Help!

maybe you could get the book
survival guide for college students with ADD or LD bye kathleen G.Nadeau,PH.D
or you could go to www.ldpride.com
or you could go to www.bigsplace.com
and you already have gone to www.ldonline.com
Its ok to be scared to death its usually your first time away from your parents and college is a little different from highschool and you don’t have the popularity constests and you can usually do what ever you want with in reason
I think everyone gets lost once awhile because they confuse directions but you usually can get back on the right track if you ask a gas station or re trace your steps when you get lost or just think a while and relax to get on the right path
you not going to be a slacker your going to be a bright and intelligent college student even if you can’t do some of the classes
I think you have math difficulites that everyone face but usually you have your handy dandy friend the calculator to help you out
adn you just need to relax and go to teachers for assistance or a student academic center and they can help you with certain issues and there might even be a learning disablities office at this college to help you get certain accomadation with tests and note taking so that learning can be easier for you and you can acheive at a higher levl or take your own slow pace self on exams with extended time
so good luck and hang in there
byeDEW

NLD Girl,

Please, Please, Please, talk to your folks about getting cognitve therapy or see if you school or your doctor can hook you up with the right people.

Honestly with your level of cognitive dysfunction I can’t see how you will have much success in college with out some sort of professional intervention.

I expeience many of the same difficulties that you do. I developed my own stagedies in dealing with a lot of them.

The AMT is alot like the phone. I’m an old fart and back in ancient times telephones had dials. Dialing was not as big of a problen as punching in the numbers.

What really frustrates me is that calculators have 1 2 and 3 in the bottom row and phones hav 1 2 and 3 in the top row. That always screws me up.

As far as college goes in my brain damaged opinion full time would be a mistake. I know a lot of people don’t want to hear this but we sometime have to learn to settle for a lot less than we deserve. This is the real world and the real world sucks.

As discouraging as this sounds, it may save you some unessecary pain in your life. I am not saying not to accept challenges. What I am saying is to be realistic. Regardless of our weaknesses and strengths we need to have an accurate inventory of our abilities. We can’t go on and believe the sunshine clueless people try to blow up our butts. The next time some happy clown comes up to me and tells my that Einstien and Churchill were dyslexics I will kick them in the throat. I would love to trade brains with on of these morons for a week and then sit back and see the shambles their life has become.

Unfortunately we live in a world with very shallow and superficial people who themselves are an impedement to us. Kinder and gentler? Well maybe it will be after money bags Bush gets a lot of innocent people killed in Iraq.

Until there are proper things in place to help us we need to be ready to accept a lot less.

Hi, we are married and both have learning disabilities. Eric has a severe case of dyslexia, and believe it or not he graduated from University of the Ozarks with a BA in Art, Math, & Philosophy. Now he is in graduate school getting his Masters of Fine Arts, and still cannot read above a 5th grade reading level. We met at University of the Ozarks and I have discalcula (dyslexia of math). So I do the reading and writing, and he does the logical math! University of the Ozarks (Clarksville, Ar) has a great program for students with learning disabilities. I now own and run my own recruiting business. It is possible to be a success with a disability. You have to advocate for yourself and seek help all the time, that is the key to making it through school. Know what you can do and do it well, know what you can’t do and get help with it. For more information on us and our story please e-mail us at [email protected]. Keep you head up!!

Hi,
gess what its not realy all that bad. Yes it can be hard, it can be descuraging and evan dishartaning. How ever what I found out is that every one meses up and no one is perfect. We just have a little more trubel in some areas.My point is simeler to the others “it can be dun”
I have found that the more you use the hard scills the better it gets (not grate but better)
I am horabel with derecsons. I get lost all the time, and after a wiel its sortof funny. What I do is go exploring buy my self. I find my way back evenchuly and I find lots of net things on the way. I had to learn to laghf at my self and reword my self when its do. Life gos on with or with out you.
Most colleges have grate help programs and are there for you. You just have to demand it.Get a talk and tipe program,a reader program and or a tape recorder. What ever would be the most help for you.
Here is a grat confadens bilder……. If you like or are intrested in horses a lot of stabels will swap riding lesons for stall cleaning or what evere they need. I have worked horses for a lot of years and can tell you that I havent ever seen any thing do more for LD kids as well as adolts. If not try valentering at the humain sinter as a dog walker or joen the 4-h dog club. Realy all these things will give you expereans and confadens. your only 16 play some find out what you like to do.
Please get bake to me I would be intrested in what you thinck.
Toni

Hi!
I work with people at this community college — there’s a computer lab here and some tables to work at. It is hard — and the hardest part is that nobody is going to sit you down and MAKE you do things.
However, it’s the ones who worry the most that are the ones that make it. The ones who are sure they can handle everything, sign up for a full time load (and a job) and put things off… how many classes are you going to sign up for?
Start with a small load and you’ll get an idea of what you can do, ‘cause there’s no way to know. Hey, I have a master’s degree… and I’m taking a course here at the junior college for fun and yea, I’m still losing things and missing things (had to use my friend’s library card)… yea, I was the last person to class trying to find it and I *work* here in the same wing and walk by it every day…
… and right now I’m putting off going and figuring out tonight’s assingment so I’ll catch ya later ;)

Hi,

I just saw your post. My 10 year old son has been diagnosed with NLD, and I have a sneaking suspicion that I have it, my daughter has it, and my mother has it, even though none of the rest of us has been diagnosed. :-)

One of the NLD sites not mentioned above was NLDontheWeb.org. They have tons of helpful information, and a forum in Delphi with TONS of supportive people there - who would all love to hear from you. A lot of what you are talking about can be overcome - with proper training and techniques. You will get a lot of good, common sense advice there - please try it.

