If you have mainly issues with math, you might have dyscalculia. With this video of mine, you can have a look into it. ua-cam.com/video/YUw-8JfV58U/v-deo.html Also, if you are dyslexic, it is very common for you to have another learning difference; for example, I am dyslexic, and I have dyscalculia. In these two videos, I go over the most common dyslexia combinations. Dyslexia and ADHD, Dyscalculia, Dysgraphia, Anxiety ua-cam.com/video/T1R_VbV84is/v-deo.html Dyslexia and Dyspraxia, ODD, ASD, ADHD (inattentive) ua-cam.com/video/rVshBRUCHf0/v-deo.html What I would like you to know as well is that dyslexia also has its positive sides. Want to learn more? ua-cam.com/video/TIjOz9O5eBc/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/na9L3xg7ric/v-deo.html
I love reading. I can read a book in a few hours to 5 days. What I can't do is read out loud. I "recognize" the words in my head but I can't actually read them out loud without struggling.
same i had to read in my University classes, i tried to read but it was a mess and no one understood that im dyslexic i fellt so embarrassed, i never rode again.
I'm the opposite Extremely slow but I can't recognise or process a word unless I am reading loud or pretending to read it out loud in my head I do like reading tho whenever I can
EDIT: 8/20/24 Diagnosed with ADHD this month and on meds 🥹 Thank you to the people in the comments pushing me to seek help. I truly couldn't have done it without you. Thank you so much
@@90sbby37 I think there might be something there worth exploring for a evaluation. My tips are that if you are young get help now. It's not worth struggling and having mental breakdowns because you are trying to cope and match your peers. I got 6 D's and 7 A's in 4th grade, didn't learn how to read until 6th grade yet was always told I was smart by my teachers. Highschool and university was rough. I wish I got evaluated sooner. You aren't dumb or slow or anything like that. The human mind "fills in the gap" so seeing gilly and recongzing girly is extremely common. Just keep practicing reading more and be go slower. it's not a race
I have never been officially diagnosed with dyslexia, but since I was a little kid I realized my perception was different than other kids or my family members. I used to see and perceive things "backwards". I think one of the most stressful things in my dyslexia journey is that barely no one truly believes I am dyslexic, not even my mom, she claims "I don't pay attention to what I am saying, doing or reading."
I was also diagnosed with dyslexia at the age of 5 (mid 20s now) and I only said yes to 4 or 5. Dyslexia comes in many forms, not just number and letter mix ups. For instance I get words and phrases backwards, so I have a hard time explaining information even though I recognize it in my head
I think part of it, is what you’re familiar with. For example we had one bus in a small town so I never worried about and they said the town they where going to not the numbers. Checks aren’t as common lately I can’t even remember if I struggled with the multiplication table it was so long ago.
I only answered yes to 5 and I'm also dislexic and very early diagnosed. But I could not say yes to pace of reading since I was reading a lot since childhood. And multiplation board I was not sure. I never learned it by heart as kids usually do I just understood it. So maybe thoes two should count as yes as well.
I haven't been diagnosed with dyslexia but my grandmother was an English teacher and she was sure I had it. I don't answer yes to a lot of the questions now because I've worked hard at managing my dyslexia with tools and tricks my grandmother gave me. 10 years also I would have answers yes to around 80% of the questions.
I answered 8 yes. My dad is dyslexic and so is my grandmother on my mom's side and I also have ADHD so it makes me even more likely to have dislexiya. And I have thought I was dyslexic for years! So hopefully my mom finally listens to me and talks about this with me with my doctor
I know im not dyslexic i mean i can read and write upsidedown allthough its hard but im forgetful with things like with names plus i answered yes to 3 or 4 or more (proceeds to makes several spelling mistakes on this comment) i fixed them
I answered a lot of questions with yes, HOWEVER, I have ADHD not dyslexia, I find it super interesting how much overlap there is with the two. It's kind of like having dyslexia but not always, I can't imagine how frustrating it'd be to struggle with it all the time. Hope more research goes into the overlap of ADHD and dyslexia!
Answered yes to 7 of the questions. I always thought my difficulty reading was a result of my ADHD & inability to hold focus, but a couple years ago I suddenly realized I think I’m actually dyslexic & a highlight reel of memories from my life circled through my head that made me think “omg I am totally dyslexic” LOL. I always thought dyslexia looked like letters flying off of page or you could physically see them switching back in forth (this is shown as what it might be like to read with dyslexia). I’ve always loved words & writing, which made it never occur to me that I might have a reading disability, but that really has little correlation. many dyslexic people love reading (my brother is one of them). I’ve never been formally diagnosed, but I’m 95% sure I’m dyslexic based on my research & life experience. I wish I knew sooner, but I never realized I was any different than anyone else, because it was my only experience. these videos are helpful & appreciated!
Just yesterday talking on the phone I told a mental health professional that "well I know for a fact I'm not dyslexic... but I hate to read because it takes me forever and physically pains me... and I WANT to like reading but..." Yeah I clearly had no idea what dyslexia was! I, too, thought it was just my ADHD (which I didn't even know about until college). I have a lot to learn still at 45...
Apparently, I was a weak reader in the class. I can't look at too many words for too long. People say I make many typing mistakes but I didn't realise why? But for months or a year by I think i am doing research on how dyslexia feels like giving me more clear answer that i might be dyslexic
I wish it was mandatory for schools in the US to make you take a test for dyslexia in First or Second grade, i didn’t find out until two years ago in 9th grade… My academic carrier would be extremely different if i had known from early. Ever since second to 10th grade my grades were always rock bottom and i struggled on school especially with Math and anything reading related.
That would have been fantastic. I’m currently 31 and I didn’t realize that I may have dyslexia till about 3yrs ago. I still haven’t officially gotten tested, because to be honest I don’t know where to go to do that haha. But I’m very confident (especially after watching this video) that I definitely have at least a mild form of dyslexia. Schooling probably would have been so much easier for me if I had known, if others had known. All those struggles, the crying, how stupid I thought I was. I hated it all and hated myself, which carried on all the way till now.
I believe that is now standard? Although I’m not sure. But it was routine in elementary and middle school to have us periodically do “reading tests” where they would give us several random short stories like a few pages long. And tell us to read us much as we could in 60 seconds and score our performance. Im pretty sure this was probably an attempt to identify any serious issues that were affecting kids ability to read. I’m 19 now by the way.
The multiplication tables question was also a yes for me. Interestingly if you have dyslexia, the chance that you have dyscalculia as well is around 40%.
The multiplication system as well as math and reading an analogue clock has always been the bane of my existence. And that’s not including my terrible spelling. Ugh, part of me wishes I knew of this sooner.
How many did you get? I got 6 for sure, but I wasn't entirely sure on all. I didn't think I was so bad at right/left until I noticed just today I mixed them up for an exercise I've done probably many thousands of times before (vector multiplication). Months in order, ugh. It's always such a pain. Or the alphabet.
I was diagnosed with dyslexia several years ago in college. Years later, I decided to continue schooling even though it is a major challenge for me. A part of me hoped that my dyslexia “decreased” over these years with “sometimes” to these questions. Nope. Still the same. Thank you for this video and test. It’s reassuring that my struggles are for a reason, not an excuse.
I always found it funny back in grade school as to why I can't memorize the multiplication table past multiples of 5 and that when we read aloud I would constantly repeat sentences thinking I haven't read them yet but in fact I have. And that left vs right thing was spot on, I always thought there was something wrong but didn't really give it much thought. This test should be mandatory for all schools, would have saved me all those bad marks and the bullying that comes with it.
I can relate! I am dyslexic and have always had trouble memorizing the multiplication table. Reading out loud is a nightmare for me. I stumble over words, having difficulty pronouncing them correctly and getting tongue-tied.
My Grandmother, (who both taught and encouraged me to read), was dyslexic. She was told she was stupid and was treated as such from her teachers all her life. She taught HERSELF to read because she wanted it so bad. She became a nurse and worked thirty years in that vocation. I commend all that are different because she taught me we are all different. I applaud all of you.
Your grandma is an inspiration, not just for those striving to learn and be able to contribute to society, but also because she doesn't want other people to experience what she had gone through.
We are lucky that most teachers are better educated on the matter. I had to switch schools when I was younger because of a teacher that just could understand why I was slower and less precise when it came to writing and reading. But it also thought me from a young age to not get effected by others lack of education. And I know think I'm better of because of her
I got a diagnosis as a kid saying I had “mild dyslexia”. Whenever I tell people that they always think that means i basically have no trouble at all or they were just over diagnosing a little kid. I answered yes to 6 of these. I feel vindicated in my struggles. I really needed this.
i’ve always been advanced in reading, but for some reason for the last few years I would sometimes forgot how to say, spell, or even understand simple words as if I didn’t understand english (which is the only language I know) and i read very slowly too.
I especially struggle with groups of similar objects, like if you show my 13 straight lines next to each other I’ll take ages cause I’ll get confused which one I’m currently counting
Hi! I actually always said “mild case” as a child too but it was never taken seriously, so I was never tested or never received any help/aid for dyslexia. I’m 23 now and have since graduated college, and my grandmother recently just told me for the first time that she has dyslexia and I’ve always suspected that my father and brother do as well. I answered yes to 7 questions. This was so validating as I was always the last one to finish my exam, even the whole time I completed my bachelors, and all of the questions were real struggles at some point, even if I overcame that. Thankful to see I’m not alone!
I get my left and right confused ALL OF THE TIME. I hold up my fingers in the shape of an ‘L’ and still can’t tell. It gets so annoying especially when driving 😭
everyone who is close with me knows that if i say "this way" it means go right and "that way" means go left. with other people its a struggle trying to give directions, but at least the people who i frequently carpool with understand it now
It's very interesting to see the overlaps between different neurodivergencies. I am fairly certain that I'm not dyslexic, however I know I have ADHD, and most of these questions that I answered yes to were because of how that neurodivergency affects me and my life. Very cool!
I answered yes to 11/12 questions. The only one I didn't say yes to was the cheque one since I don't write them in the first place. However, multiple of my teachers have told me that I probably have dyslexia so thank you so much for this! It was really insightful
I’m so glad he mentioned getting times, dates and numbers mixed up. Because when that happens to me and I tell people it’s because of my dyslexia, they look at me weird and assume I’m making an excuse because they assume all dyslexia is, is reading difficulty. Dyslexia is a wide range of things, not just slower reading ability.
J’ai reçu un diagnostic de dyslexie il y a 50 ans. Les médecins ont dit à ma mère que je ne pourrai jamais faire d’étude passer le secondaire. ( hight school) . J’ai réussi à obtenir deux baccalauréat à l’université de Montréal au Canada!!! L’université de Montréal est une des meilleures universités francophones au monde. J’ai passé les tests que vous proposez et je suis 100% dyslexique. Il y a de l’espoir. Je parle et je comprend aussi parfaitement l’anglais. Je suis heureuse d’avoir trouvé votre chaîne UA-cam!,,
The left/right thing is a real issue for me, as is east/west since my brain associates right with east and left with west. So, I might look at a map in a video game and say, "Oh, I should go check out that area on the west side" then I'll point my compass to the W... but what I meant to explore was east. 100% east. It's super frustrating. I also read slow because I have to narrate in my head to comprehend anything--and even then, sometimes I'll lose my place or have to read the same sentence over and over before it clicks. It's gotten better after years of reading for enjoyment, but it's an issue that can't be "fixed." If I had been diagnosed in the 80s as a child, it would have saved me so much grief and humiliation. I was around 15 before teachers started catching on. I scored a 6 on this test. Dyslexics untie! (if you get it, you get it)
Same! All of it! I was caught late as well! It is definitely a nice change when you have a word to put on your frustration, but then, going to highschool and before you deal with it is already seen as an excuse for an error! So frustrating! At least in my case it was, or teachers saying it is not a real thing, due to over diagnosis in my peers...
