Visual Dyslexia Explained - how text appears with Scotopic Sensitivity (dyslexia) (full version)

A Dyslexic person shouldn’t be judged or left behind. This video shows what they’re experiencing when they read, try to watch and you’ll realize the struggle they have to deal with. Let’s understand the dyslexic ones, let’s help them conquer these difficulties, what they need is our support. Kindly share, it’ll surely help!

[travisfarrell]

for me I'll be trying to read a line and half way through I'll stop and realize that I skipped the rest of the line of words and picked up on the next line about the same spot I left off on the line above.

[omgautam]

This is a bit to extreme but yes this is kinda what I go through. For me, words chance into different words and I come to find out what I just read didn't make sense.

[crystalschweitzer]

I have most of these when I read. Doing homework today I've had 3 of them. Haha I have really bad dyslexia. But it's cool thought I'm about to graduate college and I'm extremely proud of myself.

[deborahpalmer]

What an eye opener! Very well presented. Every teacher and parent should view this! Thank you for sharing.

[syno]

As a severe Dyslexic, it doesn't physically move on the page like that. It does what he is showing, but it is more that the brain doesn't process certain words, and my eyes wont focus on the page very well. Over years of practice, I have become a lot better at reading. Also, things like playing sports and playing music really help to improve this due to coordination exercises. It is not just words or spelling. It is also bad short-term memory for me. Names, dates, Words, and sentences go through my mind like a sieve, so very hard to recall them even though I can picture them in my mind. I would be good at picking up body language, recognising faces and patterns and having a very good memory of conversations, going back months or years ago and remembering what the conversation was about and who said what and how we were standing. It's not the words that I remember but the understanding of what we were talking about. Very strange to explain.

[jarofpixies]

I always just thought it meant having words or letters being seen backwards and this is really eye opening

[Ainennke]

I don't have dyslexia (as far as I know), but I do get the 3D thing, and something like the waviness (although it's less wavey, and more like the different lines being squished into one another). Discovering reading rulers (coloured overlays with a line across them for underlining) has made such a huge difference !

[katieleora]

My dyslexia is mostly the first one: the 3D reading. It makes it really difficult and I don’t know how to put it into words. This video does a good job showing though! 👍🏻

[BouBBleBu]

I was looking for dyslexia simulations bc i wanted to know how it looks and most importantly FEELS like and i was not disappointed with this. I wasn't paying attention to the speaker. Looking at those words going all over the place made me feel upset, frustrated, and angry bc even though i could read, the disturbances made it hard for me and i absolutely hate the feeling. I was getting dizzy and just basically feeling annoyed. Sending huge love for our dyslexic community. I experienced it only a couple of minutes but you all have experienced this your whole life. You are strong.

Edit: I sometimes get some of these but just very slightly so i kinda understand the stuggle a little bit.

[Tashitoohot]

I don’t think I have dyslexia, but words did disappear while I was reading when I was younger, they don’t anymore

[jadalove]

Watching this was extremely nostalgic, I was lucky enough to get an intervention and a lot of tutoring so although this still happens I’m able to decode it better. I’m honestly so greatful for my dyslexia though it’s taught me to be strong and because of how my brain works I’m very creative and have a high IQ I wouldn’t give it up for anything. I think there’s a huge misconception with dyslexics that they are stupid when in fact we’re very smart, we just work very different then most.

[amylewis]

I have dyslexia and this is so funny to see people actually see what it's like for us .. I have the first and the shaking one symptoms . Its effected me so much and because of it I hate reading. And at a younger age my teachers thought I miss behaving because of my dyslexia that they never knew about .

[violetevergarden]

0:07 Have this basically all the time.
0:58 When I switch to the next line.
1:17 If I am just a tiny bit unfocused or tired.
1:35 I thought this was normal... T-T
I started crying. I get A's in every subject except those with literature.

[khamiwilliams]

HI i'm bella thorne and im gonna be telling you about how i found out i had dyslexia.

[FlowerKnight]

I was always curious as to what this disorder was really like, or what it really meant.
Thank you for helping me to understand this.

[katieng]

I am dyslexic and for me words just moves . I constantly skip a line when I read . And I have to read it twice to get the meaning of the text

[quietkid]

This is exactly what I’m trying to explain to someone currently. I have visual dyslexia so I’m going to show this to them. Hopefully they’ll understand now. Thank you for posting this

[nocebo]

For years I've seen the words go 3D as I also noticed the previous words I read earlier in a text start moving, shaking, or getting blurry and I thought this was exactly how people are supposed to read... well I think it's time for me to get an evaluation for dyslexia...

[oddlyfaceless]

I have severe dyslexia and I've experienced all these
The most common ones for me is the swirling words, disappearing words, and the 3D looking one.
I also see another one that the video didn't cover but it looks like someone took a highlighter and highlighted all the white spaces between words with pink or bright yellow and the rapidly change from being horizontal or vertical

[jessicamurphy]

The one where words disappear is something I’ve always struggled with! It’s like I have a blind spot in my eye when reading, it’s normally the words at the edges of the paper and for books that includes towards the binding as well. I always shake the book or paper to kinda disturb my focus and then blur my eyes and it can help me refocus. Also I read with a blank notecard so I can keep the lines together. I still love reading though it just gives me a really bad headache after awhile.