Dyslexia

Muxy

Muxy

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Dyslexia would that throw your game off, I was wondering I think I should get checked out. When I am in school I find myself doing things backwards. I don’t think I am full fledge dyslexic I just think I have some characteristic of it. Anyone here have dyslexia and how have you conquered the pool life.

Trevor|Confused
 
I don't have dyslexia but I have poor eyesight, ADD and hypoglycemia.
I dunno which is worse.
 
Muxy said:
Dyslexia would that throw your game off, I was wondering I think I should get checked out. When I am in school I find myself doing things backwards. I don’t think I am full fledge dyslexic I just think I have some characteristic of it. Anyone here have dyslexia and how have you conquered the pool life.

Trevor|Confused
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Hi Trevor

I don't know that much about dyslexia but Im a nurse and have studied a little bit about it. Im not sure if dyslexia affects your pool game, but regardless of that you definitely need to get it checked out.

Christyd
 
Muxy said:
Dyslexia would that throw your game off, I was wondering I think I should get checked out. When I am in school I find myself doing things backwards.

Trevor|Confused
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what are you doing in pool that makes you think you need help, and do you have a problem in school that is athletic or hand/eye related???
 
Muxy said:
Dyslexia would that throw your game off, I was wondering I think I should get checked out. When I am in school I find myself doing things backwards. I don’t think I am full fledge dyslexic I just think I have some characteristic of it. Anyone here have dyslexia and how have you conquered the pool life.

Trevor|Confused
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Are you constantly shooting the nine into the cue ball? ;)
 
Dyslexia is a condition that affects one's ability to read and communicate. Dyslexics have a hard time learning things, which is why it might affect one's abiility to develop an understanding of the theory that underlies playing pool.
Any dyslexic should be examined and should seek the assistance of qualified professionals.
 
Joe Pickens said:
Are you constantly shooting the nine into the cue ball? ;)
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I was playing a drunk guy in a bar once for 10.00 a rack. He gave a $100.00 bill a few times instead of a $10.00. Maybe that's what was wrong with him...
 
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Vonn31 said:
I was playing a drunk guy in a bar once for 10.00 a rack. He gave a $100.00 bill a few times instead of a $10.00. Maybe that's what was wrong with him...
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I have ADD also, at times are you able to hit balls or the same shot over and over again for hours on end?

Mack
 
I am dyslexic and I doubt it affects pool at all. It affects handwriting (not typing) first and foremost. It will affect reading once in a while depending on how extreme your case is, inverting things front to back, but even reading becomes character recognition and letter grouping that one sees as the word it is meant to be whether dyslexic or not. Think if what I see as blue you infact see as red, we could never explain to each other what the other sees or know otherwise that we were not seeing the same color because it would in fact be the color we grew up distinguishing all along to correlate to the name we were told.

Anyways, I dont think it would affect pool in the slightest.
 
Muxy said:
Dyslexia would that throw your game off, I was wondering I think I should get checked out. When I am in school I find myself doing things backwards. I don’t think I am full fledge dyslexic I just think I have some characteristic of it. Anyone here have dyslexia and how have you conquered the pool life.

Trevor|Confused
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Do not sweat it.What people fail to realise that 92% of all dyslexics are millionares.They have abouve average smarts.If you have been diagnosted in your school system they should give you an additional test if your SATs are abouve average and also offer an introduce you to special classes to conform to your GIFT.Make sure your teachers are aware of this fact.Yes it is an hinderence that your brain trys to read in the correct manner that mathmatics and common thought really should be done.We here in the USA are actually tought things the incorrect way (backwords)and thats what your actual problem is.We are tought to add from right to left and so on.Actually the fastest and correct way is left to right.If you dont already you may want to take on the Game of chess.Most your masters have the same thing.It is not a disorder it just is not what society does.Get an IQ rating marked and I think you will be supprised.Pertaing to pool I would recomend personall trying the game of billiards.I have always had the advantige in billiards as the diamond factor was natural.To find a table is very hard but you will donminate the game after you learn the points.Learn the uk method numbers also not what is in the books here.The biggest mistake people make with your gift is to think it is a problem.Yes reading is slow and in some situations especially social you will have to learn to let people walk through the steps even though you know the end result prior to it happening.Dont get upset ! thats your biggest hurdle frustration.
 