Same, I get them confused a lot, but I do know a two easy ways to help. Tip 1: pretend to write in the air, if your right handed, whatever hand that moves first is tour right hand Tip 2: If that doesn't fit you well, or your able to use both hands. What I do is use my fav juice as my dominant hand and one I don't like my other hand, I love apple juice and am right handed. So for me, apple juice is always the right (handed) way to go!
I didn’t get a diagnosis for my mild dyslexia until I was 20, after leaving college mid junior year due to depression and being unable to complete the research papers for my courses- as a kid was good at school and very dedicated, so maybe that’s why none of my academic teachers ever guessed, but when I was maybe 10 one ballet teacher asked me if I was dyslexic because I was struggling so much with an across-the floor combo that involved kicks that alternated legs and body orientation. I remember being offended and devastated that she asked me that at the time-I don’t know why I presumed to take it as an insult. Anyway, the diagnosis helped me let go of my guilt around how much a struggles with the reading load in college, and helped me understand why after writing so many research papers, this particular one felt insurmountable: it was a literature review on an artist-part of the reason I had enjoyed writing art history papers was because the primary source was not textual. But trying to summarize and analyze all of the academic writing on my chosen artist and write at the standard I held myself to turned out to be basically impossible.
I feel this so hard. I’m 22 and have been saying I think I’m dyslexic since I was like 12 and have pushed to get an evaluation but have been literally laughed at and it’s been brushed off and I STILL haven’t gotten an evaluation. I was good at school so people think I’m being dramatic but there’s so many situations I run into where it’s debilitating. The only thing I have to tell me I’m not crazy is the fact that I had to go into a special class in 2nd or 3rd grade because I really struggled with reading things properly, I’d change words and shuffle them around, that is the only confirmation I have apart from the everyday struggling with simple things. So beyond frustrating
I relate to this so much! I'm an incredibly capable student but one of my biggest challenges (besides debilitating perfectionism) is my reading speed which makes it difficult to keep up with the reading material for my courses. Online learning only made it worse and I ended up taking two semesters off during the pandemic due to mental health issues. I was tested earlier this year for dyslexia and was just shy of the official threshold. In my case it seems that its more of an attention issue combined with the perfectionism (which led me to reread sections multiple times) rather than traditional dyslexia.
I feel this, not for dyslexia but for ADHD. No one ever believed me that I thought I had it and now we're pursuing a diagnosis but... I'm 26 so I'm kinda fucked, I can't afford meds so... Rip. I've wondered about dyslexia but I don't think I qualify, still doesn't make it easier lol.
I was always a good student grade wise but because of that it was never taken seriously that I had a reading problem or dyslexia. I am now 23 and I asked my dr if there was anywhere she knew to get tested to see. That way I could at least know and if/when I went back to college I could have accommodations. But even she didn't take me seriously. Cause I was a good student. I am glad I am not alone in that but also disappointed in the system that we DO get brushed aside. In the USA the "no student left behind" is absolute bs.
Other than officially knowing you are dyslexic, what did a diagnosis do for you? I have not been diagnosed but every test like this and those for AADD indicate I have both. I have numerous coping mechanisms and managed to run two companies that we successfully sold for good return. I stayed away from the financial aspects of the company, hiring a non-dyslexic to take care of that. But back to my question. What did an official diagnosis do for you besides explaining a lot?
I often see words that aren't there, read words in the wrong order, misspell things and really struggle to read aloud. I have trouble with numbers, getting them in the right order and putting them into calculators. I just learnt the months this year, I'm 17 now. Feels like alot of people in the comments understand this and it's comforting. I answered yes to alot of these.
It was my english and my math teachers at 5th grade that saw the first signs of dyslexia in me, and they adapted their whole structure of teaching for me. Love these teachers so much.
That's so great 🥺 I had a german teacher like that and im literally never going to forget how great she was with my dyslexia. Almost every English teacher I have had was horrible with it though, they didn't get it that I was still dyslexic in my second language and it didn't magically went away.🙄😂
I answered 8 yes. I had teachers suspect that I had dyslexia when I was a child, and they tried to get me evaluated, but because I wasn’t constantly writing my letters and numbers backwards, the school district would not give me a referral to be evaluated, and my family did not have the money to get me evaluated privately. I remember thinking I was stupid, and that I’d done something wrong because I struggled in school so much. Other teachers called me lazy, and treated me badly because I made so many mistakes in my work, particularly in spelling. One in particular stood me in front of my class in junior High, to scold me for spelling water “whater”. I’ve still never been able to get an actual diagnosis, as I’ve never had the money to, but I’m fairly certain that I’m dyslexic. I now know that I’m not stupid, or lazy, and that I wasn’t bad because I struggled in school. I just have to adjust how I do things, like typing letters, and notes out in my phone to help me with spelling. I’ve improved a lot with my reading comprehension by reading out loud to my children. Also, if there’s something I don’t remember when it comes to grammar, or punctuation, I look it up. I just hope that the markers for dyslexia are more widely known now, and that the standards for evaluation have been updated. Children shouldn’t be made to feel stupid for something they cannot help, especially by teachers.
Thats horrible, I'm sorry you had to deal with such shitty teachers as well as not getting the proper diagnosis you should have gotten. I'm glad your in a better place now, education is such a limited scope on the value and intelligence of a person.
I answered yes to 11. I already have an official diagnosis so I just did this for fun, but it felt so good to finally hear someone talk about all the struggles that come with dyslexia. Most of my teachers and people around me think it's just about having problems with reading and writing but its so much more that I never hear anyone around me talk about.
Answered yes to like 3 of these and most definitely am not dyslexic, but I was curious what sort of issues dyslexic people struggle with. This was very eye-opening and educational ❤
I was OBSESSED with reading as a child. It was to the point I was at a college readling level in 5th Grade. (I'm in the US for those curious) And I was only at a kindergarten math level. I have had to have lots of tutoring and struggled severely with my mathmatics. I even have a spell checker installed on my browser to make sure I'm spelling things correctly. I still get jumbled, I do take a little longer to read because I always go a line below. My Mom is dyslexic and she thinks I got it from her. She's the only reason I was able to cope as a child be cause she taught me how to manage it and the tricks she used to work with it.
I said yes to 10 of those questions and I already knew that i was dyslexic, was diagnosed with it really early on in school. I also have a sibling that is dyslexic too. I'm not ashamed of my dyslexia and don't mind letting people know that I have it, I know how to work with it.
I always had a feeling I was dyslexic or that something was off my whole life. I've always had trouble reading and completing math problems as a kid. To this day I still have trouble reading and telling my right for my left. This test really helped me and I got seven. I think I'm going to get properly tested after watching this. Thank you
My Spanish teacher recently asked me if my letter move when I read. I said yes, because they do, not a lot and they fix themselves. I thought it was normal but she let me know it was a sign of dyslexia. I’ve always been bad at spelling and grammar but I always thought the things I struggled with where normal. I talked to my friends and we went over some symptoms and I realized how different I was, it was more than just spelling bad that made me different. I am 17 so it feel weird to just be noticing this but I’ve been doing research and pretty positive I have dyslexia. Sadly I can’t get diagnosed since my insurance won’t cover it but this stuff is still good to know. :)
If your in school you might be able to get tested through the school system. I was tested through my school and did not see a bill. It would be good to do this because you might need more help in College. Your IEP (individualized educational plan) from high school can get transferred to college. These are molded to best help you. They can give a secluded space if you can’t concentrate well for tests including extra time. they can put you in English computer classes if you don’t write well on paper. College does make it harder because it’s less structured then high school. You yourself have to do more to give structure and work with your college program for kids with learning problems. Even if you don’t do college or get tested I would look up tips and tricks for dyslexia and adhd. Some will work others dif won’t depending on you. I’m a fellow dyslexic that answered yes to 9 of these things in the video above.
For the letters moving that can be tricky. I myself have letters shake in paragraph form so I use color overlays to change the contrast of paper and words. I tend to move letters around with the next words ahead. My eyes move ahead while my brain is still processing the word. Example: Dyslexia refers to a cluster of symptoms, which result in people having difficulties with specific language skills, particularly reading. I might be processing/reading the word “cluster” but then see “of” next to it. My mind may then place the f in cluster like clusfer or clufter or even clustfer. My eyes have always taken-in to much information and my brain has to decode what I saw and fix it. Over time you train your brain to make less mistakes like this. Sometime your brain remembers a word and if another word is close enough to it you might change it. Like angel 😇 and angle 📐 Sometimes it’s the simple switch of letters like Does and dose or follow and fallow. These are my big offenders. I actually reverted back to using fallow instead of follow recently and noticed last week. No idea how long I was doing it again. Sometimes things get programmed in and are hard to reprogram. I can’t spell beautiful without help And enough gets me a lot and weirdly I’ve forgotten how to spell “of” and have spelt It like “ove.”
Becca Ray, I have some symptoms of dyslexia, including shaking/moving letters but I was never tested for it. I’m 30, and I got diagnosed with an eye condition this year. I can’t remember the name of it because it was letter soup, but basically one eye focuses a millimeter off from the other. I got glasses with a prism in them and I can see letters so much better. My spelling has even improved, which is rather convenient since I write novels. I can’t help but wonder if you have something similar going on, since that isn’t a common symptom of dyslexia and the eye thing can mimic it.
@@bodine219 Do you mean astigmatism? I have that too and dyslexia. I was excited when I got to know I have astigmatism, which I was diagnosed with when I was 21, seven years after I was diagnosed with dyslexia. Well, let's say glasses helped, but the letters are still moving. Plus other dyslexic problems stayed. I am curious how many of the challenges would be less annoying if my brain had better bases to build the patterns when I was younger. As English is my second language, I lack the muscle memory in spelling, which makes it even more challenging (and annoying). Ironically, working in academia it is the only language that counts...
I said yes to six of those. I have been dyslexic since I was 8. I was diagnosed then and went to a course of sorts for 4 years and that did help tremendously. It's cool to see more videos and explanation about dyslexia recently. I hope more people realise it doesn't mean your dumb/stupid as I was told for years.
I have an official diagnosis, and I answered yes to 11.5 questions. The long words question I only give half a yes to because it depends on the words. I never got my diagnosis until adulthood, despite my parents begging, my school growing up refused to officially test me. I was forced to adapt and overcome on my own with no one to help me. I honestly feel like that helped me more in the long run though, because I figured out what works best for me not a textbook aid the school would have taught me. Anyways, I hope anyone that reads this has a great day/night. ^^
I have not been officially diagnosed but was told by a occupational psychologist that he had little doubt I am. He did say that in his experience, dyslexics are generally very smart and test very poorly. That was me in school. I remember everything I was taught but couldn’t make a decent grade.
i was diagnosed with severe dyslexia about seven years ago. i answered yes to ten of these questions. i have, though, learned that being dyslexic is not something that makes you less than anyone else. it is a challenge, like, a big one, but it makes you grow. some really amazing and intelligent people are dyslexic, like Walt Disney and Albert Einstein. don’t let it take you done, instead, use it to make you grow.
