Do I Have dyslexia?

Question:

I'm 20 and in college... my grades have been going down in college. i was a 3.0 student while doing sports in high school. I have always have a little trouble ready and it gets worse when i have to read out loud. In math I havent been that great either, but not too bad. At work I have been mixing up numbers, not a lot but sometimes, more than other people at work. Also I mis spoke words... like smuff.. i said smurff, and psudeo... i said pseuedo.

Answers:
You might. But if you do, you'd have had it your whole life. There are two main forms of dyslexia: aquired and developmental. Developmental dyslexia is the normal kind that is normally diagnosed in kids when they're learning (or rather, not learning) to read. Aquired dyslexia can occur after damage to a certain region of the brain. If you had that form, you'd have noticed a sudden change in various neurological functions, probably after being hit on the head, and I'm pretty sure you'd be talking about that with a neurologist rather than here on Answers. So by process of elimination, you'd have to have developmental dyslexia.

Developmental dyslexia is genetic (specifically, it's caused by a dominant mutation on the short arm of chromosome six), and is characterized by certain physiological abnormalities in the brain. These occur during the early stages of neural development, and the symptoms are recognizable in pre-school age children, so it's not something that can show up for the first time in college. It is, however, something that can easily be missed until adulthood, especially in milder cases.

Keep in mind that college is harder than high school. Slipping grades don't necessarily mean there's something wrong. If you are, in fact, dyslexic, it's something that's always been there, and just hasn't been a problem until the more demanding college-level courses. However, it may also simply be that you're not quite prepared for how much harder you (and everyone else) has to work in college, and will take some time to adjust.

Contrary to one of the previous answers, dyslexia does NOT cause people to switch the order of letters (rather, dyslexic people confuse words that look alike), and it DOES make it hard to read, both silently and out loud.

No one on here can tell you whether you're dyslexic or not. You'll need a professional assessment for that. Most likely, you can have that done through your school at little or no cost to you (which I'd highly recommend as a professional assessment typically costs between $1000-5000, depending on what tests are done and the qualifications of the tester). If you're having trouble with classes, that might not be a bad idea. Dyslexia is only one of many learning disablities that a student can potentially have, and there are various services and accomidations that are available to learning disabled students.

Did you hear the one about the dyslexic man who walked into a bra?

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