#severly dyslexia

[dyslexic-dyspraxic]

Whilst there are definitely concessions and support you are given as a neurodivergent student, they don't change the fact that studying under the current teaching methods is hard

Like I was given extra time, a study skills advisor and the chance to have my lectures read over my essay plans, these all helped and they are the reason I got as far as I did but I was still held back

Because what I would benefitted most from is having a person in my field not only teach me how to write essays but review the essays I was gonna submit and tell me how to improve, having flexible deadlines that I could discuss and agree with my assessors, lower expectations when it came to reading lists, better written secondary sources, a greater variety of assessment methods than essay, exam and participation in class (and more even weighting between the three) because none of these work for everyone and there has to be more creative ways to assess someone's capabilities than an essay and exams

And arguably the thing that I would have benefitted most from is doing my degree on a part time schedule whilst not having to work a job, which I am not sure was even an option at the Uni I choose, would have been limited in terms of who can afford that and comes with social stigma, but my degree was hard for me, my severe dyslexia meant there was a limit to how much I could be expected to read in one day and it was incredibly draining to keep up with the reading and writing expectations

But the teaching system is not set up to work like this, there is no way this level of support would have been possible under the current system and that means that there are many potential students who we are just outright failing because we don't offer this support

It's okay if the level of support currently offered still wouldn't be enough for you, Uni is not set up for the neurodivergent and whilst many make it work inspite of this, that doesn't mean it will work for everyone and we still have a right to ask for more

[omgwhatchloe]

MODERN AU: sean is diagnosed with dyslexia, but has never openly told the gang. hes not trying to hide it, but doesn’t really mention it until it can come up in a conversation and be actually relevant.

of course, the boys being the boys have made him feel insecure about this before. they were all in the kitchen, and he read the cover of a bottle very incorrectly, and so they all laughed. and began to make him read more things that he really struggled with. it was actually a comment from arthur (lets be real now, he has a mean side) that brought embarrassed and betrayed tears to his eyes as he stormed out.

lenny walked in to see what had happened, and they told their version of it, obviously missing out parts where they were undeniably in the wrong. to which, lenny informed them sean’s severly dyslexic and they were all being very nasty people in such a calm way that it made their stomach sink to their feet. seans curled up in his bed with his face in his pillow and his phone pinging with apologies. hosea, who was in the other room, sent him a lengthy facebook message to see if he was okay and telling him to ignore the boys.

soon, lenny’s there and stroking the back of seans neck to comfort him, to which sean falls asleep fast.

SORRY FOR THE RAMBLE

[thedeafprophet]

i still remember the time on the reddit where i off handly mentioned that i don't really like Chandler Groovers writing most of the time (too much prose, and writing format bad for my dyslexia)

and then someone else came and replied respondly Much More Severly in their dislike for his writing ajdjfjgkgkhkh like bro calm down. we can dislike the writing without insulting

[sir-phillip-crane]

do you have any headcanons about Cassandra's relationship with each member of vox machina?

oh MAN do I

scanlan - she LOVES scanlan. honestly, absolutely adores him. it was just like, right away, he knew what to do and how to help her. she had a little crush on him if she’s being honest, but wont say shit about it. why? because when VM visits, he’ll sing to her, he’ll sit with her after she has nightmares, and he will, with her permission, lay in bed with her. he treats her just like he would anyone else - inappropriate, flirty jokes - and it makes her feel not as messed up

vax - one of the other members she crushed on. they're both rogues and spent time teaching each other their preferred fighting methods, so she bonded with him quick. she enjoys his company and *spoiler* misses him after his deal with the raven queen results in his death

vex - she really loves vex. vex ends up extremely protective of her, especially *spoiler* after she loses vax. she teaches her how to do her hair when it finally starts getting long.

percy - surprisingly... i think she has a lot of bad feelings towards him. because when she looks at it, he left her. he could have, should have come to check if she was alive. or even try to save her. but he just left her, bleeding out in the snow. it was severly traumatic and i think it makes her hate him a bit. further, she resents that he is constantly off galavanting with friends while shes stuck trying to revive whitestone.

keyleth - she has Many feelings about keyleth. mostly, at first, confusion and sort of fear. she wasnt comfortable waking up to see a stranger with antlers who, when she screamed in fear, immediately reacting by screaming back then hugging her. after thr dust settles, though, she is incredibly fond of her and harbors a crush for a while. I do wanna emphasize that Cassandra develops crushes very easily after years of unhealthy "affection" from the briarwoods and probably not as much affection as she needed with the de Rolos (she was one of, like, 7 kids and her parents obviously still had to run the city). once she sees keyleth give vex an excited hug and is like wow if keyleth did that to me I'd probably fall in love with her. rhen keyleth does and Cassandra's like by the Dawnfather this cannot be happening.

