I am dyslexic. I have struggled all my life with the stress of dyslexia because I process differently, but still speak 4 languages. I am taking on the challenge of learning French and it is difficult for me, but I don't give up. I know that as a dyslexic person you have to be patient until the brain clicks into habit. Then you become brilliant at what you actually do. Just slow down.. give yourself love and time.
Dyslexia from my fahter's side, autism traits from mother's. I recognise all the overlapping symptoms described, 75% personal experience. Interesting!🤓
Haha, wonder how long it will take (or took?) to notice the dyslexic typo in your comment, too. Love it though, it's hilariously perfect. It's one of my favorite things about being dyslexic! Laughing at the dyslexic errors, especially when talking about it. It's like a badge of honor.
I have dyslexia in other ways, it isn't always as blatant. I have issues speaking words clearly often and forget names frequently. I even forget my roommate's name sometimes or even Robin William's name even though I know his name.
I have autism, ADHD, dyslexia, dyscalia, and an IQ of >140. I write 50 pages per video essay I do most of the time. The work is great, the spelling mistakes are just fun spices thrown in unbeknownst to me until I edit the work lol
Wow, I had no idea! I have difficulty with orientating, left & right mixing up, oral instructions, time management, executive function like focus & motivation. I know I have Autistic traits so I thought maybe it's ADHD. Had no idea that dyslexia had so many aspects to it. 😮❤😮
There are many different kinds of dislexia with different root causes which is shown in multilingual people. One type may affect one set of languages while another impacts a different set of languages resulting in multilingual people who are only dyslexic in one language. So there aren't official names for the different groups yet but there's definitely one that's known that is nicknamed mathematically gifted English dislexia where the person actually also has this calcula, and struggles with the English language, but is exceptionally good at logic and deductive reasoning to the point where if they can struggle through it their math skills are way higher than normal once they get past the basic issues of memorizing multiplication addition subtraction division and that kind of thing. I have that kind and it's thought to be the kind that impacted Einstein based on the types of mistakes he would make and is fairly common for English speaking dyslexia. Imagine my surprise when I suddenly went from special ed mathematics to testing out of all of the mathematics that my college could offer. There's another one that is nicknamed Asiatic language dyslexia where people struggle with Japanese and Chinese written language, but are fine with English even if English is their second language. And I've heard there's quite a few other ones as well, such as the very common eye twitch dyslexia which is caused by spasmatic eye muscle control and is probably the most common form though it's been shown to be linked to the other kinds as well so it's kind of a complicated thing. Anyhow, dyslexia is not a single thing it is a description of a symptom and there's a lot of work left to be done to unravel the different variations of it and root causes.
@@darcieclements4880 That is really interesting. I have an issue where I sometimes see two letters or numbers flipped. My brain actually sees it wrong. Like seeing "was" instead of "saw" or "hte" instead of "the". Later if I look again I often see it correctly. I figured it out for reading because it doesn't make sense in a sentence. But it harmed me in math because the numbers can go in any order.
Back when I worked in PC repair, we often had to install Windows on systems & I often struggled with the product keys. Ultimately, reading the key out loud while entering it helped a lot.
I absolutely do not have Dyslexia but I do have Dyscalculia which is a problem with maths. I have every sympathy for dyslexics because when I look at a series of numbers in relation to maths it seems almost like gibberish to me such as hearing someone speaking a different language. I am decent at basic maths but simply cannot get a head around anything more complicated.
@spooookie1 Glad I came across your comment bc I also don't think that I have dyslexia I didn't even know that there was a thing to have a condition were maths is gibberish. I will check this out bc maths is gibberish to me.
@@rachel18809 Hello Rachel. Yes, apart from the most basic maths I am flummoxed by anything else. It genuinely appears to be a completely new language, akin to Welsh, or Chinese. When it comes to words I can read super fast and still take in what is written. But good luck. Hope you are now at least aware it's a real problem which quite a number (excuse the pun) of people have.
Sometimes I think I have dyscalculia, but in a weird way. I am almost unable to do basic math, but it's not a big deal for me to solve complex functions. Like I understand and recognise the logic behind math, but my brain can't seem to make sense of numbers (??)
Everyone's perceptions of normalcy and disregard for their own behavior patterns is what I deal with. It's lead to anger issues and stuff. This is related to me not knowing I was autistic. I adapted by assuming everyone knew what I knew. I now know, you are not in the ballpark and that is great for you! Great for all of us really. You're going to look at me differently, eventually. 😂
Before this video even started I wanted to say that I know my left from my right but if I’m trying to get somewhere and someone else is driving I always accidentally say the opposite direction I mean for them to take. I have no idea why. My brain knows it’s left but my mouth says Go right. I’m also chronically late, a tidsoptimist. I can get up 3 hours before work and still be running to the time clock.
I have somewhat the same issue, especially if I have to give directions fast, in my case its because I cant remember what left and right is, but I can tell which is my right arm. Maybe you have similar workarounds, but theyre so habitual you may not realise you have them.
I am AuDHD & belong to the Dys Family... Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, Dysgraphia & Dystonia lol and im not dumb analysing and compensating a life time to find I have many talents in many diverse fields 😂
Learning that people with Dyslexia can have a 3 dimensional thought process was absolutely insane.. And its what helped me look into it and realize I am in fact Dyslexic. I was actually held back in school because I didn't like doing the writing assignments.. I talked with a Dr of some flavor and he said I was fine and "Gave the most original answers I've ever heard from someone his age" The school wanted me to get on meds for ADD but really I just had trouble writing and focusing because words and letters are weird.. I also struggled with just not talking much so I don't think I was ever really able to verbalize what was happening.. And here I am now trying to figure it all out on my own. Which has been interesting and fun despite the bit of frustration that it would have helped me much earlier in life.
@@ultimatecountryguides9104 Yes.. So the best way I can describe it is the scene from Iron man when Jarvis helps him design the suit.. Personally its like imagining things in the space around me and being able to manipulate them.. Its not always like that theres also just words or pictures/movie like thoughts.. One proposal is this 3 dimensional thought is why p, b, d, M, W, are often mixed up..
@@SliceyMcHackHack This is so interesting. Glad I stumbled across your comment. I have only just looked into it, to understand it. I saw a small video on instagram. A guy was explaining that dyslexia was a superpower. I was told, without being told that I was stupid. Got placed into all the lower levels in school. What a tough lesson this world is. thanks for sharing
As a Dyslexic AuDHD I can't trust what I read, unless I read it at minimum twice (probably three times). I find that unless I intend to read, I can look right at words and not decode them. I think this is because I can't trust my reading if I am not "really focused" & have time to check my work. "Not" statements are the worst. I swear the word "not" pops in and out of existence. 😂
Orion! This is absolutely crazy. Litterally, just hours before you posted this video, I was spending a good amount of time, anylizing the relationship between Autism and ADHD. Particularly these symptoms that are shared between the two conditions. Particularly I was theorizing, with the idea that as autistic people with our comprehension being very organic, and therefor often differing from societal practices maybe we struggle with aspects of language that require a lot of interpretation of seemingly impractical styles within our language. Like the fact we have letter that look the same forwards or backwards, seems pretty backwards ideologically, to me anyways. Language is has so many areas that could be improved on, we are really stuck with some outdated practices, and I think autistic brains see the faults in the pattern.
b and d. What a stupid thing. 50+ years of practice and still need to slow down to make sure I got it right, decuase apparently if you mix 'em up suddenly people don't know what you mean? IDK, that's not the way my brain works.
I think dyslexia is like autism in that it’s a spectrum, each person experiences it with different intensity, for example I once met someone who argued me that I could skim read as his daughter had dyslexia and she could. Everyone experiences it differently and may have more of a challenge than someone else. Doesn’t mean his daughter doesn’t have it, but also doesn’t mean that one day I’m suddenly going to be able to do that task! I also have auditory processing, which I don’t know about Australia but in the uk when your assessed for dyslexia you don’t automatically get tested for apd. Also you can have some apd traits with dyslexia and not full blown apd. It is a separate condition. So I can hear perfectly well, but my brain’s interpretation of what I hear is a disconnect. I have to lip read, so if you face away or we are in a busy environment I find it so tiring trying to understand what people are saying. No wonder I struggled at school! Coloured overlays helps me, type dyslexia into Amazon and it will come up with coloured txt books and overlays. You can also go into settings - accessibility - display & text - colour filters - tick it on and you can play around with the colour, just untick box to turn off. I have dyslexia, apd, (unsure if full blown of just part of my dyslexia) dyscalculia and autism. I would be interested in, we know that autism runs in families and so does dyslexia. But I wonder if all these nerodivergent run in families like parent dyslexic and child autistic or vs Versa. As my mums dyslexic and has a dyslexic child, me and then an autistic child. Thanks to my iPhone that you were able to read this. 😆 I love technology.
I think a lot of people don't understand that there are multiple types of Dyslexia.. I would agree that its also a spectrum as everyone doesn't display all of the variants. Some people have just one while others have 2 or more. For myself I absolutely cant skim read.. It feels physically impossible.. If I skim its just looking at the letters and symbols until I find what I want. None of the rest was taken in.. But I read very well so long as I read every single word..
@@SliceyMcHackHack same I have to read every single word, sometime read it twice for comprehension. I read slow also, but faster than when younger. As I have friends, one who really struggles with spelling and can see it in her messages like whinnie the Pooh’s messages, and another friend who went to university. It’s such a vast difference. Have you seen dyslexic thinking, they trying to make it a good thing to employ dyslexic people, but I think they are only thinking of those who have mild struggles! Be good tho if there was someone fighting for all nero differences for all our struggles! Mild to severe! And yes true a lot of people don’t realise autism looks vastly different as does dyslexia. Mine has improved with age but I struggle without technology.
It's my theory that pretty much every human characteristic or condition is actually a spectrum -- a limited infinity of values within a gamut defined by the trait in question.
@@thomsonclan5878 *I have mental and emotional blocks that derailed growth-seeking at birth and prevented my learning relational fundamentals.* Independent of sensory processing issues, which only cropped up recently - now I've involuntary stutter and/or mutism as a symptom of Long CoVid.
Dyslexia is definitely a spectrum and its extremely hard to diagnose if it didnt impairs a childrens ability to learn and as in my case just learn to read and write with their right brain only. I thought I am just a slow reader until I realised the way I read isnt really the neurotypical way.
I've never thought of myself as being dyslexic but it is noticeable that I can't read as fast as what's a comfortable speed for non-dyslexic people. Reading in general takes a lot of energy and is therefore not relaxing or pleasing to do. In fact, too much of it will cause me stress. I don't have a problem with references, technical books, news articles etc but onces the content becomes too long, my brain wants to pass out.
I’m dyslexic and I find myself often thinking one thing and saying another and it’s so frustrating. Was diagnosed several decades ago when very few got diagnosed but it was significantly making things worse learning. More recently my husband has been diagnosed with autism and now I’m in the process for a diagnosis myself, so likely to have both as too many struggles l have don’t seem part of a sole diagnosis of dyslexia.
Totally agree. Totally. And its not well known at all... A nightmare for those who live with them though! We need books and therapists on this subject and support groups - check out Mark Hutten
I was told by my psychology teacher, who was a retired psychiatrist that I had dyslexia. He said he could tell from both my typed and handwritten papers as there were a number of habits in my writing that gave it away. I fully believe him too as I do reverse sequences of numbers when reading them or saying them outloud. I also had great issues when it came to reading and writing, both of which I was slow at understanding. Which is despite my verbal vocabulary which was very strong as a child, as I loved learning new words and using them whenever I could. I probably often sounded like a child from the victorian era and not a 90's kid like I was😂. Edit: So losing words is also part of dyslexia, good to know! I didn't know that and I do that so often both when writing or speaking which is incredibly frusterating😞.
