Dyslexia: When Your Brain Makes Reading Tricky
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
- While many researchers are focusing on finding a difference in brains of people with dyslexia, some new research suggests it might not just be in their brains, but in their eyes.
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"Dyslexia, when your brain makes breathing tricky"
Wait a minute
I see what you did there
"Dyslexia, when your brain makes breeding tricky"
*chokes*
"Dyslexia, when your breathing makes brain tricky"
Dyslexia, where your rain makes seeing tricky.
Wait this is true if you have glasses
My life. The worst part was being forced to read aloud in class.
Yes reading out loud would take me ages. The teacher failed me cause of that.
I know exactly how you feel
I used to count how many people were ahead of me and figure out what I had to read, and practiced it, worst part was when for many reasons I had to read a different part
@Lightning Jake Your teacher is dumb.
i would read out loud, and have no idea what i was saying. Teacher would ask me if i understood the store...i didnt.
Not all parts of dyslexia are bad. No one talks about the good parts. Like the fact that I can read text facing any direction and mirror image with no issues. I have a great memory because I don't trust my ability to read something so I memorize everything. And for some reason troubleshooting is a whole lot easier for me. I make logic leaps that shortcut the process significantly, ones that my coworkers seem unable to make. Having said this, we need way better early diagnostics for dyslexia. I spent most of my early school life wondering what was wrong with my brain until I got diagnosed in college.
P.S. For those dyslexics out there, try the dyslexi font or free versions of it. It is made by a dyslexic and it makes reading soooooooo much easier. I have it installed everywhere.
I get the same thing, I generally find reading jumbled up and mirrored words easy and i'm good with remembering long fragments of random letters and numbers. I could never spell words like majority of people so I simply learned to remember what words looked like visually and put them together by treating the letters as small pictures out of a puzzle. I managed to develop a sort of memory compression over time where set patterns in numbers and letters/words I would disregard what they were or meant and organize a sort of feeling or thought to a large group of info and that way a whole unknown sentence would be remembered as 4 different somethings that felt specific to each of the group. So it was kind of like recalling only 4 characters and decoding it to make the sentence.
3800Tech That is very clever. See. Dislexia leads to creativity.
Not really creativity, more a necessity that self emerged as a work around for not having a brain that naturally can process language well. As a bit of a side effect, having to over work the frontal cortex all the time you do tend to over-process every aspect of thought. Big advantage I found for technical and scientific thinking as I have greatly excelled in all those areas.
As of the last few years I have found at least typing to be much more fluid without too much issues due to my over the top engagement in online forums and discussion revolving around technical and scientific subjects.
Speak to me in person or see my hand writing it's still clear I have issues in those areas. I stutter a bit and say wrong words and have to think a lot about each word I say, same thing in hand writing. I pause a lot and write jumbled and mirrored letters and words a lot, heaps of mistakes etc...
Kitarra Chaosweaver that is why I watch these video
I was lucky growing up with a mother that had been studying childhood development & psychology. When it looked like I was starting to have trouble reading in first grade, my teacher just put me in the lowest of 3 reading level groups. It seemed a bit cruel to split us up like that & it upset me. My mom immediately started working with me on her own and through sheer will & practice, I quickly moved to the top group and by 2nd grade was in the Gifted & Talented program for art & creative writing. I loved books so much I knew I wanted them always in my life. To this day, I suck at spelling, still get words, letters & #s mixed up. I learned if I slowed down just a bit, it flowed so much easier. I was never going to have a job in data entry, but who actually wants that? I was in AP English all the way through highschool & had the college teachers eating out of my hand on projects I didn't even like before I was sidelined by heath issues. It's not a deficiency, just a different way of learning & looking at the world.
My girlfriend is dyslexic ( + a memory dissorder) and a 4.0 GPA student. She's the hardest working person I know. I could only imagine what would happen if she didn't have to deal with jumbled letters.
Dyslexia is more than just reading. It changes the way you learn in general. (comes from someone who has Dyslexia)
Subscriber Absolutely! She makes connections that don't make sense to anyone else but her and when studying has to write her notes out 100 times, literally, 100 times for each point she wants to remember. She uses colors to mark ideas but she's an auditory verbal learner. I'm visual kinesthetic and have photographic memory. I'm adhd, so basically, we're a mess ;p but it's really interesting how she connects the dots when accessing a memory or coming to a conclusion. Then again, something sorta similar happens to my adhd brain so we just..get eachother
Just think if Albert Einstein hadn't struggled with it as well. Maybe the universe thinks some people need something to trip them up so they don't take over the world...
