Dyslexia
Wyh cna’t oyu ræd?
Dyslexia
Why ær lal the otehr kisd smatęr tahn yu¿
Dyslexia
Its nt thât df!clut to udnarstênd.
Dyslexia
Jsut ræd hte nxt pegä and ti’ll be evõr.
Dyslexia
Yū hevan‘t euen bên riadeñg ofr taht long, Yuø cna‘t bę t!rde of tį.
Dyslexia
It si vręÿ dfifitulç ofr me
Adn ti tekås me a lto mroë efofrt
To ræd,
Or wiręt,
As fsät sa my ėpers.
To cömphreedñ bokoš
Ás wlel sa tehm
I sltil do
Btu it tkaęs me os łnog
Msto of htê tmie
Pepołe åsume M’i stiupdî
But !’m nt
! jsut hęva
Dyslexia
For me words don’t look like this on paper. They look almost 3 dimensional. Not everything is misspelled in my mind, just misread over and over again like a glitching computer not knowing that its repeating itself. I can’t process the meaning of words when they are written without putting in much more effort than most of my peers. But you would never know this by looking at me because I am pretty smart academically, (I get A’s and B’s on most of my assignments). Not all dyslexics get bad grades but we struggle a lot more than most to maintain good grades. How it is represented in the media is completely inaccurate most of the time and is not true to most people experiences with it.
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Isabella Aluia is currently a Dakota Highschool senior. They enjoy spending their free time doing anything that involves creativity (drawing, occasionally...
Tancredi • Oct 20, 2022 at 7:03 am
Isabella – I am so proud of all you’ve overcome and lucky to call you my student!
Isabella Aluia • Oct 20, 2022 at 10:46 am
Thank you for your comment and for being a kind teacher!
Ms. Groppuso • Oct 18, 2022 at 2:09 pm
Thank you for writing this poem in the format and font you chose. I’m sure it’s not the same as your daily struggles, but it did give me some perspective into the difficulties other s face.
Isabella Aluia • Oct 19, 2022 at 11:00 am
Thank you so much for the kind comment. 🙂