I'm always frustrated by the misconception with dyslexia because of how debilitating it actually can be in general. I suffer from pretty moderate-severe dyslexia but inconveniently, am quite intelligent. On top of that, I'm rather literate but only selectively so. I've also got an above-average vocabulary repertoire but poor recollection skills. (Think of Porky Pig trying to say "th tha thatss all folks") I live in a constant state of words being "tip of the tongue". I struggle terribly in event and word sequencing, as well as listening and written-contextual comprehension. So everything comes together to form one giant cluster of looking competent but struggling terribly on the inside. People seem to think that dyslexia is just some sort of cute-sie "tee-hee I see 'b' and 'd' backwards" but in reality, I've got nothing akin to such symptoms. I'd put myself in the "I have trouble putting/reading words into the right order sequence" category. Think of a normal person's pathways to their different brain sectors as a straw, but most of mine are Crazy Straws going in unnecessary loops and bends just to get to the right areas. Some pathways are faster, some slower. On a daily basis, I just look like an average dude because I've got symptoms that ironically work against each other- but on the inside, I'm tripping over words, have poor reading/listening comprehension, am intelligent enough to have a huge vocabulary but can't spell any of the words on paper well enough, if spellcheck doesn't save me from my phonetics. I'm talented with 3D manipulations naturally but clumsy as hell with dexterity. It's terribly challenging as a disability and people only see the end-product of the amount of work that goes into appearing "normal" when I'm working 4 times as hard on the inside to do it.
I am nearly 40, and have autism and dyslexia. this video was great at summing up some common overlaps! although i don't struggle too much with organisation as i stick to strict routines and habits, the rest i experience very regularly. like reading a book to my 5yo, and after about the 10th read this one word i kept struggling to say or even understood how it fit in the sentence, the word i suddenly worked out was "medical". Luckliy my 5yo is very patient with me haha.
Im dyslexic, diagnosed at 5. I really wish they would gave tested for autism too because i relate or identify with all the traits. Dyslexia messes with my speech i basically talk in cursive and ny pattern is all over the place.
Sorry I'm not capable of listening to this right now. (Bad day for me) But for all that you mentioned did you also mention that your brain gets things muddled up. So if you hear something or read it in the right sequence it may come out in the wrong sequence. Most people in those related to me by blood are dylexic. It is a very wide range which affects everyone differently. Very much like how autism is a spectrum so is dyslexia. My sister has a phd in medical research yet she is very dyslexic. It's not about intelligence. (I know you said that bit, just reinforcing it.) Will listen to this again when my brain is more on this planet
I can relate to this... thanks for the awareness. If I take notes while I'm trying to remember or learn something new, they don't help most or the time. they no longer make sense to me. the subject of numbers is a huge issue for me. Thanks Orion. things are so hard to interpret in general. However, I march on! My Friend Autism... I work through it.
My spelling and reading has always been rather good. My hand writing is appalling. It took me years to learn to write as a child. Was so far behind my peers in that aspect, yet ahead of them in reading. Struggle to read out loud quite a bit and can't spell words out in my head (struggle to visualise the word), but give me a pen or keyboard and 99% of the time I can spell correctly
Do you think there could be a possibility that you have dysgraphia? It is a lesser known learning disability that affects the ability to write. Dysgraphics may physically feel pain in their hands when writing and also have difficulty in finding the right words to write down, kind of like a paper jam in the brain. It also affects how neat your writing looks and writing speed. I have dysgraphia and your experience sounded similar to mine.
@@dontmindmejustlurking4012 My hand pretty much constantly hurts when I write. I'm always having to put the pen down and have a rest. I always put it down to holding my pen in an unconventional way. It's like a cramp that starts in the thumb and spreads throughout my whole hand. I often struggle to find the right words to start a sentence when I'm writing, or my brain is too quick for my hand n I can't get it written down quick enough. Thankfully we have keyboards and can edit what we write without consequence.
@@Catlily5 Not really. Quite the opposite in fact. My fingers don't bend back at all. My wife suffers with hypermobility. She can't stand still for too long cuz it hurts her knees. She thinks my fingers don't bend enough and (being honest) I am a little freaked out by how much her fingers can bend backwards.
I was diagnosed with dyslexia at an early age, but as an adult, I'm now actually going through testing for other diagnoses. ASD, OCD and ADHD. I highly agree with your descriptions of dyslexia. It resonates well. I appreciate your work friend!
I have been diagnosed with both dyslexia and autism so I certainly connect with what you spoke about. My dyslexia and autism surprisedly weren’t picked up till university and after it. My dyslexia diagnosis was picked up first.
I have dyslexia dyscalculia, other learning disabilities , autism, anxiety, OCD, I've been diagnosed with ADHD many times first started when I was like 5 years old, but I still am not totally for sure if I have ADHD or not, I was put on stimulant meds when I was only 5 years old and it did horrible things, the side effects were horrible, it didn't do anything good for me, maybe it helped others because I was so terrified to do anything so I sat there but my thoughts were going crazy but I was too terrified to move or say anything, the stimulants were one of the most scariest medications, well actually I've been on a lot of really scary medications, cuz I was misdiagnosed many times so yeah... (Now I'm 41).
We have dyslexia & dyspraxia in my family & I'm waiting for an autism diagnosis. I suspect more of my relations have 1 or more of these, but we're not the kind of family that talks about things like that, which is a shame.
Orion may I ask..? Do youtube uploaders have a choice about having adverts in their videos? and if yes do they choose how many? Thank you. I think I have aural and verbal dyslexia - if there's such a thing ;) Edit: I forgot to say how relieved I was that there were no ads. in your video, and if you had something to do with that - a deep sincere thank you from me x
Came to a page providing support for autism to hear one of the best explanations of the symptoms of dyslexia I have ever heard. Thank you so much. !!! I am dyslexic with two older teen dyslexic children. We need more good explanations like this in Australian schools now.
Hi! I am a Yung late diagnosed autistic and dyslexic woman and I just feel like this video explains so mutch of my life❤️I want to thank u Orion (if u ever see this😅) for the huge part you have had in my journey to self discovery, self acceptance and understanding who I am and who I could one day be😊 it's from ppl like you we really learn what autism is and I thank you for giving me a way to learn about autism and who I am❤️
I was early diagnosed with Asperger's before it was considered part ASD in 90s. In the 90s I was diagnosed with Dyslexia, on in the way impacts my writing. In school I had reading comprehension several grade levels higher than one expect at my age. I was readding complex books in grade 4. I read an entire encylopedia set, it's just what we had at home. My reading is slower, I strugle to read outload. When I write I miss words, it's right in my brain and and I can't see the missing words as my brain puts it in when I read my writing back. In school it was thought I couldn't be dyslexic as I could read comprehend so well. Right and Left, get that. Driving with someone one, someone say take the next left. For me I have to think about it about 3-5 seconds. Then I miss the turn. Now add this to autism. This gets messy. So not only do I struggle to know left from right but I can come up many way to go left then need to ask for clarity as I'm not undestanding which left they actually mean. Add to that my taking things litterally I take some saying right as not diretion that I'm right about something. To me it often feels like battle between my autims and dyslexia. I think my autism allows me to read at high comprehension level while my writing doesn't even come close. If you have ever read my comments you might have noticed my gramar, spelling and missing words or wrong words. I use your and you're for example incorrecty.
I relate a lot to what you said because I read at a high level, but I skip words when writing and mix up left and right. I was never diagnosed with dyslexia though.
Thank you, this is the most comprehensive description that I've heard. My son will be assessed for dyslexia soon and I (autistic mom) feel more informed on how to help. Keep up the great work
This video explains so much... 😢had I known any of this before I wouldn't have felt so stupid all of my life for always getting lost, not being able to differentiate between my right and left and so on
Very well explained Orion. I've never heard anyone mention some of your examples and some really match with me. You’ve helped me understand Dyslexia more. Thanks again.
There's also mirror image dyslexia, where the brain wants to read from the right to the left. It's easier for me to read a reflection or read a book upside-down or reading words from the wrong side of glass (like at the doctors office or the store) I'm 50yo and I've had to learn tricks around my dyslexia.
I’m extremely dyslexic, and both of my sons are autistic. My oldest son taught himself how to read at 3 years old to a young adult level. My youngest son invents words because he can’t remember the normal word eg. Pop seeds for popcorn
Word retrieval problems, problems telling left from right, problems estimating time, problems prioritizing tasks, poor handwriting, difficulty following oral instructions those are the symptoms I have in this video. My mind actually sees letters and numbers flipped sometimes. For words this doesn't cause me too many problems because words only go in certain orders. If my brain sees "hte" I know it is probably "the". If my brain sees the wrong number I don't know that I am seeing it incorrectly. Before cell phones I called wrong numbers a lot! I would check and then see that I had reversed two numbers. I am actually a very good reader. My parents had no TV so I escaped through reading. Math was more of a struggle. I could understand the concept but I flipped numbers and often got the wrong answers.
Here is me learning new things every day! I am AuDHD, but I am good with reading and writing (never had issues with it, apart from a word here and there, but that is normal, especially since English is not my native language) meaning that I never considered I could be dyslexic. However, the other things mentioned here are definitely things I encounter! Who knew that I could, potentially, still be dyslexic even though I can read and write (spell) without issues. Huh.
Just a correction. Mathematics is a language in itself. It is just a language that is really different in how you express yourself and the rules are way more strict in most cases.. it is also a ultra compact language, in other words there are a tone of information within mathematical sentence. So comprehension of the language are something even non dyslexia people struggle with
I have Dyscalulia. Math for me was a living nightmare when I was in school. I struggle with directions. Especially when traveling.The numbered road signs , 😫😫😫. I can’t begin to tell you how many times I have to turn around and go the other way. Even with Google maps it’s a challenge . If Google says the names of the streets or roads I need to take. I’m ok. If it gives me the numbers for the directions , yikes ! Luckily for me it doesn’t interfere with my reading skills. I really enjoy books. Thanks for the info. It helped my son to understand his mom a little better. ❤
Another GREAT video Orion, and a very important one. As a fellow late diagnosed individual with ASD (although my parents had more than a few reasonable suspicions of 'something' being a bit 'off' as a child of the 70's, so little was known, nor done about it), I 'broke' a bit over a year ago, and since then became agoraphobic, on top pf my pre-existing anxiety/depression following a severe workplace 'stress related' injury 10 years ago, which was then amplified by two in a row a bit over a year ago, which lead to my 'break'! For the first time that I can recall (aside from the original injury), I lost proper use of speech, ability to spell when writing, and cannot remember words I have used most of my life! I had actually used the phrase "becoming dyslexic" before I was diagnosed with ASD mid last year. It has taken a year of being pretty much housebound, (as well as a few disputes being resolved very recently) to begin to make some kind of a recovery, however I am now easily 'triggered', when I was not before, as I used to be in customer service for most of my life, and I am much more isolated and keep a distance from my parents, and others when I did not before. I will engage in conversation when I get a delivery or something, or the once or so a fortnight when I may leave the house to go shopping or an appointment which cannot be done via phone. I can only put it down to 'burnout' of the Autistic kind, as I have endured much more in the past, without this kind of extreme response, although things have been building for a few years now, mostly as a result of employment issues and insecurity, which I did not have 10 years ago. Eventually, your body and mind says "enough is enough"! It is best to recognise it before it gets too far, however, my fault was to continue working, and struggling when I probably should have just stopped. However, I was not getting any professional help, despite asking for it, and I could not stand by and lose my home either...which may still occur! Wow, you gotta love being alive, eh?
I recently learned that there are 6 types of dyslexia and learned at the age of 36 that I most likely have dyslexia. Better late than never I guess. I was told at 27 that I was probably autistic and got officially diagnosed at 32. It's still good to know.
