How do they figure out when some one has dyslexia?

its a learning disability where some people will read things wrong or write letters or words backwards etc.. i dont know much about it but it seemed like it used to be pretty common till lately

ahhh yeah i understand what you mean.i learn something again from mylot thanks moon.

sounds really frustrating!

well at least he is way ahead now so it wasnt a waste of learning even though he wasnt!

i guess treatable was the wrong wording.. but yeah i knew it wasnt something that you could just get over but had to have something to help with such as those programs you were talking about..

yeah its like something you have heard about but unless you have it or have a reason to look it up you dont know much about it

well i have ADD and i have had times where i will look at a word and it just look jumbled or when i try to copy it down i jumble it when i copy it.. i was home schooled so its not like i had regular teachers that would have been trained to notice it if i had it but i think im come this long and gotten this far that if i some how do have it very slightly that i have some how figured out how to deal with it.. but it does worry me sometimes

I have trouble reading out loud as well...I can read faster to myself!

i seem to screw up things when i re write them.. like if i am copying something or writing down something some one told me it gets all jumbled and screwed up.. it might just be my add but thanks for the link and explaining that you didnt have problems reading.. i am a great reader and always have been but i cant read aloud or i screw up the whole sentences.. i figured since i could read good that there was no way in my having signs of it

Thanks for the BR, moon

i didnt know there was more than one type.. thanks for the info!

i used to read a ton when i was younger but it seems the last couple of years i have had a problem with it and one of my health issues can cause mental fogginess so i dont know if its that or maybe i am slightly or what.. i can function so i dont think i will really pursue it but i was still curious

thats EXACTLY what i am talking about!! i never had this problem before but since my fibro got worse its gotten way worse!! maybe its just that and not being dyslexic

I believe that fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome are two different faces of the same coin. Fibro worst symptom is the pain, CFS is the fatigue. Both have the pain and fatigue as well as the unrefreshed sleep, brain fog, depression, weight gain or loss, and smatterings of other vague symptoms like the pressure points and strange immune responses. I believe the disease(s) are a neurological disease that affects the brain and nerves body wide. I used to be an avid reader. Now I can read half a page and then I find I am looking at the page and nothing in going into my brain no matter how long I stare at it. If I put the book down, rest and try again the same thing happens, another half page and then the words do not go into my brain. I actually read a book this way that I desperately wanted to finish. It took me three weeks but I finished it. Before it would have taken me days, not weeks. It is like my brain is running out of a chemical or energy and when I rest it comes back until I tire it again. My brain/neurological syptoms seem to get worse as I tire, and I tire very easily. Strangely the brain fog is always there in some degree, only very rarely does it lift for a half hour or sometimes more and I realize clarity of thought briefly. Then the fog comes back inevitably. It can be frustrating because there is so much I cannot do or do with great effort. I get the dyslexia really bad in rare instances. Sometimes aggregated by overworking, poor lighting or bad fonts, I find the words on the page start to dance. It is hard to read when the words are doing a dance like a conga line across the page. In those instances I give up on reading, and I can understand why the dyslexics give up on reading. Other times I find I can read more if I read out loud, sort of a regressive step but it helps. Thanks for listening.