I Was in Special Ed (and why I have trouble reading fiction)
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I've noticed that several people have said that special ed just gives them answers.
And they wonder why people with disabilities struggle later in life...
In my experience (at least starting from like 4th grade), I was basically given less support than I actually needed because I started to mask my autism better and I was considered smart.
Both of these situations are just a recipe for failure when kids are done with school 🙃
The one for kids seems like a good opportunity for parents to bond with their kids.
My brother has told me the same thing about his special Ed experience when he was little. He had (and still has) ADHD and when he was younger, trouble with some motor writing skills but he wasn’t stupid. He would lash out at the “helpers” and get so fed up because they would baby him which is more than understandable.
This led to consequences in the future, he had trouble accepting any sort of help without feeling ashamed or angry about it.
All it takes is extra instruction and patience. Respect kids who need extra attention and don’t treat them as a nuisance or as if they literally can’t understand anything. So frustrating hearing about it.
My passion for reading dwindled pretty rapidly after my teen years. I used to love reading until it was mandatory in school. I wanted to read for my own pleasure, not to analyse every chapter with notes and then write an essay.
Since school, I’ve found it very difficult to finish a book. Starting one is no problem, but I can only get so many chapters in before giving up
I'm sorry the quality of your special education was so subpar (kids certainly deserve more than what you got), especially when it doesn't have to be that bad. My nieces are both dyslexic, but they're getting the help they actually need. Maybe it's because they're not in American schools, which seems like a system with a lot of problems to outsiders. I feel bad for all the dedicated teachers, who don't have the funds or time to help their students.
When I was in high school, I was apart of the special Ed program because of my emotional disability. I had little to no support outside my accommodations (I got to take tests in an isolated room). My senior year was going really awful due to my moms abusive husband and a really bad break up I had. My teachers and counselors stopped helping me and stopped allowing me to use their rooms to take breaks in. I ended up just unenrolling 3 months before graduation and got my GED.
midway through probably about 4th grade, i had begun to develop a lot of anxiety. beforehand, i had been a huge book nerd. i had read the first 4 harry potter books within 4 months and was halfway through the 5th when i had become practically incapable of reading. i couldn’t finish a paragraph, i’d have to start over and over again because i just wasn’t absorbing the material. i think since then i have only read bits and pieces of books because of school, but other than that, nothing.
so recently i had decided since the fear street movies were coming out on netflix, maybe i should read the books. and because the books are written by R.L Stien, the chapters are super tiny which really helps because i always feel like i have to finish a chapter to be successful in reading. so i’ve read 2 chapters and im already feeling great about it! it’s progress and im so glad because i love the idea of being a book worm.
As someone on the spectrum, I really appreciate these discussions on people that learn, and see the world, differently. Yes, it can sometimes be challenging, but I wouldn't trade how I see the world for anything, it's literally who I am!
I teach remedial English classes in a community college, and watching you read the novel gave me such joy. Even though your dyslexia challenges you, your nostalgic and empathetic connection to the narrative is my central goal every semester. That light in your eyes when you say, "this is just like my family" is what I search for in my students' faces.
The literal one, single thing that helped me from being in special ed was the fact that I got time and a half. It was really good, because during tests and stuff I'd get so freaked out over the time that we had to complete it, that I wouldn't be able to focus on the actual test, so it helped a lot to be able to have the time I needed to do my work the best I could. Other than that, though, it was horrible. I had a similar situation to you, where my teacher would treat us as toddlers, and I've got to say, that isn't a great way to teach a group of 10-16 year olds. I still have trouble with spelling to the extent that I only write with pencil and paper if I genuinely need to and there's no other option. *SPELL CHECK SAVES LIVES Y'ALL*
I was in special ed for dyslexia too! Same, some special ed teachers, I've had in the past were very unhelpful and talked down to me as well! One of the reason I dropped out of college was being treated differently by teachers for my dyslexia. One time a teacher in college told me, I would never get a high paying job like Disney because of my learning disabilities!
