Dyslexia is a brain malfunction that affects a person's ability to read, write, and to understand what others have written. A severe dyslexic can be brilliant and still seem like an illiterate idiot on paper.
According to this article, a Dutch student who is himself dyslexic has developed a font that helps. The font has not been extensively tested, but it has been shown to improve a dyslexic's ability to read, and to UNDERSTAND what they've read.
Our Mad Stalker seems to be dyslexic, and it has been difficult having an online conversation with him, as he frequently has difficulty understanding what I've written. Other times, he'll create a sentence that is pure gibberish and claim that the sentence is clarity itself. Perhaps it IS perfectly clear, to him. It certainly isn't to anyone else I've discussed it with.
The communications gap alone has probably contributed to some of the pointless hostility between us.
It is my hope that information about this educational development gets spread far and wide, because dyslexia is a very difficult condition to live with. I want to help anyone and everyone who suffers from this problem. It may not ease tensions between OMS and myself, but it might.
Anonymous
February 27 2012, 21:53:49 UTC 2 months ago
If you can't navigate his massacre of the English language, it's YOUR fault because HE IS RIGHT! If you don't get why he insists on using words like "this important matter" eighty five times in a sentence completely out of context and misspell every other word, YOU aren't enjoying the rich texture and deep fabric of his manuscript. He has bestowed this e.e. cummings-esk gold upon you like the king he is! BSI thinks everyone in all the land should feed him, cater to him, buy him stuff, and do this while he waves to his fan base (from all the movies he wasn't in) who are hollering his name and fighting to hear his every word! And YOU think his English usage is bad?? Who cares! I mean LOOK at him. Almost a God. Just ask him.
Ask his "wonderful family" who kicked him out because after over a decade of his sitting in front of his computer at MOMMY'S, they had FINALLY HAD ENOUGH of his gourmet brilliant science genius. So exhausting to be constantly exposed to that level of BSI.
Dyslexic. Nah. Malignant narcissistic megalomania with spelling issues.
February 28 2012, 00:29:31 UTC 2 months ago
I grant that he'd rather die than accept any form of help from me, and certainly wouldn't show any gratitude in the unlikely event he did. But that's his problem, not mine. And as I said above, the idea is to get the information out, to help everyone who is dyslexic. Not just Our Mad Stalker. I merely nourish the probably vain hope that when he can understand what is written to him, when he can understand other online articles when they're presented to him, a little of his hostility will fade.
And if not, [shrug] I haven't damaged the status quo.
Anonymous
February 29 2012, 18:56:00 UTC 2 months ago
February 29 2012, 22:26:23 UTC 2 months ago
Someday, I hope you'll contact me in email and tell me your own story. Perhaps we can join legal forces in court.
Anonymous
March 6 2012, 22:58:40 UTC 2 months ago
March 7 2012, 00:08:43 UTC 2 months ago
Anonymous
March 7 2012, 18:02:23 UTC 2 months ago
March 7 2012, 19:37:53 UTC 2 months ago
[shrug] Well, it didn't take me the last twelve years to figure out that he's a liar; more like a couple of weeks, if that long. That doesn't change the fact that I want to help him with his dyslexia, at least. The rest of his problems are his to work out.