Story - Hartwig Distler

in a stressful situation I don´t have a chance.
Side remark: Translating this document was very difficult. It took me five hours to make the translation
18.01.2008
Writing, Reading and Math
As you see, I do dodge around the most important chapters: Reading, writing, Math and concentration. The vocabulary is still missing there, to
express what I really want to say.
The obligation to express yourself is very good. I have learned very much words in the last few days.
My brain is still like a filter. If I read a sentence to the end, I can't say the beginning any more. It became in the meantime much better, but it is
far still from being normal. Again the bottleneck is also here with the "hardware" available. Again it is "exercise, exercise, exercise and again
exercise". The sharp employment of everyday life situation is here very helpful for me. It is important for me that all things are repeated and
repeated and repeated until it almost comes out of the ears. At the beginning I made the situations consciously simple. As time goes by things
get more and more complex. As said, the Alpha and Omega when learning is the regular repetition.
In former times, before the illness everything fit in life together. I always made small step by step and always thought that everything fits well
together. With the illness everything is then completely broken together. By now I know very well that most things I have learned before will be
available again as soon as I get to know the "clue". But I have to learn letters before I can make use of these knowledge. But it is amazing to
see how long it takes to build up these again. As said before, I could read and write without thinking about it. I learned it an it was always there.
And from one day to the next I had to learn characters again. This was necessary to learn writing again. And only if I did these, I could manage
to write full sentences again. I have recognized that many things will be there again as soon as I have learned the basics again.
Each day a piece more, first of all only a few characters, then more and more. At the moment I am still far away from normal writing, but it
improves every day. At the beginning it took many hours to write only a few characters. But it took 2 1/2 years to get there.
As said I had used every situation to learn consciously. This attitude helped me much. Important was for me as well that I had much pleasure
on many things. I have used everything to learn out of it.
A h l "C k" Af I b i h "C k" k A d i ill k l f f !