Dyslexia and ADHD

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I have a brother who is dyslexic and, whilst carrying out research, I realize that I myself probably have ADHD as all the symptoms are there. My wife is a retired Senco (Special Needs) teacher and it was she (who says my head is "full of butterflies") who realized it first. Does anyone else suffer from, or knows someone who does suffer from, either?
 
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Dyslexia is an interesting one and people often wrongly associate it with poor intelligence. Very wrong. I have a nephew who is very dyslexic, and he's qualified, despite it as a dentist. During the tests, his father also scored highly with it. He's a judge!

I've taught many people with the ADHD label. Some genuine, but others who were just called that to mask their bad behaviour and how it reflects on the parenting.

The genuine ones showed remorse and a desire to improve. You could work with then.

The others, I'm convinced, were given the diagnosis to get the pushy parents out of the office. 9 times out if 10 it's the parents who are the source of that particular problem.
 
TyphooToffee said:
I have a brother who is dyslexic and, whilst carrying out research, I realize that I myself probably have ADHD as all the symptoms are there. My wife is a retired Senco (Special Needs) teacher and it was she (who says my head is "full of butterflies") who realized it first. Does anyone else suffer from, or knows someone who does suffer from, either?
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I went on a course years ago to indentify dyslexic barriers in words and numbers.it was quite interesting though it never offered a cure.only a realisation that there was a barrier.
Apparently our brains have sections which each have a specific function and in some cases some peoples are slightly different.
However thats all i know.im no expert.
 

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My sister is dyslexic and my mum is a retired Head of Special Needs.
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I understand my brother more since I researched dyslexia. I've known for a few years that he has been dyslexic all his life, but since the research I realize that things like posting photos sideways, although a bit annoying, could probably be due to his dyslexia.
 
Lickle eric said:
I went on a course years ago to indentify dyslexic barriers in words and numbers.it was quite interesting though it never offered a cure.only a realisation that there was a barrier.
Apparently our brains have sections which each have a specific function and in some cases some peoples are slightly different.
However thats all i know.im no expert.
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My wife had loads of teaching aids that she came up with herself. She also says that dyslexia sufferers find words on white paper confusing, so she would put a coloured transparent sheet over the page to help.
 
Groucho said:
My sister is dyslexic and my mum is a retired Head of Special Needs.
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ADHD apart, you are sort of in the same situation as me. Have you known for long about your sister? My brother was always in the bottom class at Secondary School whilst myself and my other two brothers were in the top class. I used to put it down to us being smarter than he, or that he just couldn't be bothered but, thruth be known, he's probably the smartest of the lot of us!
 
TyphooToffee said:
I have a brother who is dyslexic and, whilst carrying out research, I realize that I myself probably have ADHD as all the symptoms are there. My wife is a retired Senco (Special Needs) teacher and it was she (who says my head is "full of butterflies") who realized it first. Does anyone else suffer from, or knows someone who does suffer from, either?
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My son was diagnosed at age 9 but it was first picked up at about age 5. I'll be honest it made me feel like an utter failure as a parent even though I couldn't have done anything to prevent it.

He was monitored in lessons, had numerous hospital visits and further monitoring at home which they recorded and was eventually given the diagnosis. I've heard just about everything from relatives and friends about it just being a boy thing and 'Oh he's no different to other boys his age etc. It gets fairly frustrating running through the long list of his behaviours to people that think its normal to try and justify his diagnosis.

People say it's diagnosed as a cop out but our experience of getting the diagnosis was anything but straight forward, we didn't push for it, the school did so that he could get the support he needed, even then it took years to get it. I come across people that tell me their kid has ADHD but when you ask when they were diagnosed they can't tell you because they've just assumed their kid has it and haven't gone through any proper process to come to that conclusion, they're generally the people that give people that have gone through the proper process a bad name.

I wouldn't wish it on anyone, in a family setting with younger siblings it's a destructive animal, bullying, intimidation, rudeness, deceitful, the list goes on. They're on behaviours that are so far from what we expect of our kids that it places a massive strain on family life, I try my best on a daily basis to remain calm with our son but throw in the fact he's now a teenager and it's an interesting combination. He is now medicated because there's no way he'd make it through the school day without IT, which again makes me feel like a failure, but we've tried diet, supplements and just about every other alternative to manage it but to no avail.

So yeah, anyone genuinely suffering with it or living with someone with it has my sympathy.
 

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