I was diagnosed with dyslexia when I was in school. Teachers, kids and sadly even my own parents made me feel guilty about it. I know those words hurt but don't let them hold you back.
I didn't think I had Dyslexia until I was out of school. I brushed it off as a teen, I got good grades and have always loved to read and study, so it never really occurred to me. But once I got older I noticed the things I thought were normal weren't at all. I get numbers mixed up, miss spell words frequently, vowels confuse me, I mix up past and present words (most often had/has and looks/looked) and I get unbalanced and disoriented when being asked questions, even simple ones. Which relates to the last question on this video. 'Do you find forms difficult and confusing'. I always have. They intimidate me so much! My sister has Dyslexia, so I guess I had a preconceived idea on what Dyslexia looked like. After researching it more I learned it can look so wildly different on each individual. I'm not professionally diagnosed, I'm not sure if I'll ever bother with that, but it's comforting to know why my brain works the way it does and that I'm not actually dumb (which is how I've often felt) my brain just works differently! Edit: I answered 'yes' to 6 of these questions.
I was diagnosed as a child and I answered yes to 8 of these!! I used to get so embarrassed that I couldn't seem to store or remember how to do things but I learnt that I'm a visual learner I need to see things being done to learn instead of being told how to do somthing!! Xx
I went through the entirety of my schooling, struggling, and just this summer as a woman in my mid 20’s was diagnosed by my psychologist with math dyslexia (dyscalculia) Really would have helped to know that before dropping out of high school 🙃
im currently dropping out of school because of my dyscalculia. i just got diagnosed at 18 and i wont be able to finish my diploma with dyscalculia, sadly. i wish it got diagnosed earlier so i couldve had treatment! its sad to see that even though i am now officially diagnosed with dyscalculia, the school system in my country treats me like any other student and disregards my dyscalculia!
i went through something similar but with autism, the school system really sucks, when they see a kid struggling but it isn’t super obvious they don’t feel the need to dig deeper, so they just assume you simply need to work harder when it’s really a disability :/
That is sad. In my schools they tested everyone so they would pick up those who might be dyslexic etc. I was put in a small group with extra help with math. We were 3 people with our own teacher and our own classroom.
I have an official Dyslexia diagnosis, with a few other learning disabilities, and i answered 9 yeses. I think this test is definitley a good help for people to go to get diagnosed with learning disabilities of many kinds, cause this stuff can also relate to Attention Deficit Disorders (add, adhd), and auditory processing disorders, so i would recommend that if you said yes to even a select few of these that are debilitating, go see what you can find out about your brain anyway if you can
Somebody once asked me "are you dyslexic?" When I misspelled basic words yet again, and at that moment I realized why I am like this, that was also the first time someone asked me a question about my bad spelling that wasn't "are you stupid?" It felt... nice...
At a very Young Age, I was Diagnosed not only with Severe Dyslexia, But also Auditory Processing Disorder. Funny thing is, I agreed to every single one of those questions. Plus, even more issues that I have because of my Auditory Processing. I literally cannot process verbal words/ commands from others very well. At the Job I worked at, my Boss could tell me to go do something, but I ended up re-asking what he told me to do a few different times. In a private school, it was incredibly hard for me to focus on the Teacher. Everything they said always shot straight through one ear and out the other. That’s why From that early age, I needed to be home schooled for the rest of my life. I was getting bullied as it is, but the fact I couldn’t sit still and process what the teacher was saying didn’t exactly help either. My mom still questions if I might have even had ADHD thrown in there too. But we could never truly say if it was worth checking it out. Anyways, thank you for making this video. It was super informative and allowed others to realize what us Dyslexics go through. It’s really tough sometimes!
I’m also severely dyslexic and have auditory processing disorder and got diagnosed at a young age. So I relate to a lot of what you said. I didn’t get home school I ended up getting a IEP (individual education plan) which gives you Accommodations like small group and oral admin .Sadly I also got bullied a lot though out school for going to the special Ed programs and my Learning disabilities. Public school was a real struggle I’m in my senior year. Thank you for posting this. I often feel alone in my struggles so seeing this made me feel happy.
Yo I only recently got diagnosed with an auditory processing disorder at 20. I suspect I have Dxylisia or some form of it. Had an IEP growing up but never really had any assistance everyone just thought I had a speech impediment and was to lazy to fix it bc I thought being British sounded cool (my impediment gives me a very distinct accent that most fell is British) It wasn't until I was trying to learn japanese in college that I realized how had it was for me to make out sounds and read especially outloud without getting confused. A neuro pathologist actually suggested that I had an audio processing disorder but back then there wasn't enough research on the disorder and they didn't have enough money for an audiologist. As I kid I always wondered if I had dyslexia but I dismissed bc I like percy jackson and figured I was just going through a phrase. But I still wonder now. Either way nice to meet other with apd
@@katecat3054 No problem, Yeah, the Private School I tried out was supposed to actually help me with my Disorders. It really didn’t. It set me even farther back in school then I already was. Though, it did help with Socializing and learning how to communicate properly. I remember as a Kid, I always had to carry around some headphones and a CD player thing in a small pouch. For hours on hours of the day, I listened to certain sounds from the headphones. Now, this was a long time ago, I was very young at that age and don’t remember how that even helped me with my APD. But I think it did? But the biggest issue for me was extreme anger issues due to the APD. As a Kid, I just got so upset when others just couldn’t understand me. Then anger would just explode. I was a ticking time bomb honestly. I went to Therapy to try to fix it, thankfully, by age 7 I was a bit more relaxed. Nowadays, I’m decently broken through of APD. But I still have those crappy times it really hits me. Like the not understanding verbal orders, Not understanding Sarcasm very much, not understanding Verbal cues, etc. I’m also very glad to see someone else has nearly the exact same issues as I do. I find it very difficult to find others with Severe Dyslexia and APD. Especially when everyone in the real world sees you awkwardly when you mention you have one of those disorders. What were some of your key struggles with APD? I’d be interested to know, clearly sense I haven’t met another person with APD 😂
@@zanyawesome30 You too! Unfortunately, I never was able to do an IEP. It was all home schooling. In all honesty, Home Schooling kind of make it worse. There wasn’t any social situations for me to do in order to Verbalize things. We did do a Barton Program, where it was spelling and pronunciation for words and sentences. But I always struggled with it. I’d often swap letters and couldn’t verbalize certain letters combinations. Like -Au, -Ou, -Ow, etc. How did College work out for you? I’m considering it, (I currently want a degree in Horticulture) but just was concerned about being Dyslexic and such.
I missed a year of recess in 4th grade because I couldn’t do multiplication tables. And to this day I get the left/right thing confused. Never knew those were signs, I thought they were manifestations of anxiety in childhood.
Yeah, I remember crying for the first time about a grade for those timed multiplication table tests in 8th grade. They had moved me up a math class, but I didn't know hardly any of the multiplication at the time and I still don't, and I got my worst grade ever on it. I also get my right and left wrong too, along with other symptoms, but I never thought it was anything other than not being educated enough in math before hand.
I was diagnosed as dyslexic before I can even remember and was always treated as such throughout school. I took special classes, had easier reading assignments, and I even got extended time on tests. After watching this, I realize I definitely do not have dyslexia. Maybe I did at first and grew out of it or maybe I was misdiagnosed. Either way, this video has helped me put a seal on what I thought to be true for a while!
I do think to some extent children and adults can kinda build compensation skills or a balance with muscle memory through repetitious cycles. Like the reading and writing on tests can be a trial, because the student has to second guess judgment with words. If I'm overstressed or haven't slept enough in a week, I will butcher my sentences.
No the test is not correct I have dyslexia quite severe my friend has dyslexia but not strongly but we still get the same things like extra time on test and go to dyslexic classes all I am going to say is that you can’t get rid of dyslexia the test is not correct and it is also not correct for me
Bruh... I had really bad dyslexia, I still have and I wish I got special help like this. The only thing I got is a bit of a better treatment on tests when it comes to spelling errors and a LOT of almost failed classes
No,you can't grow out of dyslexia, but ,at the age of 60+,l can definitely say it is possible to learn compensatory skills. However, under stress the dyslexic symptoms/tics (sorry, l can't think of the correct word, l'm tired and that also makes dyslexia worse !),will increase/return. The answer then is to try and carry out important activities while not tired or stressed (l can't say that's particularly helpful for exams and form filling though !)
I answered yes to 8 and that’s after being heavily treated for my dyslexia/ thinking I was sort of past it. Interesting to think about the ways it still impacts my day to day!
I have no idea why I clicked on this I know very well I don’t have dyslexia 😂 But now I know for reference a few more affects of dyslexia that I can use in the case I give it to a character I write. I’m very uptight on getting those kinds of details right for the audience to feel close to them.
I've been struggling with symptoms of dyslexia for a while now. This was definitely helpful in my decision to mention it at my next doctors appointment. 9 of those questions were yes and 1 of them was hard to answer, because I don't write checks.
Watched this out of curiosity, I have an official diagnosis of dyscalculia, and I answered yes to almost every question even though I know for sure I am not dyslexic. For those who are having trouble with numbers, be aware of dyscalculia!
I only answered “yes” to two of the questions, but it was interesting to see this because lately I’ve been mixing up words and numbers a lot and I was worried that it might be some kind of late development of dyslexia. I never knew a lot of these things happen to dyslexics and it’s allowed me to understand what they go through much better.
I wanted to chime in, I have ADHD and a lot of this is familiar to me so I always brushed it off. I was always an avid reader but I didn't notice a problem I had until my professor asked me specifically why a answered a question a specific way. I notice that sometimes it feels like I see additional words or read them in the wrong order. Idk what it is but it feels like my eyes just skip around. Anyone my point is, that my professor is dyslexic and he explained that what I described sounded like a mild form of it. I wonder if that sounds familiar to you?
@@celestrial333 having adhd when reading can also cause your brain to just see the first and last couple letters of words or even sentences and make a guess at what it says. That can cause you to add extra or remove some words while reading. The brain is good at guessing so it works for the majority, but it can hurt when there are words that are spelled similarly but have totally different meanings.
Some of these also apply to dyscalculia - anyone who says yes to just the number-related ones here (mixing up numbers in a sequence, having trouble with multiplication tables, and even the left/right thing) but doesn't struggle with the letter-related questions might have dyscalculia instead of dyslexia. Growing up, I only heard about dyslexia, which I knew I didn't have - words and letters are my jam - but I thought I was just stupid when it came to math. I had already graduated by the time I learned about dyscalculia, and once I figured it out sooo many things made sense for me.
omg this, I have the exact same thing! I was already reading and writing at college level by age 9, but numbers have always been my cryptonite. I would always joke that I'm only number dyslexic but the struggle is real, I even based what I studied in college over the fact that it had no math classes
wait this is a thing? i know my multiplication table but i always get my numbers confused when writing them down even though i know the stuffy in my head.
I've always had a hard time in school, especially when it came to reading and writing. I had to take special classes. But I never thought I was dyslexic. Until I got older. I realized that I always say numbers backwards, I've always been bad at multiplication, I can read in my head but not out loud. And so much more. So I feel like I do have it. I answered 8 so. Thank you!
Hi I answered yes to most of these questions and have an official dyslexic diagnosis. Mine was from school years ago and have always wondered if it's ever worth being retested when in the workforce to see if things have changed 🤔.
There are certain accommodations that you could also receive in the workforce. If your employer requires a renewed diagnosis so that you receive those accommodations, then it might be worthwhile. I, however, have always managed to deal with this on a personal level with my employer. No one ever wanted to see my official certification.
