Look, I know I already made a post about this here and it seems like I fixed it, but I kind of didn’t. Someone on that post commented that I should just read with one eye closed and that should fix it, but I failed to mention that it just doesn’t make sense… Mentally.
I’ll read a sentence and it just won’t make any sense to me. I can recall a time where this happened and it was a sentence along the lines of “She was taking out the trash.” Or something like that, and I remember it just didn’t make sense. I know I already said I don’t think this is Dyslexia in the last post but I’m kind of starting to think it is.
I do this thing with numbers where say it’ll be a number like 76 and I’ll think it says 67. I’ll read it as 67 and think of it as 67. This happens a lot and actually fucks up my math grade sometimes If I don’t catch myself. I also have trouble pronouncing names or words as well which I believe is a trait of dyslexia.
I also do the following frequently:
Difficulty summarizing a story. Difficulty doing math word problems (hence, reversing numbers and thinking sentences don’t make sense.)
I’m going off of a Mayo Clinic “Symptoms of Dyslexia” website in teens sooo.
But I’m not a doctor and I’m kind of iffy on self-diagnosing 'cause it’s like… Taboo I guess? Again I’m not even entirely sure it’s Dyslexia.
I got diagnosed with dyslexia fairly on because I struggled with a lot of the same things you mentioned in school, especially those worded math problems, those things were the worst. I’d always get the numbers mixed up or incorrectly read them and get extremely frustrated when nothing made sense. Reading is a bit of a different story for me though, I can read words off a page very quickly but it’s just a pile of words, processing what I actually just read and trying to make sense of it is a whole different story. Audio books were a savior for me though, when listening to a story, especially when it’s read by someone with a very monotone voice, it helps a lot and I can actually process what’s being said.
I did/do the same thing in school. I don’t have trouble reading very much as well, I can read fast too but when I do I’m not absorbing anything I read so I just stick to reading slowly and “absorbing” it. I have never had an A in a Math class in my life. I always have D-B’s because I just cannot get it. My family always tried to help me understand it but I’d always end up crying at the dinner table lol. I don’t like listening to Audio Books at all, I don’t know why but I just prefer reading instead, even if it’s frustrating. I’ve told my Mother about this problem occasionally randomly in a conversation but she doesn’t take it seriously at all and I don’t think she’d ever take me to get diagnosed for “something as small as a word problem”.