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Originally Posted by Ammi

..I'm glad that it didn't hinder your daughter smudgie and of course dyslexia doesn't reflect your intelligence but the effect on everyone's learning who has it isn't the same and that's hugely to do with when it's diagnosed as well and how much support that person gets which I'm sure you know....

Definitely. She had a late diagnoss but we knew something was not right.
I do think it is terrible that early diagnosis is not the norm makes a big difference to a person.

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Originally Posted by DanaC

Dyslexia and dyspraxia are totally unrelated to intelligence. One can be a very intelligent person with dyslexia or one can be a very unintelligent person with dyslexia.

Dyslexia isn't the same for each person. There's a whole range of symptoms/characteristics that come with dyslexia, and for some it is more disabling than others. It isn't (as i am sure you know given your experience with your daughter) just about reading difficulties. For some it is also about organisational difficulties: the ability to sequence information may be affected. It may affect the ability to learn to tell the time (often creates confusion between quarter to the hour and quarter past for instance). It can affect little things like how to organize your work folder, how to plan your day.

Being dyslexic doesn't mean someone is stupid. And some people manage through hard work and a range of coping techniques to succeed very well in academia despite it. But different people experience dyslexia differently, and whereas your daughter, through hard work and determination managed to do very well academically, others may require the same level of work and determination just to keep their heads above water.

My daughter could not tell the time until she was in her late teens, payed havoc with her catching the bus etc.

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*nods* can be a real problem in holding down jobs, attending appointments etc. I don't think most people realise just how much it can impact on someone's day to day life. There's this perception a lot of people have of dyslexia as simply 'word blindness'.