I was diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia and audio processing disorder as a child back in the 90s around probably mid 90s. I didn’t know I was autistic as well autism and ADHD dyslexia, audio processing disorder and a lot of layers of difficulty but what I learn as a kid who is dyslexic and taking several classes based on the study of plants classes the words were Latin for the scientific names of those plants I could not sound out syllables sounds confidence or even correctly match sounds with the letters correctly or silent letters, but one thing I could do was remember patterns and structure remembered, saying giant run-on sentences with the letter of each word, spelling out the word to be able to correctly spell out the Latin scientific names of plants I legitimately read by the standards of what people consider reading because of special recognition skills and being able to recognize patterns I was able to create giant run-on sentences that would spell out these immensely large scientific Latin words which made no sense in my opinion, but I was able to spell them out due to the fact I was able to recognize patterns actually do not really know how to read, but remember the look of the word and the sound that goes with the word but not the actual spelling out of the word very much at all so I read and spell my spelling is horrible unless I’ve seen the word so much that I know the pattern so pattern recognition allowed me to be able to read but not actually understand how I’m doing it other than matching up words and the whole entire word that goes with the structure of the word. Know as I’ve gotten older and recognized it more a little bit when I was a kid though the audio processing disorder you really do hear the wrong thing sometimes and you’ll be like what did that person just say did they really just say that and you’re like no way they said that and then you ask, and they didn’t ADD, but the non-hyperactive variant causes me to be very quick to respond to emotional responses as well as added sensitivity and ADHD as well. Makes it hard to stay committed to something long enough all over the place and racing thought not negative, but constantly thinking about 100 miles an hour and having everything race through your head processing probably 80% of it autism I think due to high masking skills and high IQ I was able to mask. I thought I was normal and then reality hit me, I’m from normal and now I’m just trying to figure out all these different deficits and finding the strengths and trying to figure myself out after years of traumatically repressing my feelings, emotions, thoughts and actions so it’s like trying to find yourself all over again when you never really knew yourself because you were a high masking individual that literally blended in like a chameleon and a camouflage device radar that could be used as an example hiding one’s self at the cost of detrimentally damaging and repressing so you can also probably include some form of trauma. Autism affected me in more extreme methods as well repressed and emotional delay and understanding and low emotional IQ specifically in Affective empathy extremely high cognitive empathy at a high understanding of situational awareness, but at the same time, extreme levels of mind blindness not a good combination to say the least, but what I gain from my depression was this I tried to seek out answers to why a relation I had was struggling so much I studied psychology and philosophy deeply, including cluster B personality, disorders and autism and all kinds of other different types of disorders, psychologically being aware of self reflection intersection, understanding of emotions, cognitive functioning, although I do extremely well with facial recognition test scoring above average than the normal person due to the fact that I had to be aware of how people were feeling their emotions when I was young and it felt like a survival skill all of the unique combinations of disorders experiences and emotions have cultivated a very depressed person extremely intelligent with the same time emotionally dumb, but in understanding peoples behavior motives that’s easy understanding why people act the way they do that’s easy, but actually emotionally connecting and feeling their emotions in a shared way I very rarely capable of that which sucks because leaves so many blind spots it’s a disconnect and it sucks and it’s not by choice and I wish it was different. I’ve grown my emotional capabilities beyond what I ever thought I could and I’m not masking anymore and not masking anymore. People started what happened to you you’re different, yeah it’s because I’m no longer wearing the mask. I’m not as nice as what I was always trying to be people pleasing now I try to focus more on myself, but at the same time being courteous and respectful but now I don’t let people step all over me as much, I’m run on sentence. Too any of these things you can relate to let me know I’m always up for making new friends as long as they are the right type of friend Lord of the rings, love plants, biology, psychology, philosophy I don’t like small talk I can tolerate it, but it’s boring. Deep conversations are the only thing that are interesting. It’s like do you want quantity or quality? I would prefer quality over quantity when it comes to social interactions I don’t like people , who are quick to judge based on first opinions although I tend to be a bit of a sympathetic person but I can be very sympathetic. It’s a mix of nuts but I’m always up for a new friends especially if they play Minecraft Fortnite
Growing up, they knew I had dyslexia but wouldn't test me because it cost too much. I was in special Ed 1st until I graduated. I graduated with a 4th grade reading and spelling level. I was given spelling tests all through high school. I learned more about dyslexia once I went to school to be a teacher. I learned that I do not understand syllables. You can teach me and I will remember for 15 minutes and then forget again. I break up words wrong. I learned that once a teacher is with dyslexia there are some sounds you might not hear. That is why words can be hard to understand, and dancing to a rhythm can be hard. I actually, in 2022, got evaluated for autism and dyslexia at the same time. I wanted to get the official diagnosis of dyslexia. So, I had them test for both. I got both diagnoses. I am lucky my mother helped me write my college papers because I made a lot of errors and did see them. She would repeatedly point them out, and I still struggled to see them. So I tell her my degree is her degree. She was in school and didn't know it.
I am dyslexic and have aphantasia but I am not diagnosed with autism, and not sure if I have it or not. Don't think I ever will get checked out as I am indifferent to the label or not. But thinking about myself as having most of the traits helps me deal with things better. I have stopped having bad conscience for not being often enough in contact with friends and family (or as often as they want), and instead just accept that I am doing my best and that is good enough. If there are groups of people talking and I don't know where to be in between conversations I have stopped trying to force myself make it look like I am part in one of them and instead rest by being in my mind looking at the table or something. Etc etc
Directions are hard to learn when you work in theater. The act of going on and off the stage is from the audiences point of view. So if you exit stage left, your actually exiting to your right.
OMG, what? the directionsl th😅ng that struggle with is mirror images, and which eyebrow is the lower one. I actually have a photograph “file” in m😢 phone titled, “Eyebrows. I have a trick i use, to determine which sideof ny face. U put up my right index finger and that points to tje right eyebrow. Strangely enough, Maps are a special interest of mine as well as the sun in the Southern sky, and its placement throughout the day. I do not recall having a hard time gradpi g reading, however comprehension was always diddicult, anssliw reading speed. Handwriting was always a mess. In second hrade, the teacher wrote, Cat struggles with handwriting. Humirously, my mom scribbled a note that was illegible to the teachet. lmao
I was in the advanced reading group in my first grade class after a few weeks of the school year. Once I misread a word the started with a lower case "L" and tried to pronounce the letter as an upper case "I". I was being moody that day and protesting the fact that those letters look too similar. The teacher saw it as a need to move me to the next slower reading group. I screwed myself then but I also learned that complaining to the wrong person about a policy problem is absolutely useless and can even be counter productive. I have trouble with following instructions, big problems but it's usually because the instructions are poorly informed.
Thank you for this video! Just as autism has very incorrect stereotypes, so does dyslexia. “Oh, you’re dyslexic? You must write your letters backwards.” - WRONG! “Oh, you can’t be dyslexic, you don’t have a spelling problem.” - WRONG AGAIN! Dyslexia is do much more!
I am 40 years old within the last 3 weeks I learned that I'm autistic. I always thought that I was stupid or dumb because of my inability to read properly or fast or comprehend. Don't get me wrong I can read and comprehend but it's extremely difficult and takes me a lot longer than my wife when she's reading something and comprehending something. It kind of sucks being autistic but at the same time at least I know it's not me as a person I would try very hard to get better at these tasks and never could understand why I couldn't succeed. Now it is all starting to make sense and so many other things like why I never slept well at night or couldn't even go to sleep for that matter. Thanks autism
I tend to replace words and numbers get jumbled up in their order. Pushing buttons on a credit card machine at the store “balance inquiry or purchase” I’ll mean to push purchase and push inquiry. 😅 I mix up spelling when writing too. Can actually write an entire wrong word or just letters. 🤷♂️
Never been dyslexic (the reading issues never presented which i'm grateful for) I got Disgraphia, the fine motor control cousin that does all the same spelling, and letter/number confusion just only on the expression level for me.
Childhood diagnosed dyslexian here. I had to use tricks like a bed has headboard and footboard the same as the vertical lines of the letters b from d. Left and right was also a struggle where I still hold out my hands and look for the L shape when my thumbs and index fingers are extended. Flipping letters and words around is still an issue. I also substitute in completely different words without realizing it all the time. I do wonder if I am also undiagnosed autistic and masked myself during the tests. Maybe one day I will have the resources to get tested again and can find out.
A often unmentioned form dyslexia often can take is what I call "physical" dyslexia. In example, I often find myself (well after I've done it) having completely flipped Mexico around, so the Yucatan Peninsula is in the Pacific, not Caribbean/Gulf of Mexico. I've done this the most with it, but also with various other landmasses and nations. It also can be again, with left & right. I'm a leftie, and holy hell is it a frequent thing where I raise my right hand when I mention I'm left handed, or point to the left when I say right. I catch it maybe 50%-70% of the time after I've done it. Obviously flipping words around (throwing them out of order), sometimes syllables, letters, etc. Letter dropping is a huge one many don't realize, too. Even syllable dropping. Adding in syllables and letters that are not present both while speaking and while spelling. So on. There is a lot of different forms and ways dyslexia manifests. It's most frequently though a disordering or outright reversing of things. I've found a useful tool to avoid dyslexia (unfortunately as it kills the humor of it for me) is intentionally trying to be dyslexic. If I intentionally attempt it, 100% of the time, it prevents dyslexia. It quite literally corrects the order. This makes me believe it really is again, a hardwired coding of the mind's processing of information that reverses and mixes up the order of things, thus why if you intentionally try to be dyslexic, it won't work as it forces the brain to reverse the order from it's default dyslexic state to the correct state. But in this video I learned it has a load more to it than that alone, which is a lot to process, and tough for me to believe (my brain and I cannot stand how constantly expanding, changing and altered every single thing is the mental & cognitive field). I am a strong revolt type with that kind of thing, it destroys any trust I may have had in it. It proves they don't know anything, and are still taking shots in the dark hoping they hit, and if they do hit something, they then roll with that, take a wild guess at "what it is and why" then state it as if fact. It makes everything confusing. So much is absolute, then within 3-6 years on average, that much is suddenly now absolutely NOT true and has been shifted to something completely unrelated and different, or mixed and conflated... and so much more crap like that.
What the what what! You literally just told me that most of the reasons I think I may be autistic could just be my dyslexia. 😅 I wish they actualy gave you a list of possible symptoms instead of just dropped a diagnosis on your head.
There are 3 core autism traits. Stephanie Bethany has some videos about the DSM 5 and how to interpret it. If you want to better know if you would meet the diagnostic criteria. They are from a year or two ago but they still are valid.
This makes sense. I've often wondered if I might be autistic or have ADD. I definitely am dyslexic and have dyscalculia too. Maybe my autistic/ADD like traits are really dyslexia.
I think I'm just autistic but various videos that list 'symptoms' of other conditions seem to align more than I'd expect. I've heard a little about dyslexia from different random places over time, and then looked at my own slower reading, sometimes quite far off accurate spelling, randomly mixing up the 'h' and 'k' when typing sometimes, forgetting the right word but knowing what it is if I hear it, once forgetting the word 'swatter' and asking family for the fly spatula, and other stuff like that and more that's maybe not anything to do with dyslexia like not being able to reply a sentence back to you word for word but somehow able to be completely certain I'm not saying the right sequence of words or the right words, as if reading it or saying it once has something hard coded like a game like sudoku or something where it then can't be repeated/uttered again exactly like that. It has occasionally been enough for me to wonder, but videos like this help me understand why I am made to wonder.
