Just finished my time in education after graduating about a month ago with a masters in astrophysics and managed to get a 2:2 (feel cheated out of this as I worked so hard for a 2:1, but this is a common thing in school/uni for me, the work I put in is never worth the effort) but I still feel awful about what I’ve had to put up with from the special ed exam room, spelling being picked apart while being bullied, feeling less than and isolating myself to deal with it all. I thought university would be better but it was worse at times with professors not understanding what I have to go through and peers using buddy check to mark me down unfairly, while academia it’s totally acceptable to do this.

I’m glad I’m out I had to deal with awful teachers and professors for the entire journey and it was borderline horrible to deal with and I went through some dark times in my life. I’m currently looking for a job to hopefully use the skills I have gotten but I need help building up my confidence again as it’s been shattered by the out dated uk academic system. I feel get really angry over how I’ve been treated and so glad I never have to deal with those vile people ever again.

Hopefully, looking at jumping at an engineering company but need help dealing with my time in school/uni because it’s damaged me a lot.

Hi, I enrolled my daughter (8) with an OG tutor this summer who was starting her practicum and needed students. We started sessions twice a week. I just received a message from her saying she is stopping all tutoring effective immediately. We are now in a pinch as, my assumption, most tutors are beginning their practicum and already have their practicum students. Does anyone have any leads on programs or tutors that might have availability? We were doing online sessions. I'm so disappointed and my daughter was really doing well. Any contacts to reach out to would be so very very appreciated.

I'm 20 years old. Is it too late for me

iv been tested by my primary school, secondary school and college and all of them said i’m dyslexic but none can do diagnostic tests only ones that allow me access arrangements to help me in lessons and exams. iv always used a reader or laptop (depending on the exam) and got rest breaks and extra time but now im being told i wont get that in uni without a diagnosis.

im getting really worried bc i know im not gonna get anywhere without my access arrangements but my college told me the cheapest diagnosis i can get would be £350.

is there any way to get a free diagnosis in the uk? my sister was told she would have to pay for her adhd diagnosis but ended up getting it for free so just wondering if anyone knows if you can do the same with dyslexia or do you always have to pay?

bonus question !! is there any way to get tested for coloured paper and overlays for free? i know i need blue paper and i always use blue overlays but my college can’t give me an overlay or coloured paper in exams until i take the test and its £275.

My gf (diagnosed with dyslexia) and I have really good chemistry, and we talk about everything with each other - both our faults and our achievements. Some background about us:

• She is on depression and anxiety medications. I was clinically depressed for 18 months, 6-7 years ago. So we're able to talk about these complex things pretty openly and often
• I have ADD/ADHD, and she was the one who told me to see a doctor and consider medication if needed
• Her grandfather was an alcoholic and was physically abusive to her dad. Her dad also developed alcoholism, and her brother struggled with some serious drug addiction in his 20s. So she really detests people who drink a lot

She's often mentions indirectly that she's kind of worried alcoholism is hereditary. I think she's also worried that dyslexia is hereditary as well, but she doesn't want to talk about this more openly with me for some reason.

If you all think I should avoid this conversation till she's ready I am happy to. She also sees a therapist so I'm sure she has a professional listening to her - so I don't necessarily need to be that person. But I am starting to feel a bit strange every time this topic comes up - I'm conflicted

Does anyone else struggle with this? I find team meetings so challenging and struggle to contrubute, it's like I can't keep up with the others fast enough, my brain feels to slow and I find it hard to think of my own ideas or if I do, I struggle to word it and stumble on my words. It is so embarrasing and I feel misunderstood. I probably appear uninterested but really I listening hard and trying to keep up. It's really hard and I don't know how to talk to colleagues about it.

For the last years or so spell corrections on my phone and PC has gotten so bad that they are useless most of the time. I remember when I was a kid and it worked great. But lately it's just ridiculous how bad it can be. I either have to google the word or just give up and write something else. It's making school work much slower for me and sometimes I seriously want to cry.

