Aspies For Freedom

I was reading Daniel Tamment's book "Born on a Blue Day" and his description of his early childhood experiences was really similar to some of my own.  I just did not want to play with other children, I resented their intrusion into my space, I would start screaming and hide away when I heard a siren from a fire engine or police car, I had to see a speach therapist because I had little interest in interacting with everyone else and as my nursery teacher told my mother "it's like she's always on the outside looking in."  Things like patterns in the carpet, wallpaper, the way the light shimmered on the wet grass outside in the field, the configuration of the cornicings in the room were far more interesting to me than anything that other kids, teachers or my parents could offer.

If dyslexia can cause young children not to want to interact with other people, perhaps this could account for some of the kids who were said to have been "cured" of autisum by bizare therapies.

Is there anyone else here with dyslexia who has had similar experiences?

I think im dyslexic. It runs in the family, but i get really good grades so i dont know if i could get it as a real diagnoses. But anyway..

Thats sounds alot like me when i was little. Even the sensory sensitivity is there. And I had speech class, and when i was in nursery school I didnt interact with the other children. So I was referred to a special education preschool. They thought i was autistic. But im not... so yeah.

Im getting re-evaluated soon, and I think im gifted and adhd. It fits more than asperger's ever did.

Evan now i get very annoyed when poeple invade my space

I was diagnosed with a learning disabilities (dyslexia, dyscalculia and dysgraphia) in my mid 20's and 10 years later, recently was diganosed with AS because I still couldn't relate to people all that well.

Before I ever went to school I was a loner because playing other kids was wierd to me.  I could never understand what I was supposed to do.  I NEVER had a lot of friends and till this day don't have a lot of friends.  

Teachers kept telling my Mom that there was something wrong with me but they could never figure me out!

As a young girl I never played with dolls and I was interested in MUSIC, listening to CD's and singing along.  I was OBESSED with microphones as well.  Give me anything musical as a gift and I was happy...Any other toys I hardly touched!!!

Now in my mid 30's and have never had a romatic relationship and all I ever think about is music and playing my guitar....Most people my age are married with kids...

All my family couldn't figure me out...I always thought I was wierd because of my dyslexia and other learning disabilities, but that is when I got the AS diagnosis.

I was told by my pshycologist that dyslexia and other Learning disabilities can overlap with AS.

I am not sure what came first the dyslexia or AS!

Cool post!

From my own limited experience, it does seem that a few individuals with dyslexia also have the same gifts and sometimes difficulties of people that are on the autistic spectrum.

I often get to see women that I went to school with, that have chosen marriage and motherhood and some have said that they are really jellious of the amount of time and money that I have to myself.  Some of the happiest women I know are so called "old maids" or "merry widows" - they look younger and have a better lifestyle than their married counterparts.  Staying single is a very good choice.

Hiya SoccerFreak248 - I also got really good grades at school... in everything except English, Maths and French!  I know three dyslexics with PHDs and I've got an honours degree, so dyslexia and intelligence do go together.

I was in a gifted class from kindergarten till 3rd grade. I had/have a very high IQ.
I was taken out of the gifted class because I had dyslexia. That must of been a conflict of intrest to have a child getting Reading help in gifted classes. I would add that I never had an ounce of trouble in those gifted classes. I grew up went to college got married and have 3 kids. My son was just diagnosed with Pdd-Nos. I am not sure if I am on the spectrum myself. Most people with Dyslexia often have a condition called Central Auditory Processing disorder. That can often be mistaken for ADHD. Many people with Dyslexia are often diagnosed with an ASD or ADHD. Many Austistics and people with ADHD are visual Learners.
People who are visual learners are typically gifted. Social issues and problems in social relationships can occur in both ASD's and ADHD. Hope that helps.

I have Dyslexia, am a visual learner and do well with languages and music.  Diffently i think there is a corrilation with AS, ADD, dyslexia and alot of other diagnosis of learning or cognitive issues.  I feel that I am a right brained person.  I am creative, sensitive to lights and colors.  I can totally relate to seeing thiings in the carpet.  I saw moving pictures in the texture of the ceiling as a child and always thought I was the only one.   But really science hasn't caught up with why are brains do what they do. The brain is the final frontier.  My son mirror image writes and I did too.  We both have tooal recall or photographic memories to audio.  He memories movies in one viewing and has perfect pitch and recall to a song he hears once.   I could do this better when i was younger but my memory gifts are starting to go. He is on the  A spectrum.  We both would rather be alone that play with others.  Although jr high and high school were hard for me because I wanted friends and had little luck connecting to people.  Now I could care less about socializing because most people bore me  or shock me with their ignorance and insensitivity and i would rather be alone or with a select one than irritated by the many.  i guess what i'm saying is I accept who i am now.  I know myself and perfer a good book to a night out with people that i don't get and don't get me anyway.  knowing myself took a while but i am much happier accepting who i am than tring to fit in to the norm of society that never got me anyway.

From an early age I was fascinated by patterns on carpets and  wallpaper.

In my cot use to take off my nappy and use my nappy pin to scrape wallpaper off the walls to make patterns (much to the frustration of my parents). I must have been very young but I still remember some of my patterns. Perhaps it was my first attempt at artistic expression.

I also used to whirl my eyes round very fast to make the strange blurry, visual sensations.

I had childhood dyslexia. Or perhaps it might be more accurate to say I have dyslexia which was worse during childhood. I left school passing only one exam in art (since art didn’t require me to read anything).

My reading did improved over the years to the point where I was able to take and pass written exams. I even managed to get to university. I do still read rather slowly and have a phobia about reading aloud.

I couldn't think where to post this so put it here.

When people ask me to read out numbers or words I very often read out the numbers or words in the wrong order.

e.g. If the no was 96, I would read out 69, then correct myself. If say the word's Epson Stylus, I would say Stylus Epson, then correct myself.

Is this dyslexia, a memory issue or me being stupid or something else. I was poor at maths at school and called number dyslexic by my teacher.

Any ideas?

my siblings are boh dyslexic and apart of that they are very nt , and I think in germany it is not an big issue , Ithe only thing getting done is special reading courses ins chool maybe , but tbasically the mistake like in written text tests are just not counted until the 19th grade.so it can worsene you mark

until the tenth grade btw.especially when i was a child I was reading or writing a '7' for a '4' and sometimes very rarely it still happens