OT: Artificial?

A SHORT HISTORY OF DYSLEXTIC

/Dyslexia - Impaired ability to learn to read/.
/Dyslexic or Dyslectic - Having impaired ability to/
/comprehend written words usually associated/
/with a neurologic disorder/.

As you all know this group is haunted by a strange form of
dyslexia. Strange because it almost only appears after
Inger is told she has her facts wrong. It is one of her tools
to evade questions and to abuse people.

Seeing the confusing and sometimes conflicting symptoms
she presented in the time I am around, I decided to do a
little dig after nature, origin and development of this
particular disorder.

I found 61 relevant posts between 30 March 2000 and 18
April 2006. I am sure there are more, but I think this is a
representative collection. There is much repetition, so I
used in this report only a selection of quotes to make clear
what Inger says her problem is.

For better readability I omitted references to the quotes,
but in most cases they are easy to find, using Groups-Google,
or else ask me.
If I made any mistake, please blame my dyxlesia for it.


*The history*
Inger once said: "Since I started to write at age 4 had
spelling problems, many dyslextic persons major problems"
but it all started here in March 2000 when she wrote:
"I am sorry but I am wordblind".
She stayed wordblind until the end of 2002, when it
changed to "dyslextia". Perhaps that worsening was
related to the Gothenburg Book Fair in september that
year. [In 2004 she wrote: "I didn't know it myself until I
visited the Book-exhibition here in Gothenburg some years
ago and found a corner where dyslexia was on the agenda
and discussed."]

The correct spelling is of course 'dyslexic' or 'dyslectic'.
With a Google ratio of 100:1, the first form is by far the
most used. Inger knows the second form, because she
used it on 5 out of 55 occasions, but perhaps that were
only misspellings.

*What it means to be dyslextic*
According to Inger there are three kinds of dyslextic
persons
¤ those who have spelling problems.
¤ those who have reading problems
¤ those who have understanding/comprehension problems

It is easy for the reader to get a different impression, but
when in defence, Inger always insists that she has no
comprehension problems at all, only problems with writing,
spelling and 'interpunctuation'. Although: "I also have and
probably always will have problem with grammar." and:
"My grammatical interpunctation and spelling is a problem"
Very recently she added in one sentence two more
symptoms of dyslextia:
- "dyslextic persons who for one reason or an other have to
explain/speak from position above average" [for what that
means, see below under 'Good company]
- "It's a commonly known problem here in Sweden, ... That
we [="dyslextic persons"] need more words. Use longer
sentences."

*Inger's particular problems*

*Finding those words*
- "From time to time I have a problem to find the correct
Swedish words to explain what happens, that doesn't
make it easier when writing the same thing in English."
- "I can use my spelling-programs, but I can't actually see
if I am spelling a correct word for the right place or a
correct word for an other situation."
- "When my spellingprograms dont mark a word as
incorrect than it's not sure that I used the word I wanted
too"

*The Sound of Spelling*
- "I have problems with spelling because I tend to spell as
it sounds and not as it should be spelt if it's a word in a
language I can speak."
- "I don't see the difference if I am not reading it loud"
- "Sometimes I have had to use a dictaphone to help me
out reading difficult parts aloud"
- "I have and always will have problem spelling words when
it comes to words 'sounding' alike one or more other words."
- "I have problem to find misspelt words"
- "I don't see if I write a word incorrect"

- "The fault I have made is always related to spelling names
or words used in the text I just have read."

- "I can't see if I am writing the wrong letter"
- "We don't see the difference between a written 'y' and a
written 'i' when we have used one instead of the other."
- "I am not god at interpunctation and whenever I have 'is' or
'si' in a word I tend to spell other way."
- "I have problem spelling words with 'is' or 'si' in Swedish
as well."
- "I can't see if I forgets an '-s' or not in the end of a word."

