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- Rain12913, on 11/12/2009, -1/+19My girlfriend has dyslexia and it certainly is a serious disorder (not in terms of its severity, but in the sense that it is indeed a real disorder and not simply an excuse for poor verbal skills, as some people seem to think it is.
She's very intelligent and comes across as such in conversation, but she struggles tremendously with reading and writing even as an adult. We've been following the recent research suggesting that dyslexia is linked to hearing difficulties in early childhood and I think this hypothesis is fascinating. Another thing I've noticed is that she is absolutely unable to read lips, which seems to fit with the fact that she has difficulty attaching visual stimuli to auditory information (which is essentially what reading is). - Rain12913, on 11/12/2009, -0/+13That couldn't be further from the truth. Dyslexia is not simply a term for acute learning disabilities, as these disabilities already have their own names. For example, both "Reading Disability" and "Writing Disability" are diagnoses in the DSM-IV and neither of them are Dyslexia, which is a neurological disorder.
Do some research before you start dismissing science. - chriswastaken, on 11/12/2009, -0/+11No wonder those dyslexic kids are having a hard time.
The newest brain always has bugs. - Paranor01, on 11/12/2009, -0/+8so you think everybody's brain is an exact duplicate of everybody else brain down to the last neuron and synaptic connection?
- bbardlbradd, on 11/12/2009, -0/+8To all of you who are unaware, Dyslexia is the *****.
"Dyslexic people are intuitive, highly intelligent and creative individuals who are visual, multi-dimensional thinkers. But because they think in pictures, they have troubles when it comes to letters, numbers, symbols, and written words.
Spatial/visual thinking is very much different from the sequential thinking. Sequential thinking is the way a normal person views the world: it is related to auditory thinking, linear through time, involving analysis and progression from simple to complex, deductive reasoning (from the parts to the whole).
On the contrary, visual thinking is a holistic system of merging and intermingling knowledge in space. It involves synthesis, intuition of complex systems, inductive reasoning (from the whole to the constituents, fragments.)
Having a neurological and genetic origin, dyslexia can be explained by the fact that individuals suffering from it process information in a different area of the brain than do non-dyslexic, average people.
10% of the people around the world have dyslexic disorders and develop abnormal ways of writing and reading: they reverse words by writing letters back to front (also known as "mirror writing" - the writing appears backwards, but when reflected in a mirror it can be read), they are not able to remember the sequence of letters in a word or sometimes read from right to left.
Also, when speaking, they encounter difficulties in putting thoughts into words, speak in unfinished phrases and leave sentences incomplete, mispronounces long words, modify phrases, words, and syllables." -idk - Rain12913, on 11/12/2009, -1/+7My girlfriend has dyslexia and she came from a wonderful household with great, authoritative parenting. She's extremely intelligent and her conversational skills and fund of knowledge would blow yours out of the water. However, the fact that she has dyslexia makes reading and writing very difficult for her.
Her intelligence, however, allows her to compensate for the increased difficulty she has. For example, by proof-reading and by using tricks she's taught herself she ensures that she never writes anything as error-ridden as your comment above. What's your excuse? Just a case of the stupids? - Spartan61, on 11/12/2009, -1/+7for all you "correcting" the title, none of you have dyslexia do you? this article was meant for dyslexic people to read it. therefore, the words look "mixed up" or "backwards" to people without dyslexia, but if you do have it, the whole article makes sense.
- solecize, on 11/12/2009, -0/+6I'm dyslexic, however I find that typing is a much easier experience to deal with. Funny thing is that I still have trouble with some words and key confusion that make no sense from a querty keyboard perspective (ex- the letters pbdq trips me up a bunch)- it's definitely something going on in my brain.
I hope they find a way to help kids- I feel like I spent my entire childhood doing endless hearing, eye, and writing exams. I basically figured out tricks to help me get by- It still takes me a long time to read a book and my handwriting is illegible, but i feel like i have a great life. - Rain12913, on 11/12/2009, -0/+6He's joking.
But to clear things up for those who might not know, flipping whole words around is not particularly common in dyslexia, and often disappears after childhood if it's present at all. What's more common is the flipping of individual letters which look similar, such as b and d, or p and q. Still, even this is just one minor aspect of the disorder, with general difficulty in reading as the main symptom. - tootim, on 11/12/2009, -2/+5!gnitseretni yrev
- MacBookForMe, on 11/11/2009, -3/+6I hope that scientist will find a way how to help those poor dyslexic kids
- Tarkaan, on 11/12/2009, -1/+4Dyslexics of the world, untie!
- catvllvs, on 11/12/2009, -0/+2I used handwriting as a therapy for some years (stoke victims, etc) and found with some dyslexics it was tied in with motor programming. Possible to fix... though more difficult the older a person is.
- ugetab, on 11/12/2009, -0/+2I don't have dyslexia, but I do have an issue discussed here, specifically, some minor issues with separating signal from noise in noisy situations.
I was actually hoping for something more useful in the way of mental training, but it does bring the overall issue into focus, with the potential for improvements just because of that. I may have to keep up with this, at least a little. - Rammat2, on 11/13/2009, -0/+2Supposedly I was dyslexic. Yet, my dyslexia quickly went away when I wanted to see what was on TV by reading the TV Guide. I don't think I was dyslexic. I think I was just, well, kind of stupid.
- Shootfast, on 11/12/2009, -0/+2I suffer from a very sexy learning disorder. What do I call it Kif?
- tzvika613, on 11/12/2009, -1/+3?huh
- Amadeus2490, on 11/12/2009, -0/+2I think that should be: New Findings On The Brains Of Dyslexic Children.