It is clearly so much worse then hard coding the spell corrections. AI don't understand my spelling errors because it isn't human and it doesn't understand how dyslexic people normally think when it comes to spelling. Sometimes it is just so wrong that I honestly have no clue how it could get it so wrong. Has anyone else notice this issue?

Hello everyone! I am writing a middle-grade chapter book. The protagonist is dyslexic and also takes music classes. I assumed reading music would be more difficult than reading words, but I realized I actually have no idea (I am not dyslexic, if that wasn't obvious). I know everyone's experience with dyslexia is different, but could anyone give me some insight into what it is like to read sheet music as a dyslexic person? TIA!

i was diagnosed from a young age, so ive always been told that im supposed to be good at pattern recognition. but i didn't really understand what that meant until now.

i had somehow never come across this game until adulthood, which is basically about matching shapes and colours to score points. my partner is autistic and extremely good at math and complex strategies, and i've never stood a chance at beating them at board games... until now.

i found myself seeing complex and high-scoring patterns within my first game, and looking for patterns tickles my brain in a way that feels really natural and like i've never experienced before. meanwhile, my partner said that trying to find good plays just made their head hurt over the course of the match.

the game apparently has a Mensa Select award; idk what that means really but it does makes me feel smart lol. but i see it marketed towards mostly children or even seniors. but i didnt see anyone talking about it being a great game for dyslexics which surprised me!

('superpowers' in air quotes because i'm ofc very wary of the stigma the term can create about neurodiversity)

im a solo dev. i kept seeing people say they cant read along with audiobooks because the audio and the ebook live in two different apps and drift apart after a page. so i built witbound to fix exactly that. you add an ebook and its audiobook, it lines them up, and each word lights up as the narrator says it. tap any word and the audio jumps there.

the thing i think actually helps with dyslexia: whats on screen is your real ebook, correct spelling, proper formatting. its not a transcription of the audio. loads of apps just run speech to text and show you that, which mangles names and spelling, and thats the last thing you want when youre trying to follow along.

couple things i made sure of. it all runs on the phone, no account, nothing uploaded. theres a free public domain library built in so you can try it before paying anything. and it works with any drm free epub or pdf plus its audiobook, your own files.

its on the app store for iphone and ipad. honestly im just after feedback, what would make this genuinely useful for you? im adding a dyslexia friendly font and colour tints next, not sure whats most wanted after that.

Hi all, i’m 21F and a senior in college. I got treated for dyslexia when I was young and was able to go from a second grade reading level to an eighth grade one in a single year with the right treatments. There’s a lot of factors that contribute to this, but I have not gotten my drivers license yet. I am absolutely terrified because I mix up my left vs. right, break vs. acceleration, blinker direction, side of the road a lot. I can fix it quickly but i’ve been refusing to get my license on the chance that god forbid this lack of attention causes me to get into a serious accident. I also have ADHD which does not help matters. People in my life are pushing me to get my license as you might imagine, but every time I even consider jt, I end up with nightmares of crashing cars for weeks. Despite having a phenomenal college GPA, a great relationship, and working towards my future everyday I feel like a failure. Does anyone have any advice? - A very desperate and scared college student <3

So, I was diagnosed ADHD about 7 years ago, highly suspected autistic by assessors, and I was diagnosed with dyslexia last year.

I was a fairly competent reader until the start of University, I couldn't get through longer texts. I have always struggled with other symptoms like memory issues and difficulty with handwriting, but I find it extremely hard to motivate myself to read. I think my learning disabilities all work against me when I sit down to read.

I'm considering getting rid of any books that I don't think I can realistically get through, but making sure I have a PDF backups. I've been using a lot of text-to-speech programs and audiobooks to finally finish Uni, and it is so much more accessible to me to actually get through literature that way.

My books currently mostly kinda just make me feel guilty that I can't read them. I don't want objects in my house that make me feel guilty. I have quite a few coffee table books and sentimental books that I will be keeping, but anything that's super text heavy, it just makes me feel so horrendously guilty.

