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Dyslexics and Message boards
Im not "pointing fingers", well kinda I am, but not really...
Once again today I ran across a thread where the initial poster made a thread with some mixed up words, and words not spelled correctly. The people that replied to him basically couldnt do anything but be a spelling nazi's.
My Dave is a functional dyslexic....reads very well but has extreme trouble spelling and typing and those kind of responses are EXACTLY why he wont join TFP. Lucky for him the boards he's on understand that about him (and other members) and dont make a big deal out of it...but I have seen other people post on here with the same kind of problem and the only thing people can seem to say is...get spell checker, learn how to punctuate etc. Well let me mention that its not always that simple and I'll leave it at that.
My question is....Do the people who cant seem to over look that a poster might have that kind of a problem think they dont have any business on a message board? Do you think they shouldnt be allowed to contribute to an online society just because their brain works a little different sometimes? Do the those same people understand how mind numbingly frustrating it is to a person to make a post have have nothing said about it other than its not spelled/puncuated right? Now Im not dumb enuff not to realize that sometimes dyslexia has nothing to do with it....but (for example) there IS one poster on here that no matter when he posts SOMEBODY has to comment on the structure of it and it infuriates me to no end because I KNOW he's dyslexic.
I have seen Dave sit to make a post for 30 minutes for two sentences (on my board) and they STILL come out wrong,no matter what spell checker he used, no matter how many times hes gone over it, (fortunately on my board everyone seems to know such a thing as dyslexia exists and not once do they comment on it).
It must be my mood today...and maybe its because I see what it does to a person when they try to contribute somewhere only to pretty much be told..."hey stupid...learn how to spell/puncuate", but I really wondered whether it ever occurs to people how they might be making another person who is most certainly not stupid, feel?
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