Ok, so. I was born with Autism, epilepsy, and dyslexia. I wasn’t diagnosed with dyslexia until I was like, maybe…10, 11? Something like that. I struggled in school…A lot, like…I had to be held back because I was such a late bloomer, and because of my mental handicaps, I struggled with learning. I was severely dyslexic, and so…I struggled a lot with reading, writing, spelling, and even math. Once the doctors diagnosed me, they were like “Yeah, she’s severely dyslexic”. So…yeah, after that I got moved to homeschool and I got dyslexia therapy (I believe I was one of the first kids to get it actually) and it took a while, but I eventually got the motivation to start reading and get better at reading and spelling. (Video games, and other screen based technology helped me a lot) now, I can read and spell just fine. Of course, I still struggle with certain things, my dyslexia is still here, but I’m leagues better now than I was over 10 years ago.
In 3rd grade, I was in Advanced spelling on paper, but in the same grade, I could not verbally spell outloud simple words for the spelling bee. Now age 40+... I still cant spell words outloud, for some reason. I occasionally use the wrong nouns. I am horrible at remembering people's names.
I think I'm probably dyslexic, and I think it's probably why I have so much trouble learning new languages. If you mess with the orthography even slightly, let alone use a completely different script, I *cannot* easily interpret that as the right sounds. I have to work so hard to make it make sense 😓 Ironically I never would've gotten a diagnosis because I was always really good at spelling lol. Thanks for the info as always! Edit: whoa really?! Left and right is a dyslexia thing. Huh. That explains a lot. I have to think about it every time 😅
Diagnosed th dyslexia at aged 11 because my school thought i was stupid. I can't begin to describe how difficult it is, working in customer service when on the sper of the moment, I get my left and right mixed up. Just pointing and going over there by the such n such, isn't enough most people. Stressed n anxiety don't help me rember the hand L thing, which doesn't make sence because both are L one is backwards so by daft dyslexia brain then tells me both are left. So I say left and the other left.
Yeah, I got the whole run of things.. ASD, ADHD, dyslexia, dyscalculia, NVLD.. Im not the inly one in my family whos autistic or have adhd. But im the only one with LDs. It affects my speaking sometimes. When my woeds get all jumbled and come out in the wrong order. A big one I dont hear about often is issues with lefts and rights. One of the reasons I refuse fo drive. My spelling and handwriting are both pretty crap. Unfortunately that translated to ballet too. I have a great musical ear. And tht autism loves ballet because of its structure. But it takes me a lot longer to learn combinations. Which can also be embarrassing. Even just this morning 😂 I woke up at 7:14. Could have gone back to sleep for snother 15-20m. But my brain was like.. ITS 7:41??? aaaand I was up after that In my case, both Dyslexia and NVLD can hinder reading comprehension 😑 plus thr issues with adhd making reading boring material incomprehensiblely boring. Everything goes right out the window There has been research that being born prematurely can up the chances of you being born with a neurodevelopmental disability and or LDs. So, I can only assume that becauseI was born early. I was the one in my family to have thr LDs. It was honestly pretty lonely. Everyone else in my family is "gifted" fast readers, excel in many things like music, learning langauges. And then there's me, kind of just got the bottom of the barrel. Only ine who never finished school. Because I wasnt diagnosed until adulthood. So I didnt get accomodations in school. I aas "just lazy". And ofc my family didnt know the signs of LDs. Thry all struggled in school (except one or two) mostly because of executive dysfunction. Not because of LDs. But they were all able to graduate 🤷🏽♀️ feeling like the thr outsider even in a family of ND people kind of sucks
All this sounds familiar. Especially the verbal directions, and the MATH. As in numbers getting jumbled. What is the ratio of left handed people with this?
It's as if I got the "full download" for my mother tongue as well as for English, could read both fluently by age six, however, writing is another thing, thanks to technology, I don't have to write much by hand. Full-blown dyscalculia though🙄
This caught my attention because I'm an autist, and my sister is dyslexic. Overlap? Not sure. If my sister has any trace of autism, it is very well masked. As for me, _min fadl Allah_ -- by the grace of God -- I have been blessed with a talent for spelling. It so nearly approaches perfection that I defy anyone to identify an error in anything I've written. BUT, when I try to read aloud, I sound like a drunken toddler. So, it's too early to say if I'm dystistic or just autilexic.
Skip the word? What? Skip? Nah, gotta figure out what that word means then maybe do a deep dive on the etymology side of it lol -Verbal processing disorder among other stuff, had to get therapy and such as a kiddo. I have always had an interest in language, especially ones with click and throat clearing noises. Always bothered me that I couldn't learn a second language no matter how hard I tried. Karen @proudlyautistic really nailed it with how we speak autistic and neurotypical as a second language. It makes perfect sense. We have to understand and follow the rules of the language and culture. How can you learn language without culture anyway? We lack culture and we already had to learn culture and language from a system that defines what those are but refuses to follow them No wonder I can't learn Spanish or pronounce some words in Lushootseed or Nahuatl no matter how hard I try. My body has literally been force trained to not be able to make those sounds :(
I was diagnosed with dyslexia at 8 yrs old. A saying i have to help me remember my left and rights whilst driving is the driver is always right so everything on the drivers side is to the right everything on the passenger side is to the left (I live in Australia, so this may not work for everyone)
I was classified as dyslexic at school but I think they just misdiagnosed my difficulties in school. My handwriting is attrocious because I have bad hand coordination. Dyslexia never fit for me because my reading and spelling is fine. It was nice that I was able to take my exams in a room alone though. Most of my learning happened after I finished school though because I was in ASDAN and we spent allot of the time at school just colouring in and wasting time. Because I was in the bottom group allot of the kids with bahavioural difficulties was in my class so even when I was in my favourite lesson (science) we never did anything because the kids was out of control. 😕
I was friends with a girl with epilepsy and during a science lesson with lamps and a glass refractor one of the kids started flashing their lamp at us and caused her to have a seizure. 😢
I hate when I have to read something that is harder than my dyslexia will allow me to comprehend…it’s like I’m reading it then all of the sudden it feels like the page stopped being in my language…like the old film reels 🎞️ that flicker past and make the movie understood but the machine suddenly stops and it is only on one frame that doesn’t make sense as a part of the film…my eyes go fuzzy and the page seems to disappear in front of my eyes just because of one or two words I couldn’t comprehend OR the combination of words that I know are laid out in a grammatical way that I can’t comprehend!! It sucks!!!
A co-worker with dyslexia wrote about 'pubic transport,' instead of 'public transport.' She's written other very funny things in emails unintentionally.
The problem I have with dyslexia is is one of the first conditions people go to when you have reading and writing problems but I don't have dyslexia watch don't jump around on the page And that is the condition that everyone goes on about so what condition have I got if I don't know that condition it seems like it's dyslexia or nothing
I don’t think i have dyslexia I do have autism tho :D I mean my school did test me for dyslexia which came out negative? Kinda idk they didn’t think i showed the symptoms so they just stopped lol my mom has dyslexia so if it’s possible but i don’t rly think so, I mean I do struggle a lil but rly w writing not so much w reading, ik what it looks like which is why I love/like autocorrect bc ik what letters r in it and if it suggest the wrong word then ik!! bc ik what it looks it I’m just not quite sure which order I mean I have an idea ofc, I do sometimes struggle w reading like sometimes the words? I mean they it’s not the letters tho, it’s not like I look at a “b” and mistake it for “d” it’s more then that, it’s more like I get my sentences mixed up, especially when it’s a lot kinda like what I wrote now… like if the sentence was idkk “The cat went and saw the door something something- And was walking inside the house something something” then I might read it as “the cat waking inside the door house” or something like that😅 but it’s not that bad I just reread bc yk it doesn’t make sense and after like 2 or 3 times of reading it I get it right lol Ppl say it’s bc I don’t read enough but I read everything I’m on social media a lot and I like to read the comments while watching vids to keep my attention span so I don’t know how much of that i believe in, I do also write a lil wonky ig for some reason I write down? Like this \ I mean it’s not that drastic but I do catch myself writing like that and I end up writing like this ~ which looks worse But I don’t think that’s dyslexia tho at least not for me but I’m not a person who can determine that so idk I’m neurodivergent I keep rambling sryyy!!! :>
I love and fear my special interests. I don't want to go mad or become even more distant from everyone at the precipice of maths or physics. It's more possible than you may believe.
I love and fear my special interests as well. At first I enjoy them but if I focus on them for too long it becomes harder and harder to stop. Then they become torture.
@@Catlily5 I hear you. I'm only just realizing some of the self-harm I've incurred/inflicted. I'm trying to turn my psychopathy on itself now to weed out and identify the patterns in my own behavior. I hope you're doing well, always.
Hm. No, didn´t knew all that. Was always very good at german and had very nice handwriting my teachers said. But maths and sports had been my bad subjects, from the very beginning. Later on higher school I always was bad if it was with numbers. Higher mathematics like "formal logic" I got As . Teachers did not understand that. Dislexia was known that times, dyscalculia was completly unknown to me and school system here. I am pretty sure I have this. (And dyspraxia, had a diagnose like that in early childhood, another name). I had a colleague with dylexia who explained me he is much better in writing with a typewriter (yes, I am old😅), because the 3D helps him. For me it is completly the other way round, it costs me so much time and energy writing on a computer and I make a lot of mistakes, switch letters, leave ot parts of words or sentences because my thoughts are faster then my ability to type. Here in english it is even worse of cause. And then the bloody german auto-correction often exchanges words or changes letters...(And as I mostly don´t wear my glasses to sensitivity issues on my phone I can´t see if I pick the right letters, but that´s another thing🙈) But I still imagine numbers as a dices. My mother played a lot of yatzhee (we call it Kniffel) with me to get better in calculation. So in my head I put dices together in a way that I order the numbers to tens (4 and six for example) or I order them in groups, if this makes sense to You. Teachers often told me I use very unique and too complicated methods to come to a result, so even if that was right I didn´t get a good mark. To have to come to the board and be constantly interrupted if I was doing it "my way" was so horrible I wasn´t able to even move in the end. Is it a thing that if typing makes it easier for people with dyslexia it can make it worse for people with dyscalculia? Just asking for a friend😉🤫🤭 So, a lot You mentioned reminds me of (my or common) ADHD-symptoms and dyspraxia. Would apreciate if You make a video about dyscalculia and dyspraxia too.
As someone who absolutely loves reading and writing, I'm exhausted by my lisdexia. As if autism isn't exhausting enough.
Thanks.
I am dyslexic. I have struggled all my life with the stress of dyslexia because I process differently, but still speak 4 languages. I am taking on the challenge of learning French and it is difficult for me, but I don't give up. I know that as a dyslexic person you have to be patient until the brain clicks into habit. Then you become brilliant at what you actually do.
Just slow down.. give yourself love and time.
Dyslexia from my fahter's side, autism traits from mother's. I recognise all the overlapping symptoms described, 75% personal experience. Interesting!🤓
Same and passed down the lovely combo to my kids and then add adhd from their dad… and aphantasia…. Make it stop 😂
Haha, wonder how long it will take (or took?) to notice the dyslexic typo in your comment, too. Love it though, it's hilariously perfect. It's one of my favorite things about being dyslexic! Laughing at the dyslexic errors, especially when talking about it. It's like a badge of honor.
I have dyslexia in other ways, it isn't always as blatant. I have issues speaking words clearly often and forget names frequently. I even forget my roommate's name sometimes or even Robin William's name even though I know his name.
me too :) names drop out of my head and facts too, frustrating when you're trying to learn somehting
I can picture things but can’t remember names or verbal words
I do that too! Oh my gosh
I have autism, ADHD, dyslexia, dyscalia, and an IQ of >140.
