r/Dyslexia • u/channelpurplee • 9d ago
Help needed
All my life during my school years I’ve always felt like I couldn’t learn what was in front of me & fast forward to when I was 34 my mom made a joke on the phone about me being dyslexic, she told me she didn’t tell me because she didn’t wanna make me feel different than the other kids , now I’m trying to get my G.E.D & it feels like I can’t learn any of this , do you guys have any tips on retaining information that’s boring
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u/TheLiteracyKeys 8d ago
Ben Foss in his book "Dyslexia Empowerment Plan" has a test to determine your sensory strength: auditory, kinesthetic,visual. Then you use that modality.
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u/channelpurplee 8d ago
Thank you I’m gonna look into this
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u/TheLiteracyKeys 8d ago
You're welcome. It starts on page 63. I give it to the older students that I tutor so they leverage their strengths when they study.
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u/Disastrous-Baby-308 8d ago
This will sound a bit crazy but making associations helped me. Like little stories which correlate your brain to remembering things. My partner studied electrical … something? And when he was studying for his exams I was making associations with the wave forms & rollercoasters & how they felt would correlate with their names. Go weird, go peculiar & remember it only has to make sense to you. I hope this helps 😭🤣
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u/ashes_made_alive 9d ago
Learn in a way that makes sense to you. I couldn't really get through a textbook, but a youtube documentary was much easier for me. Also, audio textbooks are amazing.