You could just try what this study suggests: Light with a 20% duty cycle (on 20% / off 80% of the time) at around 80 Hz. I actually did the experiment (rather easy to build) with two students suffering dyslexia, both testifying that it made reading easier.
@@subscriber6181 dyslexia is also connected with dsycalcula it's terrible to have both
I would like to get one thing straight. I'm dyslexic. Words do not move around and do not just flip on the page. Visually speaking, This metaphor really does not represent what is actually going on. Think of it more like this. We see that it is a "d" or a "b", But are mind miss registers what we are looking at and thinks its the other. The words on the page stay just the way they are.
on a particularly bad day, If I'm looking at some text, I can see the words, but my mind does not quite catch onto words as a whole. This results in me having to scan each word letter by letter to build the whole word systematically in order to read it.
One last thing that is never mentioned in these videos. It also hits short-term/working memory. On a daily basis, I will find my self-losing things that I just had in my hands, forgetting what I was doing, and also ending up in a memory loop where I would forget and remember multiple times in a row what it is i'm trying to do.
I agree to some degree but I do have some degree of words moving or letters jumbling but overall this is a really good explanation of how I feel
Likely effects other people in different ways and intensities
I find cursive easier to read because I can look at the whole word...the word wife when printed also makes me nauseous it’s like the letters are fighting each other
Me too, my friend. Me too.
Short term memory problems were always presented as a separate condition to the dyslexia. Could it be a co-morbid condition?
As a sever dyslectic person I would love to see videos about dyslexia that is more than just a reading problem, because dyslexia is more than that! I have so many more symptomes and struggles in daily life than just reading. It also effect speech, writing, spelling, the understanding of spoking languages ect...
Aventia I have dyslexia too and I totally agree, but there are other problems too. I was verbally abused in school and now I struggle with anxiety and depression. Dyslexia is more than just a learning disabilitie it's effects our psychology too.
Outside of layman's terms, Dyslexia is literally only reading. the a spate learning disorder Dysgraphia that covers the writting/spelling side, while they're often found together, there severity varies indispensably of each other and you don't nessaitly have both of you have one.
I's also like to add the often over looked dyspraxia to that list. In which the entire world is misrepresented within the mind causing confusion in regards to direction, distance, and motor control. As a person with this condition i can tell you having the entire world work on a different timescale to what you brain is processing is not easy especially when even your own limbs are working against you
Aventia you might also have dysgraphia
Aventia please read the Gift Of Dyslexia, I had and have many of the same problem and struggles you have. I'm very dyslexic but with the help of the Davis program I learned to read, I was in the 8th grade. Please remember we are some of the most talented thinkers what makes us dyslexic also makes us vary talented. I still struggle with some aspects of my dyslexic identity. But remember you are not alone, and you never will be we are in this together. The link is for the Davis program website www.dyslexia.com/research/ I hope this helps. Hang in there and remember you are amazing.
I put the "sexy" in "dyslexia"
@@randomguy4379 true
So my brother is dyslexic, with his main symptom being that words only appear as a disjointed sequence of letters to him and a lesser symptom being the letter reversal issue. I asked him to test the theory that eye structure plays a role in having difficulty reading. He said this:
"Using one eye makes skim-reading much easier but using both eyes is better when reading normally."
It's not exactly scientific acquisition of data, but it's definitely interesting.
SbAsAlSe HONRe oh wow ur actually right.. .-. skimmings harder with both
Would you guys consider doing a similar video on the topic of dyscalculia? It's less reported than dyslexia, but equally as frustrating and weird!
Chris Fox whAT iS tHaT
And teachers don't know to look for it plus math isn't taught it a way that makes it easy to catch. It's effects math, physical sciences, and everyday life. I always knew something was wrong, but no one saw it until two years into college. I think I got lucky.
yes please!
I have the triple whammy of dyslexia, dyspraxia and dyscalcula. So yay
@Jim thewhale Dyscalculia is a learning disorder with math, similar to dyslexia. For dyslexic people, it's not that they can't read; it's that their brain doesn't process letters right, so it makes reading difficult. With dyscalculia, it's not that people with it can't do math; but we struggle with different concepts, and it makes us super deficient in learning more complex mathematical concepts.
