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.

Dyslexia a word that sound strange, what it's ?

Now let open The Larousse Dictionary and read the definition:

dys·lex·i·a 
disˈleksēə/ 
noun 

1. a general term for disorders that involve difficulty in learning to read or interpret words, letters, and other symbols, but that do not affect general intelligence. 

Yes this is a cleaver definition but this not so specifics and telling you what really Dyslexia is.

First let me tell you a little story.  

John is a young boy, he just started primary school todays. He was so happy to find news friends and to see his class. The second days in school the teacher start teaching alphabetic letter, they all have the homework to know the alphabet. The next days in class John was ask by the teacher to tell her the alphabetic letter he wasn't able and all the other student start to laugh, but John did study. The teacher ask to see his parents and tell them that John need to study and stop doing the clown in class, but John didn't want to be like that. 

John grow up past some class and still hates write, but also he hate reading aloud in class. He's never been good with letter, or reading, and even he seems to have trouble to recognizes the words on page. School's never been his favorite place anyway. He often gets lows self-esteem, laugh at, and discouraged thinking that he's not good enough or smart like the other kids. But John always past his class and he's good in sport and math. He found that he had talent with calculus and equations.

But what everyone doesn't have realize : John, his parents, and his teachers is that John has Dysliexia.

So now let me be more specific and tell you What's Dyslexia ?

A dyslexic person is a person with a learning disability with processing words or numbers. There are several type of learning disabilities; dyslexia is one of them and the term used when people have difficulty learning to read, even they are smart people and motivated to learn.

N.B: Been Dyslexic isn't a disease. It's a condition that you are born with, and it often runs in families. People with it are not slows, stupid or lazy. Most of them have average or above-average intelligence, and they work very hard to overcome this learning problems. 

Now let talk about the signs of Dyslexia so no more children like John didn't know and think they are stupid all their life.

• Learning to read - the child, despite having normal intelligence and receiving proper teaching and parental support, has difficulty learning to read.


• Milestones reached later - the child learns to crawl, walk, talk, throw or catch things, ride a bicycle later than the majority of other kids.


• Speech - apart from being slow to learn to speak, the child commonly mispronounces words, finds rhyming extremely challenging, and does not appear to distinguish between different word sounds.


• Slow at learning sets of data - at school the child takes much longer than the other children to learn the letters of the alphabet and how they are pronounced. There may also be problems remembering the days of the week, months of the year, colors, and some arithmetic tables.


• Coordination - the child may seem clumsier than his or her peers. Catching a ball may be difficult.


• Left and right - the child commonly gets "left" and "right" mixed up.


• Reversal - numbers and letters may be reversed without realizing.


• Spelling - may not follow a pattern of progression seen in other children. The child may learn how to spell a word today, and completely forget the next day. One word may be spelt in a variety of ways on the same page.


• Phonology problems - phonology refers to the speech sounds in a language. If a word has more than two syllables, phonology processing becomes much more difficult. For example, with the word "unfortunately" a person with dyslexia may be able to process the sounds "un" and "ly", but not the ones in between.


• Concentration span - children with dyslexia commonly find it hard to concentrate for long, compared to other children. Many adults with dyslexia say this is because after a few minutes of non-stop struggling, the child is mentally exhausted. A higher number of children with dyslexia also have ADHD (attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder), compared to the rest of the population.


• Sequencing ideas - when a person with dyslexia expresses a sequence of ideas, they may seem illogical for people without the condition.


• Autoimmune conditions - people with dyslexia are more likely to develop immunological problems, such as hay fever, asthma, eczema, and other allergies.

But really what are the cause of Dyslexia ?

There still no real cause of it, you're just born with it or not.

Did there is a treatment to cure Dyslexia ?

No there is no cure to dyslexia but with proper care and education a dyslexic children can do big study and become whatever he/she want doctor, scientific,....

Dyslexia Nigthmare: - How hard can it be? - Seriously! you can’t spell that ? It’s soooooo simple!

Dyslexia some have hear of it, other have read about it, and some people never see this word before. But does anyone really know what it's ? I do, but the majority doesn't.

Some people make fun it, call dyslexic people slow or stupid.

The schools that are supposed to be there to help them in all honesty don't do anything and said ''University doesn't teach us Teacher how to help you.'' That the sentence they usually use to put the job in the hands of someone else.

When I was in primary school I didn't get any help, basically I was struggling alone with this learning disabilities, and I was trying so hard to don't slow down other student by the time it's was taking me so much more time than other to build a small sentence.

I've struggled so much to keep up in class, to past my class and had been called stupid or slow by many students & also teacher, after a while I start to believe it.

Every time the teacher said to me to read out loud in the class, I heard giggles and people calling me stupid and such because I couldn’t pronounce the majority of the words.

You know what this leads to? Low self-esteem…. I stopped raising my hand during class, I avoided working in groups, it went so far that I actually stopped speaking in class completely.

So I become the quiet one in the corner of the classroom in the last seat of the class and I barely ever said any word for approximately all my primary school. And when I did open my mouth to talk I was forced to do so by a teacher.

Finally in high-school a nice teacher see what was the problem, and call my parents to tell them that I was probably dyslexic and I need to past some test. And after the test I finally know that I was not stupid or slow and that all these people saying ''how hard can it be? or you just have to practice and you'll be better or how stupid you're ? or seriously! you can’t spell that ? It’s soooooo simple!”.

Didn't know anything because no it isn't so easy to a Dyslexic Person !


It's not good and it hurts so much when you don't know what you have, and constantly you're reminded that you are not as good as everyone else ? You see with your own eyes that everyone around you can do it,  but you didn't and you ask yourself : why can’t I ? And after you start to feel left out, alienated,  feeling that you don’t belong or deserve to be there or you just want to give up…

I think it's one form of bullying to call a dyslectic stupid or slow… it’s a disability that the person can’t do anything about…

And this won't go away with time !

So stop and think before you question someone's spelling or grammar!

There could be many reasons why it's this bad ?

* The language the person is writing in might not be their first language, critic is alright when it comes to fan-fiction or any other from of writing, but be nice! There is no need to bash on someone and degrade them for trying ! Help them improve until next time !

* The person might have dyslexia, it appears in different degrees (mine is classed as a quite severe one), if the person has made it clear that they are in fact dyslectic then you should not point out their mistakes because there is no point ! They already know that there are mistakes but they can’t be improved with “a little more practice”.

* The person might have been born with a condition making it hard to learn any languages and speaking over all.

This advices was giving to you by a dyslexic person so please next time try to take this into consideration before you comment on someone’s spelling and/or grammar or just before you call someone stupid or slow. It’s just basic respect, if you want to point out at someone else flaws then don’t just yell it in a form of insult, it’s just an unnecessary action which can hurt. And before judging others people flaws try to looks at yourself before !

If you had read all this, I would like to thank you for your time and I hope I've made a point.

A dyslexic person.