- Lonandubh, on 11/12/2009, -0/+2oh, I've Never heard That one before, did you come up with it yourself?
- Rain12913, on 11/12/2009, -0/+2Now I'm not even joking: I think you're retarded. I'm sorry about this.
- Lonandubh, on 11/12/2009, -0/+2Yeah, but once they fix the bugs in us, they'll upgrade the rest of you. ;)
- ketedford, on 11/12/2009, -0/+1?tahW
- ketedford, on 11/12/2009, -2/+3Hey, did you hear about the dyslexic athiest?
He doesn't believe in Dogs. - fnmeng, on 11/12/2009, -0/+1Who's Brian anyway?
- Lonandubh, on 11/12/2009, -0/+1Yeah, and I graduated UCSD while working 3/4 time with a GPA good enough to get me into my current masters program. Your point? An academic graduate degree requires the reading and writing of very thick papers. I Could do it, but I don't Want to. Similarly, I Could read the crazy number of legal opinions you need to read every week, but.. really? I like having what passes for a social life.
- BREZZZ, on 11/12/2009, -1/+2Wait, are you kidding? Because it made perfect sense to me and I have long suspected that I have a mild case of it. In busy situations I can "hear" people speaking, but it's all just gibberish. I am okay with numbers because I really like math.
- macmcraeart, on 11/12/2009, -2/+3yeah - retardation too. Cough.
- Rain12913, on 11/12/2009, -1/+2I hope that was sarcastic....
If not, it should have been "brains", not "brain's". - dgendreau, on 11/12/2009, -2/+3I dont know if its related, but I was dyslexic as a kid and as an adult I can now also read upside-down, backwards and/or mirrored text without any effort.
- Rain12913, on 11/12/2009, -0/+1Interesting, because my girlfriend is an industrial designer who's spent most of her life drawing and painting. She has great handwriting, it's just the writing itself she has difficulty with.
- Lonandubh, on 11/12/2009, -0/+1Similarly, it's my dyslexia that keeps me from getting any sort of academic graduate degree, and may prevent me from going to Law School.
- bshep917, on 11/16/2009, -0/+1I am a teacher who works with students who are labeled as having learning disabilities. The degree of"LD", the many varieties of it and the different ways it effects people is most interesting. Your post is extremely perceptive. Attempting to find the upside is what I try to do. I often feel that the education system and society in general is disabled for failing to realize the potential of individuals labeled disabled. How much better could the world be, if we were to able to find the contribution each of us has to offer rather than separating those who process things differently and offer the possiblity to do things in a way few could ever imagine.
- byleth, on 11/12/2009, -0/+1FTA:
"Interestingly, the researchers found that dyslexic children showed enhanced brain activity in the variable condition. This may enable dyslexic children to represent their sensory environment in a broader and arguably more creative manner, although at the cost of the ability to exclude irrelevant signals (e.g. noise)."
So are they "broken" or just different? - Khast, on 11/16/2009, -0/+1I think he's the one trying to take over the world, down in Acme Labs.
- Lonandubh, on 11/12/2009, -0/+1I'm similar; I can read faster than most people i know because i use tricks and brute intellect to make those silly inkblots or pixels do what they're supposed to, but oh my God does it exhaust me.
- solecize, on 11/12/2009, -0/+1The left/right is a weird one for me- it's like I can't remember the difference. It's not as bad as it used to be. I don't get anxious and sweaty about it anymore.
If you can find a mole or something on one hand it helps :D - fatalvaux, on 11/12/2009, -0/+1I'm dyslexic too, growing up my handwriting was so illegible they gave me a laptop to do my assignments on. I've just learned countless tricks to remembering how to do things, haha but sometimes it takes me a second to process the whole right/left thing. It definitely affects more than just reading/writing.
- dgendreau, on 11/17/2009, -0/+1So what you are saying is that everybody can read upside-down or mirrored text at full speed without pausing, just as fluently as normal text? Because thats what I mean by "without any effort".
- Lonandubh, on 11/12/2009, -0/+1Broken in a way that makes us awesomer than the rest of you. *nodnod*
- fatalvaux, on 11/12/2009, -0/+1I'm dyslexic and I'm at UGA with a 3.5 GPA. I think it's ridiculous to blame dyslexia for not being able to do something. You just have to work harder.
- rocknog, on 11/12/2009, -0/+1My God you're a ***** moron. I have seven siblings, and one of my sisters has dyslexia. No one else in my family has any problem reading at all. How do you explain that?
- emjaymj, on 11/12/2009, -1/+2Can't anybody that's not severely retarded do that?
- chaddjohnson, on 11/13/2009, -0/+0They are not necessarily "poor" children; they just learn differently and have different ways of looking at things than does the average person. As it has been pointed out, they often excel at many things that the average person is average at.
I have read that Einstein conveyed what some would consider to be on the verge of autistic behavior: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Did_Albert_Einstein_have ... - inactive, on 11/12/2009, -0/+0Is she good with numbers or does the dyslexia affect that too?.
- bbardlbradd, on 11/12/2009, -2/+1>motor programming
So these where cyborgs then?
Dugg. - ketedford, on 11/12/2009, -4/+2nerdlihc cixelsyd no sgnidnif niarb weN
- Truedirt, on 11/12/2009, -5/+3I wished I still got that kind of brain to help me filter out all the noises here at Digg.
- Frogger4Truth, on 11/12/2009, -4/+1suonds liek someone has a case of the BAWWWW's
just an opinion pal. - Frogger4Truth, on 11/12/2009, -5/+1oh. you have my sincerest sympathy for you condition. :(
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