Colours and movement in my life.

Is it really seven months ago since I was here? Doesn’t time fly.

Never mind, I shall still haunt the halls somewhere.

Maybe I will stand on the outside of the site to catch everyone who is accidentally thrown out, as I have plenty of fluffy cushions for their rear end to land on. I have one permanently strapped to my own rear end.

Or maybe I will just sit and mutter about the changes that have been made. Changes that absolutely defeat me.

Being dyslexic is very annoying at the best of times. You learn to shop by colour on the labels, you learn to do things by sight. Reading the newspaper or a magazine is a nightmare, with flying words and lines of print that shift themselves all over the page. The more I concentrate the worse it gets. The spell checker on my lap top is my best friend.

My nephew is a highly trained chef, and dyslexic. He never wrote anything from his training down, he had to learn it by sight and listening, and remember it. There are a lot of famous dyslexic people. Albert Einstein, Henry Winkler, Jerry Hall, Whoopi Goldberg, Jamie Oliver and Marco Pierre White to name just a few.

On the lower right corner of my screen I have two yellow blobs, and that is all they are. I cannot see white writing on yellow. I cannot see yellow writing on white. Any light colour on a darker background is limiting to say the least.

It amuses me that I have recently been diagnosed as being colourblind. I have been told the stickers for my rubbish bags are yellow, not flouro green as they appear to me. And my neighbours car is not peacock green, it is actually dark blue. My optician announced this like a ‘eureka’ moment, and it may help him but for me it changes nothing.

Our esteemed leaders video on how to work the new site, (I presume that is what he is doing), is totally useless as my eyes cannot follow what he is doing. I get the feeling he presumes we all have intimate knowledge of how a computer works.

So next time someone says to you ‘I don’t know how’ or ‘I can’t see where that is’, please take the time to consider that they may be saying it for a very good reason.

This is not a criticism of any member or visitor here, it is merely an observation from someone quite used to being on the outside looking in.

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  1. Hi kiwigirl – nice to see you here. I am so sorry that you have these problems. One of my problems is the size of text. When I am choosing a book to buy, I first check out the size of the print, and all the small prints get put back on the shelf. I do wear glasses, but small text is still difficult to read.
    I fully empathize with your dyslexia as my youngest son is dyslexic and found it very difficult in school as this was not recognized way back then.
    Take care xoxo

  2. Hello kiwigirl. Perception is tricky ar best, but when it is outside the range of normal, it is much more difficult, but is spite of all your issues you are able to produce a perfect blog. Thank you for a good blog reminding us all to be more aware of differences.