I had my proper dyslexic screening today… it was around an hour or so long, and consisted of a series of tests with memory, reading, processing, spelling, shapes, etc etc… some parts was really difficult, like reading passages and processing them for some reason… and remembering numbers and letters, especially saying them backwards… anyway, she told me right afterwards that I don’t have dyslexia, excellent linguistic skills.. but I do have dyspraxia… and I asked her about the symptoms and it seems like I had all of those difficulties… I have NO perception of time at all… 10am is the same as 12… Thursday is the weekend… packing stresses me out a lot… I find it hard to organise and find things in my room…and structuring my essay was near impossible… and things get overwhelming every few weeks…she said she’ll contact the university and maybe get me extra support. I did say I went to academic support for help on that as well. She asked me if I was glad I came because most people are reluctant to take the test and I said I was. I’m glad to know for sure now…
I was thinking how do they know for sure cause these tests can never be 100% accurate but I do actually think I have it, it would make a lot of sense... time and memory is always so foggy and that makes things really blurry, and planning ahead seems impossible... in essays too... I struggle with 'structuring' thoughts 'logically'... in 'categories'... perhaps I can do my own more abstract categories but I don't think the logic is ever clearly conveyed to the audience... clarity and structure is the main weakness in my writing... I do tend to make mind maps in the beginning but it sort of explodes with too many branches and I have NO idea how to narrow it down because everything seems to be as important as the other... I'm glad academic support exists, joey helped me through that at the start.
I was thinking how do they know for sure cause these tests can never be 100% accurate but I do actually think I have it, it would make a lot of sense... time and memory is always so foggy and that makes things really blurry, and planning ahead seems impossible... in essays too... I struggle with 'structuring' thoughts 'logically'... in 'categories'... perhaps I can do my own more abstract categories but I don't think the logic is ever clearly conveyed to the audience... clarity and structure is the main weakness in my writing... I do tend to make mind maps in the beginning but it sort of explodes with too many branches and I have NO idea how to narrow it down because everything seems to be as important as the other... I'm glad academic support exists, joey helped me through that at the start.