I have dyscalculia. My deficiencies are in division and abstract math. Even addition, subtraction, and multiplication I'm a little slow. But I was horrible at division and fractions, and then I basically failed every math class after reaching algebra level, and especially pre-cal and calculus. Because those are literally just symbols, letters, and theory, with no practical application, my brain just refuses to process it, and it makes ZERO sense to me.
People always passed me along in school, because I was fantastic at logic-based math concepts, like geometry, physics, and statistics; nobody ever took my problem seriously because I seemed normal. But anything involving complex math is a nightmare without a lot of help. And it sucks, because dyslexia gets all the attention - everyone knows what it is - but nobody ever even discusses dyscalculia, which makes it super under-reported.
What do you get when you cross an agnostic with a dyslexic and an insomniac?
Someone who stays up all night wondering whether or not there is a Dog.
Being dyslexic, in a french speaking country or part of a country is the worst. French as a lot of different spelling for sounds depending of the word etc...
It wasn't until college that I finally got a proper acknowledgment from the gov, allowing me to get access to a computer for written exam... I had drop 2 year behind my age group for school because of that.
fun fact, being left handed, and dyslexic, when I was a kid, I would right completely mirror(right to left with inverted letter) like in davinci's note book. I could read it not problem like it was normal and I could also read normal writing. I learned how to stop writing like that, but If I try I can easily get back into it
Sorry for your difficulties. That last part is a pretty neat skill.
same
I feel your pain, I'm dyslexic and trilingual, it makes things very confusing, luckily I have a secretary for the bac.
I wonder if Da Vinci had dyslexia?
Da Vinci was left handed and it his theorise that he was by somme historians due to the mirror writing in in note books. they think it was just him writing naturally and not him trying to "hide" what he was writing since a mirror could allow any one to read it.
As someone who has dyslexia and has (ironically) read a lot about it. I'd love if you could do a video about dyslexia focusing on the OTHER parts of having dyslexia than the reading/writing aspects of it. Like, general bad short term memory, consentration and focusing difficulties etc. I think that part of dyslexia REALLY needs to be more well known as it's a big part of what can make dyslexia hard. Pretty much everyone knows dyslexia means you're bad at reading and writing. What people need to know are the other stuff. And seeing as I'm not the only one that's written in the comments about this, I really hope you make a mental note of this, since I think your channel would be the perfect place to bring this to light =)
Like dyscalcula dysgraphi a and the the one that i cant remeber the name of
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North, South, East, and West -- I cannot tell you what direction to go on the FWY
yes, there are several videos and articles saying basically the same things: dyslexics are bad at reading and spelling, and though this is true, and the defining feature of the disorder, most people know this already (and if they don't there are already hundreds of videos and articles about just that, if not thousands). I for example have gotten help since 2nd grade, my reading is near grade level and because of spellcheck and the wonders of google, most don't notice I have below average spelling, but gee willikers, my short term memory has barely improved over the years, and causes me difficulties and is honestly quite embarrassing, as it makes it very difficult to darn near impossible, to follow instructions when they are only told to me orally.
Another thing thing that is common in dyslexics, though not well known is that they can have problems understanding idioms and puns and stuff like those, I've had people ask half serious half joking if I was aspergers, because I have a tendency to take speech literally.
"Never Eat Shredded Wheat" that's how I remember XD
Can you do an episode on Dyspraxia?
Speaking of "sensational media" I just want to take a second thank the channel for not making the title of this video: "Dyslexia: NoT a LeArNiNg DiSaBiLiTy!?!?" or "dO pEopLe WiTh DysLeXiA jUsT nEeD gLaSsEs?!?"
Thanks for not being clickbait.
fun fact I have dyslexia and when I was in second grade the school I went to told me I just needed glasses so we bought some and I went to an optometrist every week for like 2 months or something and then they were just like oh nevermind. The opposite thing happened to my friend they told her she had dyslexia when she really only needed glasses.
W8 but irlen glasses are good for people with dislexia (sorry I cant spell)
I wonder if dyslexic zombies wander around searching for Brians.