I mean I was in it to but they have sucky teachers so I didn’t lean fast so I had to put more effort so in a way it was a good thing 👍😂
God I wish that were me
I have the "blessing" of being both autistic and "gifted" (I hate this term btw) which meant that I never had to actually try to do well in classes when I was younger. It's great until things start to require actual effort, and you just shut down because you have no idea how to try and fail at things because you never did so as a kid
(This isn't me trying to flex or anything, this shit sucks lol)
I have always wondered if dyslexia contributed to my memory because of the work I had to put in to reading. But also dyslexia why, it has got to be the worse possible word to read for some with this condition!
They should have like a baby word cause it probably makes sense and has a reason but it needs a common word.
Actually my sister is dyslexic and she has a very good memory
@@matthewbates9629 it's not about memory. It's about spelling
Similarly, "lisp" is very difficult to say when you have a lisp haha
I really liked this video. I think your description of dyslexia and some of the ways it has impacted your life is a really good one (especially to those that may not understand the 'glitch'). We could actually see the processing take place.
I love the mix of content that your videos provide.
Thank you so much for talking about your experience in special ed! I was in special ed for all of elementary and middle school, and while I clearly needed the assistance, it prevented me from feeling like a normal student. So even now as a grown ass adult I appreciate hearing about other people in special ed to prove to myself that it is a normal experience.
Dude same same same!! My best friend loved reading when we were kids and I literally couldn't read. I had trouble with compression and spelling and would only read books with pictures. I loved reading about space and dinosaurs and volcanos and sciency stuff like that. But a fictional book without pictures, it'd be a miracle (it literally just took me like 10 tries to spell "miracle" right) if I could get 5 pages into a book. I tried to read Twilight so hard but I just couldn't. I used to just say that I hated books because I didn't know any better and honestly that was fine because I was at least really good at math. One time in 3rd grade, literally once, I got called into the special ed room for reading comprehension and all they did was read it to me and understood fine so they never helped me again. But in every test, state test, AP test, ACT, literally every test ever, I never got extra time to read or have someone read it to me. Now I'm in college studying ecological engineering and I've finally figured out that if I upload a pdf or article or whatever into a text to speech program I follow along just fine. Imagine if someone had helped me figure it out in 3rd grade. I've also figured out that I like audio books, I pretended to read and bullshitted my way through AP lit. We read To Kill a Mocking Bird and I didn't understand one damn thing about that book. Since I started college I've listened to it like once a year and it's my favorite book. I've also gone as far as to copy and paste fanfics into my text to speech app and listen to those stories. (It's hilarious because it's in that robot voice but I don't care because for the first time in my life I'm enjoying fiction) I just wish that someone could have helped me figure out that I didn't hate books, I just literally couldn't read them. I missed out on my entire childhood of reading fiction. Since I got out of high school I have listened to Harry Potter, lord of the rings, Percy Jackson, ect... for the first time. I never got to enjoy them while all my friends were and it bums me out. Anyways, Echo, I feel you. Books, what a concept that I'm just now figuring out.
Was (and technically still am since I'm not out of school yet) in special ed because I'm autistic. Mainly consisted of "social skills" classes and speech therapy (when I was younger). The speech therapy was fine, but the social skills classes sucked. They were all boring af and I'm certain they're a contributing factor to my low self esteem as a nearly 18 year old 🥴
I also have dyslexia (very mild) and I found that subtitled anime (yes, I know that sounds like torture...) really helped my reading speed; because, I have to keep up or be forced to pause every few seconds, which is more maddening then the extra effort to read.
I was put into Special Ed throughout my elementary and high school years. My Special Ed teachers were actually nice and kept telling me to work on it by myself before getting help. I wasn't good at paying attention and fidgeted a lot along with I wasn't good at English in elementary and Math so that could be why I was in there. I also got help during these tests they did for school. I really liked it because it helped me I think. I did get told I was retarded and Special Ed was for dumb people by a sibling. I don't remember why I was in Special Ed but it helped me. The people in the class were a bit rude while some were nice. I wish I could remember more but sadly I don't remember
Thank you for being so vulnerable, sharing your past with us. I fee like most of us never view our peers in special ed or who took Spec Ed classes as people we'll interact with and befriend in the future, and you've made me aware that glaring blind spot in how I receive others.
