Relatedto dyslexia, or just personal quirks?

I never really gave dyslexia much thought before. When I was younger and first learning to read and write, I had issues with b's and d' and q's and p's and a few other things, and some relatives started talking about possible dyslexia. I am fairly sure I don't have it. I just happened to come across small tidbits of information on related disorders, and a few things I read hit home. So, my question is, does anything about me match up with related disorders? Either way, I find any information and answers useful.

I have a tendency to type or write the wrong word as I am going along. Depending on the day what I replace a word with varies. For example, on most stress free days, I may not have any trouble, or I will replace a world with something very similar, like a homophone, on a moderately stressful day I'll substitute words in a sentence for one another, or start typing parts of a sentence early or repeat them. Extremely stressful days result in large amounts of spelling mistakes. As I am typing right now, I'm winding up with some of these problems and editing them out almost as automatically.

On a stressful day, sometimes these substitutions cross over into my speech. There may only be one or two instances in a day, or I may have entire sentances jumbled.

I used to write alternating between writing cursive and printing. I've gotten away from this over the years, mainly because I don't write in cursive at all anymore. I am right handed, but while it hurts and is slightly awkward, I can switch over to my left hand with relative ease. I basically decided to give this a try one day when I was bored, and within a half hour I could mimic my right handed writing.

I also cannot type with two hands. I don't understand how to explain it, but using two is extremely awkward. My left hand is what I use to type, while my right isn't nearly as capable.

Also, and I have no clue if this is relevant or not, but I'm having an extremely difficult time learning a dance at school. I have to put a lot of focus into exactly how to move at every point, and exactly when each goes. For the most part I'm doing terrible. I have extreme difficulty learning even the basic steps. At the same time, I can easily make up a dance. I also have trouble with some sports (volley ball, football, baseball) but ease with others (floor hockey, badminton, dodgeball).

So, does this sound like it may be related at all to Dyslexia or to anything, or are these just personal quirks? None of it really effects me very much, except for the dancing thing which plays on my last nerve. Thanks!

It seems that hand to eye coordination could be the case, but then you mentioned you had no trouble with badminton which consists of something flying in the air that you have to hit.
I can see where floor hockey could be easier because you can relate it to the floor and track its action much easier than having to see a 3D object flying at you and needing to judge the relative distance by the rate of speed and time your movement, etc. Also, with badmintion, the birdie slows down right before you hit it, so iti is easier to keep track of than an eighty mile an hour fastball, or curve. With dodgeball, you don't have to connect with the ball, you do the opposite. Therefore, no aiming is involved, but there is still timing needed.
It is quite interested how the brain perceives things. Perhaps you can figure at which point your brain "turns off" when something is propelling toward you and you must connect with it. Sometimes I feel that during the motion, my brain loses contact with the ball. That is why the coach says, "keep your eye on the ball."

It's funny you say that. I've been thinking about this today, and I realized in badminton I actually don't watch the birdie. I tend to prepare myself to hit and time it based on the way the other player hits it. I do a little thing where I toss a small object in the air and catch it, just for fun when I'm bored, and I actually do much better when I don't look and judge based off of how I tossed it.

hahaha...

OH boy, you are TOTALLY Dyslexic! No worries though, it isn't as bad as all that and we are smarter then most people... well that is what they say.

Yup everything you described are common symptoms of Dyslexia. I have the same thing, down to the dancing!! Except with me it's kung fu. I just have a hard time doing what someone else is doing without accidentally mirroring them. So I end up doing it perfect... perfectly wrong.

The more you look into this the more fascinating it is! Really so long as you can cope with the annoying stuff once you understand Dyslexia its a wonderful gift.

So do you have the Dyslexic Stammer? It isn't a Studder... it's like you just cant talk in order. Or you know the word you SEE the word but your mouth will not MAKE the word?

I hate that

Wow, forgot about this thread. Anyway...

YES. You've just accurately described my speech patterns. "So anyway I went to the.... um... the-a the the... the um the THE THING. The place! I went to the, you, you know the place and you go there GAH it's on the tip of my tounge I can see it it just isn't... isn't... my mouth doesn't like me today. Whatever, anyway, I went to the place with the food that they sell and while I was there...etc" This happens to me a LOT. Generally I have no problem THINKING a much as I have a problem communicating what I'm thinking effectively. I have an easier time typing because I can always continue typing and then get back to fixing mistakes and filling in words I missed.

Haha… Oh I feel your pain, I TOTALLY do the same thing.

Yesterday I said to my roommate:

You got the money? -myself
Yes –her
Did you get to umm… Blaree… (Actually stopped and thought about it)… pay of the school to the thing done?
Yes
Oh my god what the F* did I just say!?

It's worse with my boss. I find if I just don't answer right away and think about what I am going to say then it is easier. But I still get stuck on words sometimes... always the specific name of a thing... Frustrating.

I was reading this thread earlier but did not completely get those references you made CarmenRose23 and TheDerose where you quote how you were stuck looking for the word you wanted to say. Not that I didn't get the references at all but I did that exact same thing just now and it just clicked thats the thing you guys were talking about and yea I do that a lot too lol. I was diagnosed with mild dyslexia at a young age.