I find that if I slow things down and REALLY focus on taking things slow then I won’t have any issues with writing. Otherwise, when I look back at what I wrote I’ll see that some words were sometimes missing while other words were written twice. Also, if I find a book, or a part of a book, particularly engaging then I won’t have any issues at all getting through the chapter quickly with ease. However, as soon as I lose focus my eyes will have trouble finding where I am on the page. I was barely able to get through this test with any no’s, so I’ll probably end seeing a doctor for a true diagnosis. I’m sure there are others out there who have similar experiences as myself. If you have any tips please share! Thanks for the quick video!
Sounds like hyper focus. It can be amazing for clearing work if you can sink into it but the down side is if anything knocks you out of it you are going to be unable to concentrate for double or triple the time you were in the flow. The last time I truly went into the flow like that was a decade ago. I honestly don't miss it because it made test taking overall a worse experience because I couldn't pull off the sink multiple times back-to-back in finals but I didn't know how to handle it any other way. My biggest suggestion on improving spelling is don't give in to auto spelling or filling words. Make yourself spell it. It is how I fix words on my head. Write on paper it will feel different then typing and will give you another path.
100% dyslexic - I was placed in special needs during my education since the beginning. I was never told or aware that I was dyslexic; I always thought I was never smart or normal like other kids. This killed my self-esteem and resulted in me feeling anxious, like forever. (which explains my desire and wish to be smart). Just recently, have I been questioning what brain I have, lol. This has been a massive revelation for me. I was NEVER dumb; I surprise myself as I continue to learn. It helped me understand why I always avoided reading or ever risking to pronounce words in front of people. And all the spelling and grammar mistakes I would make on social media as a teenager caused me to get bullied and be called stupid. WOW- thank god I know now... When I asked my mom why I was in a different class than the rest of my friends; She said, "Because we don't speak English at home." lol I don't think my mom even knew why I was in a different class. She may have been the one to say the word dumb, but shit, what shame that caused me... ALL FOR NOTHING! I must say, I've been reading for 3 years now; I'm doing better when I cross a word that's so hard, I try, but I can literally feel my brain get irritated, so I move on or mumble. This was the reason for my search. I want to give myself what I need - especially if I want to pursue a writing career - round 2- The first time I tried, I was told to go "learn English" Ahha, people could be ruthless! Anyway, THANK YOU, ARIJE! You da man!
thank you for good video It's been 38 years since I was defined as dyslexic. understanding and treating dyslexia has not improved in the last 38 years. instead of putting children in special classes with a teacher who has experience with dyslexia, they give it today a computer to help. about 30 years ago I moved to a school for the dyslexic about 200 Students from that time who still have contact with each other as everyone is dyslexic It is not a disability but it is something You have to learn to live with. on a daily basis, we all have small different methods of dealing with the day in relation to dyslexia. I can recognize all the points that you mentioned in the test from my side I just have no problem with the numbers but many of my friends have that problem. and I am 46 years old
Thanks for your comment! It will be interesting to see how technology changes the life of us dyslexics moving forward. I can definitely imagine how teachers might use it as an easy way out of properly teaching dyslexics according to their needs in the classroom...
I recently was tested for dyslexia through my uni, the test was enough to make me cry! I just couldn't understand some of the questions, worried me a bit that the test alone caused so much stress, the results came back saying I do show symptoms, and I now have things put in place to make uni and assignments a bit easier. I answered yes to 9 of these questions!
It is an interesting test. I got a firm yes to 4 of them, and an sort of to 4 of them. Then the final 4 I am luck to not struggle with really, but also aware I concentrate more than most people to not make the mistakes. I was diagnosis when I was 8YO, and then went to a specialist school for 2 years that really helped me to get the right tactics and support that meant in senior school I didn't get any extra support lessons. Had one very interesting learning support test when I was at Uni, he ended it saying I was clearly Dyslexic but well adjusted and able to work around it. I also think one question should be "can you spell dyslexia without having to think about it?!?" Always thought it was an ironically difficult word for a disorder know for issues spelling.
I answered yes to 10 and I have an official diagnosis 💪 lmao. This is generally helpful If you are trying to explain to a doctor your concerns about possibly having dyslexia. So when talking to a doctor try to use it as pinpoints about the things you do struggle with. They’ll definitely ask you other questions but if you struggle like me to find the words to explain it this is very helpful
I answered yes to 7 of them. One being the right and left one. Even using my hands or saying "righty tighty lefty loosey" I still get confused. My brother makes fun of me for it sometimes because he'll tell me to go left and I'll go right. I do get frustrated sometimes because it seems so simple to other people and I thought maybe I didnt learn it right or something... I dont think my parents will believe that I am telling the truth, but maybe I can get an official diagnosis when I'm older. Thanks for the test anyways. It makes me feel better to know I'm not just dumb Same thing with the multiplication tables. My parents always told me that I just wasn't taught them in school. I'm in 9th grade and not knowing them or being able to learn them is why I think I struggle so much with math. I've also been told by my doctor that I have a disorder which makes it difficult for me to focus and learn math. That on top of adhd just makes it impossible
A little trick I learned although it doesn’t always help but you left hand makes an L ( I was an adult when I learned this) it’s also an easy way to understand greater and less then when it comes to math.
I answered yes to 9 of the questions. And I’m diagnosed as dyslexic! I’ve had a few things happen over the years I didn’t realise was because for my dyslexia. Thank you for the video
Dyslexia comes in many different forms, for example, I’m great at math as I think and see things in a pattern, similarly to people with autism. Other people suck at math and can a form of dyslexia that’s calf dyskalkyli. This important to remember watching this video as it do not cover all the symptoms that a dyslexic person can struggle with.
I already knew I was dyslexic but UA-cam decided to recommend this to me. I can say I deal with all of these. I had no idea my ability to say large words was affect by my dyslexia though.
I was properly diagnosed when I was 9 or 10 (I'm 26 now) and since getting older I've learned a lot of tricks for some of the things, but I do still struggle with certain things and this test definitely showed that.
I don’t think I’m dyslexic. I think my mind is trying to get things done fast and that’s why I mix things up. The only ones I have a major issue with that made me think I might be dyslexic is my lefts and rights and the fact that I have a hard time writing down the date. I also sometimes read things wrong the first time. I honestly really think my brain just likes to move faster than my eyes though.
Didn't know for along time I was dyslexic. Then when I did find out, everything made a lot more sense. I sat here and answered yes to every question, and didn't surprise myself with my answers at all. XD
I answered yes to 4 of the questions. Times tables, left and right, spending ages on a page of a book and long complicated forms. I never thought these could be linked with dyslexia.
I keep telling my family that Im dyslexic based on how hard for me it is to write and to answer. The number 1 in the video is really accurate and I realized that when my mom made me fill up a form for the electric bill. When I write, I misspell words alot of times, sometimes Captalling letters in the middle of a sentence, and writing the same statement like 3 times until I noticed it. Aswell as left to right, I take a good second in figuring out which one is which. This video is making me even more curious whether I have it or not. Thank you for these tests, it made me want to get myself checked just to make sure.
I have struggled with a learning disability for most of my life and I have never been officially diagnosed but multiple people including teachers say I have dyslexia and some people even think I have autism hopefully soon I will be officially diagnosis. It's hard to get diagnosis as an adult because most people don't realize they have it and continue struggling and thinking that every body struggles sometimes. This video is vary helpful for people unsure if they are dyslexic.
I have struggled all my life with a learning disability. I was diagnosed in the 1st grade with dyslexia, but back in the early 1960s, they didn't know much about it or how to work well with it. I was put in all the "dumb-dumb" remedial classes and kids made fun of me thinking I was mentally challenged. My I.Q. was tested and is above average. I struggle with social skills and have often wondered if I am autistic as well. When I have watched videos on autism and taken online tests for autism, I do score within the spectrum, but I have never had an official diagnosis for autism. You are correct, as an adult, it is difficult to get tested or even recognize the problem.
I asked my therapist about being tested for Dyslexia, and she said it was harder to test in adults because they usually run tests on younger children. She was also walking me out of the session when she said this so I was able to ask more, but if its possible to get a test as an adult, I think that'd be helpful
This was really interesting. I was diagnosed with dyslexia when I was six however after yours vision training and tutoring I found that a lot of the symptoms I had as a kid have gone away or are less severe. I did however relate to some of the questions on this test!
today I learned that my dyslexia explains a lot more things that I struggle with than I thought. More people need to know about this, I feel like ADHD and Autism, for example, are well known and people will know that people with these things struggle with some stuff but no one really knows that Dyslexia can also make many things difficult. I mean until just now I didn't know about most of these things and I've known I had dyslexia since I was a kid.
I can’t tell you how much this video helps. I’ve been trying to get an official dyslexia diagnosis my entire life but always end up getting stopped by my parents or my doctors. They say that “my grades are too good” for me to be dyslexic which is really infuriating. I hated reading for so long in elementary school and when I did read and write there were some many clear signs that even my teacher picked up on. It would take me days and days to read the same amount of pages it would take my friends in a single afternoon. I constantly mix up the first letters of different words and phrases or smash the letters together . For example, saying “The Snarry Snight” instead of “The Starry Night”. I can’t read aloud to save my life. I constantly struggle with letters and numbers like: d 9 b 6 q p i l j. I especially can’t read anything from a text book. It’s like looking at an optical illusion where all the lines of text muddy together and chnage each time you move from one word to the next. Most of the time I can do okay on spelling and grammar with with the help of spell check, but I’m completely screwed without it. I wish people would take children and teenagers more seriously when they come to doctors offices asking to be assessed for something. We can tell when something wrong or when our development doesn’t match that of our peers. My friends and teachers could testify to my grammatical errors and difficulty with speach and yet my parents and doctors refuse to even begin assessing me for dyslexia just bc I have good grades.
And most parents anddoctors are boomer trash. Ignore them. You know the truth in thiscase. Go with your gut and stop wasting your life trying to convince boomer trash that REFUSE to learn squat.
Your parents and doctors frustrate me. It’s quite obvious from everything you’ve just explained here that you have it. Maybe if you write all this down on paper and give it to them then, maybe they’ll be surprised at the level of detail and precision you’ve described it all. And hopefully then they’ll take you seriously. If not, you could try changing doctors, or emphasise that people with dyslexia can achieve good grades too, they just have to work harder at getting them and thus those extra efforts should be acknowledged. However they can’t be appreciated if you aren’t even officially diagnosed !! Also considering how official papers are what make the education system and people in general believe such claims. They’re such let downs omg. Especially the doctors, they’re just embarrassing. Can’t even do their jobs properly. You’ve worked hard. And considering how you’re getting good grades despite everything you have to deal with, makes you so admirable.
