Dyslexia a learning ability

Dyslixa a learning abilty

Phonics books. Flash cards. Sight words. When all I wanted to do was learn how to read. I was like every other kindergartner except I was slow. Being slow isn't a bad thing. Being slow just means you take your time trying to figure things out. I have a disability. It makes me a bad speller and it took me forever to learn how to read. I know what all of you are thinking this isn't a disability. Well actually  it is. It's called dyslexia. It is referred to as a learning disability. With all my experience I wouldn't call it a disability I would call it an ability. Of course you don't understand it. When I was younger I could never remember which ways my "b's" and "d's" went. I got taught tricks on how to correct that but it was just really confusing to me. Left and right always confused me. I would say there's a dog on the left if I was in the car with my mom or friends. They would look to the left trying to find the dog and then say there's no dog. Then I would say I mean the right. This scenario would happen more often than not. I would be in the car trying to give directions but because I didn't know the difference between my left and my right I would always just show with my hands. I have been told a lot that I am intuitive. Being intuitive means that you can sense why someone did what they did. It just comes naturally. Whenever I would get called on to read I would shrink because even though I know how to read I wasn't very good at it. The solution get a torture it helped me a lot. We would work on my reading and math skills and just talk about my day. Wilson reading is what the program was called. Now I feel like I have beaten  dyslexia. I can finish a book that has around 300 pages in about a week. Somebody taught me how to write which save my life. When I am going through some really hard times in middle school and just in life I write. It helped and still helps me today. I may have beaten dyslexia, but I still have it. I used to let it crowed my thoughts , now all the time I forget I have it. I also used to get  really bad anxiety but I have beaten that to. So there you have it a little overview about what it's like to live with dyslexia. It's not the same for everyone it affects different people in different ways. So the next time you see someone in your class that is a little bit slow don't pick on them help them.