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Micro-Dosing Victories and Other Solutions For Dyslexia
Pay very, very close attention
Instead of recoiling, numbing out, or rushing forward, I paid very, very close attention to when things started to go sideways.
Like many people with ADHD, I also have dyslexia. To illustrate how it works in my brain, let’s take a common task of stripping off pillow cases to go in the wash. The pillow goes to the right, the pillowcase to the left. That works about three times.
Then suddenly a mental switch flips, after which I’ll mess up every time. It’s just pillowcases, so no big deal, right? Wrong. These seemingly small slip-ups carry a hidden weight.
They make me feel just a little bit incompetent. Multiply that by a dozen moments throughout the day, and they slowly chip away at my confidence.
Yesterday went very differently. Because I’ve been paying super close attention — a kind of hyper awareness — to how exactly this goes down, I witnessed the switch flip happen in real-time.
Slow down the action
I stopped, then started again, this time counting. After twice sorting the pillows and cases the right way, I paused. To make the moment tangible, I tapped the mattress to my right. “This is where the pillow goes,” I said out loud to…
