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Can an adult with MS develop dyslexia?


I have noticed over the past 10 years I have developed many of problems that could be diagnosed as dyslexia in a child. Can dyslexia develope in adults or get worse in an adult? I suspect that I may have had it all my life but awareness has icreased. I also have MS has anyone heard of any association with MS and dyslexia symptoms.

I think that you have probably had it all your life but the symptoms may be easier to notice now. The brain often finds ways to compensate for dyslexia and when some other condition affects us we find that it does not compensate as well as it's attentions are elsewhere.
There are a lot of kinds of dyslexia, for example at school I was told I was lazy because I had bad spelling and hand writing but when I was doing my degree my lecturer recognised that I had a form of dyslexia and sent me to an educational psychologist. I have not issues with maths at all but I can't do anagrams at all and even at 26 there are a few words I can not always spell correctly (although being honest I think my spelling is much better than most people these days because I take effort to get it right).
Anyway, yes I think you might have dyslexia but you can't develop it (well not that I have ever heard of) but the effects of it may have become more noticeable.

As far as I'm aware, dyslexia is only diagnosed in children as this is the age that people are generally learning to read. If you are experiencing similar symptoms, it may be related to your MS, if the sensitive eye co-ordination muscles are being affected by your MS.

Hello, I should think that having MS does not exclude the possiblity of having dyslexia. I'm sure you might notice dyslexia more as an adult if it hasnt been worked with by professionals. However, could it be a symptom of your MS (I dont know if MS would affect your brain in any way?) Or could it be a sid-effect of any medication that you might be on?

How about doing a search for dyslexia on wikipedia?

Many children go undiagnosed with dyslexia, and people do find out that they are dyslexic when they are adults.

MS damages both myelin and the nerve cells within the brain, thereby compromising a variety of functions handled by the brain.In MS a symptom is an impairment in visual perception and constructional abilities. So therefore, it could be possible that your ability to perceive information that you read and your abilty to write in what we see in a constructed way which is correct may be altered. Hope this helps.

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