I been asking my sister to teach how to read and write...sadly...probably because when I was actually supposed to be doing it, I couldn't...
I was born in an era in terms of India which at best can be described as ignorant...that's a good word I guess...children were born given the resources, and expected to raise by themselves...and yeah learning disorders as well as mental disorders didn't exist...
when I was a child I had dyslexia...ok in studies, thanks to dear ole high IQ...but I didn't actually learn how to read and write...I learnt on the basis of this is the spelling, this is how it is pronounced and obviously this is the meaning...
I didn't realise that I had any problems...apart from being a lousy to average student till standard five...to a very good student in standard six...yeah from straight D, C, Bs to straight A++s only...and it wasn't that I started studying standard six...academics is not something I enjoy, or have ever enjoyed...it was an effortless transition...thank you dear ole God for the mensa level IQ, but sometimes I do consider than ignorance might be bliss...having never been there, I don't know...
but sadly in the entire process I never did get to learn how to do the basics, as in read and write...
not many people happen to know that I was dyslexia, my family included...I realised it myself when I was 13 or 14...and I didn't tell anyone, my life is pretty much private, and I do tend to keep it that way...some months back one my sister asked me to write down a series of number, and I couldn't in the first go, my brain waves are not that strong in this respect sadly, it took me sometime, in which time she told me 'are you dyslexic or what?'...so I finally told her, yeah I am dyslexic, or maybe it is some other learning disorder whose name I don't know...and she was surprised...you cant relate such things with me...I am too intelligent, or whatever you call it, to be that I guess...
for me it is still hard to follow numbers or alphabets vocally...it takes me sometime, apart from that I guess I am kinda ok...
no matter how tempting ignorance being a bliss might sound, but at the end of the day, I still do want to be me...
WW
