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Dyslexia

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Watch 5 videos with patients, caretakers and professionals about Dyslexia— listen to personal experiences, and learn helpful tips and tricks to manage your health condition. Share your health experiences to help others!

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Common misconceptions

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Tips for getting accommodations

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Causes

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Personal experiences

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Encouragement

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What I wish I knew

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Video 1 - Transcription

A big misconception when it comes to dyslexia is that we don't know how to read or another one can be that we like flip our letters. That's true but it's not always true. For me, I read the first and the last of words and then everything in between my brain just kind of codes the length in the first and the last letter. So it makes it really hard for me to spell because in my mind my brain didn't learn the letters in between, it learned the first and the last and the length of it. So as long as the length looks pretty similar to me and the letters kind of sound like what it's supposed to, I can't tell the difference. So we have trouble spelling, at least I do, and there's other things that come with dyslexia. There can be auditory dyslexia and just hearing things differently or the way you can speak it doesn't always mean we just can't read. We usually can.