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Stealth Dyslexia???

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Kate (Baffled)

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Date Posted: 08:08:30 10/09/12 Tue

Many parents learn things about themselves as they work through the guiding and raising of their children. My dd was diagnosed with Dysgraphia & ADD a few years ago & has has found success with using a laptop in school. We recently met the parent of another laptop-carrying bright student who said that her son was diagnosed with "Stealth Dyslexia," a term that I was infamiliar with. What struck a chord with me was that this new concept of "stealth dyslexia" seemed to possibly provide answers to my own learning history. I'm a mom in my mid-forties who was the student who always "didn't work up to my potential." I went to a private school & then on to a very good university where I avoided all classes with a lot of required reading because I could never get through it let alone remember what I had read. I chose a major that would require the least amount of reading possible and I still had to study constantly to stay on top of the work. ADD runs through my family (so I know now) and so I had always struggled with daydreaming and attention anyway. For me to learn through the written word is really really hard. That being said, I have an excellent personal memory & often recall details of other's lives (as well as my own) that even they can't remember. I recall conversations, situations as scenes...quite a bit. I had studied for GMAT grad school tests, which I took twice, and did progressively worse (reading comprehension was such a low score - always re-reading the same line or getting through the passage & not knowing what I really read)that I was too perplexed to know how to proceed & ashamed that I was such a self-labled moron. Father is a doctor & mom has a grad degree.

I am long past schooling but have difficulty reading busines articles or anything, really, that I don't have a huge interest in. I have never done book club because I'm a slow & inattentive reader for the most part. I'm highly verbal & can spell and write well enough. People just assume I have a grad degree...some even tell me that they think that I'm really smart. My reading problems have always been like a dirty little secret.

I would have never considered anything like dyslexia - ignorance on my part & no obvious classic symptoms. And maybe it's not that. I don't know. Can anyone offer any insight? Thanks so much. Kate

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