My nephew has a dyslexia tutor. I don't know if he'll have to face Spec. Ed classes in the future, but as of the last year with online learning, he was not capable of doing assignments on his own, direct guidance is always needed. I sincerely hope I can find the assistance he needs, or be the assistance he needs, because I know public schooling will more than likely not provide him with the help he needs.
I'm hopeful that his dyslexia won't impede him in adulthood, and your channel, your content is now a great example of overcoming those obstacles.
I’m literally the same, I had a IEP (independence education program I think) for my dyslexical, my teachers always treated me much younger and almost every test or even assignment I was just told the answer and I think that made my spelling and reading worse
I also grew up having to be in special ed because of my ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) I had to go to different schools because non of them took my disorder seriously. I had a hard time focusing during class I would always stare out the window and whenever I got caught staring my teachers would shame me in front of the whole class for not paying enough attention, during test I had to be placed in a separate room from my classmates so I wouldn’t be distracted by the smallest sound, it was hard making friends my own age because I had to be in class with younger students and I was also treated like a little kid even though I was much older. Hearing that we went through similar struggles is such a relief.
I am a special Ed teacher, and I’m really sorry to hear your experience. I am not super familiar with programs in other states and even within the same state, the quality of programs can vary wildly. What I find promising is that there are more and more neurodivergent people of all kinds coming into education (such as myself) which ignites the passion to change Special Education for the better.
I was lucky to have decent special education. The special ed classroom was usually a quiet refuge for me to unwind when I was feeling overwhelmed or for when I had assignments to catch up on. I struggled with math and the special ed teachers weren't really good at it either though, but that's why I went to tutoring instead when I needed help with math.
Literally just started the video and I already feel seen and excited to share the there's a dyslexic font (I have it on Libby which is a library app, but I'm sure other electronic reading methods have it too by now).
It's helped me TREMENDOUSLY, though I was never diagnosed with dyslexia or any neurodivergency growing up (that's a whole other can of worms) but it's seriously super helpful.
This made me wonder if I'm actually dyslexic. I was homeschooled, so there was never really a way to find out and now it seems like it's pretty costly to get tested as an adult. Yay America?
Some of the smartest people I know are dyslexic, including my husband and our son. It sucks that you had to deal with the crappy education stuff that you did. *Hugs*
Go team Dyslexia. My special education was about the same. I love love to learn yet I hated school.
as a kid with dyslexia i was really good at masking and was speraticly put in and taken out of speacial ed (the Australian equivalent) and never got a diagnosis. however when high school rolled around i could no longer get away with my self taught memorization and editing techniques. I was just not able to keep up with my peers and started to fail a lot of my in class essays. In year 11 I'm still in the posses of getting proper help with out people just handing me the answers.
I was in special Ed too, and they were not helpful at all. They just criticized everything anyone did, and when we struggled, they didn’t help us. I eventually clicked in 8th grade, that was 6 years ago.
I have ADHD, dyslexia, and some other crap. I remember elementary special ed was garbage. I was treated very poorly, and when I didn't understand something, I was yelled at. Middle school was better, but very rough and mean at times. If you did anything but your work, you were yelled at
Finally, in high school, the teachers really did care, they would sit down with you and explain and break down things, let you fidget and draw, use your phone for help, it was a godsend to have that finally. I didn't know how to properly structure a sentence till then.
Echo I connected with you. I'm autistic and in middle school my teachers refused to help me, because everyone else in my class understood things so why couldn't I? I actually befriended a lot of special education classmates because connecting with my neurotypical peers was impossible. It sucks that special education is like this and I am sorry you weren't receiving the help you needed. Also, the teacher who you said treated you like you were very young, maybe she didn't understand your IEP? Like she didn't check your registration that you had dyslexia but not other diagnoses? I understand it felt like an insult, but in my experience special education works best when catered to each individual. Also I feel like special education programs should up there game and make the students excited about learning. My friend was in this class and they would do stuff like planting, or go to the park for scavenger hunts, etc. Again not to be rude towards you but I feel like in some cases they should incorporate more interactive activities for the students, I hope that sounds right.
