Open Mouth- Insert Foot

[TacitBlue]

A girl I was seeing came to my house right after I mopped the kitchen floor. She looked at it and noticed the difference, and asked "did you get a new floor?". this is the same girl who in highschool dropped a banana peel on the floor, and later slipped on it! I had never seen anyone actually do that before, I havnt laughed that hard since.

[zeberdee]

Another effect of Dyslexia is on your memory: Locking the front door setting off down the road and not remembering locking the door, returning to find you had locked it! It's the simple things that are forgotten, as a simple aid to the door set up is to stick your tounge out at the door or slap it lightly after locking it, you will remember these, there by remebering that you did lock the door!

[Hagar]

Another effect of Dyslexia is on your memory: Locking the front door setting off down the road and not remembering locking the door, returning to find you had locked it!

I've suffered from that for a long time. I put it down to memory loss as a result of old age. The onset of my dotage or possibly Alzheimer's (I sincerly hope not as this must be terrible). I never associated memory loss with Dyslexia. As I understand it Dyslexia is a form of "word blindness" (as Eno mentioned earlier) & present from birth. I'm becoming more forgetful as I get older but I've never had a problem with reading or writing.

It's the simple things that are forgotten, as a simple aid to the door set up is to stick your tounge out at the door or slap it lightly after locking it, you will remember these, there by remebering that you did lock the door!

Good suggestion. I must try that.

[zeberdee]

Good suggestion. I must try that.

It works for me

[Hagar]

It works for me

Good. Whatever works for you. I would most probably forget to do it. LOL

Another similar example is the "now what did I come in here for? ) syndrome. This often happens to me & I remember what I went for as soon as I leave wherever I went to. I'm sure this is quite normal memory loss. Most people will experience this at some time or other, whatever their age. I'm sure it's nothing to do with dyslexia. As Woody pointed out, It's quite likely a dyslexia sufferer would be unable to read or spell the name of their complaint.

[zeberdee]

As Woody pointed out, It's quite likely a dyslexia sufferer would be unable to read or spell the name of their complaint.

This is a popular misconception, "Dyslexia" is a general term, like saying your ill, it covers a lot, the most common being letter blindness, hence people only think of the spelling/reading side.

[Hagar]

This is a popular misconception, "Dyslexia" is a general term, like saying your ill, it covers a lot, the most common being letter blindness, hence people only think of the spelling/reading side.

You might be right as I'm not a doctor & have no personal knowledge of it. I always thought that dyslexia was a medical condition. Short-term memory loss might be one of the symptoms but not the main one or without other symptoms being present. Memory loss by itself can have many different causes. I've suffered from short-term memory loss for many years but never had any form of learning difficulties or problems with reading/writing/spelling. I'm fanatical about correct spelling as any member of this forum should know by now.

http://www.dyslexia-inst.org.uk/
[quote]Dyslexia Facts

[Woodlouse2002]

I feel the number of school children with dyslexia is slightly exaggerated. I don't know of anyone who's gone to a dyslexia test with the intention of doing as well as they possibly can. After all, get yourself diagnosed as dyslexic you get extra time in exams, the government buys you computers etc. This of course begs the question:

Do you have to pass or fail a dyslexia test to be dyslexic?

No one has ever answered that question for me properly.

It must be terribly frustrating as many people suffering from dylexia are apparently very intelligent. Until the condition was recognised they were accused of laziness & not trying.

It was thought that I had dyslexia at one point. But then I took the test and the result came back saying that aside from a slightly dodgy short term memory the boy should be a genius. It must have been infuriating for my teachers to discover I really was just lazy and not trying.

I must also point out that you do have that special few, who don't actually have dyslexia but are so stupid they manage to get the qualification. There arn't many, but they're out there...

[Romulus111VADT]

Interesting how a topic on "Open mouth- Insert foot" ended up as a medical discussion on dyslexia.....

Not complaining mind you.  ;D

It's just interesting to see how off topic postings can get....lol.  ;D

Makes me wonder if I'd started a topic on cross eyed people. What part of the anatomy we'd be on....lol....dare I say......

[Hagar]

[quote]Interesting how a topic on "Open mouth- Insert foot" ended up as a medical discussion on dyslexia.....

Not complaining mind you.

[Romulus111VADT]

This is the risk you run if I get involved.
Interesting discussion though, ain't it?

LMAO, yep I know what you mean. I've got a habit of starting some wild topics lately.  ::)

Yes it is an interesting discussion.  ;D

Don't tempt me. LOL

LOL....Yep I sort of figured it may have been associated with the medical field of proctology.....

[jimclarke]

My wife (bless her heart) has done a couple funny things.  Once, she called me at work and said she couldn't turn the bath water off.  I had to rush home only to find she was trying to turn the faucet the wrong way.  Another time we were riding in the car and she pulled the cordless phone out of her purse.  She was expecting a call and didn't want to miss it.  I've done a few too.  Once when I was in the Navy I was in the process of connecting an external power cord to a plane.  To do this, you must first attach the cord then hold down two buttons on the external power panel while an assistant at the other end hits the power switch.  Anyway, I pulled the cord up to the aircraft and dropped it.  Then I got distracted momentarilly, then turned around and pressed the two buttons.  My assisted said it would be helpful if I picked up the cord and plugged it in!  That was embarrassing.

Jim

[Romulus111VADT]

My wife is so funny at times with her silly antics. We have a dish sprayer on our kitchen sink that you pull out and rinse dishes or use to clean out the sink. Well, she was being a good little house keeper and she'd taken the nozzle off to clean it of hard water build up. She patiently used a tooth pick to make sure every little hole was clear. Then reached over to rinse it off....lmao....the water shot straight up and hit the ceiling like a geyser and it was raining something awful in the kitchen as she was jumping around hollering, "How do you turn this dumb thing off!"

Her best one was when she was using a deep fryer to make fried chicken. She had her pan with egg in it and her pan with flour to roll the chicken in. Well, during the cooking process the grease popped and a small drop caught her on her cheek below her eye. She instinctively brought her hand up to her cheek really fast and bang. Hit the flour pan and it went flying straight up into the air. It looked like it was snowing in the kitchen. She was covered in flour and sneezed and flour went every where. She looked at me and said, "Don't you dare say a word!" I didn't, I couldn't, because I was lmao!