I just checked, and it must have been a different post re: NLD that had the other sites listed. For more information go to:

NLDline.com
nlda.org
aspergersyndrome (can’t remember if it it .com or .org - try .org first)

Read information by Sue Thompson, Pam Tanguay. Byron Rourke tends to be doom and gloom (in my opinion) and I think the other researchers/authors are more supportive.

Good luck. If you can’t get into the Delphi forum for NLDontheWeb, e-mail me and I will give you the specific link. I think reading there will make a world of difference for your outlook. :-)

Lil

You’re not alone. New things like college and the real world scare many to death, especially if you’re LD. Ifeel you because my math skills suck too; however there’s help. Go to www.ncld.org or www.ldpride.net and it will help. Also gain support from family and friends.

Hi..
I posted to you on the Social Skills board…anyway, I saw this and just had to see what you had to say. I think it’s great that you want to go to college…go for it! you CAN do it! As for the difficulties you mentioned-
LOL you’re NOT the only one that has problems with ATM’s….LOL oh I’m sure I could figure the darned thing out- if I didn’t want to be filmed by those security camera thingys! LOL…Math isn’t my strong point, either…don’t get me wrong, I like it when Math is presented to me in Puzzle form or basic fractions and Geometry are fun too…but word problems? Forget it..that’s when I start getting anxiety….Decimals and Percentages are a nightmare.. And I especially hated copying Math assignments out of the book….Never could get anything to line up correctly, and never could get it neat enough(AND perfect enough) to hand in…wanna talk about frustrating?! Science gave me nightmares…especially when I had to slice and dice those formaldahyde drenched critters they expected me to disect….( the thought STILL Makes me shudder!) -
Here’s a little tip for those equations and ratio problems- think of them as a game where they’re puzzles crossed with a set of scales- what you do to one side of the equation, you do the same exact thing to the other side, ok? make the scales balance even….
As for making change that was HARD for me too, but with alot of practice, I eventually learned to be very good at making change, and eventually was a cashier working fast food when I was in my early twenties….a LONG time ago.yeah, I’m an old geezer too, prolly TONS older than our buddy Bell! LOL..
another tip- for remembering the route from your house to church, next time you make that trip, at each turn try, looking at the intersection, or whatever, and pick out a land mark- something that sticks out- that you notice everytime you go by there…maybe a Mc Donalds a school yard, a park……or if there’s a peice of artwork - a scuplture, or even a painted mural…anything that sticks out to you that’s always there- catches your eye…..and think of it as a Dot to Dot game….Connect the dots from your house to church….or you could even apply the same idea to any other place you want to go, or like going regularly…AND WRITE IT DOWN! Writing it down helps commit it to your brain, and the more you do it, and practice “Connect the dots” the better you get at it…Or you could even see it as an interactive Maze? Something like that- make a game out of it! But the only difference is the only rules to making the game work are your own rules…and the only object is getting to the target.
it’s worth a shot…..My memory’s not the greatest either-(You should see me wandering around Wal Mart trying to remember what’s on my mental to get list..or in the craft’s department trying to remember what colors of DMC floss I need to finish up a cross stitch project! It’s almost funny….actually! That’s why I never go to Wal Mart with out a list….I have to do the same thing when I go to the Dollar Tree…If I don’t, I forget WHY I’m there to begin with! Kinda bad when you’re gonna be 35 in a couple months,eh? I’m starting to think that OLD AGE is creeping in on me! Already got grey hair! LOL..)
you are NOT a slacker,kiddo! I promise you that! I think once you get on the right path, and doing all the things you need to do to build a life and future for yourself- remember those launch pad things I mentioned in the other post- THOSE things- you’re going to be JUST FINE! I swear and promise. You’re already a pretty special young lady that’s going to go far! You can do it! I’m just waiting to see if you’re going to prove me right! ( I’m not really worried about it- I already KNOW that you’re going to prove me right! Not a problem there, kiddo- you’ve just got to convince yourself of that fact!) You’ll do ok with real life, if you listen,pay attention, and do all those things that teen agers learn along the way to prepare them for the “Real World” you’ll do just fine!
Another tip from an old fart like me- Nothing happens due to sheer circumstance…. AND there are lessons in everything for your betterment, you’ve just got to be one smart cookie to see those lessons,learn them and figure out how they apply to you and your life…and you know what, kiddo, from what I can see, you’re already one heck of a smart cookie! Ok? So, tell you what, let’s not say you’re a slacker- you’ve already proven that that’s the last thing you are! (Now just convince yourself of the fact, and you’ll be taking the first steps to where YOU want to GO!)
Nita