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Somewhat related; I have a lesser known disability which is related to dyslexia called dysgraphia[1]. For simplicity sake, I often describe it as "like dyslexia
by AlexB138 6y ago
Somewhat related; I have a lesser known disability which is related to dyslexia called dysgraphia[1]. For simplicity sake, I often describe it as "like dyslexia, but for output instead of input". Basically, it makes it very difficult to write legibly.
Dysgraphia, and (the often accompanying) ADD, are part of why I initially got into computers. I would type much much more easily than I could write, so I would beg teachers to let me type assignments instead of writing by hand, which was significantly less common when I was young than it is today. In retrospect, it's a good part of how I ended up working in technology.
Unfortunately it has, I think, also hampered my career. It makes it, as you can imagine, significantly more difficult to whiteboard. My whiteboarding either looks like something a child would produce, or requires immense focus (often both), completely separate from the engineering consideration, to produce what seems simple for most people.
Inconspicuous disabilities are such a strange thing to live with. They're not evident, so I think it's difficult for people to relate to them. I really appreciate the effort that was put into making the linked site and I hope it makes it easier for people to understand the struggles some people deal with without most other people ever noticing.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysgraphia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysgraphia
- apex_sloth 6y agoThanks for your comment. In german both of these are usually group together, so it never occurred to me that in english they are separated categorizes. Even tho the word used "Legasthenie" means "reading weakness", it still is applied to both cases. As already was mentioned, there is a wide range of ways this can express itself. I have something called "phonological processing deficits" [1], which means that letters which sound similar k/g, d/t, b/p are hard to distinguishes for me. In reading this is not much of a problem, in writing it I have extra attention. In recent times I notices that I recognize misspelled words not on the letters/sounds involved, but rather on the overall shape/silhouette of the word, meaning the up and down of the letters. 1: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21109251/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21109251/