Punching Dyslexia in its fucking face

So writing and dyslexia have never gone well together. The structure and tones would be horrible, the character creation would be a struggle and don’t get me started on the grammar and spelling.

Basically it would be hard work for the writer and a harder job for the reader reading his/her work.

The dyslexic writer might not even know the work is bad or would be staring at a word that looks completely wrong yet the spell checker isn’t doing anything with it, stumping the writing progress forever. And it is tough.

Imagine going through school wanting to do something academic and seeing your grades fall despite the hours of studying while your friends don’t study and get straight A’s. Or even going into a separate class because of your “disability”.

And in a roundabout way it is a disability. You can walk down your street and ask people if they have it. A lot will say yes, especially younger people. They may have it or they may think they have it.

See in my experience a lot of lazy people in my school would say “I can’t do that, I’m dyslexic” an answer that I would love to reply with a head butt to the nose.

See I am dyslexic and when I was younger I had one the worst cases of it. I struggled through school and college and ultimately not getting what I worked hard for.

But honestly I think I put the sexy in dysexya. . . might be a typo, heck I don’t know. What I do know is that it’s a tough obstacle but an obstacle that is possible to maneuver. I wanted to be in medicine. An unlikely goal and although I didn’t reach what I wanted I still tried.

Now I will be doing the same here in writing. My work will be crap. It will make no sense. But with hard work and polishing it will get there.

So if you guys see a typo. If I have done something that makes no sense or is plain shit. Let me know.

In one post about diving I mistakenly spelled crabs as craps, our water may not be the clearest but it ain’t due to crap. This was pointed out by painkills2 and will be something I look out for in future.

I was also given great writing advice from Periodically Demented to improve my novel.

So thank you painkills2 and Periodically Demented!

As for everyone who works with Dyslexia, keep up the good work, keep trying and you will succeed. If you’re offered help take it and beat that fucker with your success.

 

Thanks for reading!