Hi, my name is Digit, and I'm a dyslexic. Before I say anything else, I am taking a moment to express my gratitude to be here and to be free to share with the rest of the Dyslexics Anonymous Group. I've been unofficially diagnosed with dyslexia for about 7 years now, since back when a mature student and ex student councilor saw me typing one day, getting words the wrong way around and going back correcting myself lots during the year course we were both on at Dundee College. I've never been diagnosed officially, even though I've been told to help with my studies I would receive a thousand pounds towards a PC (which buys a great heafin' lot of computer these days). The way i see it, I got through school without anyone noticing until my last year of formal institutional education, so considering I did not have access to a computer with a spell checker for the first half of that, I think I am better off with the raised bar, the ankle weights, left as they are... call it stimulus by challenge. call it stealth dyslexia. ... call it spell checker.<br>
<br>I now use Linux, the folks with supposedly superior reading abilities use inferior software, supposedly. Dyslexia is not an impairment, if anything it's an augment to see things more wholistically. <br><br>Hi, my name is Digit.<br>
<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 01/03/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tim Spencer</b> <<a href="mailto:samurai.mit@gmail.com">samurai.mit@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Yeah since i am dyslexic my father has bought several voice recognition programs (although i used them in German) over the years and i have failed them all (fond childhood memories of me and my friends sitting in front of the pc and talking and seeing what garbage it would produce, at the time this was very very amusing) my dad who has a grave english accent when using the german language never quite managed to get it to work for him in german, but, if i remember he managed to get it to work for english (with german text. lol) This was when they first started to appear in the market in the 90s and one had to spend some 12 hours trying to make it recognize ur words.<br>
<br>since then i have given up on these tools and rely on my typing (which thanks to google spell checker and firefox extensions has not been soooo bad) I remember trying to search for stuff in the web with the search strings being spelled terrible wrong and me not realizing for 30 minutes and getting very very frustrated.<br>
<br>just thought i would share my deep rooted frustrations.<br>
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