adding post about my dyslexia

Author: gregology

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+title: "Complementary opposites"
+author: Greg
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+permalink: /2026/06/learning-to-read/
+date: 2026-06-04 21:18:49 -0400
+comments: True
+licence: Creative Commons
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+I was recently diagnosed with dyslexia (mild–moderate specific learning disorder with impairment in reading & mild specific learning disorder with impairment in written expression). Researching my diagnosis has been enlightening and liberating. Now I understand why I can listen to a technical podcast at 3x speed but can't follow simple verbal directions with more than 4 steps.
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+Marisol (my 4yo daughter) was the catalyst for me to seek a diagnosis. Reading her books was a huge cognitive load for me. I have come up with lots of tricks to deal with my deficiencies like rereading a book I already know so it's more remembering than reading. But she's a very clever girl with a sponge for a mind so that trick won't scale. She's already started correcting me when I get words wrong 😅 A diagnosis isn't an excuse, it's a tool I can use to help me find the resources I need. My biggest weakness was decoding fluency (4th percentile). My brain made up for these deficiencies by leveraging its strengths. My pseudoword decoding was 12th percentile, can I read a made up word, but my word reading was 96th percentile, can I read a real word. This is because I don't really "read" the word, I just know what the word looks like. It's basically hieroglyphics to me which is why I find it so cognitively straining. My coping mechanism makes sense given that “Whole Reading” was the teaching philosophy when I was in school. I need to actually learn to read and Marisol and I can do it together.
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+Overall I scored pretty well
+
+Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-IV Canadian (WAIS-IV) Summary
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+WAIS-IV Index	Percentile Rank	Descriptor
+Verbal Comprehension Index (VCI)	90th	High Average
+Perceptual Reasoning Index (PRI)	99th	Extremely High
+Working Memory Index (WMI)	42nd	Average
+Processing Speed Index (PSI)	97th	Very High

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+title: "Complementary opposites"
+author: Greg
+layout: post
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+date: 2026-06-04 21:18:49 -0400
+comments: True
+licence: Creative Commons
+categories:
+  - category
+tags:
+  - tag
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+I was recently diagnosed with dyslexia (mild–moderate specific learning disorder with impairment in reading & mild specific learning disorder with impairment in written expression). Researching my diagnosis has been enlightening and liberating. Now I understand why I can listen to a technical podcast at 3x speed but can't follow simple verbal directions with more than 4 steps.
+
+Marisol (my 4yo daughter) was the catalyst for me to seek a diagnosis. Reading her books was a huge cognitive load for me. I have come up with lots of tricks to deal with my deficiencies like rereading a book I already know so it's more remembering than reading. But she's a very clever girl with a sponge for a mind so that trick won't scale. She's already started correcting me when I get words wrong 😅 A diagnosis isn't an excuse, it's a tool I can use to help me find the resources I need. My biggest weakness was decoding fluency (4th percentile). My brain made up for these deficiencies by leveraging its strengths. My pseudoword decoding was 12th percentile, can I read a made up word, but my word reading was 96th percentile, can I read a real word. This is because I don't really "read" the word, I just know what the word looks like. It's basically hieroglyphics to me which is why I find it so cognitively straining. My coping mechanism makes sense given that “Whole Reading” was the teaching philosophy when I was in school. I need to actually learn to read and Marisol and I can do it together.
+
+Overall I scored pretty well
+
+Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-IV Canadian (WAIS-IV) Summary
+
+WAIS-IV Index	Percentile Rank	Descriptor
+Verbal Comprehension Index (VCI)	90th	High Average
+Perceptual Reasoning Index (PRI)	99th	Extremely High
+Working Memory Index (WMI)	42nd	Average
+Processing Speed Index (PSI)	97th	Very High
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