Comments on: Personality and ADHD http://www.myomancy.com/2006/03/personality_and ADHD, Dyslexia and Autism Thu, 24 Jun 2010 23:01:48 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reynolds http://www.myomancy.com/2006/03/personality_and/comment-page-1#comment-88091 Reynolds Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:40:29 +0000 http://owl.vm.bytemark.co.uk/2006/03/personality_andhtml/#comment-88091 As a child I knew I was diffferent from my brother and older sister. They would laugh when I tried to read & copy them an reread their reading assignments by age 5. I had lisp(sp?) and when teased I would substitute words if I was asked to repeat what I said. By the time I entered school via drawing pictiures in my mind & was able to read with a higher class (when I went to 1st grade I read with the 3rd grades0.. Still to this day whether I talk or listen it as if I am using an old time typewriter ribbon. As people talk or I talk it is put on this old typwriter ribbon. If I get lost when a person talks, I'm stuck back there even if they have gone on talking & jokingly I will tell them, "I need to mole you." I must take them back to where I got lost or confused & then get them to help me catch up to where they are now. In my mind I have always drawn pictures or put words on this typewriter ribbon. I am 61 and have a BA in history & sociology, BS horticulture Clemson, Business degree in accounting, passed CPA, MBA from The Citadel, MS in engineering Carneige Mellon, masters engineering U of Ptiisburgh, and after a botched operation I went and got a computer systems engineer degree. What bothered me the moist was at the Eastern girl school the Andersons in 1965 did some tests. I was failing miserably. I figured out they were zeroing in on me, so I asked them. They were amazed given the severity of my dylexia that I had been able to do so well in school & made it that far in college. Unknown to me it was put in my official transcript. I wanted to transfer from The Citadel to University of VA Business School. UVA turned me down because they said they were not equipment to handle my learning disability. Naturally my father went to court to get that Dyslexic issue removed. I never used dyslexia as an excuse. Children can learn to work around it and not use it as an excuse. Why is dyslexia and bipolar so often used as a natural concurrent counterpart?? Jenny Reynolds As a child I knew I was diffferent from my brother and older sister. They would laugh when I tried to read & copy them an reread their reading assignments by age 5. I had lisp(sp?) and when teased I would substitute words if I was asked to repeat what I said.

By the time I entered school via drawing pictiures in my mind & was able to read with a higher class (when I went to 1st grade I read with the 3rd grades0.. Still to this day whether I talk or listen it as if I am using an old time typewriter ribbon. As people talk or I talk it is put on this old typwriter ribbon. If I get lost when a person talks, I’m stuck back there even if they have gone on talking & jokingly I will tell them, “I need to mole you.” I must take them back to where I got lost or confused & then get them to help me catch up to where they are now. In my mind I have always drawn pictures or put words on this typewriter ribbon.

I am 61 and have a BA in history & sociology, BS horticulture Clemson, Business degree in accounting, passed CPA, MBA from The Citadel, MS in engineering Carneige Mellon, masters engineering U of Ptiisburgh, and after a botched operation I went and got a computer systems engineer degree. What bothered me the moist was at the Eastern girl school the Andersons in 1965 did some tests. I was failing miserably. I figured out they were zeroing in on me, so I asked them. They were amazed given the severity of my dylexia that I had been able to do so well in school & made it that far in college. Unknown to me it was put in my official transcript. I wanted to transfer from The Citadel to University of VA Business School. UVA turned me down because they said they were not equipment to handle my learning disability. Naturally my father went to court to get that Dyslexic issue removed.

I never used dyslexia as an excuse. Children can learn to work around it and not use it as an excuse. Why is dyslexia and bipolar so often used as a natural concurrent counterpart??

Jenny Reynolds

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