I learned this the hard way - and eventually spent about $1000 - $2000 at the Menninger Clinic (which left Topeka, Kansas in 2000 for Houston, Texas - I was diagnosed in 1992 when it was still located in Topeka.) It's a private psychiatric clinic. Took two days - I was also evaluated for ADHD by a specialist (I don't have it - she told me it was just law school stress, and the fact my coping mechanisms had hit the wall in law school. The clinician thought I might - because my attention kept wandering during all the evaluations and assessments - which took two days. )
And the clinician who evaluated me - told me that she didn't like the term dyslexia, instead it was "visual and audio coordination disorder". But I do have dyscalculia ( I flip numbers more than letters, have spatial coordination issues, and facial recognition is a problem - I don't remember faces unless I see them a lot, and people tend to look alike to me.)
It was interesting - because the clinician was amazed that I'd managed to figure out for myself and adopt all the coping mechanisms that she'd have told me to use, or would have taught me to use as - all on my own. But most of us do. We have to find work-arounds, because we happen to think and process information differently than most of society appears to think.
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I learned this the hard way - and eventually spent about $1000 - $2000 at the Menninger Clinic (which left Topeka, Kansas in 2000 for Houston, Texas - I was diagnosed in 1992 when it was still located in Topeka.) It's a private psychiatric clinic. Took two days - I was also evaluated for ADHD by a specialist (I don't have it - she told me it was just law school stress, and the fact my coping mechanisms had hit the wall in law school. The clinician thought I might - because my attention kept wandering during all the evaluations and assessments - which took two days. )
And the clinician who evaluated me - told me that she didn't like the term dyslexia, instead it was "visual and audio coordination disorder". But I do have dyscalculia ( I flip numbers more than letters, have spatial coordination issues, and facial recognition is a problem - I don't remember faces unless I see them a lot, and people tend to look alike to me.)
It was interesting - because the clinician was amazed that I'd managed to figure out for myself and adopt all the coping mechanisms that she'd have told me to use, or would have taught me to use as - all on my own. But most of us do. We have to find work-arounds, because we happen to think and process information differently than most of society appears to think.