Do lazy days make you feel reproductive?
This is the reason emails take longer, this is why communication takes longer. I was 26 years old when a boss finally asked me what was wrong with me – in polite terms. He asked me if I was re-reading my emails before I hit send and suggested that I take just a little bit more time before hitting send. Here I am 20 years later still thinking about his comments because I pack those kinds of things around with me… forever (AuDHD). He was right though. No one had ever asked me about my emails, likely because they were so baffled by my email communication or any form of written communication. The issue with this kind of dyslexia is that it also crushes me because I often misread something and a fuse is lit (enter dysregulation) or my heart is broken and there have been occasions where I didn’t go back to said email for a really long time only to re-read it and realize that I was completely wrong and very much misunderstood.
Lesson… do take the time. I find that reading out loud is helpful. I do still make mistakes when I read out loud but my auditory system catches the mistakes so I can reverse and figure out which word my dyslexia blundered on. x
And just because… I’ll close by saying my auditory system doesn’t seem to translate other human speech to the correct words in my head all the time either… today, as I was heading to work I was commenting to the cat to not drop a duke. My husband said, it is drop a deuce… you know, like number 2. To which I was dumb struck and commented, no I said duke. His explanation made sense… what the heck did drop a duke mean anyway and yet.. I have said drop a duke many many times since I was probably 10 years old (sooo like 30+ years of saying it wrong) and no one has every said anything to me because a) they likely thought they misheard me, b) had heard me say it before and just thought I was being funny, or c) ignored my silly mispronunciation of deuce. Good times. See… still learning, every single day.
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