Coping with Dyslexia: The Untold Emotional Story #dyslexia #mentalhealth

🙋🏼‍♂️ My name is Arije, and I am a dyslexic with an MA in Education Studies. I aim to share all my tips for learning, coping, teaching, and more on my channel. For dyslexics, educators, and parents alike, I want to make videos that inform and inspire you to reframe dyslexia.

COACHING & CONSULTATION

[ArijeAikedeHaas]

I get the impression we need a lot more awareness around this topic....

[MamaMuses-vkme]

Omg YES!!! The mental health takes an absolute beating!!! I totally agree! The school system is not set up for anyone with dyslexia!

[stefavelez]

I just found your channel and I’m about to have a deeep dice into your videos.

My partner is severely dyslexic, so I have seen first hand how people may mock him or get impatient when he tries to read out loud or can’t suddenly remember a story he was about to tell if they don’t know about it beforehand. I can see the desperation and frustration in his eyes and it breaks me. I would love to learn more about coping with this to see if he can finally get the confidence he’s lost throughout his life. Thank you ❤

[liz-qqkb]

Absolutely. I find organisation really tough too.

[sherriamiller]

I been dealing with this my whole life of 37 years, just been focusing on myself and learning why I can not keep up when it comes to learning, writing, organizing, attention span, ...ect. me being a person of color you get pushed back and looked over. My heart is in tears but i am working to over come. I just found out that delaxilyia is genetics past on and my biological father could not read whiched he keep from everyone. I had to figure this out through YouTube! 😊 God bless everyone on this journey!

[cynthiajohnson]

The hardest thing I've had to grapple with getting a very late diagnosis of dyslexia at age 62, is letting go of idea of myself as lazy. My whole life I considered myself lazy aka not willing to do the amount of work necessary to succeed. I probably did 65%-75% of the reading I was supposed to do in school. I was a very slow reader, I had very, very high comprehension but I was very slow. I didn't know I was dyslexic because I always thought dyslexics really struggled to read - I could read, and I could read well. I never realized that it was taking me a lot more work to do it, which is why I saw myself as lazy - I wasn't willing to do that work. The same with writing - just writing this simple paragraph is probably 3X harder for me than other people. I constantly have to go back and correct mistakes and even then I miss embarrassing errors. Anyway, my point is that in considering myself lazy, the opportunity for success was always there if the problem was simply lack of effort. I always held on to the idea that if I found something I truly wanted to do and could feel good about I'd do the work necessary to succeed. Discovering that things are in fact exponentially harder and I'm not just a slack-ass is a big, depressing blow. I feel like the dream of nose-to-the grind-stone success has been blown to bits and its too late to relearn another way of thinking.

[hoho]

Yes absolutely! I feel like we dont talk about how people with dyslexia are treated enough. We have made progress but it's still not enough.

[baumkuchen-treecake]

I'm dyslexic as well. Reading is more worst then writeing. I always see texts like there a big gaps between words like that. And I need to read a text Multiple times and it takes so long. And writeing I often add an e before a y. Or I miss letters like a h. Duh I just hate my dyalexia and I'm insecure about it.

[BlondeQtie]

why is it such a big deal? we have text to voice, voice to text and autocorrection!!! get a grip and use technology