I have dyslexia too but thankfully instead of special Ed they had an after school program that actually helped us learn to read and over come our problem. Very lucky on that front because I love to read and every now an again I’ll notice my problem, I get similar letters mixed up, but thankfully I have over come it and turn into a very quick reader. Last time I got my reading speed check it was 62 words a minute which I couldn’t believe. I have noticed that the more I read the quicker and better at it I get. Hopefully if you can find some books that interest you it will help you improve too!
I was also in Special Ed. Ours was once a day they'd stick us in a class, and just make us do busy work. When I was in high school it was a couple of classes but still the same. The teachers always acted like it was a punishment that they had to be in this class, and less of it was their job. I also have dyslexia, as well as adhd. Reading actual books has always a struggle for me I think that's why I fell in love with comics, and manga cuz I'm so much easier for me to read.
at my school the teachers just send special ed kids to the library during tests and don't really help them
I'm dyslexic too! I relate so much to what you are saying! When you talked about your brain "glitching" when you read, I totally thought that was normal. I usually only read things I HAVE to read or books that I have already listed too. Thank you for normalising these sorts of things!!!
I absolutely love reading but I have a similar problem that I am super slow - I have to reread things constantly because I zone out by accident or don't understand it the first time. It's something I'm used to by now and I'm happy to go at my own pace but it's made book clubs really difficult for me since usually you have to read a certain amount by a particular deadline and I just can't get there in time. The way this app is split into sections of the book sounds fantastic! It's refreshing to hear someone talk about this so openly, thank you!
being someone who is a special needs my experience was fine and i often wonder what my disability was at the time ( it's autism by the way) .
Nice edit. Your ability to convey the message and be both concise and pleasant is a gift.
mine was learning how to make candles,, until i got to highschool then they just set a book in front of me & expected my dyslexia to go poof, no digging to find out why i could not learn math at all, but could read like the blazes but only really fast & ask me to read out loud, ,not gonna happen(yay huge puzzles) turns out you cant guess in math you have to be able to see the numbers & understand the numbers, i can follow a recipe sort of & sorta guess what 50% off could be ,even then i have anxiety until i see it on the register. i realized though that while i understood the words i read (thank goodness for the guy who taught me to speed read) i rarly know how to pronounce them since im guessing at them. you have gotten farther than me & that rocks know that im rooting for you to go even further
I liked the story, as you read it aloud. Sounds like regular people living regular, messy lives. I hope the bookclub gives you the same happy feels that I get when discussing shared entertainment with my friends.
There was a special ed teacher at my middle school who was so horrible that when someone asked her for help she told them to come see me about it because I’m “advanced” in some subjects.
Your channel is and has always been my favorite. This is what CZcams was meant to be
I was in special Education,I.E.P,E.A and itinerant but they were all amazing .They taught me responsibility,adaptation, and taught me special tools to help my certain disability.I am so sorry you had such a patronizing experience.
That is actually really cool that the app has a built in no spoilers mode lol
Hello I have dyslexia too.
You are so brave to read out loud online. I could never do that big props to you!!
My experiences with education and dyslexia was interesting. My mum picked up I had dyslexia and with out my parents I would not come out of school with good grades.
For reading now I always use a ruler to help me follow the right line. (I also listern to podcasts and audio books as much as possible)
I was in special ed for being a slow learner and my memory is not always the greatest. My special ed teacher was nice but like you said sometime they would just give me the answer instead of helping me figure it out.
I actually really really enjoyed listening to you read and relate to the story. I have a really hard time reading physical novels as an adult, and for some reason this made it more... just More. Better?
I know so many people with dyslexia and similar learning difficulties who ended up doing something in the arts. So many of my university friends were dyslexic, I didn't get diagnosed fully until the end of my first year, I've ended up working in the cinema industry and I retreat into playing music when stressed.
Fiction can be so much more than entertainment. It's great that you found a sponsor that will also help you personally.
My youngest son was "diagnosed" with undetermined learning disability... Sheesh. He can't read for fun or furthering education. It's so sad for me to see him missing out on what to me is a huge part of my life.
