Why the dyslexic brain is misunderstood

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I’m 27 and still read and write like a 5th grader or something.. most jobs require strong communication skills and that means reading and writing in English in the country I live. I couldn’t chase many dreams and goals because I still haven’t been able to teach myself how to read and write (spell), and no one else was able to teach me while growing up.. I still can’t play games at family get togethers, I can’t write notes to my wife, or write on the back of photos we print for our baby. Practically daily I feel embarrassed and a ashamed. This is no super power.

I had an adult dyslexia test a few years ago. I think I broke it. I set a record speed for the Kohs cubes, it dragged my IQ average to 141. Reader, that is not at all accurate!

Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison and Steve Jobs had dyslexia.

That was a beautiful message wish I had this as a child.

I'm not good in writing and reading

But to be honest I don't think most people writing and reading know that I have dislexia

But the people who they put me to read out loud 🔊 it may scock that read like elementary school children

But to be honest I didn't Care those where the know those the don't either way it doesn't matter to my

When I was younger lower case b and d were hard to distinguish and I would forget which direction p was until I was in middle school.

Most of what was said in this video was well understood when I was diagnosed in 1965 – I was diagnosed by psychiatrists (not psychologists) who basically said what was said in the video, without the pseudo-science of neuromapping (as I understand it, neuromapping is all correlation, not causation). The definition of dyslexia has changed quite radically and many times since then – and surprisingly seems to be going back to the definition from the 1960s

Interesting video here. I learned more about Dyslexia in this video 🤔

This is why neurodivergence is a useful word. These things we often consider mental disabilities are only disabilities because the societies we ended up creating happen to depend more upon certain brain functions than others, so if your brain is one thats better at the more rarely used skills and worse at the more commonly used skills, you're at a relative disadvantage in areas of life others take for granted. In an alternate world where we used written language less and images more, dyslexia would just be normal and people without it might be diagnosed with disspatia.

Dyslexia is more than a reading disability, it's a language disability. Dyslexic children often develop speech later than their peers. Dyslexia also makes it hard to learn a foreign language.

I have found nothing about my dyslexia to be a win. Especially how to spell it.

In a video about dislexia, there are sure many words floating around.

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Could this not be a form of hypercompensation? If you are bad at reading, you focus on your other strengths.

I have never been tested for dyslexia, but I am sure I am. It would be so validating to be officially diagnosed, throughout my childhood I dealt with a lot of abuse, I still get some as an adult.

Example: "A person with dyslexia can confuse visually similar words such as cat and cot."
Correction: "A person doesn't spend enough time practicing the ability to recognise the difference between cat and cot."

Dyslexia is a term used as a proxy for ineptitude; just say they have this unsubstantiated condition to make them feel better about the fact they are intellectually stunted and lacking practice in basic reading and writing.

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One thing I found when learning in high school is that some classes like maths and science or art and craft could be easily switched between but going from math to art or math to English would often result in headaches and greater errors and less memory retention.
I have a near perfect photographic memory and can see every page of every book I have ever read but I cannot read from my memory, I can also play video memories but I cannot see people speak and if I hear them speak it seems to come from elsewhere like an old talkie where they played the sound from a record and not film.

I’m dyslexic and wasn’t diagnosed till university. The diagnosis was such a relief, I understood why I had struggled up to that point. Now I know I can learn anything I put my mind to, it just takes me longer. I was lucky my parents encouraged me to read as a child and I developed a love of reading. Regular practice helps so much.

Different, not less!!!

As a dyslexic, growing up I would read words backwards with ease but struggled pronouncing them correctly. It really hurt my self-esteem as a kid and I eventually had to take speech classes to help me with this. Reading was my biggest struggle. I always remember being in elementary school and having a wall of everyone name in my class and how many pages they read and I was always at the bottom. I tried so hard to but I felt helpless. There were times I would be reading and wouldn't notice that I skipped a whole paragraph. Oddly enough, I worked hard at it and as I got older, spelling & pronouncing words turned into a strength. I was always in the school/district spelling bee. It's a process but I'm learning more and more about how I can cope with it.

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