I write 50 pages per video essay I do most of the time. The work is great, the spelling mistakes are just fun spices thrown in unbeknownst to me until I edit the work lol
Wow, I had no idea! I have difficulty with orientating, left & right mixing up, oral instructions, time management, executive function like focus & motivation. I know I have Autistic traits so I thought maybe it's ADHD. Had no idea that dyslexia had so many aspects to it. 😮❤😮
There are many different kinds of dislexia with different root causes which is shown in multilingual people. One type may affect one set of languages while another impacts a different set of languages resulting in multilingual people who are only dyslexic in one language. So there aren't official names for the different groups yet but there's definitely one that's known that is nicknamed mathematically gifted English dislexia where the person actually also has this calcula, and struggles with the English language, but is exceptionally good at logic and deductive reasoning to the point where if they can struggle through it their math skills are way higher than normal once they get past the basic issues of memorizing multiplication addition subtraction division and that kind of thing. I have that kind and it's thought to be the kind that impacted Einstein based on the types of mistakes he would make and is fairly common for English speaking dyslexia. Imagine my surprise when I suddenly went from special ed mathematics to testing out of all of the mathematics that my college could offer. There's another one that is nicknamed Asiatic language dyslexia where people struggle with Japanese and Chinese written language, but are fine with English even if English is their second language. And I've heard there's quite a few other ones as well, such as the very common eye twitch dyslexia which is caused by spasmatic eye muscle control and is probably the most common form though it's been shown to be linked to the other kinds as well so it's kind of a complicated thing. Anyhow, dyslexia is not a single thing it is a description of a symptom and there's a lot of work left to be done to unravel the different variations of it and root causes.
@@darcieclements4880 That is really interesting. I have an issue where I sometimes see two letters or numbers flipped. My brain actually sees it wrong. Like seeing "was" instead of "saw" or "hte" instead of "the". Later if I look again I often see it correctly. I figured it out for reading because it doesn't make sense in a sentence. But it harmed me in math because the numbers can go in any order.
Back when I worked in PC repair, we often had to install Windows on systems & I often struggled with the product keys. Ultimately, reading the key out loud while entering it helped a lot.
I absolutely do not have Dyslexia but I do have Dyscalculia which is a problem with maths. I have every sympathy for dyslexics because when I look at a series of numbers in relation to maths it seems almost like gibberish to me such as hearing someone speaking a different language. I am decent at basic maths but simply cannot get a head around anything more complicated.
@spooookie1 Glad I came across your comment bc I also don't think that I have dyslexia
I didn't even know that there was a thing to have a condition were maths is gibberish. I will check this out bc maths is gibberish to me.
@@rachel18809 Hello Rachel. Yes, apart from the most basic maths I am flummoxed by anything else. It genuinely appears to be a completely new language, akin to Welsh, or Chinese.
When it comes to words I can read super fast and still take in what is written. But good luck. Hope you are now at least aware it's a real problem which quite a number (excuse the pun) of people have.
Sometimes I think I have dyscalculia, but in a weird way. I am almost unable to do basic math, but it's not a big deal for me to solve complex functions. Like I understand and recognise the logic behind math, but my brain can't seem to make sense of numbers (??)
Everyone's perceptions of normalcy and disregard for their own behavior patterns is what I deal with. It's lead to anger issues and stuff. This is related to me not knowing I was autistic. I adapted by assuming everyone knew what I knew. I now know, you are not in the ballpark and that is great for you! Great for all of us really. You're going to look at me differently, eventually. 😂
Me, too.
Before this video even started I wanted to say that I know my left from my right but if I’m trying to get somewhere and someone else is driving I always accidentally say the opposite direction I mean for them to take. I have no idea why. My brain knows it’s left but my mouth says Go right.
I’m also chronically late, a tidsoptimist. I can get up 3 hours before work and still be running to the time clock.
The earlier I get up the harder it is to get there on time. Because I can try to fit in more things before leaving.
I have somewhat the same issue, especially if I have to give directions fast, in my case its because I cant remember what left and right is, but I can tell which is my right arm. Maybe you have similar workarounds, but theyre so habitual you may not realise you have them.
I am AuDHD & belong to the Dys Family... Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, Dysgraphia & Dystonia lol and im not dumb analysing and compensating a life time to find I have many talents in many diverse fields 😂
Learning that people with Dyslexia can have a 3 dimensional thought process was absolutely insane.. And its what helped me look into it and realize I am in fact Dyslexic. I was actually held back in school because I didn't like doing the writing assignments.. I talked with a Dr of some flavor and he said I was fine and "Gave the most original answers I've ever heard from someone his age" The school wanted me to get on meds for ADD but really I just had trouble writing and focusing because words and letters are weird.. I also struggled with just not talking much so I don't think I was ever really able to verbalize what was happening.. And here I am now trying to figure it all out on my own. Which has been interesting and fun despite the bit of frustration that it would have helped me much earlier in life.
3 dimensional thought process?
@@ultimatecountryguides9104 Yes.. So the best way I can describe it is the scene from Iron man when Jarvis helps him design the suit.. Personally its like imagining things in the space around me and being able to manipulate them.. Its not always like that theres also just words or pictures/movie like thoughts.. One proposal is this 3 dimensional thought is why p, b, d, M, W, are often mixed up..
@@SliceyMcHackHack This is so interesting. Glad I stumbled across your comment. I have only just looked into it, to understand it. I saw a small video on instagram. A guy was explaining that dyslexia was a superpower. I was told, without being told that I was stupid. Got placed into all the lower levels in school. What a tough lesson this world is. thanks for sharing
As a Dyslexic AuDHD I can't trust what I read, unless I read it at minimum twice (probably three times).
I find that unless I intend to read, I can look right at words and not decode them.
I think this is because I can't trust my reading if I am not "really focused" & have time to check my work.
"Not" statements are the worst.
I swear the word "not" pops in and out of existence. 😂
I feel you! The word "not" is one of my many written enemies!
I hate the autism tests where they say "I do not dislike _____"
Orion! This is absolutely crazy.
Litterally, just hours before you posted this video, I was spending a good amount of time, anylizing the relationship between Autism and ADHD.
Particularly these symptoms that are shared between the two conditions.
Particularly I was theorizing, with the idea that as autistic people with our comprehension being very organic, and therefor often differing from societal practices maybe we struggle with aspects of language that require a lot of interpretation of seemingly impractical styles within our language.
Like the fact we have letter that look the same forwards or backwards, seems pretty backwards ideologically, to me anyways.
Language is has so many areas that could be improved on, we are really stuck with some outdated practices, and I think autistic brains see the faults in the pattern.
b and d. What a stupid thing. 50+ years of practice and still need to slow down to make sure I got it right, decuase apparently if you mix 'em up suddenly people don't know what you mean? IDK, that's not the way my brain works.
I think dyslexia is like autism in that it’s a spectrum, each person experiences it with different intensity, for example I once met someone who argued me that I could skim read as his daughter had dyslexia and she could.
Everyone experiences it differently and may have more of a challenge than someone else. Doesn’t mean his daughter doesn’t have it, but also doesn’t mean that one day I’m suddenly going to be able to do that task!
I also have auditory processing, which I don’t know about Australia but in the uk when your assessed for dyslexia you don’t automatically get tested for apd. Also you can have some apd traits with dyslexia and not full blown apd. It is a separate condition.
So I can hear perfectly well, but my brain’s interpretation of what I hear is a disconnect. I have to lip read, so if you face away or we are in a busy environment I find it so tiring trying to understand what people are saying. No wonder I struggled at school!
Coloured overlays helps me, type dyslexia into Amazon and it will come up with coloured txt books and overlays. You can also go into settings - accessibility - display & text - colour filters - tick it on and you can play around with the colour, just untick box to turn off.
I have dyslexia, apd, (unsure if full blown of just part of my dyslexia) dyscalculia and autism.
I would be interested in, we know that autism runs in families and so does dyslexia. But I wonder if all these nerodivergent run in families like parent dyslexic and child autistic or vs Versa. As my mums dyslexic and has a dyslexic child, me and then an autistic child.
Thanks to my iPhone that you were able to read this. 😆 I love technology.
I think a lot of people don't understand that there are multiple types of Dyslexia.. I would agree that its also a spectrum as everyone doesn't display all of the variants. Some people have just one while others have 2 or more. For myself I absolutely cant skim read.. It feels physically impossible.. If I skim its just looking at the letters and symbols until I find what I want. None of the rest was taken in.. But I read very well so long as I read every single word..
@@SliceyMcHackHack same I have to read every single word, sometime read it twice for comprehension. I read slow also, but faster than when younger.
As I have friends, one who really struggles with spelling and can see it in her messages like whinnie the Pooh’s messages, and another friend who went to university. It’s such a vast difference.
Have you seen dyslexic thinking, they trying to make it a good thing to employ dyslexic people, but I think they are only thinking of those who have mild struggles!
Be good tho if there was someone fighting for all nero differences for all our struggles! Mild to severe!
And yes true a lot of people don’t realise autism looks vastly different as does dyslexia. Mine has improved with age but I struggle without technology.
It's my theory that pretty much every human characteristic or condition is actually a spectrum -- a limited infinity of values within a gamut defined by the trait in question.
@@thomsonclan5878 *I have mental and emotional blocks that derailed growth-seeking at birth and prevented my learning relational fundamentals.* Independent of sensory processing issues, which only cropped up recently - now I've involuntary stutter and/or mutism as a symptom of Long CoVid.
Dyslexia is definitely a spectrum and its extremely hard to diagnose if it didnt impairs a childrens ability to learn and as in my case just learn to read and write with their right brain only. I thought I am just a slow reader until I realised the way I read isnt really the neurotypical way.
I've never thought of myself as being dyslexic but it is noticeable that I can't read as fast as what's a comfortable speed for non-dyslexic people. Reading in general takes a lot of energy and is therefore not relaxing or pleasing to do. In fact, too much of it will cause me stress.
I don't have a problem with references, technical books, news articles etc but onces the content becomes too long, my brain wants to pass out.
Thank you! I always wondered how I could be autistic and SUCK at maths at the same time. Now I know.
I’m dyslexic and I find myself often thinking one thing and saying another and it’s so frustrating. Was diagnosed several decades ago when very few got diagnosed but it was significantly making things worse learning. More recently my husband has been diagnosed with autism and now I’m in the process for a diagnosis myself, so likely to have both as too many struggles l have don’t seem part of a sole diagnosis of dyslexia.
I have dyslexia and adhd, but I have always attributed thinking one thing but saying another to adhd. Interesting
@@missquprison I’m now wondering if I might have ADHD as well
Totally agree. Totally. And its not well known at all... A nightmare for those who live with them though! We need books and therapists on this subject and support groups - check out Mark Hutten
I was told by my psychology teacher, who was a retired psychiatrist that I had dyslexia. He said he could tell from both my typed and handwritten papers as there were a number of habits in my writing that gave it away. I fully believe him too as I do reverse sequences of numbers when reading them or saying them outloud. I also had great issues when it came to reading and writing, both of which I was slow at understanding. Which is despite my verbal vocabulary which was very strong as a child, as I loved learning new words and using them whenever I could. I probably often sounded like a child from the victorian era and not a 90's kid like I was😂.
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So losing words is also part of dyslexia, good to know! I didn't know that and I do that so often both when writing or speaking which is incredibly frusterating😞.
I'm always frustrated by the misconception with dyslexia because of how debilitating it actually can be in general. I suffer from pretty moderate-severe dyslexia but inconveniently, am quite intelligent. On top of that, I'm rather literate but only selectively so. I've also got an above-average vocabulary repertoire but poor recollection skills. (Think of Porky Pig trying to say "th tha thatss all folks") I live in a constant state of words being "tip of the tongue".
I struggle terribly in event and word sequencing, as well as listening and written-contextual comprehension. So everything comes together to form one giant cluster of looking competent but struggling terribly on the inside. People seem to think that dyslexia is just some sort of cute-sie "tee-hee I see 'b' and 'd' backwards" but in reality, I've got nothing akin to such symptoms. I'd put myself in the "I have trouble putting/reading words into the right order sequence" category. Think of a normal person's pathways to their different brain sectors as a straw, but most of mine are Crazy Straws going in unnecessary loops and bends just to get to the right areas. Some pathways are faster, some slower.