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I also have dyslexia and have reading glasses that I have to get better at wearing anyways I also have ADHD and I'm on the autism spectrum so focusing/paying attention and reading have always been hard I take special ed classes my junior and sophomore English teacher Mr. Perdue would always make sure that none of us felt bad for being in special ed classes and wouldn't rush us when we had to read aloud he also made sure to explain everything very simply so all of us understood and would not tolerate anyone being rude to others in his classroom he's left my school now but he will always be one of my favorite teachers
My mom is dyslexic as well.. she had a boss help her when she worked for the state of Texas, by bringing her several colors of clear, plastic sheets. He told her to try each colored sheet while she read until she found the color that made the words stand still. Her color is yellow. She uses that yellow, clear plastic sheet to this day when she reads. Each color helps the eyes with whatever "issue" is causing your problem. At least, that's what her boss explained. It's worth a try! Those colored, clear plastic folders are really cheap!
I am sorry for your experience. Good teachers are sometimes hard to come by. My mom taught Special ED for many years and she worked really hard to get her students to learn as best they could and helped them find tools to help with their disabilities. She also had to stand up for a lot of students who's parents and regular classroom teachers insisted the students were incapable of learning. I know getting a good sped teacher is hard, especially since in the education field there is a stigma around specializing in it.
Thank you for sharing your experience and story with Speical Ed. For a little bit (not very long), I was in Special Ed for ELA and the parts that I was in were pretty decent. My school district put an emphasis on learning and tho it can stressful sometimes, I am incredibly lucky.
Roxane Gay is a terrific writer and thinker. I think Echo will enjoy her choices very much. She's also fun to follow on social media.
Oh wow, in the beginning i thought "hmm that shirt pattern is eerily familiar" and it didn't click until that last frame. Beautiful.
I have the exact opposite I have trouble reading and understanding non fiction unless it was something I was intensely interested in . I do however have issues with certain kinds of fiction manly historical, Fantasy, and science fiction. My ADD made it hard to pay attention, My autism had issues with understanding intent and hidden meanings and my dyslexia just made it hard to write. I was just stuck in special education and nobody told me why or what disabilities I had. I thankfully had wonderful special education teachers who not only helped me but took a personal interest in what I was interesting and using that to help educate me. I know that's rare now considering after I got to highschool the quality dropped and I ended having issues.
I love the chaos of this channel
Big tip: If you are dyslexic and enjoy reading I recomend reading along to an audiobook. It takes away a lot of the harder elaments with reading. Talking from personal experiance, doing that allowed me to finally finish the book Divergent, and I finished the Hero's of Olympus serise faster.
I was taken out of English one lesson a week, the lady helping me just stuck me on a crapy Old BBC computer with spelling tests, did sod all to help me. My spelling is still awful to this day 😢
They used to send me to special ed when I wasn't doing my school work. When I got to that room they would send me to the isolation room. The only emotional outbursts I had were a result of being pushed by teachers and parents, and all of those were 100% vocal, no physical delinquency here. My teacher just thought my refusal to do school work was a distraction to the other students.
Honestly I love love love reading, and I use to be a reading machine, but when I got older my dyslexia just kinda popped up and that with adhd is pretty hard, but listening to audiobooks helps me get the story without words being backwards lol or combining two words together
I was in special ed to for a form of Dyslexia that i have it's called Dyscalculia and it effects me in the math department of learning and it gives give me great difficulty in division,multiplication,algebra,reading analog clocks and it also effects me with properly counting money both bills and coins oh yeah all of my special ed teachers actually were really nice but with strict sides to them and they did everything they could to help the special needs students and they never once gave answers to anyone they actually taught the lessons like they were supposed to and let the students study and they'd help when they had to in whatever way they could oh yeah and unfortunately one of my special ed teachers died a few years back while fighting with cancer she was one of my favorite teachers
i just got approved for special ed classes this year and it's been weird because of covid-19 but i'm also going to a new school in the fall so i dunno but hi i'm also hispanic and i related to a lot throughout this video thank you for making it :)
I had an interesting set up in school. I was in speech class, resource (to help slower kids) and challenge (to keep accelerated kids from getting bored)
This ment I had very little time in my actual classes to learn the curriculum. Some of my case workers were better than others but the last one I had missed the fact that I turned 18 before graduation. Which ment I needed an extra signature for my IEP (individual education program) to follow me to college. So I lost all of my aid because of a clerical oversight.