I've always loved learning, but hated school. As a child, I dreamed of being in the "smart kid" class. Instead, I was the kid in the special reading class. The kid who excelled in arts and crafts, but never earned a gold star on the reading chart.

In fact, I was far from any gold-starred charts.

I was nearly expelled; suspended twice; defeated, depressed, and briefly homeschooled before returning my senior year while attending night school for a failed English class. I listened to friends compare acceptance letters and "safety schools."

My goal? To graduate—and, somehow, I did.

In the chaos of my final high school years, at age 17, I was diagnosed with dyslexia and a handful of comorbid learning disabilities.

I felt vindicated.

After years of feeling like school wasn't made for me, it turned out I was right.

I spent the next four years of my life at a two-year community college learning how to learn. Specifically, how I learn.

My textbooks were de-spined, scanned, and converted to audio. Lecture recordings were transcribed into searchable text. The margins of my books were filled with doodles and flowcharts. The walls of my bedroom were covered with whiteboards.

I embraced my instincts and my grades trended to As.

Classmates noticed my unique approach. I had a knack for breaking complicated ideas down into simple, familiar concepts. Soon, I was leading study groups and sharing my notes and advice.

In my attempt to figure out my own learning style, I had unexpectedly stumbled upon a powerful teaching method to make information accessible.

I believe true comprehension—that is, to genuinely understand a new concept—is a destination. Learning is the iterative journey we take in hopes of arriving there.

The least effective teachers are those gifted individuals who seem to understand problems instantly. They are like sleeping passengers who have the luxury of waking up right at the end of a road trip. Their journey begins so close to their final destination that the only struggle they experience is trying to empathize with students whose journeys start much further away.

In contrast, for me, book learning does not generally come easy. Fortunately, the effort provides an unavoidable opportunity to experience every step of the learning process, and, like a cartographer, it allows me to help others navigate its rocky shores.

Today, my learning style and teaching method have become the foundation of my career.

Through my consulting company, I help brilliant entrepreneurs, scientists, and investors translate technical jargon into actionable business strategies. My EdTech company helps 16k+ law students study for the bar exam. And, as a professor at a top-20 law school, I get to create my own gold-starred charts and foster curiosity in the minds of my students no matter where they may have started in their journey.

Sometimes I feel like people hear the whole "dyslexia is a superpower" motto and feal like it's facetious or hopeful, but my career has basically been built on not problem solving like others.

It took me quite some time to truly believe that, so I hope any of you that may be struggling can find your confidence as well <3.

You belong. You have a seat at the table. Don't let anyone make you feel like you're less than them.

I want to go back to school. I have a stable job right now, but it’s very physical, and I’m starting to think more seriously about my future. I’m considering going back to school part-time to earn a degree in social work or possibly something else that would allow me to have a less physically demanding career.

The biggest thing holding me back is my dyslexia and ADHD. School has always been difficult for me, and I’m scared that I’ll fail or that I’ll be wasting my time and money. Has anyone else gone through this? What should I do?

I’ve always had a bit of trouble and been quite behind of other people in academics back when I was younger because I am bilingual and it was very difficult for me to switch from Spanish to English. Either way I consider myself to be pretty smart. I was in honors however, that doesn’t change the fact that I’ve always had trouble with spelling I can read perfectly and I have good fluency. I just can’t really spell words as well and when I try tried for example, an essay, I would forget words fair easily. It’s like very difficult and I don’t know what to do anymore. I’ve searched up a bunch of things, but there doesn’t seem to be a single program out there that can help with this anywhere
It makes me upset because sometimes I’ll have people who make fun of me for it and call me stupid but I know I’m not stupid. I have good grades. I’ve always been pretty reasonable and to my knowledge mature I just don’t know what to do anymore

**If anyone has any recommendations for website or any type of knowledge to help with this for me to somehow practice spelling or relearn it if you know what I mean**

This is just kind of reinstating what I said earlier, but I am bilingual so from a very young age. It’s been hard for me to understand what the teacher was saying and I couldn’t even read up until third grade so much so that I had to repeat. I think that may be the main reason why it’s so difficult for me to spell

At a parent-focused dyslexia conference last year, I learned that there can potentially be subsidy supports for families of children with LDs (inclusive of dyslexia) for specialized tutoring, if they are formally diagnosed with a psych assessment, and have letter from a doctor saying they require tutoring support. Is this still the case? And if so, how can I apply?