I borrowed pokemon game from a friend of mine a few years back, and she had named her character Brian, I sat around for probably five minutes of longer, sounding it out and staring at it, until I finally asked her why she named her character Brain
The sad thing is I red that as brain Lol I’m laughing my head off
Could you maybe do an episode sometime on ADD or ADHD? I really love SciShow Psych, and have been told that I likely have one of the two. I'm going to go and get an official diagnosis in a few days, and I'd really love it if I could find some helpful information somewhere.
catlover12670 adhd and add are actually classified as the same thing now
No . . . They're not. ADD is attention deficit disorder, and ADHD is attention deficit HYPERACTIVE disorder. People with ADD don't have the hyperactivity that those with ADHD do.
ADD is a subtype of ADHD. There are three kinds of ADHD ( hyperactive-impulsive, inattentive, and combination)
ADD is just more the inattentive type. And you don't have to be like "hyper" it could be mental restlessness. Or fidgety, but it could be too much energy
I have dyslexia - it shows especially in English. My words are in wrong order, I have hard time figuring out which similar letter go to where this time around and when I write fast I change a lot of words into similar sounding ones but wrong ones..
But I learned my English and language by problem solving - trying to work around the difficult areas and find new ways or at least familiar ways to write things.
I still have my bad days and often I'm too tired to notice.. But darn my problem solving skill levels are shooting the roof off.
Too bad there seem to be work more for non-dyslexic people than problem solvers. Dyslexia is kinda also social disease - making some social things so much harder.
Please do an episode on whether subliminal messages work
You should have hidden that request in another message.
I think [give] it should be [me] easy enough to work [all] that out for ourselves [your] with a little experiment [money].
insomniacfolder I just felt the sudden urge to give you my pin number, not sure why.
Oh yes, subliminals damn well work. I can guarantee you that.
Psychology books I read and lectures I listened to, all by acknowledged scientists, seem to lean to the conclusion that there is nothing subliminal: if you don't notice it, you don't record it in your mind. Same as there is no Ego and Id, no "suppressed memories". They are either fakes of false theories.
I'm not a psychologist, but when I do want to enlighten myself on any subject, I resort to university-level lectures on that subject and/or to books by authors with valid credentials.
If conflicting eyes was the problem with dyslexia, then they ought to be able to read just fine if they close one eye and read with the other.
If it was that easy, someone ought to have figured it out by now. I don't have dyslexia but I often read with one eye closed.
will you do a video on dyscalculia next. it's quite common but not alot of people know about it.
I often mistake "k" with "4". I have no friggin idea why. I don't even have dyslexia.
Doom Maker kk good 4 you
i mistake 4 and 7, so you're not alone
F and 4 for me
Raged Jacob I mistake L and I
i sometimes mistake b d and p also c and o but i don't think i have dyslexia { sometimes if i have been reading for a while they start to smear and sertain ones light up also that can happen when i am focusing too hard}
Sciahow pyshc what about dysgraphia dyscalcula and dyspraxia please do a video about them and (. ADHD also OCD)
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Lysdexia makes things ffidicult.
I'm surprise SciShow didn't say anything about what helps dyslexic readers. Like certain fonts are easier for me to read than others, reading small amounts of text at a time, or having the text less of a high contrast to the background. That's why I read mostly ebooks: I can change the font, size, and color scheme. Increasing the size just helps limit the amount of text on the screen at once.
Also text in video games is easy for me to read because it typically "scrolls" or "types" onto the screen rather than appearing in chunks.
Thank you too, Hank and SciShow. I love your well-made videos. Always interesting.
Could you do a video about dyscalculia?
I was diagnosed with dyslexia back in elementary school. For me it mostly only impacted my writing (although, on occasion I did and still do add words to sentences which don't exist in the sentence at all), but I did some therapy (I forget the name, but you make letters out of clay for it) back in elementary school and it seems to have helped. When I write by hand I don't tend to mix up b and d anymore (which was the main one I'd mix up).
However, I also hardly ever write by hand anymore either so I have no clue if that'd really still be a problem if I had a lot of hand writing to do (but, I could never write a lot by hand, it's just too tedious and slow).
Thank you Scishow!! I deal with dyslexia myself, and disgraphia. I hope that this helps people understand that having dyslexia really makes it difficult to read.
Can we have a video on dyscalculia?