On a daily basis, I just look like an average dude because I've got symptoms that ironically work against each other- but on the inside, I'm tripping over words, have poor reading/listening comprehension, am intelligent enough to have a huge vocabulary but can't spell any of the words on paper well enough, if spellcheck doesn't save me from my phonetics. I'm talented with 3D manipulations naturally but clumsy as hell with dexterity.
It's terribly challenging as a disability and people only see the end-product of the amount of work that goes into appearing "normal" when I'm working 4 times as hard on the inside to do it.
I am nearly 40, and have autism and dyslexia. this video was great at summing up some common overlaps! although i don't struggle too much with organisation as i stick to strict routines and habits, the rest i experience very regularly. like reading a book to my 5yo, and after about the 10th read this one word i kept struggling to say or even understood how it fit in the sentence, the word i suddenly worked out was "medical". Luckliy my 5yo is very patient with me haha.
I get that reading to your kid. I found books I could read musically I'd have no issues with but reading just story was difficult.
Im dyslexic, diagnosed at 5. I really wish they would gave tested for autism too because i relate or identify with all the traits. Dyslexia messes with my speech i basically talk in cursive and ny pattern is all over the place.
Sorry I'm not capable of listening to this right now. (Bad day for me) But for all that you mentioned did you also mention that your brain gets things muddled up. So if you hear something or read it in the right sequence it may come out in the wrong sequence. Most people in those related to me by blood are dylexic. It is a very wide range which affects everyone differently. Very much like how autism is a spectrum so is dyslexia. My sister has a phd in medical research yet she is very dyslexic. It's not about intelligence. (I know you said that bit, just reinforcing it.) Will listen to this again when my brain is more on this planet
I can relate to this... thanks for the awareness. If I take notes while I'm trying to remember or learn something new, they don't help most or the time. they no longer make sense to me. the subject of numbers is a huge issue for me. Thanks Orion. things are so hard to interpret in general. However, I march on! My Friend Autism... I work through it.
My spelling and reading has always been rather good. My hand writing is appalling. It took me years to learn to write as a child. Was so far behind my peers in that aspect, yet ahead of them in reading. Struggle to read out loud quite a bit and can't spell words out in my head (struggle to visualise the word), but give me a pen or keyboard and 99% of the time I can spell correctly
I still can't read my own handwriting.
Do you think there could be a possibility that you have dysgraphia? It is a lesser known learning disability that affects the ability to write. Dysgraphics may physically feel pain in their hands when writing and also have difficulty in finding the right words to write down, kind of like a paper jam in the brain. It also affects how neat your writing looks and writing speed. I have dysgraphia and your experience sounded similar to mine.
@@dontmindmejustlurking4012 My hand pretty much constantly hurts when I write. I'm always having to put the pen down and have a rest. I always put it down to holding my pen in an unconventional way. It's like a cramp that starts in the thumb and spreads throughout my whole hand. I often struggle to find the right words to start a sentence when I'm writing, or my brain is too quick for my hand n I can't get it written down quick enough. Thankfully we have keyboards and can edit what we write without consequence.
@@hourcide Are you hypermobile? Do your fingers bend back farther than they should? That can cause pain while writing.
@@Catlily5 Not really. Quite the opposite in fact. My fingers don't bend back at all. My wife suffers with hypermobility. She can't stand still for too long cuz it hurts her knees. She thinks my fingers don't bend enough and (being honest) I am a little freaked out by how much her fingers can bend backwards.
I was diagnosed with dyslexia at an early age, but as an adult, I'm now actually going through testing for other diagnoses. ASD, OCD and ADHD. I highly agree with your descriptions of dyslexia. It resonates well. I appreciate your work friend!
Glad someone brought this up, here I thought I was just going mad!
I have been diagnosed with both dyslexia and autism so I certainly connect with what you spoke about. My dyslexia and autism surprisedly weren’t picked up till university and after it. My dyslexia diagnosis was picked up first.
Spot on your looking inside my Autistic and Dyslexic mind. Thank you for explaining this.
7:00 Ding, fries are done. >.>
I'm a surveyor who uses L on my hand to discern left vs right XD
I have dyslexia dyscalculia, other learning disabilities , autism, anxiety, OCD, I've been diagnosed with ADHD many times first started when I was like 5 years old, but I still am not totally for sure if I have ADHD or not, I was put on stimulant meds when I was only 5 years old and it did horrible things, the side effects were horrible, it didn't do anything good for me, maybe it helped others because I was so terrified to do anything so I sat there but my thoughts were going crazy but I was too terrified to move or say anything, the stimulants were one of the most scariest medications, well actually I've been on a lot of really scary medications, cuz I was misdiagnosed many times so yeah...
(Now I'm 41).
omg the remembering the words from memory during conversation. Can't remember the most basic words 😢
Me too! I have a good vocabulary but I forgot basic words.
We have dyslexia & dyspraxia in my family & I'm waiting for an autism diagnosis. I suspect more of my relations have 1 or more of these, but we're not the kind of family that talks about things like that, which is a shame.
Orion may I ask..? Do youtube uploaders have a choice about having adverts in their videos? and if yes do they choose how many? Thank you. I think I have aural and verbal dyslexia - if there's such a thing ;) Edit: I forgot to say how relieved I was that there were no ads. in your video, and if you had something to do with that - a deep sincere thank you from me x
Not him but I'm a creator and yes the UA-camr can choose how many ads if any at all. We don't have control over what ad plays tho :)
Came to a page providing support for autism to hear one of the best explanations of the symptoms of dyslexia I have ever heard. Thank you so much. !!! I am dyslexic with two older teen dyslexic children. We need more good explanations like this in Australian schools now.
Hi! I am a Yung late diagnosed autistic and dyslexic woman and I just feel like this video explains so mutch of my life❤️I want to thank u Orion (if u ever see this😅) for the huge part you have had in my journey to self discovery, self acceptance and understanding who I am and who I could one day be😊 it's from ppl like you we really learn what autism is and I thank you for giving me a way to learn about autism and who I am❤️
I was early diagnosed with Asperger's before it was considered part ASD in 90s. In the 90s I was diagnosed with Dyslexia, on in the way impacts my writing. In school I had reading comprehension several grade levels higher than one expect at my age. I was readding complex books in grade 4. I read an entire encylopedia set, it's just what we had at home. My reading is slower, I strugle to read outload. When I write I miss words, it's right in my brain and and I can't see the missing words as my brain puts it in when I read my writing back. In school it was thought I couldn't be dyslexic as I could read comprehend so well.
Right and Left, get that. Driving with someone one, someone say take the next left. For me I have to think about it about 3-5 seconds. Then I miss the turn. Now add this to autism. This gets messy. So not only do I struggle to know left from right but I can come up many way to go left then need to ask for clarity as I'm not undestanding which left they actually mean. Add to that my taking things litterally I take some saying right as not diretion that I'm right about something.
To me it often feels like battle between my autims and dyslexia. I think my autism allows me to read at high comprehension level while my writing doesn't even come close. If you have ever read my comments you might have noticed my gramar, spelling and missing words or wrong words. I use your and you're for example incorrecty.
I relate a lot to what you said because I read at a high level, but I skip words when writing and mix up left and right. I was never diagnosed with dyslexia though.
Thank you, this is the most comprehensive description that I've heard. My son will be assessed for dyslexia soon and I (autistic mom) feel more informed on how to help. Keep up the great work
This video explains so much... 😢had I known any of this before I wouldn't have felt so stupid all of my life for always getting lost, not being able to differentiate between my right and left and so on
I am always using substitute words and this moves us closer having a stutter as well as the connections you are putting between dyslexia and autism
Very well explained Orion. I've never heard anyone mention some of your examples and some really match with me. You’ve helped me understand Dyslexia more. Thanks again.
There's also mirror image dyslexia, where the brain wants to read from the right to the left. It's easier for me to read a reflection or read a book upside-down or reading words from the wrong side of glass (like at the doctors office or the store) I'm 50yo and I've had to learn tricks around my dyslexia.
So in Egypt or Israel you might not be dyslexic?
I’m extremely dyslexic, and both of my sons are autistic. My oldest son taught himself how to read at 3 years old to a young adult level. My youngest son invents words because he can’t remember the normal word eg. Pop seeds for popcorn
Word retrieval problems, problems telling left from right, problems estimating time, problems prioritizing tasks, poor handwriting, difficulty following oral instructions those are the symptoms I have in this video.
My mind actually sees letters and numbers flipped sometimes. For words this doesn't cause me too many problems because words only go in certain orders. If my brain sees "hte" I know it is probably "the". If my brain sees the wrong number I don't know that I am seeing it incorrectly. Before cell phones I called wrong numbers a lot! I would check and then see that I had reversed two numbers.
I am actually a very good reader. My parents had no TV so I escaped through reading.
Math was more of a struggle. I could understand the concept but I flipped numbers and often got the wrong answers.
Excellent 🎉tx
Here is me learning new things every day! I am AuDHD, but I am good with reading and writing (never had issues with it, apart from a word here and there, but that is normal, especially since English is not my native language) meaning that I never considered I could be dyslexic. However, the other things mentioned here are definitely things I encounter! Who knew that I could, potentially, still be dyslexic even though I can read and write (spell) without issues. Huh.
This is an excellent explanation Orion. Well done sir ! 👍
Cheers bro appreciate it 🤙🏻
Just a correction.
Mathematics is a language in itself. It is just a language that is really different in how you express yourself and the rules are way more strict in most cases.. it is also a ultra compact language, in other words there are a tone of information within mathematical sentence. So comprehension of the language are something even non dyslexia people struggle with
I have Dyscalulia. Math for me was a living nightmare when I was in school. I struggle with directions. Especially when traveling.The numbered road signs , 😫😫😫. I can’t begin to tell you how many times I have to turn around and go the other way. Even with Google maps it’s a challenge . If Google says the names of the streets or roads I need to take. I’m ok. If it gives me the numbers for the directions , yikes ! Luckily for me it doesn’t interfere with my reading skills. I really enjoy books. Thanks for the info. It helped my son to understand his mom a little better. ❤
Another GREAT video Orion, and a very important one. As a fellow late diagnosed individual with ASD (although my parents had more than a few reasonable suspicions of 'something' being a bit 'off' as a child of the 70's, so little was known, nor done about it), I 'broke' a bit over a year ago, and since then became agoraphobic, on top pf my pre-existing anxiety/depression following a severe workplace 'stress related' injury 10 years ago, which was then amplified by two in a row a bit over a year ago, which lead to my 'break'! For the first time that I can recall (aside from the original injury), I lost proper use of speech, ability to spell when writing, and cannot remember words I have used most of my life! I had actually used the phrase "becoming dyslexic" before I was diagnosed with ASD mid last year.
It has taken a year of being pretty much housebound, (as well as a few disputes being resolved very recently) to begin to make some kind of a recovery, however I am now easily 'triggered', when I was not before, as I used to be in customer service for most of my life, and I am much more isolated and keep a distance from my parents, and others when I did not before. I will engage in conversation when I get a delivery or something, or the once or so a fortnight when I may leave the house to go shopping or an appointment which cannot be done via phone.
I can only put it down to 'burnout' of the Autistic kind, as I have endured much more in the past, without this kind of extreme response, although things have been building for a few years now, mostly as a result of employment issues and insecurity, which I did not have 10 years ago. Eventually, your body and mind says "enough is enough"! It is best to recognise it before it gets too far, however, my fault was to continue working, and struggling when I probably should have just stopped. However, I was not getting any professional help, despite asking for it, and I could not stand by and lose my home either...which may still occur! Wow, you gotta love being alive, eh?
