Dyslexia

[Stephen Blair]

Wolfman that is so true of me, on the spot i feel i must say something, my mind freezes so i just usually agree BUT if it is looking at jobs or working, it now has a massive effect on other things. I really try now to never give an answer unless i have my iphone with me so i can check the diary. Even this week i agreed spontaniously to go and help a fellow arbtalker, i was really excited about it, then i went to bed, checked my phone and i was already booked with family stuff, i felt rotten, and then had to call and apologise and re arrange all my week to suit, but it just couldnt work in. My mate Stan nailed it, keep it all on the phone and then put your brain in your pocket ha ha

[Andy Collins]

Probably totally wrong though

[Wolfie]

I know what you mean Stephen, I'm often double booking myself if I haven't got my diary to hand.

Just dug out my test report: "auditory short term memory, below average reading and writing speed therefore needs extra time for tasks involvingliteracy skills" (it can take me ages when doing the quotes, invoices, reports), "needs extra time when transferring information from one form to another, Multi-tasking would be expected to cause difficulty" - I thought that that last one applies to everyone with a Y chromosone!

[hazzygawa]

Does it affect your quoting

[Stephen Blair]

Does it affect your quoting

 

if this is for me, then i don't really know. I do not market myself as the cheapest, but i will do a good job with no messing about.

I have been doing jobs for myself since i was about 10, so i have always had to deal with people with money. I have done that many jobs, they all vary but they are much the same in a way, well the system is, i look at a job and i just know the price i want for doing it,

99% of my work is a verbal 1 with a hand shake, job done.

[Wolfie]

99% of my work is a verbal 1 with a hand shake, job done.

 

I used to work like that. I prefered verbal quotes as it could take me ages to send them a typed one. Now most of mine are hand written on headed paper with a carbon copy for myself as I kept forgeting what price I had verbally quoted. I guess that could be put down to the dyslexic short term memory as well.

[Stephen Blair]

wow, this thread has really made a diference, i am now realising maybe i am dyslexic, this morning when i read all your posts i felt so relieved BUT now i am looking into more stuff and becoming pretty resentfull and angry at the education system , i know i shouldn't take everything i read as gospil from the web but i just read some stuff about how the effects of learning can effect you. It really does make sense, i was great at school up till 2 nd year, i had always been 94% plus and almost top of the class through primary and first year, then 2nd year came along and i dropped into the 80% category, all that meant was everyone thought was being lazy and i got trouble, when i asked for help the teacher just got frustrated and the others in the top class just looked smug. So i pretty much gave up and became angry, i dropped into the general level and just sat back and messed about instead.

Then the teachers would call me useless and just punish me, man this is really winding me up now, i have been beating myself up for years for not trying hard enough at school and wasting my life cutting trees and doing manual work. I bailed out of school at 15 and went on a resentfull path of trying to prove everyone that ever laughed at me wrong. My god it is like an open book to me now, at college i didnt get it either so got nothing there for 3 years day release, so got more trouble and branded lazy and when asked what i had learnt and i would say, ' dont know ' Jeeez!!!!!! then it was me being a typical teenager.

Sorry for this rant but i can now see why some people find it hard to talk about this subject, i never realised the events in my life were pretty much out of my capabilities.

Going for a walk now!!

[Andy Collins]

Hey Stevie, its not been a waste, your life has done you well, you've still achieved just in a different direction than you would have expected. Now I did throw a good education away at the time, top sets for just about everything, then I got bored and messed about. I simply couldnt be bothered No excuse, no reasons, no hang-ups, I wasted my school time. Perhaps a better education would have served me better, I'll never know. What I do know is that those of my era went on to Uni, got degrees, and went nowhere, dead end jobs or long term unemployed. So I guess I didnt do so bad after all, but it probably made my working life more menial for a good few years, I may have achieved things a little earlier, but you know what, I'm happier now at this stage of my life than I've ever been, probably because I appreciate it more.

Dont look back and be resentful, if you want to change anything, you still can, evening classes and distance learning, move onwards and upwards, the past has gone.

[twistedhicap]

i have an apauling short term memory really bad but longterm i can remember where something was pput in my mates barn 15 years ago for instance ! my spelling is rubbish i just dont think i learned to spell properly ! i can read and read fairly fast and technical stuff isnt a propblem most of the time ! but i know how you feel about the organising and day to day stuff if i get bogged down with things that have to be done if find myself slowing down and getting even more behind and finding things to avoid diong what im ment to be then get wound up with myself for now having loads to do and letting people down too !

 

 

They say first thing to sorting your self out is to realise there is a problem or concern so i think your a great guy to ccome out openly and with guys like those who have posted with help i think you will be find

 

All the best

 

David

[Wolfie]

Totally agree with Andy. I think you've done really well for yourself. This is what I mean about dyslexic people having extra motivation or other talents, just take a look at some of the names on this website!

 

Famous People with the Gift of Dyslexia