I can relate to this, I started showing signs of Dyslexia when I was 7 and my parents went to my school asking them to test me as it was clear I was struggling (and my mum also has Dyslexia so obviously there was a good reason to assume I had it too). However, the school refused to test me stating that I just "wasn't as bright as the others" and that I had a "below to average intelligence" which is complete bs seeing as my dad's intelligent enough and my mum has taken a proper IQ test (like, one she paid for and everything) and she's in the top 3% of the population for IQ, and I'm pretty sure if I remember correctly my grandparents on her side are top 1%, and intelligence is genetic believe it or not so I obviously I wasn't going to be a dumb child. Well anyways, my parents kept fighting and fighting with my school to get me tested, and for the whole 4 years they refused. I was put in bottom classes for everything, and not because I couldn't do the work, I could, but it's just I was too slow at doing it, and my spelling at the time was awful. I got bullied and everything due to me being the odd one out and I didn't even understand myself why I struggled so much. The school finally gave in to testing me at the end of my final year (and of course they had to wait until after my exams), turns out I had Dyslexia and Dyscalculia. And now look at me, I'm 15, getting amazing grades, and doing fantastic in almost all my classes. Sure I'm not top of the class, but you couldn't tell I had any learning disabilities, I mean funnily enough my English teacher said to me today "I wouldn't be able to tell from your work that you were Dyslexic if you weren't diagnosed.". It just goes to show that Dyslexia doesn't necessarily affect grades, and I really hope some day your parents and doctor take you seriously. It sucks that this is happening to you and I really hope you get the support that you need. I'm no professional but everything you've listed I have struggled with or still do struggle with to this day, so it's clear that you are struggling with Dyslexia or a similar type of learning disability. I have a little bit of advice that can help with the reading though, not necessarily from a book, but if you're doing homework or school work or like work for a job on a Word document or another similar programme, change the background colour. The main reason people with Dyslexia struggle with reading is because of the black and white contrast so changing the background colour to a (I recommend light) green, yellow, pink, red, or any other colour may help stop the words blending together. If your school offers them, ask to try some overlays, they're like thin plastic see through coloured sheets that you put over writing that helps with reading, and maybe in the future you can get specialised reading glasses, I did and the cost of the tests needed and then the making of the lenses was expensive, about £350, but they're worth getting if you really struggle and you have the money. I don't use mine because they messed them up and they give my eyestrain, however a classmate of mine has them and they work really well for him so I recommend getting some if you can find a place that does all the testing for them! Anyways, as I said, I hope things turn around for you and you get tested one day, and don't let other discourage you from trying your best. You'll find tricks around the difficulties you face one day, and it'll get easier over time I'm sure. Good luck!
Well, you are a good writer, as seen in this comment, and you must have a high level of intelligence to be earning good grades even with these obstacles. So maybe tell your parents; imagine how much more I could achieve if I had help with these challenges. They have nothing to lose by looking into it, so at least you'll know exactly what you're dealing with. Knowledge is power.
I only got 4 “yes”. However I am challenged by CPTSD. My reading is off, and my spelling is not good. I think that it could be as a result of the fog in my brain, but I will ask my doctor about it. Thank you for sharing this test, and a bit of yourself. Stay safe, stay sane, be well
Dyslexia runs in my family (and im one of the lucky ones who inherited it) and I answered most of those with yes. But I definitely don't have the left right thing🥳 that's probably because i was so determined to lern it wen I was 5. I still remember that so well its one of the first really clear memories that I have.😄 I think its pretty interesting how different dyslexic people are. I'm really bat at spelling (especially in English because its my second language) but understanding a language is easier for me than a lot of people without it.
What a hard challenge to live with. I hope those who are doing so know that they are smart, valued, and that we’re counting on their contributions to the world. ❤️
I'm dyslectic, known since I was 11, 12 or so. Only when I was 30+ did an aunt tell me that being horrid at my tables was a dyslexia thing. Surprising to me, because I always felt extremely dumb that while I could do math, all kinds of calculations in Excell, basic sums for elementary school are a problem. Now that I'm no longer in school I can read fast. When my friends started to have kids I finally understood why. In school the word order in a sentence is relevant as well as reading all words (in a test). While reading normal, fiction books it doesn't really matter, context will make it clear. So when the friends started having kids, and I started reading out loud again, I noticed the thing I believed to have outgrown was there: dyslexia, and unable to read out loud. Reading out loud I found that at the end of my sentence I would have some words left over, which I already read. So "Jimmy played with his ball in the sun" would end up with me reading out loud: "Jimmy played in the sun with his ball", Then stumbling on "in the sun." again! So I found out that I pretty much read a bunch of words in a bit of text, and then make a logical sentence from those words, instead of reading the actual sentence. I can read "1000", understand "1000", yet say "100" thinking/believing I said "1000". Very annoying. Not only are left and right a problem, I also make mistakes with green and blue, like the 1000-100 thing, completely different in my head to what comes out my mouth. Saying any number over 1000 is hard, but admittedly, I also blame my native language, Dutch, as we have a very illogical way of saying numbers. Most countries do left to right, or right to left, we jump around: 356, would be something like three hundred six and fifty. Who makes that crap up!?
He :) bedankt voor het delen van van van je ervaring. En ik vergis me ook af en toe als ik over kleuren praat… Voor mij is het meestal roze en paars 🤷♂️
Oh zo herkenbaar die nummers! Echt zo jammer dat wij nummers zo raar zeggen! en ook het 1000 zien en begrijpen maar toch 100 zeggen is echt herkenbaar!
I'm not dyslexic as far as I know (and I said yes to only 5 questions), but damn I relate to this comment way TOO MUCH! I didn't know these were dislexya things, I thought everybody lived like this lol
This test helped my roommate who has been silently suffering from dyslexia her entire life. thank you for educating the world, and the lord for making her special.
I got 5 out of 12, and I was officially diagnosed with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia well over 4 years ago now (I'm 15). If I took this small quiz a few years ago I probably would've got around 10, however despite not getting the best support, I've learnt ways around the difficulties I face; and honestly sometimes I forget I have Dyslexia and Dyscalculia because it never really affects me as much as it use to. I mean, I still make spelling mistakes, and I still get my left and right mixed up all the time (the way I figure it out is that I write with my right hand), and many other things, but it's much more manageable now. Never let others discourage you from learning and adapting to any learning disabilities you may have, and also we need to get rid of the idea that people with learning disabilities are dumb or stupid. Many people with learning disabilities are actually very smart, and just because our brain processes certain things differently to others doesn't mean we aren't as bright! And please, if you do think your Dyslexic, get tested for it! I don't know about other countries or other schools, but if your in the UK at least, you are allowed to ask to be tested for Dyslexia if you have reason to suspect you are Dyslexic. Don't self-diagnose yourself with it straight away, there's many different learning disabilities and conditions that may seem like Dyslexia but are completely different, so please get tested before assuming!
I was left handed and my father beat me for it and forced me to be right handed. Literally if I’m driving and someone says oh turn left or right it takes my brain so long to process which is my writing hand I miss the turn anyway!!! I have literally looked at my left hand on my stiring wheel told my self I write with this hand then look where this person telling me to turn freak out and yell “what the f do you mean ? There is no road to turn right! - as I’m near tears looking left. 🤷♀️
@@joanbaczek2575 I'm so sorry to hear you had to deal with that when you were younger. And I mean I wouldn't be able to drive to save my life so you're doing better than me!
@@vanessavargas3687 My Nan taught me it a few years ago, it still takes a few seconds to work out but it's quicker then any other methods I've tried. I'm so glad to hear someone else uses the same trick too!
This is very interesting. As a kid in elementary school, I had trouble learning anything language related. They thought I was dislexic or hyperactive but they ruled it out and I never got help for it (I wonder why because I kept making up new words for the ones I kept forgetting the pronunciation of). I answered yes to 7 of your questions, but I am 29 and technically I dont have (big) problems anymore because I have ways to work around all those things. I guess I could be dislexic after all but I got good tips along the way that help me function well.
How accurate is this? Can someone tell me. I was told at a young age that I'm dyslexic but I answered no to most of these questions. On top of that I was placed in Special Ed classes early in my school life but when I reached junior year of high school I was taken out of those classes and joined the "normal" students because I tested above average on all of those state mandatory test. But by the time I graduated I still didn't know enough to really prepare myself because of all those years in special Ed. I remember when they first put me in those classes they asked me how I felt about homework and if it was easy or difficult for me to understand my classes. I told them I didn't care at all and that only my test scores should matter (never failed a test in my life even tho I do not study). After that they put me in those classes and I'm pretty sure it's because they mistook my laziness for Dyslexia. I guess I'm asking and sharing because I'm a little upset that if I truly am not dyslexic then a good chunk of my education was stunted because a bunch of teachers didn't know how to properly communicate with me. The day they threw me in special Ed they made it seem like a blessing and I believed them. It wasn't. To loosely quote Bart Simpson, "you want us to catch up with the rest of the world while going slower than them?" Edit: or maybe it was Bobby Hill that said that
Elementary special education major here and we have a better system now that is far better at catching stuff like this. As teachers we are supposed to gather data through homework and class work and make suggestions for further testing based off of that then depending on how that goes further recommendations are made. By law we are now required to teach students in a general education classroom whenever possible and we cannot separate the student from a general education class without cause of the student is disrupting the class/setting or the class/setting is disruptive to the student with a disability or the teacher in the general education class does not have the ability to provide the proper accommodations to the student.
Sounds like you are probably not dyslexic. It seems like every few years there’s a new thing that gets over-diagnosed. It’s bad for the kids who get a label that doesn’t fit them, and bad for the ones that actually have it because people don’t take them as seriously. I’m no expert, but if I was you I would seek a second opinion.
@@whyeventry45 sadly your story is not unique. It’s only been in the past 5 years that in America we have made good progress in helping students wit special needs and identifying them.
The overlap with ADHD is pretty high with some of these. Is it common for them to be together? Like if you have one, the chance of you having the other is raised by x%?
Yes it is common for a person with ADHD to have other disabilities besides ADHD. I have ADHD as well as anxiety, OCD, dyslexia, and neuropsychological delays (autism type stuff but because of a unique factor we can’t label it that because if a genetic mutation I have.)
@@kaylimcginnis Damn interesting. I have my own comradery of disorders (adhd and autism the big ones) which I confused a lot of the symptoms with dyslexia/depression when I was younger (also both adhd and autism had a pretty big stigma back in the 90s where I'm from so not like my parents would've fought for those kind of diagnoses). Still trying to figure everything out about myself and always stumble on these random videos that'll pop up in my recommended. Any video or creator/channel you recommend watching to learn more?
Yea, a person could have both adhd and dyslexia and it's pretty common apparently. But while i do have ADHD, i am pretty sure i'm not dyslexic, and still ended up answering yes to some of the questions for adhd-related reasons (for example it sometimes takes me FOREVER to read a page just because i can't focus).
When I was in elementary school they told my parents that my IQ was way too high for me to be dyslexic, my dad is dyslexic, and I struggle daily with all of these questions that I said yes to. Sooo maybe I should get retested, is it true that you can’t be dyslexic if you have a high IQ??
There are very famous inventors who are dyslexic or are suspected to be like Einstien or Newton so I'm pretty sure that it is possible to have an high QI and be dyslexic ( English is not my first language, I hope I was clear ^^)
I have a high IQ and I’m dyslexic. I also had my 1st grade teacher tell my mom I couldn’t be dyslexic. Then in 3rd grade I had to get adhd testing and found out I have dyslexic and adhd.
I'm dyslexic and I'll never forget just after I was diagnosed one of the professionals at my university asked me about my studies in college. When I said Japanese she was shocked and said "I've never heard of a dyslexic person learning a second language!" I now have a degree in psychology that included all the stats, and have written at master's level. I used to read books constantly and I write for fun. You can have any IQ, any skill in in writing or maths or none. It is only because education systems wont usually test those that are high achievers. I think my IQ is 104, and my dyslexia is the 4th or 6th percentile (so 96 or 94% of people my age outperform me on dyslexia specific tasks) so I'm smart enough I think. Plenty of smart people are dyslexic. It is a processing disorder and an early sign of dyslexia is toddlers reaching milestones faster than others. In terms of evolution and a pre-literate society, I'd argue dyslexia would be an advantage as well.