I recently learned that there are 6 types of dyslexia and learned at the age of 36 that I most likely have dyslexia. Better late than never I guess. I was told at 27 that I was probably autistic and got officially diagnosed at 32. It's still good to know.
The first thought out of my mind and mouth is oh no well I swore really what a combination 😢😢😢
I really do think I have dyslexia because back when I was in school I couldn't read or spell and my writing was sloppy
I was diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia and audio processing disorder as a child back in the 90s around probably mid 90s. I didn’t know I was autistic as well autism and ADHD dyslexia, audio processing disorder and a lot of layers of difficulty but what I learn as a kid who is dyslexic and taking several classes based on the study of plants classes the words were Latin for the scientific names of those plants I could not sound out syllables sounds confidence or even correctly match sounds with the letters correctly or silent letters, but one thing I could do was remember patterns and structure remembered, saying giant run-on sentences with the letter of each word, spelling out the word to be able to correctly spell out the Latin scientific names of plants I legitimately read by the standards of what people consider reading because of special recognition skills and being able to recognize patterns I was able to create giant run-on sentences that would spell out these immensely large scientific Latin words which made no sense in my opinion, but I was able to spell them out due to the fact I was able to recognize patterns actually do not really know how to read, but remember the look of the word and the sound that goes with the word but not the actual spelling out of the word very much at all so I read and spell my spelling is horrible unless I’ve seen the word so much that I know the pattern so pattern recognition allowed me to be able to read but not actually understand how I’m doing it other than matching up words and the whole entire word that goes with the structure of the word.
Know as I’ve gotten older and recognized it more a little bit when I was a kid though the audio processing disorder you really do hear the wrong thing sometimes and you’ll be like what did that person just say did they really just say that and you’re like no way they said that and then you ask, and they didn’t ADD, but the non-hyperactive variant causes me to be very quick to respond to emotional responses as well as added sensitivity and ADHD as well. Makes it hard to stay committed to something long enough all over the place and racing thought not negative, but constantly thinking about 100 miles an hour and having everything race through your head processing probably 80% of it autism I think due to high masking skills and high IQ I was able to mask. I thought I was normal and then reality hit me, I’m from normal and now I’m just trying to figure out all these different deficits and finding the strengths and trying to figure myself out after years of traumatically repressing my feelings, emotions, thoughts and actions so it’s like trying to find yourself all over again when you never really knew yourself because you were a high masking individual that literally blended in like a chameleon and a camouflage device radar that could be used as an example hiding one’s self at the cost of detrimentally damaging and repressing so you can also probably include some form of trauma. Autism affected me in more extreme methods as well repressed and emotional delay and understanding and low emotional IQ specifically in Affective empathy extremely high cognitive empathy at a high understanding of situational awareness, but at the same time, extreme levels of mind blindness not a good combination to say the least, but what I gain from my depression was this I tried to seek out answers to why a relation I had was struggling so much I studied psychology and philosophy deeply, including cluster B personality, disorders and autism and all kinds of other different types of disorders, psychologically being aware of self reflection intersection, understanding of emotions, cognitive functioning, although I do extremely well with facial recognition test scoring above average than the normal person due to the fact that I had to be aware of how people were feeling their emotions when I was young and it felt like a survival skill all of the unique combinations of disorders experiences and emotions have cultivated a very depressed person extremely intelligent with the same time emotionally dumb, but in understanding peoples behavior motives that’s easy understanding why people act the way they do that’s easy, but actually emotionally connecting and feeling their emotions in a shared way I very rarely capable of that which sucks because leaves so many blind spots it’s a disconnect and it sucks and it’s not by choice and I wish it was different. I’ve grown my emotional capabilities beyond what I ever thought I could and I’m not masking anymore and not masking anymore. People started what happened to you you’re different, yeah it’s because I’m no longer wearing the mask. I’m not as nice as what I was always trying to be people pleasing now I try to focus more on myself, but at the same time being courteous and respectful but now I don’t let people step all over me as much, I’m run on sentence. Too any of these things you can relate to let me know I’m always up for making new friends as long as they are the right type of friend
Lord of the rings, love plants, biology, psychology, philosophy I don’t like small talk I can tolerate it, but it’s boring. Deep conversations are the only thing that are interesting. It’s like do you want quantity or quality? I would prefer quality over quantity when it comes to social interactions I don’t like people , who are quick to judge based on first opinions although I tend to be a bit of a sympathetic person but I can be very sympathetic. It’s a mix of nuts but I’m always up for a new friends especially if they play Minecraft Fortnite
Thank you Kelly🙃
I have dyslexia but im on a higher reading level than most people in my class and i Can write decently lol 💖📕i also love reading
Growing up, they knew I had dyslexia but wouldn't test me because it cost too much. I was in special Ed 1st until I graduated. I graduated with a 4th grade reading and spelling level. I was given spelling tests all through high school. I learned more about dyslexia once I went to school to be a teacher. I learned that I do not understand syllables. You can teach me and I will remember for 15 minutes and then forget again. I break up words wrong. I learned that once a teacher is with dyslexia there are some sounds you might not hear. That is why words can be hard to understand, and dancing to a rhythm can be hard. I actually, in 2022, got evaluated for autism and dyslexia at the same time. I wanted to get the official diagnosis of dyslexia. So, I had them test for both. I got both diagnoses. I am lucky my mother helped me write my college papers because I made a lot of errors and did see them. She would repeatedly point them out, and I still struggled to see them. So I tell her my degree is her degree. She was in school and didn't know it.
I am dyslexic and have aphantasia but I am not diagnosed with autism, and not sure if I have it or not. Don't think I ever will get checked out as I am indifferent to the label or not. But thinking about myself as having most of the traits helps me deal with things better.
I have stopped having bad conscience for not being often enough in contact with friends and family (or as often as they want), and instead just accept that I am doing my best and that is good enough.
If there are groups of people talking and I don't know where to be in between conversations I have stopped trying to force myself make it look like I am part in one of them and instead rest by being in my mind looking at the table or something. Etc etc
Directions are hard to learn when you work in theater. The act of going on and off the stage is from the audiences point of view. So if you exit stage left, your actually exiting to your right.
OMG, what?
the directionsl th😅ng that struggle with is mirror images, and which eyebrow is the lower one. I actually have a photograph “file” in m😢 phone titled, “Eyebrows. I have a trick i use, to determine which sideof ny face. U put up my right index finger and that points to tje right eyebrow.
Strangely enough, Maps are a special interest of mine as well as the sun in the Southern sky, and its placement throughout the day.
I do not recall having a hard time gradpi g reading, however comprehension was always diddicult, anssliw reading speed.
Handwriting was always a mess. In second hrade, the teacher wrote, Cat struggles with handwriting. Humirously, my mom scribbled a note that was illegible to the teachet. lmao
I was in the advanced reading group in my first grade class after a few weeks of the school year. Once I misread a word the started with a lower case "L" and tried to pronounce the letter as an upper case "I". I was being moody that day and protesting the fact that those letters look too similar. The teacher saw it as a need to move me to the next slower reading group. I screwed myself then but I also learned that complaining to the wrong person about a policy problem is absolutely useless and can even be counter productive. I have trouble with following instructions, big problems but it's usually because the instructions are poorly informed.
Thank you for this video! Just as autism has very incorrect stereotypes, so does dyslexia.
“Oh, you’re dyslexic? You must write your letters backwards.” - WRONG!
“Oh, you can’t be dyslexic, you don’t have a spelling problem.” - WRONG AGAIN!
Dyslexia is do much more!
I am 40 years old within the last 3 weeks I learned that I'm autistic.
I always thought that I was stupid or dumb because of my inability to read properly or fast or comprehend. Don't get me wrong I can read and comprehend but it's extremely difficult and takes me a lot longer than my wife when she's reading something and comprehending something.
It kind of sucks being autistic but at the same time at least I know it's not me as a person I would try very hard to get better at these tasks and never could understand why I couldn't succeed.
Now it is all starting to make sense and so many other things like why I never slept well at night or couldn't even go to sleep for that matter.
Thanks autism
I tend to replace words and numbers get jumbled up in their order. Pushing buttons on a credit card machine at the store “balance inquiry or purchase” I’ll mean to push purchase and push inquiry. 😅 I mix up spelling when writing too. Can actually write an entire wrong word or just letters. 🤷♂️
Never been dyslexic (the reading issues never presented which i'm grateful for) I got Disgraphia, the fine motor control cousin that does all the same spelling, and letter/number confusion just only on the expression level for me.
Childhood diagnosed dyslexian here. I had to use tricks like a bed has headboard and footboard the same as the vertical lines of the letters b from d. Left and right was also a struggle where I still hold out my hands and look for the L shape when my thumbs and index fingers are extended. Flipping letters and words around is still an issue. I also substitute in completely different words without realizing it all the time. I do wonder if I am also undiagnosed autistic and masked myself during the tests. Maybe one day I will have the resources to get tested again and can find out.
A often unmentioned form dyslexia often can take is what I call "physical" dyslexia. In example, I often find myself (well after I've done it) having completely flipped Mexico around, so the Yucatan Peninsula is in the Pacific, not Caribbean/Gulf of Mexico. I've done this the most with it, but also with various other landmasses and nations. It also can be again, with left & right. I'm a leftie, and holy hell is it a frequent thing where I raise my right hand when I mention I'm left handed, or point to the left when I say right. I catch it maybe 50%-70% of the time after I've done it. Obviously flipping words around (throwing them out of order), sometimes syllables, letters, etc. Letter dropping is a huge one many don't realize, too. Even syllable dropping. Adding in syllables and letters that are not present both while speaking and while spelling. So on. There is a lot of different forms and ways dyslexia manifests. It's most frequently though a disordering or outright reversing of things.
I've found a useful tool to avoid dyslexia (unfortunately as it kills the humor of it for me) is intentionally trying to be dyslexic. If I intentionally attempt it, 100% of the time, it prevents dyslexia. It quite literally corrects the order. This makes me believe it really is again, a hardwired coding of the mind's processing of information that reverses and mixes up the order of things, thus why if you intentionally try to be dyslexic, it won't work as it forces the brain to reverse the order from it's default dyslexic state to the correct state.
But in this video I learned it has a load more to it than that alone, which is a lot to process, and tough for me to believe (my brain and I cannot stand how constantly expanding, changing and altered every single thing is the mental & cognitive field). I am a strong revolt type with that kind of thing, it destroys any trust I may have had in it. It proves they don't know anything, and are still taking shots in the dark hoping they hit, and if they do hit something, they then roll with that, take a wild guess at "what it is and why" then state it as if fact. It makes everything confusing. So much is absolute, then within 3-6 years on average, that much is suddenly now absolutely NOT true and has been shifted to something completely unrelated and different, or mixed and conflated... and so much more crap like that.
I am actually Hyperlexia learned to read when I was 5😊
What the what what! You literally just told me that most of the reasons I think I may be autistic could just be my dyslexia. 😅
I wish they actualy gave you a list of possible symptoms instead of just dropped a diagnosis on your head.
There are 3 core autism traits. Stephanie Bethany has some videos about the DSM 5 and how to interpret it. If you want to better know if you would meet the diagnostic criteria. They are from a year or two ago but they still are valid.
This makes sense. I've often wondered if I might be autistic or have ADD. I definitely am dyslexic and have dyscalculia too. Maybe my autistic/ADD like traits are really dyslexia.
