Comments on: Changing Views http://cdavies.wordpress.com/2008/04/26/changing-views/ Life as I see it Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:42:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: May Scientiae Carnival: Career paths, perspective, and changing self-image « A Cat Nap http://cdavies.wordpress.com/2008/04/26/changing-views/#comment-35287 May Scientiae Carnival: Career paths, perspective, and changing self-image « A Cat Nap Wed, 07 May 2008 21:51:10 +0000 http://cdavies.wordpress.com/?p=1053#comment-35287 [...] Lab Cat tells us about how she learned to deal with her dyslexia as a teenager, and overcame this disability by forcing herself to look everything up in a dictionary until she had memorized the correct spelling of things. It paid off and she says “finally my Mum, a remedial English teacher, stated that I was cured of dyslexia, which she had never met in her professional life before.” [...] [...] Lab Cat tells us about how she learned to deal with her dyslexia as a teenager, and overcame this disability by forcing herself to look everything up in a dictionary until she had memorized the correct spelling of things. It paid off and she says “finally my Mum, a remedial English teacher, stated that I was cured of dyslexia, which she had never met in her professional life before.” [...]

]]> By: Flicka Mawa http://cdavies.wordpress.com/2008/04/26/changing-views/#comment-35251 Flicka Mawa Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:37:09 +0000 http://cdavies.wordpress.com/?p=1053#comment-35251 Hi Cat! Indeed, it sounds challenging to deal with dyslexia and be graded on spelling, especially when you know that if you're actually writing a piece about these things you could use spell-check or look it up quickly on the internet. Sigh... -Flicka Mawa p.s. Flicka Mawa means "Cute cat" in the personal language of my husband and I. Because we're total dorks. I learned later that flicka might mean "girl" in some other language...swedish maybe. Anyhow, so I totally sympathize with it not appearing correctly to you, since it's a made up name. Hi Cat!
Indeed, it sounds challenging to deal with dyslexia and be graded on spelling, especially when you know that if you’re actually writing a piece about these things you could use spell-check or look it up quickly on the internet. Sigh…
-Flicka Mawa

p.s. Flicka Mawa means “Cute cat” in the personal language of my husband and I. Because we’re total dorks. I learned later that flicka might mean “girl” in some other language…swedish maybe. Anyhow, so I totally sympathize with it not appearing correctly to you, since it’s a made up name.

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