I just want to jump and shout woohoo! I am not the only one either lol. You know I am not really not sure 100% it is just an ADD thing. I suppose there could be something else. I mean because for me it is not just reading. I just used that as my example because it was easiest to describe with. It ranges to a lot of other things. Like when I am having something explained to me by my father on what he wants to do for something he and I are working on. He can explain it to me and it probably makes sense to a normal person, but the words he is saying to me, I hear them but its like I cannot form a mental image of it or its like I just cannot understand him even though I am hearing what is being said to me but just not getting it at all. Most of the time he is explaining to me I tell him to just show me, do it one time so I can relate an image I guess to what he is saying. Because all the words he is saying don't mean anything to me unless I see it being physically shown to me. Almost so I can make a connection between the words and what was just done. Almost like it is easier to do whatever needs to be done once then explain it to me after it has been done so I can mate the words/material each step along the way that I saw. It doesn't work that way for some things. Like math. It did not matter to me if I was shown a million times I could not grasp it. A teacher talking sounds like the charlie brown teacher to me if I cannot grasp what is being said.

I have never been tested for a LD. But I mean how would I go about it now. I am out of high school I have never taken any college because it would be a nightmare for me. I mean how would I say it to a mental health professional. I think I may have an LD lol. Then they would probably laugh at me. But i am not one to beat around the bush or hint. I just tell what I feel and you take it however you will. So I dunno what I would do even if I wanted to find out. But also it took me basically all my life to finally find a person who woould listen to me and finally diagnosed me with ADD. I am 28 now. I am not ready to battle for another 20 years to find another piece of the puzzle. i would be dead by the time I found all my puzzle pieces