I think I'm just autistic but various videos that list 'symptoms' of other conditions seem to align more than I'd expect. I've heard a little about dyslexia from different random places over time, and then looked at my own slower reading, sometimes quite far off accurate spelling, randomly mixing up the 'h' and 'k' when typing sometimes, forgetting the right word but knowing what it is if I hear it, once forgetting the word 'swatter' and asking family for the fly spatula, and other stuff like that and more that's maybe not anything to do with dyslexia like not being able to reply a sentence back to you word for word but somehow able to be completely certain I'm not saying the right sequence of words or the right words, as if reading it or saying it once has something hard coded like a game like sudoku or something where it then can't be repeated/uttered again exactly like that. It has occasionally been enough for me to wonder, but videos like this help me understand why I am made to wonder.
I am able to scan and to also comprehend
I communicate through visual pyramids. Dyslexia is top then all the other features follow
Ok, so. I was born with Autism, epilepsy, and dyslexia. I wasn’t diagnosed with dyslexia until I was like, maybe…10, 11? Something like that.
I struggled in school…A lot, like…I had to be held back because I was such a late bloomer, and because of my mental handicaps, I struggled with learning.
I was severely dyslexic, and so…I struggled a lot with reading, writing, spelling, and even math. Once the doctors diagnosed me, they were like “Yeah, she’s severely dyslexic”. So…yeah, after that I got moved to homeschool and I got dyslexia therapy (I believe I was one of the first kids to get it actually) and it took a while, but I eventually got the motivation to start reading and get better at reading and spelling. (Video games, and other screen based technology helped me a lot) now, I can read and spell just fine. Of course, I still struggle with certain things, my dyslexia is still here, but I’m leagues better now than I was over 10 years ago.
im pretty sure i have dysgraphia, i dont think i struggle with reading things, just writing them
In 3rd grade, I was in Advanced spelling on paper, but in the same grade, I could not verbally spell outloud simple words for the spelling bee.
Now age 40+... I still cant spell words outloud, for some reason.
I occasionally use the wrong nouns. I am horrible at remembering people's names.
I think I'm probably dyslexic, and I think it's probably why I have so much trouble learning new languages.
If you mess with the orthography even slightly, let alone use a completely different script, I *cannot* easily interpret that as the right sounds. I have to work so hard to make it make sense 😓
Ironically I never would've gotten a diagnosis because I was always really good at spelling lol.
Thanks for the info as always!
Edit: whoa really?! Left and right is a dyslexia thing. Huh. That explains a lot. I have to think about it every time 😅
My body seems to switch left and right depending on the day! 😅
So, have you found any studies that give the percentage of Autistic people who also have co-occuring dyslexia ? If so, can you post the link(s) ? TY !
My issues are similar, but only with numbers. They're all strange to me, and it's very hard to figure out without help, even as an adult.
Diagnosed th dyslexia at aged 11 because my school thought i was stupid.
I can't begin to describe how difficult it is, working in customer service when on the sper of the moment, I get my left and right mixed up. Just pointing and going over there by the such n such, isn't enough most people. Stressed n anxiety don't help me rember the hand L thing, which doesn't make sence because both are L one is backwards so by daft dyslexia brain then tells me both are left. So I say left and the other left.
If I'm getting in overstimulation, I stutter really really hard. Can't utter a sentence without blocking on b and p.
Yeah, I got the whole run of things.. ASD, ADHD, dyslexia, dyscalculia, NVLD.. Im not the inly one in my family whos autistic or have adhd. But im the only one with LDs. It affects my speaking sometimes. When my woeds get all jumbled and come out in the wrong order. A big one I dont hear about often is issues with lefts and rights. One of the reasons I refuse fo drive. My spelling and handwriting are both pretty crap. Unfortunately that translated to ballet too. I have a great musical ear. And tht autism loves ballet because of its structure. But it takes me a lot longer to learn combinations. Which can also be embarrassing.
Even just this morning 😂 I woke up at 7:14. Could have gone back to sleep for snother 15-20m. But my brain was like.. ITS 7:41??? aaaand I was up after that
In my case, both Dyslexia and NVLD can hinder reading comprehension 😑 plus thr issues with adhd making reading boring material incomprehensiblely boring. Everything goes right out the window
There has been research that being born prematurely can up the chances of you being born with a neurodevelopmental disability and or LDs. So, I can only assume that becauseI was born early. I was the one in my family to have thr LDs.
It was honestly pretty lonely. Everyone else in my family is "gifted" fast readers, excel in many things like music, learning langauges. And then there's me, kind of just got the bottom of the barrel. Only ine who never finished school. Because I wasnt diagnosed until adulthood. So I didnt get accomodations in school. I aas "just lazy". And ofc my family didnt know the signs of LDs.
Thry all struggled in school (except one or two) mostly because of executive dysfunction. Not because of LDs.
But they were all able to graduate 🤷🏽♀️ feeling like the thr outsider even in a family of ND people kind of sucks
All this sounds familiar. Especially the verbal directions, and the MATH. As in numbers getting jumbled. What is the ratio of left handed people with this?
Ding Ding Ding! 🔔🔔🔔 and now I am depressed.
It's as if I got the "full download" for my mother tongue as well as for English, could read both fluently by age six, however, writing is another thing, thanks to technology, I don't have to write much by hand. Full-blown dyscalculia though🙄
I can't find an OK vid on dyspraxia/apraxia
This caught my attention because I'm an autist, and my sister is dyslexic.
Overlap? Not sure.
If my sister has any trace of autism, it is very well masked.
As for me, _min fadl Allah_ -- by the grace of God -- I have been blessed with a talent for spelling. It so nearly approaches perfection that I defy anyone to identify an error in anything I've written.
BUT, when I try to read aloud, I sound like a drunken toddler.
So, it's too early to say if I'm dystistic or just autilexic.
Skip the word? What?
Skip? Nah, gotta figure out what that word means then maybe do a deep dive on the etymology side of it lol
-Verbal processing disorder among other stuff, had to get therapy and such as a kiddo. I have always had an interest in language, especially ones with click and throat clearing noises. Always bothered me that I couldn't learn a second language no matter how hard I tried. Karen @proudlyautistic really nailed it with how we speak autistic and neurotypical as a second language. It makes perfect sense. We have to understand and follow the rules of the language and culture. How can you learn language without culture anyway? We lack culture and we already had to learn culture and language from a system that defines what those are but refuses to follow them
No wonder I can't learn Spanish or pronounce some words in Lushootseed or Nahuatl no matter how hard I try.
My body has literally been force trained to not be able to make those sounds :(
I was diagnosed with dyslexia at 8 yrs old. A saying i have to help me remember my left and rights whilst driving is the driver is always right so everything on the drivers side is to the right everything on the passenger side is to the left (I live in Australia, so this may not work for everyone)
Don't try this in the USA!
@Catlily5 that is very true.
I was classified as dyslexic at school but I think they just misdiagnosed my difficulties in school. My handwriting is attrocious because I have bad hand coordination. Dyslexia never fit for me because my reading and spelling is fine. It was nice that I was able to take my exams in a room alone though. Most of my learning happened after I finished school though because I was in ASDAN and we spent allot of the time at school just colouring in and wasting time. Because I was in the bottom group allot of the kids with bahavioural difficulties was in my class so even when I was in my favourite lesson (science) we never did anything because the kids was out of control. 😕
I was friends with a girl with epilepsy and during a science lesson with lamps and a glass refractor one of the kids started flashing their lamp at us and caused her to have a seizure. 😢
I hate when I have to read something that is harder than my dyslexia will allow me to comprehend…it’s like I’m reading it then all of the sudden it feels like the page stopped being in my language…like the old film reels 🎞️ that flicker past and make the movie understood but the machine suddenly stops and it is only on one frame that doesn’t make sense as a part of the film…my eyes go fuzzy and the page seems to disappear in front of my eyes just because of one or two words I couldn’t comprehend OR the combination of words that I know are laid out in a grammatical way that I can’t comprehend!! It sucks!!!
A co-worker with dyslexia wrote about 'pubic transport,' instead of 'public transport.' She's written other very funny things in emails unintentionally.
The problem I have with dyslexia is is one of the first conditions people go to when you have reading and writing problems but I don't have dyslexia watch don't jump around on the page And that is the condition that everyone goes on about so what condition have I got if I don't know that condition it seems like it's dyslexia or nothing
I don’t think i have dyslexia I do have autism tho :D
I mean my school did test me for dyslexia which came out negative? Kinda idk they didn’t think i showed the symptoms so they just stopped lol my mom has dyslexia so if it’s possible but i don’t rly think so, I mean I do struggle a lil but rly w writing not so much w reading, ik what it looks like which is why I love/like autocorrect bc ik what letters r in it and if it suggest the wrong word then ik!! bc ik what it looks it I’m just not quite sure which order I mean I have an idea ofc, I do sometimes struggle w reading like sometimes the words? I mean they it’s not the letters tho, it’s not like I look at a “b” and mistake it for “d” it’s more then that, it’s more like I get my sentences mixed up, especially when it’s a lot kinda like what I wrote now… like if the sentence was idkk
“The cat went and saw the door something something-
And was walking inside the house something something” then I might read it as “the cat waking inside the door house” or something like that😅 but it’s not that bad I just reread bc yk it doesn’t make sense and after like 2 or 3 times of reading it I get it right lol
Ppl say it’s bc I don’t read enough but I read everything I’m on social media a lot and I like to read the comments while watching vids to keep my attention span so I don’t know how much of that i believe in, I do also write a lil wonky ig for some reason I write down? Like this \ I mean it’s not that drastic but I do catch myself writing like that and I end up writing like this ~ which looks worse
But I don’t think that’s dyslexia tho at least not for me but I’m not a person who can determine that so idk
I’m neurodivergent I keep rambling sryyy!!! :>
Whelp. Time to reevaluate my childhood...
I love and fear my special interests. I don't want to go mad or become even more distant from everyone at the precipice of maths or physics. It's more possible than you may believe.
I love and fear my special interests as well. At first I enjoy them but if I focus on them for too long it becomes harder and harder to stop. Then they become torture.
@@Catlily5 I hear you. I'm only just realizing some of the self-harm I've incurred/inflicted. I'm trying to turn my psychopathy on itself now to weed out and identify the patterns in my own behavior. I hope you're doing well, always.
@@dragonslayerslayerdragon5077 Thanks, you too!
Hm. No, didn´t knew all that. Was always very good at german and had very nice handwriting my teachers said. But maths and sports had been my bad subjects, from the very beginning. Later on higher school I always was bad if it was with numbers. Higher mathematics like "formal logic" I got As . Teachers did not understand that.
Dislexia was known that times, dyscalculia was completly unknown to me and school system here.
I am pretty sure I have this. (And dyspraxia, had a diagnose like that in early childhood, another name).
I had a colleague with dylexia who explained me he is much better in writing with a typewriter (yes, I am old😅), because the 3D helps him. For me it is completly the other way round, it costs me so much time and energy writing on a computer and I make a lot of mistakes, switch letters, leave ot parts of words or sentences because my thoughts are faster then my ability to type. Here in english it is even worse of cause. And then the bloody german auto-correction often exchanges words or changes letters...(And as I mostly don´t wear my glasses to sensitivity issues on my phone I can´t see if I pick the right letters, but that´s another thing🙈)
But I still imagine numbers as a dices. My mother played a lot of yatzhee (we call it Kniffel) with me to get better in calculation. So in my head I put dices together in a way that I order the numbers to tens (4 and six for example) or I order them in groups, if this makes sense to You. Teachers often told me I use very unique and too complicated methods to come to a result, so even if that was right I didn´t get a good mark. To have to come to the board and be constantly interrupted if I was doing it "my way" was so horrible I wasn´t able to even move in the end.
Is it a thing that if typing makes it easier for people with dyslexia it can make it worse for people with dyscalculia? Just asking for a friend😉🤫🤭
So, a lot You mentioned reminds me of (my or common) ADHD-symptoms and dyspraxia.
Would apreciate if You make a video about dyscalculia and dyspraxia too.
Do you think someone with dyslexia can be misdiqgnosed as autism?