a wide variety of topics like: action-adventure, romance, sports and games, historical drama, comedy, science fiction and fantasy, mystery, suspense, detective, horror, sexuality, and business/commerce, among others. Likewise, some other people when they think of comic or manga only think of superhero or geek reading but this is far from the truth, and it's come to same thing has judging all books based on one genre, such as magical or horror.


Let me show you some example of Manga bellows: 

 

Remember Manga are read right to left (This Death Note and Welcome to The NHK)

Now let tell you more about How Manga help me with my Dyslexia ?

If you have read my previous post you all know that being dyslexic means you have problem at reading and with letter.  What is great about Manga is that there is pictures to help me will I'm reading, that really help me has a reader to keep in track with the plot event when I'm struggling with some words and letter. For me the fact that there is less text to read per page make this less hard for me to read with my Dyslexia and allow me to keep focus and also to finish these books much more faster that with normal novel. I remember myself starting reading novel and having so much problems with world, and how the text is little that I totally give up, but with the larger characters and the pictures in Manga this never happen. This help me boost my confidence has a reader, and make me fall in love with the interest of reading books against.

Dyslexic people like me struggle sometime to remember some details of the stories so like me they lost the focus and give up, but because of the pictures and designs in manga this rarely happen. Also the effort of reading some words make it so hard to understand their meaning at the same time. For me, I realize that I have so much better memory with picture than sounds and words. I also have some trouble remembering names but never faces, and place. This means for me book which use pictures are as well more accessible for me to read than the one that only have text.

Finally Mangas, are so much more fun and interesting to read than novel, because most of them are based on popular Anime or TV Shows. I would like to recommend every Dyslexic or People that hate reading to start reading Manga this can give you the like of reading again. 

Some Resources:

1. A Research about how Manga and Comic help Dyslexic: http://design-cu.jp/iasdr2013/papers/1259-1b.pdf
2.  Some free websites to start with Manga: http://www.mangareader.net/ http://beta.mangafox.com/ http://www.mangahere.com/