It's wonderful that you are now so informed now and have such a great doctor.
Is he in NY City? I believe that is where he was before? Your personality
sounds just like my youngest son, who was the most severely disabled child. I
would have loved to have sent my children to him, but I was a loyal follower of
his work. He must be getting up now in age. If you don't mind, I'd like to
send a copy of this correspondence to my kids' emails. They never really
learned much about their problems since Mom always dealt with it.

Diana Ricci

astynaz <astynaz@...> wrote:


Hi Diana,

Yes. It is the same Dr Harold Levinson that wrote the book,SMART BUT
FEELING DUMB. I had the same reaction as your son. I agree. He is a
great doctor. He seems very perceptive and understanding of Dyslexics.
He has 2 Dyslexic daughters. I knew that I had to go see him because I
knew that he would understand me. He understands the difference
between Dyslexic speech and Psychotic speech. Psychiatrists
misdiagnosed me psychotic because of my Dyslexic speech.

I had jumbled up speech. The nuns asked my mom what language I spoke
when I was in preschool. I was tested and my mom was told I had a form
of Dyslexia. My mom was told that I was turning stuff around when I
heard and that people need to slow down when talking to me. I did have
auditory reversals. I was in special education for 3 yrs. I was taught
to hear differently and had intensive speech therapy as well as
phonics. I was noted to have problems with balance and coordination. I
had therapy for my fine motor skills. I am rightbrained thinker. I am
a visual-spatial learner. I am predominantly a picture,intuitive,and
feeling type thinker and can think in 3-D. I visualize nonstop. I
always visualize things before I actually do them. I have to create
pictures in my head to understand words. I am also very sensitive. I
am not outgoing. I am very introverted,reserved,and private. I do
have high IQ. My Kiersey psychological profile is INFJ/INFP. I also
took a vocational profile test for vocational rehabilitation,and it
concluded that I am an artistic personality which doesn't like routine
things.

My father had speech problems(stammered,stuttered),auditory processing
problems,and awkwardness with hands. My mother told me that she has a
lot of the Dyslexic symptoms that were listed at Dr Levinson's site.
She told me that her Uncle Gino is Dyslexic. She told me that her half
brother Eddie was in special education for speech problems(stuttering)
and hyperactivity,and he is lefthanded. My mother's father was
lefthanded too. My mother is right handed with both left ear/eye
dominance like me. She can write with her left hand. Actually I feel
that I can too. I feel that it's just practice. After all, I had fine
motor skills therapy to help me use my right hand any way. My family
seem full of highly sensitive,artistic,creative,unconventional people.


I made a mistake on the medication the prescribed. I meant to say
Meclizine. Not Mescaline. I am sorry.




Raymond






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