grog - besties, basically. they're training partners so Cassandra can practice combatting bigger targets and grog can practice combatting small/quick moving targets. also, after seeing a post about it, I hc Cassandra with dyslexia, so they bond quick over the struggle to read/write. Cassandra still has more trouble with it as running whitestone involves lots of paperwork, but being with him reminds her that shes not an idiot.

pike - probably spends the least amount of time with her tbh, sorry pike. she does like pike, she just doesnt exactly have any common ground with her to bond over. percy also probably tries to make cass tell someone (*cough* pike *cough*) about her trauma and she doesnt like doing anything like that.

trinket - best boy. best best best boy. she loves him so so so much. every now and then when vm is in whitestone (or post canon) she can be found snuggling with him and her cat as she talks through whatever problem she cant figure out.

[the---hermit]

Probably you really don't do the next but I would just listen to you reading out loud

I am actually terrible at reading out loud, both in Italian and English. I've always felt uncomfortable when I was force to do it in school, and it's actually very linked to the many reasons I believe I have mild form of dyslexia (I wanted to get a proper test done for years but I never actually did it, yet). I do envy people who can read out loud beautifully tho, it's one of those severly underrated skills.

[lonelier-version-of-you]

random thing- i was severly traumatized as a child and have my symptoms as a result as well as a stress disorder. i was wondering if that makes me a nuerodiverse person? i cant find a consistent definition of the word but i didnt know wether or not i am considered that or neurotypical,, please help ifyou want to..

Well. Technically there’s no such thing as a neurodiverse person any more than there’s such a thing as a sexuality-diverse person: a singular person can’t be diverse, only a group of people (or things) can.

Neurodivergent, however? Yes, you absolutely count as that. The coiner of the term, Kassiane Asasumasu, actually has PTSD herself, and considers it a form of neurodivergence. https://sherlocksflataffect.tumblr.com/post/121295972384/psa-from-the-actual-coiner-of-neurodivergent

Somehow, a misconception that “neurodivergent” only refers to conditions such as autism, ADHD, dyslexia, etc. has become popular. (That’s probably why you can’t find a consistent definition online.) It’s bullshit. Don’t listen to it. There’s already a term for those kinds of conditions only and it’s “developmentally disabled”. You’re allowed to call yourself neurodivergent if you want to.

[distinguishedkidlawyerrebel]

I have been severly dyslexic my whole life ( have known it ever since my first day of school) and fulfill literally the entire checklist of symptoms connected to dislexia I wanted to add that the easiest writing prop is simple everyday reading. Not being able to read the blackbord menu behind the cashier (at places like starbucks) and also not able to finish reading, comprehend and decide before it’s your turn makes you look like an utter idiot in front of everyone there. Young people prefer to ‘solve’ everything via text messeges and arguments go horribly wrong because of not replying fast enough, misunderstanding, not being able to keep up with the conversation... Often saying lets just talk in person or lets talk on a phone call upsets people even more. People do not understand how exhausting it is to text and keep up in conversations and how easy it is to misinterpret text without cues like face expression and tone of voice simply because a dislexic person might not understand the connections between words (eg sayings) or simply their deeper meaning because we are focussed on keeping up on the reading aspect and therfore don’t focus on the meaning. This actually does regularly occur in every situation with time or emotional pressure. Life is as much stress as taking a test in school because the pressure people around you put up is the same. Even people who know how sensitiv the issue is and try their best to create a supportive environment snap and say things such as ‘stop blaming mistakes on your dyslexia’ ‘That’s got nothing to do with this, this is about us’ ‘you could get over it if you would just stop telling yourself that your problems derrive from dyslexia’. Being open about it as well as selfawareness of your abilities/disabilities gets shamed upon every day. People don’t write about it cause people don’t know about it. they actually prefer to blame your behaviour on every other aspect of your personality instead of accepting it could be your disability.

writing characters with dyslexia

by me !! a dyslexic

hopefully this might be a useful little guide so you can avoid the misconceptions and any stereotypes - I saw someone do this with adhd and I thought a dyslexia one might be interesting

reading

this differs from person to person but for me I have to read over things four or five times before they actually go into my head, sometimes this gives people headaches or makes them nauseous. letters often “jump” or sentences merge into one long word; people often have trouble with light sensitivity and pages can seem too bright

writing

some people have vary varied handwriting and can go from neat to messy to big to small within minutes, spelling is often phonetic but PLEase doNt Talk AbOUt thIS For AgEs it’s only a very small part of being dyslexic

speaking

dyslexic people often speak faster than their brains create sentences so can trip over words or stutter or mix up words (par kark instead of car park), this can be embarrassing so could make for a good scene ?! people also get a lot of tip of the tongue experiences where they can’t find the right word (I once couldnt remember the word ‘embarrassed’ and I called it ‘when you go red and nervous’) so that makes for more interesting speech patterns in your characters

memory

oh my lord this is so overlooked but lots of dyslexic people have really bad short term memories - things like listening to instructions and forgetting them immediately, or forgetting that they were saying mid sentence

sense of direction

not so common but people often lose their sense of direction and can struggle telling left from right - I don’t know too much about this one though so I’m not going to go into it too deeply !!