I have photographic memory so it took me so long to figure out that I was dyslexic. I show basically all symptoms of dyslexia except that fact that I can spell, but that’s only because I was able to memorise every word I’ve seen. I tested this out with my friends saying easy words I’ve never seen before and I couldn’t spell most of them correctly. I went to the doctors a few years ago to check if I actually have dyslexia and I did. I struggle reading and writing, always mixed up left and right, basically everything that was mentioned in the video except the spelling part.
2nd video. I was diagnosed with dyslexia at 15, and thanks to the new home economics teacher. My case helped my tiny high school of 153 students leap forward into speiecal education for people like us. I just wish I had caught my adhd at the same time.
If you have mainly issues with math, you might have dyscalculia.
With this video of mine, you can have a look into it.
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Also, if you are dyslexic, it is very common for you to have another learning difference; for example, I am dyslexic, and I have dyscalculia. In these two videos, I go over the most common dyslexia combinations.
Dyslexia and ADHD, Dyscalculia, Dysgraphia, Anxiety
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Dyslexia and Dyspraxia, ODD, ASD, ADHD (inattentive)
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What I would like you to know as well is that dyslexia also has its positive sides. Want to learn more?
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i answered too 9 ;-;
Yes to most.
Lol i am dumb i thought you culdet spell diskleaxya
Disklexia
@@mr.nuggit8240 i thought it was deslexia lol close enough
I love reading. I can read a book in a few hours to 5 days. What I can't do is read out loud.
I "recognize" the words in my head but I can't actually read them out loud without struggling.
same i had to read in my University classes, i tried to read but it was a mess and no one understood that im dyslexic i fellt so embarrassed, i never rode again.
I'm the opposite
Extremely slow but I can't recognise or process a word unless I am reading loud or pretending to read it out loud in my head
I do like reading tho whenever I can
EDIT: 8/20/24 Diagnosed with ADHD this month and on meds 🥹 Thank you to the people in the comments pushing me to seek help. I truly couldn't have done it without you. Thank you so much
@@90sbby37 I think there might be something there worth exploring for a evaluation.
My tips are that if you are young get help now. It's not worth struggling and having mental breakdowns because you are trying to cope and match your peers.
I got 6 D's and 7 A's in 4th grade, didn't learn how to read until 6th grade yet was always told I was smart by my teachers.
Highschool and university was rough. I wish I got evaluated sooner.
You aren't dumb or slow or anything like that. The human mind "fills in the gap" so seeing gilly and recongzing girly is extremely common.
Just keep practicing reading more and be go slower. it's not a race
@@Nellzurkat thank you so much! You don't know how much I appreciate this!
I know I’m not dyslexic, but it was still interesting to watch and see how helpful this video was to people who have thought they are dyslexic.
It really was interesting. I know I don't have dyslexia either, but I'm glad I checked.
Same here
Lol same
Sammmme
Same
i answered yes to 9 of those- never thought of the possibility of being dyslexic since I'm a bookworm but- who knows?
Same here
honestly for a lot of people it's not just reading, I definitely have more trouble spelling then I do reading
I’m dyslexic and a bookworm so who knows. At least you won’t be the only one 😂
dyslexic bookworm here dont worry
Answered 8, and I am a bookworm as well
I have never been officially diagnosed with dyslexia, but since I was a little kid I realized my perception was different than other kids or my family members. I used to see and perceive things "backwards". I think one of the most stressful things in my dyslexia journey is that barely no one truly believes I am dyslexic, not even my mom, she claims "I don't pay attention to what I am saying, doing or reading."
Omg yesss I dislike wen ppl say that 🙄especially from your own family it sucks
Yeah and to get officially diagnosed is like a 1,000 dollar test.
I only answered yes to 4 of them and I'm diagnosed as dyslexic. It's quite interesting how everyone's struggles vary with this
I was also diagnosed with dyslexia at the age of 5 (mid 20s now) and I only said yes to 4 or 5. Dyslexia comes in many forms, not just number and letter mix ups. For instance I get words and phrases backwards, so I have a hard time explaining information even though I recognize it in my head
I think part of it, is what you’re familiar with. For example we had one bus in a small town so I never worried about and they said the town they where going to not the numbers. Checks aren’t as common lately I can’t even remember if I struggled with the multiplication table it was so long ago.
I only answered yes to 5 and I'm also dislexic and very early diagnosed. But I could not say yes to pace of reading since I was reading a lot since childhood. And multiplation board I was not sure. I never learned it by heart as kids usually do I just understood it. So maybe thoes two should count as yes as well.
I haven't been diagnosed with dyslexia but my grandmother was an English teacher and she was sure I had it. I don't answer yes to a lot of the questions now because I've worked hard at managing my dyslexia with tools and tricks my grandmother gave me. 10 years also I would have answers yes to around 80% of the questions.
SAME ahahah
I can’t express how much I needed this test. I answered 6 yes so now I just need an official diagnosis. Even though I always thought I was dyslexic
I answerd 5 but same. I always thought i was dyslexic too
I answered 8 yes. My dad is dyslexic and so is my grandmother on my mom's side and I also have ADHD so it makes me even more likely to have dislexiya. And I have thought I was dyslexic for years! So hopefully my mom finally listens to me and talks about this with me with my doctor
I am so glad that someone understands what I have been going through for years.
@NerdJAM same
I know im not dyslexic i mean i can read and write upsidedown allthough its hard but im forgetful with things like with names plus i answered yes to 3 or 4 or more (proceeds to makes several spelling mistakes on this comment) i fixed them
I answered a lot of questions with yes, HOWEVER, I have ADHD not dyslexia, I find it super interesting how much overlap there is with the two. It's kind of like having dyslexia but not always, I can't imagine how frustrating it'd be to struggle with it all the time.
Hope more research goes into the overlap of ADHD and dyslexia!
Same for me. Just recently got diagnosed with ADD and I answered yes to 7 I think. The overlap is definitely interesting
It’s possible to have both! I went in for an adhd diagnosis and came out with adhd/ dyslexia and dyspraxia
I also have ADHD and noticed the overlap in some of the questions
@hunny bee not related but I love your pfp
Very good point! This thought hadn’t crossed my mind. I was wondering why some of these seemed similar. :)
Answered yes to 7 of the questions. I always thought my difficulty reading was a result of my ADHD & inability to hold focus, but a couple years ago I suddenly realized I think I’m actually dyslexic & a highlight reel of memories from my life circled through my head that made me think “omg I am totally dyslexic” LOL. I always thought dyslexia looked like letters flying off of page or you could physically see them switching back in forth (this is shown as what it might be like to read with dyslexia). I’ve always loved words & writing, which made it never occur to me that I might have a reading disability, but that really has little correlation. many dyslexic people love reading (my brother is one of them). I’ve never been formally diagnosed, but I’m 95% sure I’m dyslexic based on my research & life experience. I wish I knew sooner, but I never realized I was any different than anyone else, because it was my only experience. these videos are helpful & appreciated!
I am have ADHD and dyslexia! It’s very diffucult to do things and message expecially on a mobile when I can barely read and get distractions a lot
Just yesterday talking on the phone I told a mental health professional that "well I know for a fact I'm not dyslexic... but I hate to read because it takes me forever and physically pains me... and I WANT to like reading but..." Yeah I clearly had no idea what dyslexia was! I, too, thought it was just my ADHD (which I didn't even know about until college). I have a lot to learn still at 45...
Apparently, I was a weak reader in the class. I can't look at too many words for too long. People say I make many typing mistakes but I didn't realise why? But for months or a year by I think i am doing research on how dyslexia feels like giving me more clear answer that i might be dyslexic
I wish it was mandatory for schools in the US to make you take a test for dyslexia in First or Second grade, i didn’t find out until two years ago in 9th grade… My academic carrier would be extremely different if i had known from early. Ever since second to 10th grade my grades were always rock bottom and i struggled on school especially with Math and anything reading related.
That would have been fantastic. I’m currently 31 and I didn’t realize that I may have dyslexia till about 3yrs ago. I still haven’t officially gotten tested, because to be honest I don’t know where to go to do that haha. But I’m very confident (especially after watching this video) that I definitely have at least a mild form of dyslexia. Schooling probably would have been so much easier for me if I had known, if others had known. All those struggles, the crying, how stupid I thought I was. I hated it all and hated myself, which carried on all the way till now.
they have a few test in elementary that help fish out kids with stuff like this, i was put in a class for dyslexia.
I believe that is now standard? Although I’m not sure. But it was routine in elementary and middle school to have us periodically do “reading tests” where they would give us several random short stories like a few pages long. And tell us to read us much as we could in 60 seconds and score our performance. Im pretty sure this was probably an attempt to identify any serious issues that were affecting kids ability to read. I’m 19 now by the way.
@@huntermaddywhite6902 I remember taking those tests too but they don't specifically test for dyslexia. It's just a general skill check.
It took till end of 4th grade for my mom to get the school to test me. I almost failed for not remembering my multiplication.
I'm still struggling with memorizing the multiplication table but I never knew this has to do with my dyslexia
The multiplication tables question was also a yes for me. Interestingly if you have dyslexia, the chance that you have dyscalculia as well is around 40%.
The multiplication system as well as math and reading an analogue clock has always been the bane of my existence. And that’s not including my terrible spelling. Ugh, part of me wishes I knew of this sooner.
Me who’s still in high school and wondering what 3 x 6 is or anything that has to do with 3 and above... I GOT 9 OH NO..
I didn't have a problem because I used songs to memorise all of the times table up till the 10 times table maybe it'll help :)
I’m not dyslexic and I still struggle to memorise the damn thing
Me who is pretty sure I am not dyslexic: "Hmm this shall be interesting."
I got 8 😐
How many did you get? I got 6 for sure, but I wasn't entirely sure on all.
I didn't think I was so bad at right/left until I noticed just today I mixed them up for an exercise I've done probably many thousands of times before (vector multiplication).
Months in order, ugh. It's always such a pain. Or the alphabet.
I was diagnosed with dyslexia several years ago in college. Years later, I decided to continue schooling even though it is a major challenge for me. A part of me hoped that my dyslexia “decreased” over these years with “sometimes” to these questions. Nope. Still the same. Thank you for this video and test. It’s reassuring that my struggles are for a reason, not an excuse.
Nobody enjoys filling out taxes lolllllll
I always found it funny back in grade school as to why I can't memorize the multiplication table past multiples of 5 and that when we read aloud I would constantly repeat sentences thinking I haven't read them yet but in fact I have. And that left vs right thing was spot on, I always thought there was something wrong but didn't really give it much thought. This test should be mandatory for all schools, would have saved me all those bad marks and the bullying that comes with it.
You shouldn't have had to go through the bullying period and it's honestly terrible to hear you went through that
"Dilulc Ravgindr"
-Dyslexic person, 2021
There is a math ld.
I can relate! I am dyslexic and have always had trouble memorizing the multiplication table. Reading out loud is a nightmare for me. I stumble over words, having difficulty pronouncing them correctly and getting tongue-tied.
Strange but true... My son gets using East (right) and West (left) better than the words right & left. But those greater than (>) and less than (
My Grandmother, (who both taught and encouraged me to read), was dyslexic. She was told she was stupid and was treated as such from her teachers all her life. She taught HERSELF to read because she wanted it so bad. She became a nurse and worked thirty years in that vocation. I commend all that are different because she taught me we are all different. I applaud all of you.
