Website allows you to experience what it is like to live with dyslexia (2016)

Re:Website allows you to experience what it is like to live ... by kls on Monday July 13, 2020 @07:31AM (#23819588)

Same here, it is actually how I got into computers, my writing was so bad (I have dysgraphia) that they put me in a special computer lab in the 3rd grade. I am 45 so, that was not a common thing back then. My grades improved and I did well in school, but I am functionally illiterate when it comes to actually hand writing anything. I can tell what something says when I read back something I wrote, but if you where to look at it, well it might as well be hieroglyphs, it is completely illegible to anyone else.

But when it comes to typing I do OK, I transpose letters here and there, but I get by and I can read just fine, it's just in my writing that one can really tell there is something off.

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Re:Website allows you to experience what it is like to live ... by sandworm101 on Monday July 13, 2020 @09:35AM (#23820549)

>> it is completely illegible to anyone else.

Then you are one up on me. My handwriting is so bad that I myself often have difficulty reading it. It has never made much difference to me professionally. Anything that really matters is typed into some sort of device.

People at meetings often comment that I take few notes. Typing during a meeting is impolite imho and my handwriting of notes would be less than useful. So I just listen and have learned to remember what was said until I can minute it later.

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Re:Website allows you to experience what it is like to live ... by patmorgan23 on Monday July 13, 2020 @12:03PM (#23822227)

I find the physical act of writing helps me remember things. There's been research on this that suggests that the processesing you need to do to write something down secures it in your memory better.

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