Hank and the scishow team, thank you soooooo very much for making this video 😍 I am a diagnosed dyslexic and it is so hard to describe it to those who don't have dyslexia what it is and that it's not just about moving letters or words! Again thank you!
As someone with dyslexia, I'm glad this video exists now.
I have a lazy eye and in one of my vision therapy sessions I had to read a book while wearing glasses that tracked my focus while reading. It was interesting because you could visually see my dyslexic hangups. Like inserting letters that don't belong because my focus randomly jumps to a letter further away. Or if a word doesn't sound correct in context I'll go back and reread it and it'll change to a different but usually similarly looking word. The path my eyes took was literally skipping the end of the word and then doubling back to reread it. Or that could be it's own reading disorder.
Where my dyslexics at?
Agent Washingtub I’m heer
I’m here everyone else?
Great video. Really appreciate your efforts to get us smarter. Thank you and best wishes...
I have dyslexia and this was really interesting for me. I had no idea that non-dyslexic people actually take letters, convert them to individual sounds and then from there understood the full meaning of the word. When reading, I look at words as a whole and recognize the meaning before I necessarily work out how it sounds. I’m sure it doesn’t help that I am multi-lingual so I am often translating words between languages to figure out what they mean.
For me at least, I do think that eyes have something to do with it. Or at least how our brains understand the information from our eyes. Because if I really need to make sure I am seeing the most stable version of something that I am capable of I will close one eye to make it easier. I use that especially for counting.
Thank you guys for making such excellent content!
I'm glad y'all did this video! I've struggled with dyslexia my whole life. I hope one day I can have a way to ease the struggle so I can actually read a book... it's so hard for me to do something that so many see as incredibly easy.
I have dyslexia but I barely struggle with reading. It just takes me a little longer but it’s typically not a problem.
My worst issue is that I just cannot recall how to spell words. I know things about certain words, e.g. that they contain double letters or that it contains similar sounding letters, but I don’t know which ones and I don’t know their order -.- I just can’t picture them. If I wrote two versions of a word down, both of them would look off to me, although one of them is correct...
Things like spell check and auto correct are amazing and make it possible that I don’t look dumb all the time ;)
As someone with Dyslexia, thank you for covering this! It helps both us understand, and people who are unfamiliar with it as well! :)
Hank and the rest of the SciShow team I am really disappointed that this video was so one sided and you didn't look into the expanding research into the dyslexic processing strengths. Please look at The Dyslexic Advantage by Eide & Eide. We need to understand the strengths as well as difficulties people with Dyslexia, Autism and ADHD have. We need to embrase the Neurodiversity in our world just as we embrase (hopefully) other diversity in the identity of individuals.
Not sure if I have a form of dyslexia but I have problems reading numbers like I will confuse the number orders even if I am reading it out loud. It is really annoying since I work for the post office
lady wario Yes. It's clinical term is dysmenorrhea, and it comes under the umbrella term of dyslexia. Everyone's dyslexia is slightly different as everyone has a slightly different way of the brain been "wired up".
Vicky Mc nice..
or it could be dyscalculia, that's also math related
I've put "What Is Life?" onto my book list (unsigned from a book store, since scishowfinds is sold out) for the next time I order books.
A TBI/head injury can result in dyslexia; or at least I’ve personally noticed since I hit my head I have a tendency to read, say, and/or write things not in their proper order. I’ve also noticed that when touch-typing I may mean to use my left ring finger, but my right ring finger is the one that goes for the letter, the clearly wrong letter. Although, given that I’ve noticed I miss cue actions, I may not be experiencing dyslexia per se, but something different... neurologist, psychologist, doctors, etc. aren’t very forthcoming on specifics; I just know it drives me insane!
yes, head injury is a cause of a kind of dyslexia/alexia.
basically there are three major ways you can end up with dyslexia or reading problems
- being born with it
- having bad teaching, stress or some other negative environmental factor
- brain trauma, usually this kind is called "acquired dyslexia"
Thank you for this info, I haven't kept up with the research.
