Flist Request, please please....

[tabaqui]

Okay. I'm writing a fic. *boggles the mind, i know* And in it, i need someone to read aloud. The reader, however, is dyslexic.

Now, i know that that is a touchy subject. And because it is, i want it to be right. I want the two or three sentences to sound like they actually would, and not like they would with me, the non-dyslexic person, making it up. I don't like the thought, and i think it would be insulting.

I really hope that someone out there can help me with this. I really hope this isn't an offensive request.

Look behind the cut for the actual passage.
Thanks, anybody and everybody.



Chorus: Why do you cry out thus, unless at some vision of horror?

Cassandra: The house reeks of death and dripping blood.

Chorus: How so? 'Tis but the odor of the altar sacrifice.

Cassandra: The stench is like a breath from the tomb.

Aeschylus, Agamemnon

The primroses were over. Toward the edge of the wood, where the ground became open and sloped down to an old fence and a brambly ditch beyond, only a few fading patches of pale yellow still showed among the dog's mercury and oak-tree roots. On the other side of the fence, the upper part of the field was full of rabbit holes.


The person reading is angry, nervous, and afraid - does NOT want to read and is being yelled at. If that makes a difference.

Comments

[kk-d.livejournal.com]

see it's a little different for me, i'm both dyslexic and ADD, so i'll read out loud something like "The primroses were open" because my mind is moving faster that my mouth.
the switching of letters and stuff is more in the writing than the reading; kind becomes king etc.

anyway, not offended at all.

*hugs*

Kk

[kk-d.livejournal.com]

I also didn't really have trouble with some bits that other dyslexics might have because i was familiar with the words, chorus i know from being in a choir for a long time, cassandra, agamemnon and aeschylus i didn't really have problems with because i've read a lot about the trojan wars and also have read out bits of the Illiad in Ancient history.

I also didn't have a TV for 7 years at home and so became a big reader. This i taught myself to read better and faster and make less mistakes, part of the reasoning for that was frustration at not being able to do it.

However, if i'd been reading this in front of my drama teacher, who i don't like and who doesn't like me, i'd have to take two tries on aeschylus and other longer words, and i might skip sentences by accident due to losing my place. (in the same way as i mentioned in my last post)

I'm nearly 18 if that makes a difference

[tabaqui]

All good!
Everything helps.
Thanks!!

*making frantic notes*

[tabaqui]

Thank's for replying and i'm so glad you - and nobody else, apparently - were offended.
:)