Your grandma is an inspiration, not just for those striving to learn and be able to contribute to society, but also because she doesn't want other people to experience what she had gone through.
your grandma is amazing
I don't even know your grandma, yet I wish her the happiness of the whole world
We are lucky that most teachers are better educated on the matter. I had to switch schools when I was younger because of a teacher that just could understand why I was slower and less precise when it came to writing and reading. But it also thought me from a young age to not get effected by others lack of education. And I know think I'm better of because of her
I got a diagnosis as a kid saying I had “mild dyslexia”. Whenever I tell people that they always think that means i basically have no trouble at all or they were just over diagnosing a little kid. I answered yes to 6 of these. I feel vindicated in my struggles. I really needed this.
Same!
i’ve always been advanced in reading, but for some reason for the last few years I would sometimes forgot how to say, spell, or even understand simple words as if I didn’t understand english (which is the only language I know) and i read very slowly too.
@@cinnamon5688 are you under a lot of stress, as this can mimic dyslexia and ADHD unfortunately
Dude you read my mind
I especially struggle with groups of similar objects, like if you show my 13 straight lines next to each other I’ll take ages cause I’ll get confused which one I’m currently counting
Hi! I actually always said “mild case” as a child too but it was never taken seriously, so I was never tested or never received any help/aid for dyslexia. I’m 23 now and have since graduated college, and my grandmother recently just told me for the first time that she has dyslexia and I’ve always suspected that my father and brother do as well. I answered yes to 7 questions. This was so validating as I was always the last one to finish my exam, even the whole time I completed my bachelors, and all of the questions were real struggles at some point, even if I overcame that. Thankful to see I’m not alone!
me who was diagnosed with dyslexia 6 years ago: “oooo lets find out”
me too, it was fun
I get my left and right confused ALL OF THE TIME. I hold up my fingers in the shape of an ‘L’ and still can’t tell. It gets so annoying especially when driving 😭
SamE XD I right little “L” and “R”’s on m6 left and right wrists so I can tell them apart
@@Froggyfrogworld-14 ooh good idea
@@Froggyfrogworld-14 that's a good idea
everyone who is close with me knows that if i say "this way" it means go right and "that way" means go left. with other people its a struggle trying to give directions, but at least the people who i frequently carpool with understand it now
if i need to tell i'll press my thumb into the bump on my finger where i write (I'm right handed)
It's very interesting to see the overlaps between different neurodivergencies. I am fairly certain that I'm not dyslexic, however I know I have ADHD, and most of these questions that I answered yes to were because of how that neurodivergency affects me and my life. Very cool!
Same!!!!!
shit like this makes me question everything. like it it bc i have dyslexia or is it (again) my adhdv
same
Yeaaaaah it’s confusing
That’s really interesting, thanks for sharing.
I answered yes to 11/12 questions. The only one I didn't say yes to was the cheque one since I don't write them in the first place. However, multiple of my teachers have told me that I probably have dyslexia so thank you so much for this! It was really insightful
Most definitely answered “yes” way more than 6. But I’ve always been dyslexic. It was a fun little test to take.😊
Haha
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I hope you have a lovely day.
Same bro
Same 😄
Same
Congrats to everyone who thinks they may be dyslexic, you’re a demigod!
Rick riodan ftw!
I was thinking the same thing
took me a second there. Clever one you are, reeeeealy clever
@@andreinavargas2961 yeah it’s dam good
Is this a Percy Jackson reference or am I just thinking about the book
I’m so glad he mentioned getting times, dates and numbers mixed up. Because when that happens to me and I tell people it’s because of my dyslexia, they look at me weird and assume I’m making an excuse because they assume all dyslexia is, is reading difficulty. Dyslexia is a wide range of things, not just slower reading ability.
J’ai reçu un diagnostic de dyslexie il y a 50 ans. Les médecins ont dit à ma mère que je ne pourrai jamais faire d’étude passer le secondaire. ( hight school) . J’ai réussi à obtenir deux baccalauréat à l’université de Montréal au Canada!!! L’université de Montréal est une des meilleures universités francophones au monde. J’ai passé les tests que vous proposez et je suis 100% dyslexique. Il y a de l’espoir. Je parle et je comprend aussi parfaitement l’anglais. Je suis heureuse d’avoir trouvé votre chaîne UA-cam!,,
The left/right thing is a real issue for me, as is east/west since my brain associates right with east and left with west. So, I might look at a map in a video game and say, "Oh, I should go check out that area on the west side" then I'll point my compass to the W... but what I meant to explore was east. 100% east. It's super frustrating. I also read slow because I have to narrate in my head to comprehend anything--and even then, sometimes I'll lose my place or have to read the same sentence over and over before it clicks. It's gotten better after years of reading for enjoyment, but it's an issue that can't be "fixed." If I had been diagnosed in the 80s as a child, it would have saved me so much grief and humiliation. I was around 15 before teachers started catching on. I scored a 6 on this test. Dyslexics untie! (if you get it, you get it)
Same! All of it! I was caught late as well! It is definitely a nice change when you have a word to put on your frustration, but then, going to highschool and before you deal with it is already seen as an excuse for an error! So frustrating! At least in my case it was, or teachers saying it is not a real thing, due to over diagnosis in my peers...
Same with all of those! I was just treated like I’m stupid, but now I know that might not be the case!
I have all of these too. Sucks because I can't seem to finish reading my textbooks on time.
Same, I get them confused a lot, but I do know a two easy ways to help.
Tip 1: pretend to write in the air, if your right handed, whatever hand that moves first is tour right hand
Tip 2: If that doesn't fit you well, or your able to use both hands. What I do is use my fav juice as my dominant hand and one I don't like my other hand, I love apple juice and am right handed. So for me, apple juice is always the right (handed) way to go!
I did karate when I was young so I correctly learnt my left/right quite quickly
I didn’t get a diagnosis for my mild dyslexia until I was 20, after leaving college mid junior year due to depression and being unable to complete the research papers for my courses- as a kid was good at school and very dedicated, so maybe that’s why none of my academic teachers ever guessed, but when I was maybe 10 one ballet teacher asked me if I was dyslexic because I was struggling so much with an across-the floor combo that involved kicks that alternated legs and body orientation. I remember being offended and devastated that she asked me that at the time-I don’t know why I presumed to take it as an insult. Anyway, the diagnosis helped me let go of my guilt around how much a struggles with the reading load in college, and helped me understand why after writing so many research papers, this particular one felt insurmountable: it was a literature review on an artist-part of the reason I had enjoyed writing art history papers was because the primary source was not textual. But trying to summarize and analyze all of the academic writing on my chosen artist and write at the standard I held myself to turned out to be basically impossible.
I feel this so hard. I’m 22 and have been saying I think I’m dyslexic since I was like 12 and have pushed to get an evaluation but have been literally laughed at and it’s been brushed off and I STILL haven’t gotten an evaluation. I was good at school so people think I’m being dramatic but there’s so many situations I run into where it’s debilitating. The only thing I have to tell me I’m not crazy is the fact that I had to go into a special class in 2nd or 3rd grade because I really struggled with reading things properly, I’d change words and shuffle them around, that is the only confirmation I have apart from the everyday struggling with simple things. So beyond frustrating
I relate to this so much! I'm an incredibly capable student but one of my biggest challenges (besides debilitating perfectionism) is my reading speed which makes it difficult to keep up with the reading material for my courses. Online learning only made it worse and I ended up taking two semesters off during the pandemic due to mental health issues.
I was tested earlier this year for dyslexia and was just shy of the official threshold. In my case it seems that its more of an attention issue combined with the perfectionism (which led me to reread sections multiple times) rather than traditional dyslexia.
I feel this, not for dyslexia but for ADHD. No one ever believed me that I thought I had it and now we're pursuing a diagnosis but... I'm 26 so I'm kinda fucked, I can't afford meds so... Rip. I've wondered about dyslexia but I don't think I qualify, still doesn't make it easier lol.
I was always a good student grade wise but because of that it was never taken seriously that I had a reading problem or dyslexia. I am now 23 and I asked my dr if there was anywhere she knew to get tested to see. That way I could at least know and if/when I went back to college I could have accommodations. But even she didn't take me seriously. Cause I was a good student. I am glad I am not alone in that but also disappointed in the system that we DO get brushed aside. In the USA the "no student left behind" is absolute bs.
Other than officially knowing you are dyslexic, what did a diagnosis do for you? I have not been diagnosed but every test like this and those for AADD indicate I have both. I have numerous coping mechanisms and managed to run two companies that we successfully sold for good return. I stayed away from the financial aspects of the company, hiring a non-dyslexic to take care of that. But back to my question. What did an official diagnosis do for you besides explaining a lot?
“Are you dyslexic?”
“no, i’m not”
Proceeds to watch the video*
I often see words that aren't there, read words in the wrong order, misspell things and really struggle to read aloud. I have trouble with numbers, getting them in the right order and putting them into calculators. I just learnt the months this year, I'm 17 now. Feels like alot of people in the comments understand this and it's comforting. I answered yes to alot of these.
It was my english and my math teachers at 5th grade that saw the first signs of dyslexia in me, and they adapted their whole structure of teaching for me. Love these teachers so much.
That's so great 🥺 I had a german teacher like that and im literally never going to forget how great she was with my dyslexia.
Almost every English teacher I have had was horrible with it though, they didn't get it that I was still dyslexic in my second language and it didn't magically went away.🙄😂
I answered 8 yes. I had teachers suspect that I had dyslexia when I was a child, and they tried to get me evaluated, but because I wasn’t constantly writing my letters and numbers backwards, the school district would not give me a referral to be evaluated, and my family did not have the money to get me evaluated privately. I remember thinking I was stupid, and that I’d done something wrong because I struggled in school so much. Other teachers called me lazy, and treated me badly because I made so many mistakes in my work, particularly in spelling. One in particular stood me in front of my class in junior High, to scold me for spelling water “whater”. I’ve still never been able to get an actual diagnosis, as I’ve never had the money to, but I’m fairly certain that I’m dyslexic. I now know that I’m not stupid, or lazy, and that I wasn’t bad because I struggled in school. I just have to adjust how I do things, like typing letters, and notes out in my phone to help me with spelling. I’ve improved a lot with my reading comprehension by reading out loud to my children. Also, if there’s something I don’t remember when it comes to grammar, or punctuation, I look it up. I just hope that the markers for dyslexia are more widely known now, and that the standards for evaluation have been updated. Children shouldn’t be made to feel stupid for something they cannot help, especially by teachers.
Thats horrible, I'm sorry you had to deal with such shitty teachers as well as not getting the proper diagnosis you should have gotten. I'm glad your in a better place now, education is such a limited scope on the value and intelligence of a person.
Same this is so similar to my story too
I answered yes to 11. I already have an official diagnosis so I just did this for fun, but it felt so good to finally hear someone talk about all the struggles that come with dyslexia. Most of my teachers and people around me think it's just about having problems with reading and writing but its so much more that I never hear anyone around me talk about.
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I was diagnosed with being dyslexic when I was a kid, and also answered "yes" alot in this video. Thought it would be still fun to see how it goes ^^
Answered yes to like 3 of these and most definitely am not dyslexic, but I was curious what sort of issues dyslexic people struggle with. This was very eye-opening and educational ❤
Saying colors in conversation, remembering names, catching yourself saying something wrong but you have to say it to then correct it.
@@xokissnoesaying colours in conversation? What do you mean?