I was in special Ed because I struggled with math, senior year I needed to take class in order to graduate so I took the online class version of it but because I was in special Ed I needed a special meeting to make sure I was ready for it, in that meeting I asked what was the reason why I was in special Ed and one of the teachers said “you have trouble asserting things” and I thought to myself “I’m just procrastinator??” I was kinda mad at the fact they didn’t give me a straight answer. Another thing too I have problem with special Ed was that I was only taught in math was Y=Mx+b for 2 years straight (freshman and sophomore year) and whenever I thought I was doing great I had A’s in all of my assignments my parents would get a mail saying I’m struggling to reach my goals and I haven’t met them yet, this would piss me off a lot. I’m a sophomore in college and still struggling. Special Ed was absolutely shit for me.
I’m dyslexic, bipolar full of anxiety!!
When I read fiction I feel like I'm learning human behaviour. I learn how other people think.
As someone with dyslexia I can relate a lot. I find I get headache if I read longer then 20 minutes and a migraine after an hour, because of this in special Ed I was allowed to be on a commuter so it could read to me. the special Ed was no great but at least it better then them giving answers, it was a quite place were no one talk (similar to a library) so I didn't get much help but the computer was enough for me.
This sounds like a great personal growing project and having a book club like this sounds super fun! I'll definitely consider checking this out when I have the time to read anything in a timely manner.
My little brother have a hard time with his reading and writing, unfortunately he have special ed teachers that just give him answers.
As someone that goes to a independent part of the college for people that are spectrum I go to I notice over time when I was just starting of how patronising some of the teachers were due to them working with much serve students.
It made me at times I was being talk down to same with the other students that weren't serve, which felt kinda insulting at times.
Its not as bad as before thankfully and the teachers are a lot better.
It's so soothing to be read to by someone ;-;
I recently found out that a lot of kids with dyslexia struggle with language in many ways that my kid has been struggling. Which lead me to finding out that there is nothing in my city available for dyslexic kids. The nearest dyslexic center is a 6 hour drive away, dyslexic tutoring is a 2 hour drive away. And the schools discourage evaluations for dyslexia bc there is no local specialist so it would be costly and time consuming to use their resources for dyslexic kids.
in my state, they don’t recognize dyslexia as a disability in school, adhd is only recognized if it causes problems to the teachers teaching, though they dont go to special ed, just the principals office. They dont teach the kids with ASD, they watch movies and give them coloring books, and the children deemed “high functioning” are given work and told to figure it out themselves, not to mention that actually diagnosis are extremely rare due to the cost of going to a doctors and also still having doctors that believe women can’t have autism. Our school also teamed up with autism speaks at one point. I myself have been diagnosed with adhd and Im pretty damn sure i have autism as well, but even if i dont it makes me so freakin sick from what they do to those kids. They are nice capable people, and they don’t have any education at all. I understand where you’re coming from echo and im sorry you had to go through that.
I don't have dyslexia but i have dyscalculia. I live through fiction. (hahaha..😅 I need it.)
I received no help for my dyscalculia,
And i struggles mostly with maths, counting, mental maths, abstract maths, time counting, managing time, distances... Orientation...
I know this might not work for everyone, but if you don't mind reading on your phone or tablet and your local library has Overdrive for ebooks, their app called Libby has a dyslexic font option! It changes the individual letters just enough to make them easier to distinguish. It uses something called OpenDyslexic font.
Have you ever tried audiobooks as a way to read fiction? Sometimes large print helps as well. It's hard to get hard copies like this but in some ebooks you can use the dyslexic font that has been designed to help alleviate some some of the difficulties associated with dyslexia.
this is making me want to read again! i used to be an avid reader but like many ppl the internet has ruined me and i gravitate towards online media always these days. i miss books
When she talked about her brain stopping and not quickly processing the text she was reading and that being a symptom of her dyslexia I was kinda confused because I do that all the time but I've never been diagnosed and I've always thought either everyone did that or I was just not as good at reading aloud
I LOVE ur hair! 😊 I wish mine was like that but my mom doesn’t know how so 😂
My high school had a special ed room that was tiny and they only interacted with the baking elective (they got to taste test) and the computer elective (they got to play games unless the other students were asked to teach them powerpoint).
