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why not turn the rude words into spoonerisms, Miss Jiff does it all the time, she hurt her "bunny fone"the other day, but it can get worse...

 

I have enjoyed how this thread has evolved. It is informative, creative, highly amusing.

Not being dyslexic, I had little idea of how frustrating it must be. I'm glad to have a little insight now - thank you.

 

I must be musically dyslexic then.
I never could understand all those squiggles and what they meant.
They told me a school I was stupid.
Didn't realise it now had a fancy name.

 

You are most certainly not!!!!! (You simply had rubbish teachers if that is how they spoke to you and about you! ).

Your posts are articulate, thought provoking, intelligent and knowledgeable. Certainly not indicative of "stupid"!

So, you can't read music ... nor can many others! I certainly couldn't ... but, it never stopped me being Lead Soloist in the school choir ... or, playing the lead role in our school (musical!) plays

Can't sing for toffee now though

 

Teachers were different in those days.
I remember one kid was grabbed by the shoulders and shook, at the same time the teachers was saying "w h y d o n t y o u l i s t e n", that was at junior school.
Often had to dodge flying blackboard rubbers.
But I'm still here.

 

Know what you mean, Pete. We had an Infants School teacher - Miss Spicer - who we nicknamed "Spiteful Spicer" ... she would grab pupils by the ears and "lead" where they wouldn't (willingly!) follow. Ouchie!!!

Mr Sales was the worst, he was keeper of "Charlie" (the slipper: dom, dom, DOM!!!) Woe betide anyone who stepped out of line with Mr Sales ... but, we all got a "heads up" just hearing him play the piano ... very Mozart!!! (And that was just playing "Lead Kindly Light"! )

 

I think, described that way, its too broad a statement. I was referring to people who have been taught music over an extended period, but still struggle to read it (as a dyslexic would a book etc.). The director of music at the kids senior school had a son, brilliantly musical like his Dad, who was musically dyslexic, so in that sense we were blessed in having someone who understood the problem first hand

My eldest daughters achieved Grade V in singing and 2 instruments by the age of 13, and in a 3rd instrument a couple of years after that. She has significant difficult reading music even now (she's at Uni) - even a simple one-note annotation for a Christmas Carol or similar. With the benefit of hindsight she describes that she asked the teacher to play new pieces to her as a "demo" and memorised them as an alternative to using the musical score. I am sure it wasn't a conscious thing when she was 10-ish, she probably just thought that was how you are supposed to do it!! she was obviously able to also use the sheet music for dynamics and to remind her where the notes needed to head up, or down , and I suppose, along the lines of things already discussed in this thread, she just got on and coped. Nowadays she does very little instrument playing as it takes her so long to learn new pieces, and she sticks to singing which she finds much easier to pick up new pieces - she sings acapella and I expect the group probably make up the harmonies more often than actually committing them to staves

Indeed. What I now recognise as Dyslexia was "Backward", or "Lazy" in those days ... I imagine I was lucky as I was bright so coped OK in class, but written work took me forever, and I was always in trouble for being slow/behind. Looking at things I wrote back then, aged 13-ish even, b's and d's are the wrong way round, spelling is all over the shop, hand-writing dreadful, and so on. All classic signs but it was never diagnosed (back then). My daughter managed fine until A-levels before she reached a point where she was struggling to cope, and it was then that she was assessed & diagnosed. She was given the maximum extra time in exams, so I presume her condition is reasonably severe! but that extra time is not also available in Lessons, Prep and the rest of real life. She (now at Uni) has had amazing help since. Special software, coaching on life skills to compensate and how best to organise for exams and so on, and she says it has made a tremendous difference to how well she copes. But she is "slow" compared to her peers in all the aspects of her course that involve comprehension. The course she is reading (Ha!Ha!) at Uni has entrance requirement of 4xA's, so its nothing lightweight so dyslexia doesn't need to be a barrier, per se. There is compensation in the fact that dyslexic people are so incredibly handsome, witty, debonair, .... and modest of course

 

@Kristen

 

I'm 'musically dyslexic' ,I got thrown out of Cello class even though I have always been able to 'play by ear' (not with ear) ....there were lots of 'discussions' between the teachers and my parents but they weren't having any of it.I do remember asking if I could have the sheet music translated to numbers instead of notes as I just couldn't grasp the notes but they would entertain that idea so after many tears and tantrums gave it up altogether

 

Me too Loli but I know you love music and like you, I played by ear and found the bringing a chord together by music nigh impossible. Occasionally though, I would want to play something so much that I forced myself to learn each note and chord to play a piece on the piano. A couple of hymns are still partly in my brain I think eg Jerusalem, Eternal Father strong to save and the Lords prayer as I was chosen to play them at morning Assembly. Nerve racking as I couldn't follow the music - just had to learn it off by heart.
Still wish it hadn't been thus . Maybe I was lazy?
Jenny

 

seem to have got the hang of this 'ere gardening lark son,
Ma