Depending on what study you look at between 30 and 50% of present inmates are dyslexic and 60% have reading impairment. We are filling our prisons with dyslexics and it's costing a fortune and un told misery. I was nearly one of those figures had I not had art, and even though I was refused entry into college because I didn't have any GCEs I managed to teach myself and start a successful business... then on the back of that they let me into art college. Listening to this story, I wondered if a test had ever been done...I usually spot another dyslexic and this seems a familiar story.
Your story is all too familiar to me. I'm a 55 year old dyslexic and grew up in Tunbridge Wells. Punks n skinheads were fighting, hippies were being beaten up & police brutality was rife. I left home with no qualifications except an A GCE in art. I couldn't process text fast enough to keep up with the work or the exam paper and got no further than the middle staples In the exam papers. Initially I kept getting detentions because I wasn't processing information and missing bits of it also couldn't remember what I was meant to bring to school and so couldn't organise myself. The private school was religious and one time I had to stay behind and memorise a prayer as punishment, but it was impossible for me to either process or memorise and I was there for hours. It was punishment on punishment and I became angry and disruptive. I left home when I was 17 with no direction no guidance and art college wouldn't let me in without GCEs. I lived in squats was surrounded by druggies, addicts and was arrested more than once. Like you I looks at people older than me with half their teeth missing because of amphetamines and It served as a warning on drugs. A taught myself painting and started a business in my early 30s, eventually, because I was a mature student I was allowed to learn at college without GCEs, eventually gaining a masters in fine art. I'm respected member of the community now with a successful business,but it was not till I understood my processing/ neurodiverse/dyslexic brain that I could convey this to other people in order to be understood. Being misunderstood made me angry and an outcast looking for a group where I belonged, which was of course with other misfits. When I was put through an IQ test at 14 I was told mine was high,therefore proving, incorrectly, I wasn't trying. This was the final straw, so I no longer tried. UltimatelyI have no regrets and turned everything into a positive, with The view that any potential negative can be turned into a positive. When I watched your program I wondered whether you'd had a test for the type of processing you have. The one I had when I was doing my masters degree was in depth and demonstrated that my skills and processing work either right at the top or right down the bottom. I found it really useful in understanding my brain and why I'd not been able to learn at school.
I just watched this ua-cam.com/video/I6b7oY1lbeM/v-deo.htmlsi=RP23KmmAI0RES7gv They found that 50% of prison inmates were dyslexic... When it worked for an art college they did a blanket test on the degree students and found the same figure.
Such an amazing story, so glad it worked out for you.
Thank you for sharing your story! Wishing you the very best for all of your future cheffing! 😊
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Brilliant story of what genuine rehabilitation of young offenders can achieve. 👌
Depending on what study you look at between 30 and 50% of present inmates are dyslexic and 60% have reading impairment.
We are filling our prisons with dyslexics and it's costing a fortune and un told misery. I was nearly one of those figures had I not had art, and even though I was refused entry into college because I didn't have any GCEs I managed to teach myself and start a successful business... then on the back of that they let me into art college.
Listening to this story, I wondered if a test had ever been done...I usually spot another dyslexic and this seems a familiar story.
Your story is all too familiar to me. I'm a 55 year old dyslexic and grew up in Tunbridge Wells. Punks n skinheads were fighting, hippies were being beaten up & police brutality was rife.
I left home with no qualifications except an A GCE in art. I couldn't process text fast enough to keep up with the work or the exam paper and got no further than the middle staples In the exam papers.
Initially I kept getting detentions because I wasn't processing information and missing bits of it also couldn't remember what I was meant to bring to school and so couldn't organise myself.
The private school was religious and one time I had to stay behind and memorise a prayer as punishment, but it was impossible for me to either process or memorise and I was there for hours. It was punishment on punishment and I became angry and disruptive.
I left home when I was 17 with no direction no guidance and art college wouldn't let me in without GCEs.
I lived in squats was surrounded by druggies, addicts and was arrested more than once. Like you I looks at people older than me with half their teeth missing because of amphetamines and It served as a warning on drugs. A taught myself painting and started a business in my early 30s, eventually, because I was a mature student I was allowed to learn at college without GCEs, eventually gaining a masters in fine art. I'm respected member of the community now with a successful business,but it was not till I understood my processing/ neurodiverse/dyslexic brain that I could convey this to other people in order to be understood. Being misunderstood made me angry and an outcast looking for a group where I belonged, which was of course with other misfits. When I was put through an IQ test at 14 I was told mine was high,therefore proving, incorrectly, I wasn't trying. This was the final straw, so I no longer tried.
UltimatelyI have no regrets and turned everything into a positive, with The view that any potential negative can be turned into a positive.
When I watched your program I wondered whether you'd had a test for the type of processing you have. The one I had when I was doing my masters degree was in depth and demonstrated that my skills and processing work either right at the top or right down the bottom. I found it really useful in understanding my brain and why I'd not been able to learn at school.
I just watched this
ua-cam.com/video/I6b7oY1lbeM/v-deo.htmlsi=RP23KmmAI0RES7gv
They found that 50% of prison inmates were dyslexic... When it worked for an art college they did a blanket test on the degree students and found the same figure.