Comment 9 for bug 476242

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From: Bug 476242 [mailto:<email address hidden>]
Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2017 2:48 AM
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: What do you listen to?

I was good at some things, bad at others at school (like tying shoelaces, simple fractions, still cant multiply or divide on paper)
But I mostly grew out of the reading issues.
However there are things that I think kick in later in life.
My father used to mix up the names of my brother and I, and instead call us by our cousins names.
I do the same thing with my little half brother and sister, and my niece, I get their names mixed up. I am also bad at remembering the names of my friends and have to use associations to remember people. Which some people take offense to.
One of my best friends is still in my phone as Danielle Stevens Girlfriend. For one thing they havent dated in about 5 years, and I havent seen the steven it refers to in about 3 years. But I associate them together quite easily, better than I can remember her name.

As a child, I had reading issues, but I could follow instructions.
Now the reading issues are gone, but give me a list of steps to drive to someone's house, and I cant memorise and follow them. But show me the house on google earth or a map, and I can memorise it and go straight there.

So anyhow what I was wanting to say is you can grow out of what common people percieve as dyslexia with the reading issues, but there are other things that can come and go - to the point where I dont consider the reading issues to be the primary symptom of dyslexia any more. Its simply a brain wired differently for spacial thinking.

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