Love, Life and Everything

    October is also dyslexia awareness month, and this is also something I can talk a LOT about.  Not only am I a certified dyslexia teacher, I'm also mildly dyslexic.  Though I didn't find this out until I was already out of college and had my first classroom job as an educational assistant.  It's estimated that dyslexia makes up 10-20% of the entire world population.  It's not a sudden occurrence, it's always been here, and it's not a disability per say, it's only considered that because we are living in a text heavy world.  We never knew about it before because reading and writing is a newer invention in our human existence.  The brain that causes dyslexia variance has always been there, but initially, reading and writing was only reserved for the elite, and not the general public, so we had no way of knowing it was there until suddenly, a whole bunch of kids couldn't learn to read.  It's a normal and very real variance of the brain.  So, I'm

  October is ADHD/ADD awareness month.  This month, I will be discussing my own experience with it, both personally and as a teacher seeing it in other children and coworkers. I've always been a disorganized space cadet, known for daydreaming in class, and getting punished for a messy desk and messy handwriting.  I was always off in my own world and had trouble turning in assignments on time in elementary school.  I was never hyperactive.  In fact, I was considered sleepy and lazy, far from the kid who usually gets an ADHD/ADD diagnosis.  But, my thoughts ran wild constantly.  As I got older, I learned to adapt, but I was always procrastinating and screeching in at the last second for any appointment, assignment, etc. And, I'm still incredibly disorganized.  It's not because I want to be disorganized.  I actually hate being disorganized, but I can't stay organized.  It just "happens." I know it really doesn't just happen, but it feels that way because I ta