I've spent my whole life dismissing my mom's theory that I might be dyslexic, and that thing about eye dominance was like a slap in the face because I have been noted (by an eye doctor and myself) not to have a dominant eye/be able to switch, and I am really not avoiding the dyslexia allegations /lh
And to clarify: no I am not self diagnosing, and yes there are other reasons it's been getting harder to deny this is just the most egregious one
(Again, whole thing is /lighthearted outrage vibes)
I think one of the most important things about dyslexia is this. My niece came to me in tears after school in her first 2 week of 6th grade, also at a new school. See, in her previous school, nobody ever pushed her to overcome her dyslexia, instead they catered to it and let her get away not trying. So 6th grade where her teachers didn't cater to it, her English teacher expected her to do what everyone else was doing, and rightly so. So what are the tears for? She had to write in CURSIVE. While listening to her vent, it occurred to me that maybe cursive would be easier for her to read than letters that weren't connected to either were. I told her this, and she practiced a bit, and I never saw any tears after that (about that) She never said, but I assume from the absence of further tears regarding that topic, that it helped her. Hope it helps someone else.
I have dyslexia and throughout my life had a lot of training to help with it. I obviously still have problems but by the time I was in college I figured out the puzzle of who vs how. I though the small study mentioned was very cool because I have had the dominance flip back and forth between my eyes. I have also had them compete for dominance at the same instance. It made for a very difficult attempt at drawing a still life.
I have dyscalculia, which is often a mirror image in the brain from dyslexia. It's basically the same thing only with numbers. There are overlapping cases such that dyslexia and dyscalculia occur in the same people, which is higher than overlaps for other learning disabilities. Being Asian, though, growing up in the US, people were convinced I was deficient in English, and totally ignored my disability with math for most of my life. I figured it out later in life when I had to return to college and finally got a proper diagnosis. Such is the thing where racism can have an adverse effect on being able to see disabilities or creating them where there are none.
I would LOVE for follow up on this topic as new things are discovered, I'm similar to dyslexia, but barely don't qualify, would love to learn more as things develop
A dyslexic walks into a bra...
well really its more 'walks into a dar.', from personal experience.
Did you hear about the dyslexic cultist?
He Sold his soul to Santa.
I didn't have a problem reading growing up ( aside from lacking focus). But now, I have a problem. I misread the words. I mistake them for something else entirely and for a second I'm stunned about how stupid the sentence is.
"Sensationalized media reports" + gesture ... That was hilarious.
I found out when I was doing my MA that I'm dyslexic. I am a Japanese-English translator and although my brain has mostly compensated for dyslexia it sure makes it tricky when you're working with languages!!! All I can say is thank goodness for spell check, google, and the ability to delete comments when you've made a typo.
It felt like there were two ulterior motives snuck into this video: One for the affiliate income for these Scishowfinds (totally understandable) and one for promoting scepticism regarding ill-structured scientific studies (not only understandable, but also laudable). I wonder, particularly in the latter case, how deliberately they were put into this video.
The thing on eyes messing with mirror imaging makes a lot of sense. I have mild dyslexia, mostly with the characters 2, 5, S, and Z. I flip them constantly and it made algebra impossible. I also don’t have a “dominant eye”. That would explain a lot of my issues with it!
I find it great that you brought up some of the critic on the dyslexia study with the eyes, especially the part with, that they didn't test the participants for dyslexia.. It was a study that, in my opinion, got over hyped, despite having very obvious flaws.
One of the other confusing aspects of the study was, how does it explain blind dyslexics or dyslexics that only have one functioning eye?
Have Dyslexia, ironically I had one of the highest reading levels growing up. It was actually quite a surprise to me when in my 20's I found out that I actually did have reading difficulties. It was pointing out to me that some of the things I just did were things a lot of dyslexics were taught to help them read, I'd just stumbled into them naturally as a child.
My main issues were handwriting and spelling, got a lot of help as a child with my spelling so while it's still pretty poor I'm usually able to pick up on it and correct it. Handwriting still terrible if not worse due to fairly bad dysgraphia.
I am dyslexic myself and I have to consciously think about right and left it doesn't come automatically. I had teacher tell me once the way to tell the difference between left and right was to hold up your thumb and pointer on both hands and the one that looks like an L was the left one. But being dyslexic sometimes the right hand looked like an L to me.
I didn't understand that trick up until the eighth grade, because without any letters next to the "L", both hands make an "L" for me.
for me it's worse with numbers,, dyscalculia,,i look at numbers & its kinda like watch the numbers & letters in the opening & closing credits in the matrix movies,only difference is its in black & white not green & black, but at least with dyslexia you can generally guess at what the stuff going on is. you cant do that with math
Now we need a video about dyscalculia too.
