Dyslexia: When Your Brain Makes Reading Tricky

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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[kendallwarlow]

My life. The worst part was being forced to read aloud in class.

[KitarraChaosWeaver]

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 much easier. I have it installed everywhere.

[horner]

"Dyslexia, when your brain makes breathing tricky"




Wait a minute

[theprofessor]

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.

[SirPetterTheFirst]

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

[pseudonymity]

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.

[StalkingYOUtoo]

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...

[swingardium]

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.

[ellisongaulding]

I put the "sexy" in "dyslexia"

[heychrisfox]

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!

[Naricie]

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 =)

[KingsleyIII]

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.

[HukoMoeller]

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.

[catlover-fpig]

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.

[Nagarath]

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.

[NewMessage]

I wonder if dyslexic zombies wander around searching for Brians.

[abdullahehsan]

Please do an episode on whether subliminal messages work

[LarsaXL]

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.

[geraldgrenier]

What's the state of understanding of dysgraphia?

[zukaro]

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).