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AnOddBox – A Dyslexic Vision…

By Ronald Crampton Unpublished

  

AnOddBox – A Dyslexic Vision…

When I was young, in my small potato town, the word Dyslexia was virtually an unknown word… When I was asked to read something out loud in class I would often get reprimanded because nobody could follow what I was saying… Hell, I could not follow what I was saying… Thus, I was essentially labeled as retarded and placed into special classes…

Let me give you an idea of what it looked like when I read. Try to follow this sentence:

hen I Wread something I ouldn’t cwhat understand I asw eadingr… The translation:

When I read something I couldn’t understand what I was reading…

Provisionally, my angular gyrus had some wires cross, thus letters would be moved around… Words would be moved around… Thus I would have to re-read the sentence, often several times, for the sentence to make sense… Since traditional standardized education is based around Speed testing and Power testing, one could deduce that for me…, a Speed test was a guaranteed “F”…, and a Power test… Well again…, I was labeled as retarded…

It was very frustrating for me to live with the label of retarded… It was very challenging to fight the standards to prove I was smart enough to transcend… We joke that my middle name is Perseverance, but the odyssey did not often provide humor… It has been tough and I am very tired… Now imagine the sense of futility when an individual with dyslexia masters the ability to read what is seen along with seeing what is read, yet discovers that the words themselves and the common use of the words…, are in a state of dyslexia…

Three of the instantaneous heart gripping abhorrence I can experience are 1) run-on definitions such as abhorrence, which means a state of abhorring, which abhorring means to abhor, which abhor means to loath… Argh…! 2) Polysemy, which is a word that has multiple meaning… How can we communicate well, and collaborate efficiently when we have to define the context of the words we are using…? Aarrgghh…!! And 3) Synonyms, which are words with the same meaning. Synonyms I actually like as the words provide for a linguistic art, but we seem to have turned synonyms into a game of Semantics, which I actually like Semantics as it means the study of meaning, yet is used in common as a game of inappropriately using different words claimed to have the same meaning… AARRGGHH…!

Is it not cynically comical that I was label as a retard, which means to make slow, of which the word is a run-on to retarded, which somewhere and by some brilliant standardized mind turned into a meaning of mentally slow or “a retarded person”, of which the common associated retard with Down Syndrome… And Dyslexia… Talk about a mixed up angular gyrus…

Dyslexia is an intriguing phenomenon… It is suggested that Einstein had dyslexia, which makes perfect sense to me as my understanding is that Einstein could see physics significantly better than he could read and/or write physics… I find it awe inspiring when I experience a person who can see more then the letters and words of a linear sentences. How often do linear people just read a string of letters to a string of words to a string of sentences and are completely oblivious to what they have read…? Dyslexia essentially forces a person to make sense… to see… what is being read… Imagine what more a Dyslexic Vision could see…

AnOddBox topic: I have a Dyslexic Vision… Can you read with as much meaning as I can…?

I encourage you to reply…

Thank you,

Ronald E. Crampton, MA, LAC, LPC

AV Treatment Services, LLC dba

AnOddBox,

PO Box 470396

Aurora, CO 80047

(720) 250-8432

Email: recrampton@avtreatment.com

Website: http://avtreatment.com

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