Natas si eht dog fo lla live.

Mj's just trying to be funny (-:

When my daughter Julia was young and 1st started writing she used to spell thing backwards. The letters were backwards not the spelling of words. But now she is a straight A student and it doesn't effect her at all.

Mj
 
Muxy said:
Dyslexia would that throw your game off, I was wondering I think I should get checked out. When I am in school I find myself doing things backwards. I don’t think I am full fledge dyslexic I just think I have some characteristic of it. Anyone here have dyslexia and how have you conquered the pool life.

Trevor|Confused
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Society has gone from ignoring real problems years ago, to over diagnosing everybody today. A label is applied to somebody and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Don't go asking to have a label applied to you. Maybe you have some dyslexic tendencies, maybe not; sometimes I think I have minor autistic tendencies, maybe not. However, if you are capable of doing your school work, but have to work a little harder than the guy next to you it doesn't mean you're dyslexic, it just means you have to work a little harder. By all means check it out, but be very careful about letting people put self-fulfilling labels on you.

As to your main question, I don't think dyslexia should have any effect whatsoever on your pool game. Maybe if you have problems with spatial relationships that may be a problem, but dyslexia is about reading and writing comprehension not spatial problems.

BTW, judging from what I see on this board your reading and writing skills seem fine.
 
Vonn31 said:
I was playing a drunk guy in a bar once for 10.00 a rack. He gave a $100.00 bill a few times instead of a $10.00. Maybe that's what was wrong with him...
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Hmmm, that would be AID, Alcohol Induced Dyslexia.
 
fwiw,

I used to know this woman who is still the only genuine dyslexic I have ever met.

She was an artisan, making stuff from blown glass.
Best trick she had though.......she could write upside down and backwards.....in cursive, Just as fast as you or I write out name or anything else. It was nice penmanship but you needed a mirror to appreciate how cool it really was.


Dave
 
Flush after you do that in here.\
excessknowledge said:
Do not sweat it.What people fail to realise that 92% of all dyslexics are millionares.They have abouve average smarts.If you have been diagnosted in your school system they should give you an additional test if your SATs are abouve average and also offer an introduce you to special classes to conform to your GIFT.Make sure your teachers are aware of this fact.Yes it is an hinderence that your brain trys to read in the correct manner that mathmatics and common thought really should be done.We here in the USA are actually tought things the incorrect way (backwords)and thats what your actual problem is.We are tought to add from right to left and so on.Actually the fastest and correct way is left to right.If you dont already you may want to take on the Game of chess.Most your masters have the same thing.It is not a disorder it just is not what society does.Get an IQ rating marked and I think you will be supprised.Pertaing to pool I would recomend personall trying the game of billiards.I have always had the advantige in billiards as the diamond factor was natural.To find a table is very hard but you will donminate the game after you learn the points.Learn the uk method numbers also not what is in the books here.The biggest mistake people make with your gift is to think it is a problem.Yes reading is slow and in some situations especially social you will have to learn to let people walk through the steps even though you know the end result prior to it happening.Dont get upset ! thats your biggest hurdle frustration.
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Vonn31 said:
I was playing a drunk guy in a bar once for 10.00 a rack. He gave a $100.00 bill a few times instead of a $10.00. Maybe that's what was wrong with him...
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Hey Vonn,

Was that bar in Tn? I'll throw you some jelly if you put me on that guy :D :D

Mike
 
I have minuet signs of Dyslexia ..but then again, I can't play pool worth a damn. :( My brother has it real bad and he is by no means stupid. He can do and explain alot of things...just don't expect him to write a complex paper about it...not because he can not get complex, but it the whole writing thing. I think he is much better with it now though. Dyslexia has nothing to do with being able to comprehend ideas and theories...but it makes being able to express those theories in writing difficult. Like different bank systems...you can give me a paper to study all day, but I need to see it to understand it...
 
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