hearing

filtering out background noise can be super difficult so people can seem like they have poor hearing but really everything can just seem very loud - this can be distracting and frustrating too and it bugs my friends so much because I make them repeat everything whoops

I’m sure there’s more things but this is just a short list, I’ll add anything if I think of it - feel free to add anything yourselves !!

[lilly-patrick]

Offline

My dash is too dark and I'm just trying hard to stay stable right now. I might be off till things calm down idk. I'm just so on edge because well my therapist has been out of town for two weeks. I can't even start to figure out what I'm going to be doing with my life since I have no idea where I'll be in the next few month because no one know what to do with me and so I'm being put in a home. And then my mom wouldn't stop talking about if space was real or not which made me panic. My sister is just a bitch to me and my mom lets her. And I've been struggling with thoughts of self harm and suicide all week. And the depression related poor memory and dyslexia is just strong worse. So yeah. I might go on hiatus or at least a hiatus from my dash. YAY MENTAL ILLNESS AND SEVERLY LOW SELF ESTEEME!

[dyslexic-dyspraxic]

I think one of the things people overlook is not meeting expectations as someone with dyslexia and dyscalculia, because I have seen posts on ADHD but none on Dyslexia or Dyscalculia

More than anything, I was made to feel like a failure because of my dyslexia and dyscalculia

I was constantly told I was smart and evaluated as if I was neurotypical intelligent

But I would always struggle, I would always fail to live up to expectations because the thing about neurotypical intelligence is you are expected to be good at everything academic, maybe you excel at one thing, but you aren't really bad at anything, struggling with language or maths is never even considered for neurotypical intelligence

And there I was struggling to read, coming out as dyslexic and being hit with "but you're so smart" with varying levels of derision and confusion

Struggling with basic maths as people praised my intelligence and dismissed my grade as nothing impressive because it was what they expected of me, because they didn't see the anxiety I had over adding numbers together, they didn't see how my difficulty with numbers was covered up by my intelligence, I could do logic, I could do complicated problem solving, I couldn't tell you what 13% of 500 was without feeling anxious and freezing

People looked at my grades and they only saw someone smart, they didn't see how I struggled, they didn't see how I tried to meet expectations and fell short, because reading is exhausting and numbers make me anxious, they would dismiss my struggle because "you still did well, it's still a good grade" and it was, but it wasn't good enough

I was being compared to the neurotypical with the same predicted grades as me, the neurotypical who did better in all their exams than me, and I never met that expectation

They judged me as neurotypical and found me lacking as neurodivergent

[dyslexic-dyspraxic]

One of the weird things about my dyslexia is that I almost need a script for talking to people, or I at least need to know that I am gonna be talking to them

And it's not like a social script, that's something different, it's more like words

If you, unexpectedly, start talking to me and asking questions where I am clearly meant to respond, too many options will flow through my mind and words will jumble and trip over each other and suddenly I am stammering through this conversation

But it doesn't happen if I expect to have to speak cause then I have time to prepare my answer

And it's weird but interesting

It's also one of the things I forgot that happens because most of the time I am planning to speak to people, until you drop me in front of a cashier who may just ask whether I want a bag, or may, to be friendly, be asking more about what I am purchasing and then a mess of a sentence is leaving my tongue

[dyslexic-dyspraxic]

It took me way too long to realise I genuinely needed more rests and sleep than other people because having four learning disabilities (including one that made moving my body more tiring than it needed to be, one that made reading anything more work than it needed to be, and one that makes focusing more draining than it needed to be) exhausts you faster than not having any of them or even only having them in moderation

My brain was out here being exhausted by the act of reading, moving, and concentrating on anything, and I never connected it to the fact that I constantly disagreed with people over how much sleep we needed

People would be like we 'only need 8 hours sleep', and my tired ass would be like 'um, actually...' and it's like 8 hours was probably true for them but not for my severely dyslexic, severely dyspraxia, and ADHD ass

My brain was exhausted just from existing let alone actually having to do stuff

Of course I need more sleep