Just found out that my cousin is dyslexic.

There's nothing wrong with dyslexia. I am dyslexic, I had to go through most of grade school with special classes for it.

I don't understand why this matters.

It's no big thing now but it used to be because teachers didn't now how to teach
dyslexic childran.

im also dyslexic, i also had help at school

by the way a lot of famous people are dyslexic, roald dahl for one was dyslexic
and he was one of the world's greatest children's authors with books like
James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Fantastic Mr Fox
Matilda, The Witches, and The BFG, he wasn't diagnosed as a dyslexic until later
in his live well after he wrote alot of his famous books.

so go figure

[quote name='A Gay Little Cat Boy' post='3178214' date='Oct 5 2010, 05:22 PM']There's nothing wrong with dyslexia. I am dyslexic, I had to go through most of grade school with special classes for it.[/quote]

I understand that there's nothing wrong with dyslexia. I was only surprised because I didn't know until now.

I don't think he's dyslexic, he just sounds really stupid...

[quote name='BloodyFlame' post='3178388' date='Oct 5 2010, 09:21 PM'][quote name='A Gay Little Cat Boy' post='3178214' date='Oct 5 2010, 05:22 PM']There's nothing wrong with dyslexia. I am dyslexic, I had to go through most of grade school with special classes for it.[/quote]

I understand that there's nothing wrong with dyslexia. I was only surprised because I didn't know until now.
[/quote]
Fair enough.
We learn new things every day

[quote name='Four_X' post='3178262' date='Oct 5 2010, 05:41 PM']It's no big thing now but it used to be because teachers didn't now how to teach
dyslexic childran.

im also dyslexic, i also had help at school

by the way a lot of famous people are dyslexic, roald dahl for one was dyslexic
and he was one of the world's greatest children's authors with books like
James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Fantastic Mr Fox
Matilda, The Witches, and The BFG, he wasn't diagnosed as a dyslexic until later
in his live well after he wrote alot of his famous books.

so go figure [/quote]


I'm dyslexic (I also have dyscalculia, the number version of dyslexia, which is a million times worse than my dyslexia, which is considered mild, but it does explain my bad sense of direction, seriously I'm 22 years old and still can't remember my left from my right) and the vice principal (he was the one in charge) refused to put me in special needs classes saying that I was just lazy, despite the fact that he had the test results in front of him (he said that I cheated the system or something and should stop being lazy). He was new, the vice principal that left before was going to put me in special needs, but he quit so I wasn't able to get any help. So now we may have teachers who are able to help, but in some places they just refuse to, saying that their students are lazy.

The Swedish king have dyslexic

[quote name='CrimzonEyed' post='3179257' date='Oct 6 2010, 12:31 PM']The Swedish king have dyslexic [/quote]

he is there to lead, not to read.

[quote name='Maz7006' post='3179266' date='Oct 6 2010, 10:37 AM'][quote name='CrimzonEyed' post='3179257' date='Oct 6 2010, 12:31 PM']The Swedish king have dyslexic [/quote]

he is there to lead, not to read.
[/quote]
This made me lol I hope your happy....

not a big problem, I'd say 40% of all the people in my school have some kind of dyslexia. I'm one of the only ones in my class who hasn't.

Heck, my math teachers dyslexic. I just had trouble spelling dyslexic, how ironic.

Well my best friend is said to have dyslexia too even thaught he reads WAY faster than I do writes way faster than I do and understands most texts way better/faster than I do ....

because of this he did nothing at all in language classes and just got allways like 1 up to 2 grades better because the teachers are not allowed to rate someone with dyslexia the same as someone without it -.-

I think dyslexia is just some sort of easy way for slackers.
Even thaught some ppl might be offended by this opinion but i think dyslexia is just nonsens

I think all dyslexic just should stop being so lazy and start learning to read!..... No, I'm just joking!
I'm surprised there haven't been many dyslexic people during my school time. I had one classmate who was dyslexic, and he quit after a year... apart from that, I haven't met anyone who's dyslexic (what I know atleast).

Edit:
Youkai: I agree to some extent. I know there are some people who "use" dyslexia as an excuse, without having it. But I think there are studies that show that there is some disorder that makes some people dyslexic.

[quote name='Youkai' post='3180222' date='Oct 6 2010, 11:42 AM']Well my best friend is said to have dyslexia too even thaught he reads WAY faster than I do writes way faster than I do and understands most texts way better/faster than I do ....

because of this he did nothing at all in language classes and just got allways like 1 up to 2 grades better because the teachers are not allowed to rate someone with dyslexia the same as someone without it -.-

I think dyslexia is just some sort of easy way for slackers.
Even thaught some ppl might be offended by this opinion but i think dyslexia is just nonsens[/quote]


I think that some people take it way out of proportion, but not all people who have dyslexia are slackers (I also have ADHD and OCD). I've rarely ever gotten decent grades in school. I got an A in math once...in the 10th grade and that's because I had a teacher working with me. I got F's and Needs Improvement on my report cards constantly. It wasn't because I was a slacker, it was because I didn't get any help. I was constantly told by the teachers that I should have been paying attention and that I had notes so to figure it out myself. I once had a math teacher that said that she would help me whenever I needed it and when I went up to her one day for help she said I had notes and that I was to stop being lazy and to figure it out myself. I actually had two teachers like that. It wasn't that I was lazy. In my senior year of high school I got D's and F's in math (I barely passed with a D-). I completed the assignments, every single one had been finished, but I didn't understand the material and got bad marks because of it. Nevada has some of the worst test scores in the nation. Why? Because the teachers here don't care if you pass or fail, they don't care about helping you. Maybe 10% of them do, but the other 90% just don't care. I once had a music teacher read the newspaper in class and ignore the class. The only way to actually get a grade in her class was to help her beat Ocarina of Time or to draw art from the Zelda series...I'm not kidding about that. I was in that class to re-learn the piano/keyboard. That class was the reason why I was homeschooled the following years. I actually got help when I was homeschooled through an online program. My grandma helped me with my assignments and I got good grades because someone helped me instead of being told to figure it out myself. Sometimes people abuse it, but sometimes people actually need help. The system failed me and constantly told me to **** off. Something needs to change.

Did he have to spell it out to you?