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I never really noticed I had trouble with words, not until I met my girlfriend who is somewhat of a words smith. It's been quite a revelation since we've been t

I never really noticed I had trouble with words, not until I met my girlfriend who is somewhat of a words smith. It's been quite a revelation since we've been together, to the point that I now notice it myself. I've never been tested, I don't think I'm full blown dyslexic, but I'm somewhere on the spectrum. I too have noticed that having your brain wired up a little differently does allow you to make leaps in slightly different directions to others (not always for the good). However other things are out of reach. For example I rarely read anything other than comp sci books or maths books as I find it incredibly difficult (and painfully slow) to consume information that way. As for programming I found it's never really held me back, apart from reading documentation, I much prefer to dive into the code and build pictures in my head.

marincounty 12y ago
I too have a hard time reading most books of fiction, and have spent a lifetime of reading nonfiction though. I will read great authors like Vladimir Nabokov. In college, I went from a average student to one of the better students when I changed the way I took notes(I started to draw visual pictures on each page of notes, so I could recall each page with close to idetic accuracy.) In her article she stated,"It’s even better when books use it too: the easiest textbooks for me to read were the computer science books with syntax-highlighting. Unfortunately, this was not most of them. Code can also often be represented visually: I highly recommend the HeadFirst series in particular [2)." I have found 95% of computer programming books are 500 pages of blocked typed, verbose, horribly written Phone books. They are slowly changing though. I don't know if I am dyslectic, but I had a horrid time in school--especially with language. Right now the only foreign language I would attempt is Chinese. I heard most words are one syllable, and the words are visual pictures.

marincounty 12y ago

I too have a hard time reading most books of fiction, and have spent a lifetime of reading nonfiction though. I will read great authors like Vladimir Nabokov. In college, I went from a average student to one of the better students when I changed the way I took notes(I started to draw visual pictures on each page of notes, so I could recall each page with close to idetic accuracy.) In her article she stated,"It’s even better when books use it too: the easiest textbooks for me to read were the computer science books with syntax-highlighting. Unfortunately, this was not most of them. Code can also often be represented visually: I highly recommend the HeadFirst series in particular [2)." I have found 95% of computer programming books are 500 pages of blocked typed, verbose, horribly written Phone books. They are slowly changing though. I don't know if I am dyslectic, but I had a horrid time in school--especially with language. Right now the only foreign language I would attempt is Chinese. I heard most words are one syllable, and the words are visual pictures.