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Dyslexia and emotions.

Roy

I’m new here and wondered if autism and dyslexia had any links. I’ve always struggled with words. I have to write out invoices for car repairs  on a computer, I can have the he car next to me when typing, I actually counted the last time how many times  it took me to type the number plate in the correct order, it was six.


I was part of an experiment in the 1970’s called ITA English. It was devised by the son of the person who invented short hand. 
I was taken out of class and taught English in the cloakroom for four years. I was the only one chosen out of my class, there were others from other classes.

Was I chosen as I had already been seen to be different? 
When then moving on to my next school I then got put into special lessons as nobody believed me. Ladybird books actually printed books in ITA. You should google the ITA alphabet. If I turn spell check off this device you would see a totally different me. I spoke to someone else of  my age on here who was taught in the same way.
If autism was already presenting itself, what chance did we have? The school told my parents that I was quiet and just didn’t join in. 
It makes me sad and angry to think that if I had got the correct help 50 years ago, I wouldn’t have waisted all those years being a scared, angry, unhappy misfit. 

sorry to drone on, it’s only recently that I’ve known what I am and now have somewhere to vent it.

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  • in reply to Autimator

    Thanks for your reply, I think one the things I do is over analyse things. 
    I stopped writing with a pen years ago. 
    If I have to write a birthday card, I have to study it and write each letter separately otherwise I miss letters out.

    It’s just been a lot of flashbacks and memories coming back that are bombarding me since the realisation of autism.

  • Dyslexia is a separate condition so not linked to autism, but people can be autistic and also have dyslexia.

    My Dad has it, well both, and I may also have it but only mildly - my reading is fine, but I have to write slower to be accurate and neat.  I also have a bit of difficulty signing in. 

    I went through primary school in late 70's early 80's, and  they knew I had difficulties but not enough to be suspect of autism, or anything else, and my parents didn't get me assessed either so that was that, I just had to get through life.

    In more recent years children are much more likely to be identified as autistic, and get support that just wasn't there before - a lot of us elders have struggled for decades.

    Best to focus on the present - just accept yourself as you are. 

  • For some reason I read ITA English with a thick Scottish accent in my head. lol

    I mean, I understand the reasoning behind phonetic English, and some childre have trouble reading is because the sounds and the spelling don't not always match up, like the difference between reading the word "book" and "noon" are different, even if they are spelt very similar to each other. 

    I think that a child learning ITA English would be very confused with spelling, and then having to relearn the same words in English, and that's just all confusing.

    I get numbers messed up a lot, so it's like how you have to recheck things a lot of times, I have to do that too, and it drives me crazy as well. It's probably from a bad learning system.