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Janet Ruth Heller's avatar

Dear Lev,

I sympathize. I have some dyslexia, which was not diagnosed until I was an adult. Dyslexia affected my math skills and my early reading skills.

Best wishes!

Sincerely,

Janet Ruth Heller

Author of the poetry books Nature’s Olympics (Wipf and Stock, 2021), Exodus (WordTech Editions, 2014), Folk Concert: Changing Times (Anaphora Literary Press, 2012) and Traffic Stop (Finishing Line Press, 2011), the scholarly book Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and the Reader of Drama (University of Missouri Press, 1990), the middle-grade chapter book for kids The Passover Surprise (Fictive Press, 2015, 2016), and the award-winning picture book for kids about bullying, How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Arbordale, 2006; seventh edition 2022).

My website is https://www.janetruthheller.com/

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Lev Raphael's avatar

My form of dyslexia luckily did not affect reading, writing, anything in that sphere, learning foreign languages--in fact I excelled at all of those. But give me a French grammar exam with fill-in-the-blank sentences and I myself went blank. I had a lovely accent, my college French teacher said, and could read and comprehend (and enjoy) Voltaire, Molière, Cocteau with understanding and remember quotes, but I flunked my grammar tests and it frustrated her because she couldn't understand. Of course, neither could I.

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Stephanie Vanderslice's avatar

I have dyscalculuia too and this happens to me a lot.

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Lev Raphael's avatar

When did you know you had it?

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Stephanie Vanderslice's avatar

I had a lot of testing in high school which uncovered off the charts verbal skills and spatial numbers skills in the basement (40-ahem-years ago). Actually, sub-basement. According to the tester this almost always points to this kind of thing. Dyscalculia wasn’t really a term they used that long ago but when I learned of if 20 years ago, I knew this was it. I was diagnosed with a pretty serious binocular vision problem at that time that has continued and is the source of the dyscalculia. You might want to get tested for that too. Glasses help; somewhat.

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Lev Raphael's avatar

I get regular eye exams and have no problem with binocular vision, knock on wood. But I have enough health issues to juggle at any one time. The joys of aging.

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Richard Donnelly's avatar

I got that disorder regarding money : )

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Lev Raphael's avatar

It's not a disorder. Its an example of neurodivergence. Who knows, maybe it's the next step in evolution? :-)

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Richard Donnelly's avatar

Mine's a disorder : )

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Lev Raphael's avatar

Dis order, dat order, as lawng as yuse happy.....

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Richard Donnelly's avatar

That's why I'm a writer I just want to sit around and let the dough roll in. Haha thanks Lev

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Nancy Hesting's avatar

Well, that makes three posts from you today, however, I always welcome a post from you.

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Lev Raphael's avatar

I did feel obligated to my followers to explain the anomaly now rather than wait till August. :-).

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