SciShow Psych: "here's a fascinating thing! And we can't tell you the most interesting parts."
Dear satan,
For christmas, I want to get a cure for my dyslexia
What always gets me is how hard dyslexia is to spell. Like, I understand the etymology behind it, but I'm not even dyslexic and I have to think about how to spell it every time. It must be a nightmare when you have to use the word more often because it is something you struggle with.
I found that closing one eye helped when I couldn’t read a word I always thought it was psychological or that it had to do with my eyes just not working well together
How I would describe it to someone who isn’t dyslexic.
It’s not that it’s hard or challenging to read or recognise, it’s just that it feels like my thought process is going through syrup when it comes to reading compared to other things.
A bit like when you are extremely tired, and trying to do math. Even super easy calculations just take a lot longer.
You can feel your brain move in slowmotion.
For me the most striking example was a test I did when I got my diagnosis.
It was a page of just small simplified black and white pictures.
Think a sun that is a circle with lines around it, the outline of a leaf, a house etc.
Super simple things. And my response for every symbol was “oh this is so easy, it’s so clear, I know what that is.”.
But I was surprised that for some reason for every single one, it took a moment for me to say the name of the thing out loud.
I recognised it right away. But it took my brain a surprising long time and was weirdly challenging to connect a symbol with language.
Like my brain had to take the long way round an obstacle.
It felt like when you have a word right at the tip of your tongue. And I couldn’t for the life of me understand why it took so long to find those words. It was super clear pictures with simple easy words. I got what it was in a milli second, but it took a while to find the word for some reason.
And I got to go through and name them out loud all 3 or 4 times in a row, all in the same order. But that didn’t help, my brain still had the same delay. And the the tip of the tongue thing.
So it hasn’t to do with the letters themselves, though that is a part of it.
The main struggle is symbols no matter what symbols and language not wanting to mix or work together in your brain.
Your shirt made me think my McCollough Effect was still happening.
3:36 *MIND. BLOWN.*
Being dyslexic suuuuuucks. I've spent most of my career avoiding having to read or write as my primary activity. I had a job that was 100% report writing. I nearly cried with stress and exhaustion every single day. Back to lab work for me!
I may or may not have read this title wrong... Bloody Dyslexia
I was lucky growing up with a mother that had been studying childhood development & psychology. When it looked like I was starting to have trouble reading in first grade, my teacher just put me in the lowest of 3 reading level groups. It seemed a bit cruel to split us up like that & it upset me. My mom immediately started working with me on her own and through sheer will & practice, I quickly moved to the top group and by 2nd grade was in the Gifted & Talented program for art & creative writing. I loved books so much I knew I wanted them always in my life. To this day, I suck at spelling, still get words, letters & #s mixed up. Later we realized I had A.D.D. as well, though that is another story! I learned if I slowed down just a bit, it flowed so much easier. I was never going to have a job in data entry, but who actually wants that? I was in AP English all the way through highschool & had the college teachers eating out of my hand on projects I didn't even like before I was sidelined by heath issues. It's not a deficiency, just a different way of learning & looking at the world.
Can you guys do a video on schizophrenia and disorders like it?
Dyslexia is one of those things thats hard to describe and it manifest differently in most people and also varies in degree. Me and my sister both have it but it effects us very differently.
Well I think you are just about send me off down a rabbit hole, about how pictographic characters affect dyslexia. For the good or bad.
Question
Is there a sort of inverse dyslexia where it's difficult to process sound into written words/letters?
Sounds like dysgraphia/agraphia.
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Mathematicians without knowing how great they are.
Talking about dyslexia and the poor people with dyslexia wont be able to read the text in the video lol
My dyslexia is mild enough to be largely entertaining at this point.
As was pointed out, dyslexia probably affects various parts of the brain. To my thinking, the eyes and all other parts of the body are in fact the brain also. These are at least input devices.
My problem with dyslexia was in reading numbers. I was terrible at Arithmetic as a kid. A four-function calculator was a blessing to me, decades later when they first became available. After that, Mathematics was no longer a nightmare but a delight.
While I have always been a voracious reader, I still can't read poetry easily. It's like I have literally forgotten how to read while trying to decipher a page of poetry.
