Disabilities Not Seen

There are disabilities that are not seen but exist, today they have names but their was a time that the medical world didn't recognize them as a disability and their where children back in the 1950s that where labeled as stupid, lazy, hipper, crazy, lunatics, dum, spaced out, to name a few and I was one of these children. We look normal but we are not, because we are labeled and finding ways to act out, to get attention.
Throughout my child hood up to grade 9 I had a learning disability called dyslexia, I didn't know this, the School didn't know this, my parents didn't know this, I left school because I couldn't read nor write.

The school called me lazy so I became lazy, my parents called me a knuckle head so I stayed in my shell and became a knuckle head. All my siblings where intelligent and treated me as the bum bell.

The dum blond was very popular at that time like Marlon Monroe, maybe she was a dum blond, but where did it get her, only to an early grave "unseen disabilities", maybe she was able to cover it up by becoming one, and her beauty became her tool.

When I left school I knew that I needed find a way to help with the three basics, reading writing and arithmetic. I knew that in my head that I wasn't dum nor a knuckle head and I sure didn't have *sawdust for brains".

There was always a better way for me to learn and I did it on my own that I don't need to go into because their are others here at WA that know me, I have two languages, came to WA to build a website, I am writing and blogging on health and health care, you already know by know that I have two languages read and write them both. "So Let's continue".

I left my own Country and married a University graduate from Central America. His family are teacher, professors, engines, doctors, architects, agriculturalists. I can honestly say I grew up in Costa Rica they got to know "me" and accepted me as the nice good-natured beautiful Canadian girl that married into the family. I grew and learned because their was no obstacles to hurdle over, maybe I was a bit naive but I out grew that as well. I had always dreamed of this kind of environment so maybe this environment I was living in gave me the opportunity to grow.

Only in later life with tribulations did I come to recognize my disability. A dyslexic sees things differently. Like writing backwards seeing the end before the beginning. So to be able to form a sentence was very difficult. I have had to trained my mind to function as what the world finds to be the norm.

A thought would formulate in my head and when I opened my mouth to express that thought my mind would go blank and their was nothing their. To write this page would have taken me most of the day. Because I am correcting and re correcting my grammar but by writing and reading I have come to understand better how to communicate with the written language. I see better the mistakes that I make and am able to correct them. Spelling I thank god for spell check without that I am dead meat.

I also came to understand how I became dyslexic. This might sound funny but my brain was scrambled before I was born. My Mother had an accident while she was carrying me in the whom I took a blow to the head before I was born and a cyst had formed over the right eye that was removed when I was 10 years old. A cyst is a blow to the head that doesn't go away it forms a mass under the skin then hardens and you can only get rid of it by cutting it out surgically.

When the brain is scrambled it will find its own pathways and over time can be corrected if you have the right understanding of the human condition. Science has come a long way to understanding but have had a very hard time correcting, so their are drugs used on these kids that place a band aid on the problem but doesn't correct the problem. Many dyslexics find their brain pathways by themselves like Robert Einstein and, yours truly.

I am no Einstein but have been able to find my path ways and maybe my way has been the better way and not have had to use these drugs that the doctors are handing out like candy to our children. I could go into more depth concerning these disabilities that are not seen but exist and many Parents today do not know their children have learning problems or are in dinile so these children are left out in the cold and acting out.

Only through reading I have been able to find my way and today I have become a published author, creator of my own website, researcher, have over come many obstecals in my path and have come to understand our divine creation.

always a better way

Linda