I really wanna show this to my sister who is also dyslexic and hopefully learn more about the topic and try my best to help her the best I can.
Also the part where you mentioned that you enjoy reading more about science than fiction, really resonated with me, really thought I was the only one, huh 🤔.
Thank you for sharing this with us 😊💞!!!
You are amazing!
Just so you know there is a dyslexia font that makes it much easier to read, even to a non dyslexic (my husband has dyslexia and has confirmed this font makes a huge difference for him). The Nook e-reader has the dyslexic font as an option, I’m not sure if other e-readers have them, but I’d think so.
I hope others who have this issue and want to read sees this so they can look into an e-reader as an option.
Personally I think a dyslexia friendly font should be the standard.
I don't know much about the topic but I know researchers at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich made a software called Dybuster which is supposed to help with dyslexia, especially for kids I guess but maybe also worth to look at for adults.
My boys go to the special ed room for speech and one needed a little more help with reading. I also had a friend who was in special Ed. I think I might have a form dyslexia similar to yours.
You are the best!!
I wanted to recommend The Disappearing Spoon by Sean Kean. It's non fiction but includes stories.
It would be so cool to hear your thoughts as you progress though the book (if you continue to read it!)
I went through the same damn thing, I really had to push myself after high school. Me reading the only book that is famous in the world...also going through the history channel so when I read i would understand. Yeah now I do reports at my job for Security..lol
I wouldn't say special Ed but during one of my history lessons the teacher asked if I wanted help with my writing (my dyslexia wasn't diagnosed then) and after that lesson there was a room that is there for health needs/other struggles and the 'best' idea to help me was to (as nursery kids did) was the trace over the yellow letters and as soon I was done I never went again (I improve my writing a little on my own)
Also notice in similar to you in the dyslexia read pausing, slow reading and spelling (I could spell might for the first 8 years of school)
i had a very similar experience with my dyslexia. i use to only learn through docmentry and later on (uni) podcasts. i typically use voice to text all the time.
I was in special Ed at Kindergarten and up which I think to this day was inappropriate.
My mom was quite abusive and wanted us to only rely on her and I think making us feel dumb and unable to think for ourselves was part of it. I had real issues in math but most of it was caused by my mom for not understanding mathematical concepts quick enough that to this day haven't been totally rectified. As for reading they tried to say I was dyslexic (I wasn't shocker) I actually taught myself to read because the special ed program couldn't and wouldn't teach us beyond elementary level concepts and acted like we were too dumb to go beyond vowel sounds even after entering middle school.
By 6th grade we were sent to sit in on a normal classroom because the special ed teachers weren't there for some reason. They were reading Ulysses and I was in heaven. Understood everything and even participated and was so surprised at being able to keep up after that I demanded to go to the normal classroom much to my mom's annoyance and come to find out I was reading at college level when tested and the school agreed to let me go though I was annoyed that the special ed program took the credit for getting me to college level which set me off.
As for math same thing in High school I refused to be in the resource room learning the basic elementary dribble and even though I struggled heavily with it I was fortunate to have a few teachers who would work with me and not feed me answers despite not wanting to be there. I worked really hard to not be treated like and idiot and unfortunately its even worse now.
I didn't really learn to read until I was about 11. I knew how the alphabet worked and I could read words like 'bus' but I definitely couldn't read a whole book, to this day I'm still intimidated by 'real life books' even though I read hundreds of web novels and to this day I've only finished about 5 books.
I have adhd and it became worst with the years to the point that I stopped reading last year I think, it was just too difficult to get in the book and staying focused and I wouldnt get any entertainment just like you said. I try to get some young adults book bcs I find them easier to read but I really have to get into the story to complete it
I’m dyslexic too. I was effectively told to enjoy a life of ditch digging. I make sure to send a picture of my law degree every time my school asks for donations.
i am dyslectic too. i recomend audio books. change my life
I was in special ed as well from elementary, middle school and high school
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