Oddly, when the periodical magazine Fantasy and Science Fiction once ran a special issue wherein the text had to be formatted to form geometric shapes. I was baffled even by the prose for that issue.
I've concluded that I am probably different than many others with dyslexia and doubt there is any simple cure, but remain curious.
The diagram for myelinated axons in this video showed PNS neurons with Schwann cells... The myelin in the brain is wrapped by a different type of cell and there are no nuclei on the nodes. Also the eye diagram didn't show light shining on the retina, but on the lens only.
Nit picky details, but they stood out to me in the viewing... Mr. Matsushima Dropped the ball on double checking those graphics.
*GOD BLESS THE GREEN BROTHERS.*
dyslexia - I was really happy when spell checkers were developed. The only subject I failed at school was spelling.
Would love to see a video about dyscalculia and dyspraxia etc. How they differ/ are similar too dyslexia and why they are associated with synesthesia.
I have dyslexia for 62 years. The theory that the frontal cortex compensates for normal reading parts of the brain does seem consistent with my experience.
I have dyslexia and I also have really poor eyesight because I was born with glocoma making things really blurry if I don't focus properly
Hmm..
I'm left-eye dominant and right-handed (not sure if the latter makes a difference), can speed-read decently well but have problems reading numbers most of the time (though, once I've got the numbers read properly, my head-math is on point).
this whole ending bit about "what do you want for xmas" do you realize this is probably going to cause a bunch of fans to misinterpret this segment as "go buy stuff on our page and send it to our hosts po box"
The first third of this video is worthwhile.
Nice video, thank you.
I'm dyslexic and I became blind in one eye and still dyslexic. I think theres multiple types of dyslexia some dont even have to do with the individual letters but "hole words"
For example I will say...
-" I'm going for a walk "
But then I'll think about what I said and for some reason remember saying...
-" I'm walking for a go "
It makes me mix words around when I'm talking sometimes but... IDK its all hard.
Just get practice even with dyslexia I can still text pretty good.
I have Dyslexia. I had classes as a child and was treated for it with special classes. I actually didn't know what it was I had just remember the classes and the fact that I read and wrote backwards a lot. They wanted me to read quite a bit too and I hated it. Then one day I discovered books I liked. Kept at it and now I read and see just fine. I remember forgetting I even had a problem until someone i was taking a class in asked me if I had had Dyslexia because I wrote my 7's differently.
After I got into a car accident when I was younger I started to have issues with b’s and d’s, q’s and p’s as well as u’s and n’s. Any letters that looked similar became a little more difficult than prior.
When your trying to do homework but your really tired
When writing by hand, I get my lowercase b's, d's, p's, and q's mixed up, same with 2 and 3 especially when the two numbers are next to each other.
My situation would tend to nullify that last study. I've been technically blind in the right eye for 25 years (due to a virus that damaged my retina), and I still suffer from dyslexia.
I’m dyslexic and I would love if someone tested me! I can strangely read quite well but numbers give me huge problems!!! That eye thing sounds so right to me I also find mirrors very confusing!
If you haven't done it already, you should do a video about the misconceptions of narcissism. I'm so tired of seeing people describe their exes as narcissists
This is neat! I have Irlen's Syndrome, which is somewhat similar. Could you do an episode on that? I'd like to be able to explain it better.
My brain makes literally everything tricky.
I’ll sometimes switch words out when I’m reading but I doubt I have dyslexia. It’s probably just my brain trying to take shortcuts by making assumptions and it ends up making mistakes
I dont know if its dyslexia, but since childhood I've had a hard time counting things, like actual physical things...its like the numbers just decide to change themselves in my head, I could count 12 apples, and when I get to 13, I'll no longer be sure if 13 was the correct number, so I have to recount...pretty frustrating.
microbuilder Doesn't sound like dyslexia. maybe you have a limited working memory or "sound" memory. Unless you have other difficulties involving reading or counting/math, I wouldn't worry about it :)
Can you please do one on Dyspraxia, thank you.
I saw something some time back to related to a blue filter (AKA a piece of transparent blue plastic like you might find in a binder divider) being placed over a page can and has helped a number of dyslexic people. The letters stop moving and or looking jumbled compared to what they're told they should be. Has there been any actual direct study on this, or is it something that's just out in the wild?