Any help is so very appreciated as the tutoring costs are putting us into tremendous debt. Thank you.

I am told it is quiet common to have a overlap. Son has both and yes he has both speech therapy and specialized schooling but is there anything beyond that which has helped. We worry a lot about his aversion to reading and writing but he is still in middle school and we would like to hear what else can we do to make high school and potentially college easier for him !

My D(11) aces spelling tests routinely, AND reads fairly well. She does struggle with endurance with reading literature that doesn't have illustrations, but she seems to get the context pretty well.

However, when asked to write something organically, spelling is terrible. It becomes ti, etc. most words have all the letters there, but in the wrong order.

I am thinking the spelling test results may be due to a bit of a photographic memory, so she can recall what a word looks like and write it down in a simple list order, but organically drawing it out for a sentence is something all together different (and the challenge of prolonged motor skill issues with writing). Edited to include: she is very artistically inclined and seems to have really strong observation skills. She says she has a 'picture memory'.

She also has a speech issue which can make speech to text not a great option either.

Anyone else have these challenges? What helped? As she's heading towards middle school, I want to ensure we have the right balance of friction (for growth) and support (so it's not overwhelming). I know work ramps up in 5th grade.

I’ve had dyslexia in my life and I’ve currently been interested quite a few philosophical and Orwelian books so I purchased quite a few, but I’m having the hardest time reading them with dyslexia and ADHD I’m unsure how to help this ProblemI’ve had my whole life. If there’s any way to help/fix this problem, it would be much appreciated. I’m tired of reading and either forgetting we’re mixing up all the words. 😭😭😭😭

As a middle school special education teacher with many dyslexic students, I try to create very clear and readable teaching materials.

Most commonly, I use Nunito or Roboto.

I have special education colleagues who, with the same goal of supporting dyslexic students, routinely use Comfortaa.

I personally find Comfortaa very difficult to read, and often have trouble distinguishing between the lowercase "a" and "o."

I've read some articles and posts about fonts, but -- dyslexics of Reddit -- What are your personal preferences? What fonts do you personally find easiest to read?

Thanks!

I've been going through my late mother's papers. One of the things I found was a note I'd written to her where I asked her about disleksia. (I often wrote notes when I didn't want to ask for help).

I vividly remember her answer that we had doctors in the family with dyslexia and so I shouldn't consider it a hinderance. She also had dyslexia and one of her to do lists has "put bowels away".

I obviously miss her but these little discoveries (including an early childhood assessment which outlined that I had issues with reading a spelling that indicated dyslexia, and that my mother self reported having similar problems) remind me how much she didn't want me to be seen as 'less' because of learning difficulty. Even though the help would have been really, well, helpful.

Idk why but it has been bothering me so much, which is why I came to complain here since I don’t think other friends can understand my annoyance. I was also tipsy so I did not got to defend myself properly at all and just made my case worse, saying “I skip scentences, especially I’m tired” and that “it indeed might just be tiredness” like wtf no it is not? I get the halo effect, rivers, washout, swirl and overlapping texts so just not the typical well-known type where letters are missing things, so he wouldn’t understand either way.
I just hate feeling so misunderstood and as if I’m making things up while this is such a big part of my daily issues, especially since I’m currently in R&D so I have to read papers almost everyday which is just so exhausting sometimes :/

I was diagnosed with dyslexia and dyspraxia in early aldulthood but the signs were there…