Dyslexia simulator

This AbilityNet video tries to simulate some of the most common issues that people with dyslexia may face when reading content on the web. Note - this is not what all people will experience.

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[nqh]

As someone with dyslexia, this isnt always how it is. Dyslexia can be to do with spelling, speaking, hearing and more
For example with me i have a few different problems which i can explain with you.
1) Sometimes i could read a message/ part of a text and think it makes absolutely no sense, but in reality it makes perfect sense.
2) I have problems with speaking because of the fact that if i am reading something (and i think it makes no sense) i will repeat it a few times and look closer until i can make out what it means.
3) sometimes i have problems with spelling as i misspell words over and over again. I have never been bad at spelling in general but if i am writing i could just misspell a word 6-7 times in a row

[violetevergarden]

I have Rivers, Whirlpool, Glare, Overlap. Or it kinda feels like it. I was diagnosed with dyslexia years ago. And would say this is an accurate representation of how it feels like to read for some dyslexitics.

[ninawillow]

I'm glad I read the comments. I don't have dyslexia, but I do have the symptoms of irlen syndrome (visual stress). My vision is like this.

[wonderlandisalanguage]

This is the third video I've watched on this subject and it's starting to stress me out.

[FFF-xzwn]

Yes, I always see flashes when I'm reading, I thought it's normal for everybody.

[marluabarca]

The glare and number reversal!! Also, certain text flow makes me anxious, confused, and frustrated.

[mandlin]

RIP earphone users 😂

Most dyslexic people don’t have visual disturbances and actually dyslexic people who do have them have an additional condition I don’t know the Latin word for it but it’s often called visual dyslexia and is unfortunately mixed up with dyslexia itself. Personally I do get glare but I think it’s my brain getting tired not the cause of my dyslexic difficulties.

A real simulation of what dyslexia is like is one I saw where the letters in all the words moved around (not crazy all over the place, the letters jumble within the word itself on the same space and line). So every word was kind of recognisable but you had to really decode each one. We don’t see the letters move like this, but it simulates the feeling of vauge recognition but the energy it takes to decode. The frustration of not being stupid but not understanding something you know you should understand.

Ironically, I’m do damn dyslexic I read those things as quickly as I read regular text as I have already programmed myself to work around my dyslexia lol. To me decoding vauge has become an art form lol it show I survive.

[YaGotdamBoi]

So apparently I have dyslexia? Hot diggity damn

I never knew how to describe what reading is like to me until seeing this. Just love that, LOL. Love having undiagnosed learning disabilities (including ADHD and autism, I wasn’t diagnosed until a couple months ago, and I’m 24).

[mandlin]

I wanna add too dyslexia is much more than seeing things or reading. Dyslexia effects speech, hearing speech, memory, coordination, timekeeping and much more. Most dyslexic people have other closely linked learning difficulties such as dyspraxia, dyscalculia l, dysgraphia and ADHD. Meaning most dyslexic people struggle with coordination, mathematics, attention and focus, writing words they even know how to spell, counting, spacial awareness (or like me, just f*ckin falling over all the time lol). I get frustrated when people boil
It down to words moving it literally effects your ENTIRE life. Also to add they don’t know if it’s down to the experience of being dyslexic (school being hell on earth) or if it’s related to how dyslexic brains are different, but the rates of mental illness amoung dyslexic people is much higher than neurotypical folks.

[Davwyn]

What the heck? This is NOT dyslexia. That's a form of dysgraphia! Dyslexia is completely different!

[FrostfyreAkali]

*I ENJOYED THE VIDEO MATE* "breathes" *LIKED AND SUBSCRIBED* "breathes" *VERY INFORMA'IVE*

[birdwing]

Anyone else who is confirmed dyslexic struggle with game graphics in some games? I get such bad headaches from it and being overwhelmed driving. A lot of my symptoms increase when I am panicky and anxious like I can start of really good in a video game but then I continue to get worse the longer I play.

[nonosquare]

I think I have a vision problem cuz I see rivers, glare, and overlap-

[slicedtonix]

Don't think I have dyslexia but It does happen often for me where certain text looks italicized or bolded and I doubble back just to realize its normal

[andreamartin]

This is pretty accurate for me. No one dyslexia is the same. Some people can have more issues with others aspects dyslexia affects.

[hendo]

i find that all the spaces go away and i am trying to read one giant word

[mowbeep]

I have dysgraphia and to everyone saying this is an example of it is completely wrong, I was diagnosed 6 years ago with dysgraphia and this is no where near close once again this might how it be for other people who have dysgraphia but my honest opinion is that its not like this at all.

[crappyaccount]

glare just looks like how astigmatism affects words, especially in print.

[kj]

Dyslexia have nothing to do with that shit! We are NOT hallucinating. The words we read just kinda disappear/gets forgotten on the way in. I also jump lines, but that is my eyes MOVING down a line or maybe 5. The words are NOT doing anything at all, eveything is 100% standing still. I had to use google to spell "disappear", I wrote "disapir" because that is how that sounds to me. It's ALL in the BRAIN not the eyes. That wouldt be called irlen symdrome I think.

[erickzuniga]

As someone who doesn't have dyslexia it's easy to adapt, but i cannot imagine how hard it must be if one cannot get the first initial ability to read the characters