Just a question

I’m 60 years old and am still trying to understand my disabilities. What I’ve learned over the years, in trying to understand my difficulties, has resulted in better functioning and more self-compassion. When, for example, I understood that I’d tend to see things in extreme (all good or all bad) I consciously worked on putting the two sides together. When I became aware of visual imagery problems, I worked to increase visual discrimination, visual memory, etc.

I just had neuropsychological testing which is increasing self understanding. I have social problems and am now considering doing some work to increase social skills. I am also interested in working on some problems with executive functioning. I have interests that I haven’t been able to persue due to problems in these areas.

If you’re working and have problems that interfere with job performance, it might be useful to have documentation of your problems in case some adaptations are needed. Perhaps had I requested adaptations when my office situation changed, I might not have lost my job. (An office move resulted in loss of a private office space, which resulted in so many distractions that I couldn’t concentrate, and thus got hopelessly behind in my work.)

Ball,
You are proable right about working mainly with men, when I was living in Co. I held a job down for three years at a construstion site, doing construction clean-up. That is the longest I have ever held a job at one time, and the only job I ever had that there were more men than women. I and one other were it.

well since there ‘s no psychological testing administrated here it’s safe to say, yes there’s a problom, guess what your not really perfect. The point is we all have flaws, no matter how hard we try to over come our probloms some are just here for life. It’s good that you want to address your problom, thats part of winning your battle, or getting a good grip on it. If you have a LD problom don’t let it depress you or upset you at all. Being in LD since the 3th grade I’ve learn through the years thats this problom is just centain parts of the brain receptors are not fireing up within it neurons. Medication is out there, but I don’t want to alway go down that road. It’s worth looking into, check yourself out make a doctor appointment ,and see for yourself.

I am 50 YO and am becoming frustrated with my slow reading, poor
comprehension and poor spelling. Any suggestions on where to start to investigate and work on this situation.

Hi Liz,

I’m 46 and just started my testing in December. It’s harder to find services for adults but they’re out there. Try local colleges and universities, esp. if money is an issue. Speech/language and auditory processing evaluations are often low cost or even free that way.

Also Google “learning disabilities” + testing + [your city], or “speech language” + testing + [your city]. This will probably give you the universities, plus some private groups of professionals that will do a comprehensive evaluation. The private groups can be expensive for everything.

If you need neuropsych testing and it is beyond their ability to provide that (there is a lot of variation about who does what kinds of tests), you might have to get that done by a private neuropsychologist. No way around it, that is expensive. I’ve gotten insurance referrals for mine, but will not know for a while if they will actually pay.

Good luck, hope this helps.

Audrey