*Punctuation*
- "problems to know where a 'komma' or a 'punkt' should be
added."
- "I tend to place komma's in wrong places most of the time
and when I am in a haste I forget to use komma."
[In reality we hardly see any comma at all]
- "I have also had problem all my life with using punctation
because I don't see where a sentence starts and stop."
[In reality she makes very long, complex and badly composed
sentences with a lot of subordinate clauses, without making
use of commas and semicolons. Often she doesn't start a new
sentence with a capital, despite the previous ends with a dot]

*A disorderly disorder*
- "I have a hard time following debatour's 'input' when the post
isn't top-posted. I make an exception for those I know
don't interfere with my lines so I still can follow what I wrote
myself"

*Never*
- "I never have problem writing 'Official letters' or Letters of
Commerce.... but that I can't explain."
- "I also have and probably always will have problem with
grammar. That I have in every single language when I write
but never when I speak. "

*Not stupid but* ...
- "Dyslexia and dyslextic persons are neither stupid nor is
it funny to joke about such!"

- "I never have had less than 94% correct in any reading
tests in all my life."
- "I have contrary to you between 94%-98% comprehension
of text proven in tests."

- "I am five times better writing English Grammar than I am
writing Swedish Grammar no matter that Swedish is my
language of birth."
[Remember that she is a Swedish teacher]

- "If there is one thing I am known for is my good - very
good memory, I can quot discussions I heard 10 years
ago so good that there are almost nothing missing if
you listen to tape from the discussion itself."
- "I have what's called Photographic memory, it's been
tested more than once over the years
- "I know which page I read a thing on and where on the
page" [But when she gives references it is often to the
wrong page(s) and if the pagenumber is correct, her
understanding of the content is often wrong.]

- "You attack me not because I am a scholar, ... but
because I am a woman who have read ten times more
than you ever can read in your all life."


*Good company*
- "Several of this words best genius have been dyslextic."
- "We do have a King with exactly same type of spelling
problems but without any reading problems what so ever."
- "Albert Einstein and many others did have dyslexia."
["While it makes a nice story, this widely believed notion is
false, according to Einstein's biographers." (DyslexiaOnline)]

Recently, after been told by someone that "Your
explanations tend to be long, confusing and never get to
the point":
- Those who have our knowledge and those with more
usually don't have problems following. Neither for those
who aren't, as many of us have, among those with above
130 IQ and thus are used to draw conclusion without
having to spell out every single step, sorry nothing personal
to anyone. For the rest it might seem confusing.


*Conclusions*
Usually in reports like this some kind of conclusion is
included. Not in this case. I leave it to the reader to draw
their own conclusion about the identification of the disorder
and the severity and relevance of the symptoms as presented
by Inger.

I hope this report will be of help for a better understanding
of both dyslexic persons as of that one dyslextic person.


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Relevant Pages

  • Re: Ten years ago today...
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    (uk.comp.sys.mac)
  • Re: OT but essential Cut, paste and moving text isnt quoting
    ... >>because he openly declares that he doesn't care about spelling. ... > Inger is truly dyslexic. ... As I noted before, dyslexia basically is the ... Yet Inger maintains she can read her own language ...
    (sci.archaeology)
  • Re: Whats the weirdest human language?
    ... would-be spelling based on a modern dialect. ... It turns out that the rate of dyslexia in Italy is just as high as in England or America, but because the language is so much more phonetic and regular, more of them are able to cope without special tutoring. ... Still, most people understand it to mean that a dyslexic finds reading, or learning to read, difficult. ... Over the summer between first and second grade, out of frustration, I told him he wasn't allowed to sound out words any more and made flash cards out of all the words in "Go Dog! ...
    (talk.origins)
  • Re: Book 7 traitor theory
    ... the spelling errors, but it would catch some of them. ... form of dyslexia but it deals with how I understand the english lang. ... with a paper that had 70 diffrent ways of spelling the same word. ... I gave two dyslexia kids a pokemon game and it has helped. ...
    (alt.fan.harry-potter)
  • Re: OT but essential Cut, paste and moving text isnt quoting
    ... >>because he openly declares that he doesn't care about spelling. ... > Inger is truly dyslexic. ... As I noted before, dyslexia basically is the ...
    (sci.archaeology)