So, I’m planning on checking with a psychiatrist to see if I have dyslexia but its expensive and I’m a first year college student.
Some context: I’m a first year law student in India and my parents don’t believe in neurodivergence at all. I was homeschooled throughout my ahooking years before I joined college. I’m going to be in a different state for my four week internship and I want to get myself checked out if its worth looking into. I’m not looking to get diagnosed or anything in the sub (I’ve read the rules) but I want to see if any of you can relate to this enough that I should be concerned.
I’ve always been a great reader and I have no issues with it. Only thing is, when I’ve been reading for more than an hour, I read a paragraph and the big picture stops making sense. As in, I know what each individual word means but I can’t connect it and understand what the paragraph is saying.
My spelling is shit consistently for some words. Like, I’ll mix letters, omit, add etc and once ai realize its wrong, I’ll forget a second later and continue spelling it the wrong way. Never noticed it until I had to write a handwritten exam and everything was shit.
This might be unrelated (the internet was vastly unhelpful in my search for a good symptoms list) I cannot read the time on an analog clock. I cannot tell you what letter follows or was before ‘K’ without singing the alphabet song in my head. Same with numbers, I cannot count backwards without A LOT of stumbling. Same with months. Unless I do it in order, I can’t tell you what comes before and after November.
I’m abysmal at math. I cannot do sums in my head, I NEED a pen and paper and I have great difficulty remembering the sequence of the steps. I also forget everything I learned in minutes.
My family say these issues are because I’ve been homeschooled my whole life and I didn’t learn the alphabets or the months like the kids in school do—which, according to them is repetitively—so I’m conflicted.
Is it worth looking into or are these just learning issues for me? Thank you to anyone who takes the time to respond and I hope I haven’t violated any of the rules, also, I don’t mean to offend anyone—I’m just genuinely doubtful and at my wits end. Thanks again.