Dyslexia Archives - A blog about life on the spectrum https://kaiskjold.com/tag/dyslexia/ Thu, 15 Jul 2021 12:14:30 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 152266933 A Lifetime of Stupid https://kaiskjold.com/2019/06/21/a-lifetime-of-stupid/ Fri, 21 Jun 2019 08:01:29 +0000 http://kaiskjold.com/?p=927 Have you ever met anyone who made you feel stupid? I bet you have. It doesn’t matter how intelligent we are, other people can always make us feel stupid one way or another. Sometimes they do it on purpose, but I suspect most of the time they don’t even realise they made us feel like that – at least not …

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]]> 927 How Not To Be Seen https://kaiskjold.com/2019/03/29/how-not-to-be-seen/ Fri, 29 Mar 2019 10:11:36 +0000 http://kaiskjold.com/?p=809 My whole life I struggled to hide in plain sight, but since my diagnosis I have struggled to be seen. It’s odd to experience how trying to hide can make you stand out and how trying to be seen can make you ignored. At least, that is how it has felt to me. About two weeks ago I started something …

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]]> 809 My Escape https://kaiskjold.com/2018/10/25/my-escape/ Thu, 25 Oct 2018 09:11:55 +0000 http://kaiskjold.com/?p=248 So, you might wonder, why did I start writing if it was always so hard? Simple. I thought I was just stupid, and I never knew everyone didn’t face the same challenges I did. I thought reading and writing was difficult for everyone, and I was stupid in all aspects of life, not just reading. My love of stories, and …

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]]> 248 On Reading and Dyslexia https://kaiskjold.com/2018/10/24/on-reading-and-dyslexia/ Wed, 24 Oct 2018 09:11:55 +0000 http://kaiskjold.com/?p=244 Back in school, I never knew I had dyslexia. I was not tested until I failed my bachelor thesis and my professor (who, funny enough, was himself a foreigner) told me I wrote so poorly, it was almost impossible to read and it was difficult to imagine I was not a foreigner myself. Now, the thing is, my father was …

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]]> 244 Let’s Just Start with Who I Am https://kaiskjold.com/2018/10/02/lets-just-start-with-who-i-am/ Tue, 02 Oct 2018 18:11:17 +0000 http://kaiskjold.com/?p=189 Connecting with others is beautiful and amazing, but for some us, it doesn’t come easy at all. I never understood how to do that. I always wanted to, and I did everything I could think of to connect with someone – anyone – else. No surprise, but true connection doesn’t exist if you are not being yourself. I wasn’t. I …

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