I was OBSESSED with reading as a child. It was to the point I was at a college readling level in 5th Grade. (I'm in the US for those curious) And I was only at a kindergarten math level. I have had to have lots of tutoring and struggled severely with my mathmatics. I even have a spell checker installed on my browser to make sure I'm spelling things correctly. I still get jumbled, I do take a little longer to read because I always go a line below. My Mom is dyslexic and she thinks I got it from her. She's the only reason I was able to cope as a child be cause she taught me how to manage it and the tricks she used to work with it.
I said yes to 10 of those questions and I already knew that i was dyslexic, was diagnosed with it really early on in school. I also have a sibling that is dyslexic too. I'm not ashamed of my dyslexia and don't mind letting people know that I have it, I know how to work with it.
I always had a feeling I was dyslexic or that something was off my whole life. I've always had trouble reading and completing math problems as a kid. To this day I still have trouble reading and telling my right for my left. This test really helped me and I got seven. I think I'm going to get properly tested after watching this. Thank you
My Spanish teacher recently asked me if my letter move when I read. I said yes, because they do, not a lot and they fix themselves. I thought it was normal but she let me know it was a sign of dyslexia. I’ve always been bad at spelling and grammar but I always thought the things I struggled with where normal. I talked to my friends and we went over some symptoms and I realized how different I was, it was more than just spelling bad that made me different. I am 17 so it feel weird to just be noticing this but I’ve been doing research and pretty positive I have dyslexia. Sadly I can’t get diagnosed since my insurance won’t cover it but this stuff is still good to know. :)
It doesn't really make sense for your letters to move (otherwise) if your eyes are fine I think didn't check though.
If your in school you might be able to get tested through the school system. I was tested through my school and did not see a bill. It would be good to do this because you might need more help in College. Your IEP (individualized educational plan) from high school can get transferred to college. These are molded to best help you. They can give a secluded space if you can’t concentrate well for tests including extra time. they can put you in English computer classes if you don’t write well on paper. College does make it harder because it’s less structured then high school. You yourself have to do more to give structure and work with your college program for kids with learning problems. Even if you don’t do college or get tested I would look up tips and tricks for dyslexia and adhd. Some will work others dif won’t depending on you. I’m a fellow dyslexic that answered yes to 9 of these things in the video above.
For the letters moving that can be tricky. I myself have letters shake in paragraph form so I use color overlays to change the contrast of paper and words. I tend to move letters around with the next words ahead. My eyes move ahead while my brain is still processing the word.
Example:
Dyslexia refers to a cluster of symptoms, which result in people having difficulties with specific language skills, particularly reading.
I might be processing/reading the word “cluster” but then see “of” next to it. My mind may then place the f in cluster like clusfer or clufter or even clustfer. My eyes have always taken-in to much information and my brain has to decode what I saw and fix it. Over time you train your brain to make less mistakes like this.
Sometime your brain remembers a word and if another word is close enough to it you might change it. Like angel 😇 and angle 📐
Sometimes it’s the simple switch of letters like Does and dose or follow and fallow. These are my big offenders. I actually reverted back to using fallow instead of follow recently and noticed last week. No idea how long I was doing it again. Sometimes things get programmed in and are hard to reprogram.
I can’t spell beautiful without help And enough gets me a lot and weirdly I’ve forgotten how to spell “of” and have spelt It like “ove.”
Becca Ray, I have some symptoms of dyslexia, including shaking/moving letters but I was never tested for it. I’m 30, and I got diagnosed with an eye condition this year. I can’t remember the name of it because it was letter soup, but basically one eye focuses a millimeter off from the other. I got glasses with a prism in them and I can see letters so much better. My spelling has even improved, which is rather convenient since I write novels. I can’t help but wonder if you have something similar going on, since that isn’t a common symptom of dyslexia and the eye thing can mimic it.
@@bodine219 Do you mean astigmatism? I have that too and dyslexia. I was excited when I got to know I have astigmatism, which I was diagnosed with when I was 21, seven years after I was diagnosed with dyslexia. Well, let's say glasses helped, but the letters are still moving. Plus other dyslexic problems stayed. I am curious how many of the challenges would be less annoying if my brain had better bases to build the patterns when I was younger. As English is my second language, I lack the muscle memory in spelling, which makes it even more challenging (and annoying). Ironically, working in academia it is the only language that counts...
I said yes to six of those. I have been dyslexic since I was 8. I was diagnosed then and went to a course of sorts for 4 years and that did help tremendously. It's cool to see more videos and explanation about dyslexia recently. I hope more people realise it doesn't mean your dumb/stupid as I was told for years.
Dyslexia is a SUPERPOWER! and don't you forget it!
Doubt that? Look up "achievers with dyslexia" and get back to us...
I have an official diagnosis, and I answered yes to 11.5 questions. The long words question I only give half a yes to because it depends on the words. I never got my diagnosis until adulthood, despite my parents begging, my school growing up refused to officially test me. I was forced to adapt and overcome on my own with no one to help me. I honestly feel like that helped me more in the long run though, because I figured out what works best for me not a textbook aid the school would have taught me. Anyways, I hope anyone that reads this has a great day/night. ^^
I have not been officially diagnosed but was told by a occupational psychologist that he had little doubt I am. He did say that in his experience, dyslexics are generally very smart and test very poorly. That was me in school. I remember everything I was taught but couldn’t make a decent grade.
i was diagnosed with severe dyslexia about seven years ago. i answered yes to ten of these questions. i have, though, learned that being dyslexic is not something that makes you less than anyone else. it is a challenge, like, a big one, but it makes you grow. some really amazing and intelligent people are dyslexic, like Walt Disney and Albert Einstein. don’t let it take you done, instead, use it to make you grow.
I was diagnosed at 7 but I still wanted to see what this video had to say, I had no idea some of this stuff was caused by my dyslexia.
I was diagnosed with dyslexia when I was in school. Teachers, kids and sadly even my own parents made me feel guilty about it. I know those words hurt but don't let them hold you back.
I didn't think I had Dyslexia until I was out of school. I brushed it off as a teen, I got good grades and have always loved to read and study, so it never really occurred to me. But once I got older I noticed the things I thought were normal weren't at all. I get numbers mixed up, miss spell words frequently, vowels confuse me, I mix up past and present words (most often had/has and looks/looked) and I get unbalanced and disoriented when being asked questions, even simple ones. Which relates to the last question on this video. 'Do you find forms difficult and confusing'. I always have. They intimidate me so much! My sister has Dyslexia, so I guess I had a preconceived idea on what Dyslexia looked like. After researching it more I learned it can look so wildly different on each individual. I'm not professionally diagnosed, I'm not sure if I'll ever bother with that, but it's comforting to know why my brain works the way it does and that I'm not actually dumb (which is how I've often felt) my brain just works differently!
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I answered 'yes' to 6 of these questions.
I was diagnosed as a child and I answered yes to 8 of these!! I used to get so embarrassed that I couldn't seem to store or remember how to do things but I learnt that I'm a visual learner I need to see things being done to learn instead of being told how to do somthing!! Xx
I went through the entirety of my schooling, struggling, and just this summer as a woman in my mid 20’s was diagnosed by my psychologist with math dyslexia (dyscalculia)
Really would have helped to know that before dropping out of high school 🙃
I have dyslexia, it get's easier has you age, for me at least. But i also have dyscalculia i think, i can't do math to save my life.
Well that sucks 🙁. Hope things are working out for ya 🙂👍🏽.
im currently dropping out of school because of my dyscalculia. i just got diagnosed at 18 and i wont be able to finish my diploma with dyscalculia, sadly. i wish it got diagnosed earlier so i couldve had treatment! its sad to see that even though i am now officially diagnosed with dyscalculia, the school system in my country treats me like any other student and disregards my dyscalculia!
i went through something similar but with autism, the school system really sucks, when they see a kid struggling but it isn’t super obvious they don’t feel the need to dig deeper, so they just assume you simply need to work harder when it’s really a disability :/
That is sad. In my schools they tested everyone so they would pick up those who might be dyslexic etc. I was put in a small group with extra help with math. We were 3 people with our own teacher and our own classroom.
I have an official Dyslexia diagnosis, with a few other learning disabilities, and i answered 9 yeses. I think this test is definitley a good help for people to go to get diagnosed with learning disabilities of many kinds, cause this stuff can also relate to Attention Deficit Disorders (add, adhd), and auditory processing disorders, so i would recommend that if you said yes to even a select few of these that are debilitating, go see what you can find out about your brain anyway if you can
Somebody once asked me "are you dyslexic?" When I misspelled basic words yet again, and at that moment I realized why I am like this, that was also the first time someone asked me a question about my bad spelling that wasn't "are you stupid?" It felt... nice...
i didn’t know if I was dysllexic or not, but I do believe that I am. I answered yes to 7 of them
At a very Young Age, I was Diagnosed not only with Severe Dyslexia, But also Auditory Processing Disorder. Funny thing is, I agreed to every single one of those questions. Plus, even more issues that I have because of my Auditory Processing.
I literally cannot process verbal words/ commands from others very well. At the Job I worked at, my Boss could tell me to go do something, but I ended up re-asking what he told me to do a few different times.
In a private school, it was incredibly hard for me to focus on the Teacher. Everything they said always shot straight through one ear and out the other. That’s why From that early age, I needed to be home schooled for the rest of my life.
I was getting bullied as it is, but the fact I couldn’t sit still and process what the teacher was saying didn’t exactly help either. My mom still questions if I might have even had ADHD thrown in there too. But we could never truly say if it was worth checking it out.
Anyways, thank you for making this video. It was super informative and allowed others to realize what us Dyslexics go through. It’s really tough sometimes!
I’m also severely dyslexic and have auditory processing disorder and got diagnosed at a young age. So I relate to a lot of what you said. I didn’t get home school I ended up getting a IEP (individual education plan) which gives you Accommodations like small group and oral admin .Sadly I also got bullied a lot though out school for going to the special Ed programs and my Learning disabilities.
Public school was a real struggle I’m in my senior year. Thank you for posting this. I often feel alone in my struggles so seeing this made me feel happy.
I think my stepdad has this
Yo I only recently got diagnosed with an auditory processing disorder at 20. I suspect I have Dxylisia or some form of it. Had an IEP growing up but never really had any assistance everyone just thought I had a speech impediment and was to lazy to fix it bc I thought being British sounded cool (my impediment gives me a very distinct accent that most fell is British) It wasn't until I was trying to learn japanese in college that I realized how had it was for me to make out sounds and read especially outloud without getting confused. A neuro pathologist actually suggested that I had an audio processing disorder but back then there wasn't enough research on the disorder and they didn't have enough money for an audiologist. As I kid I always wondered if I had dyslexia but I dismissed bc I like percy jackson and figured I was just going through a phrase. But I still wonder now. Either way nice to meet other with apd
@@katecat3054 No problem, Yeah, the Private School I tried out was supposed to actually help me with my Disorders. It really didn’t. It set me even farther back in school then I already was. Though, it did help with Socializing and learning how to communicate properly.
I remember as a Kid, I always had to carry around some headphones and a CD player thing in a small pouch. For hours on hours of the day, I listened to certain sounds from the headphones. Now, this was a long time ago, I was very young at that age and don’t remember how that even helped me with my APD. But I think it did?
But the biggest issue for me was extreme anger issues due to the APD. As a Kid, I just got so upset when others just couldn’t understand me. Then anger would just explode. I was a ticking time bomb honestly. I went to Therapy to try to fix it, thankfully, by age 7 I was a bit more relaxed.
Nowadays, I’m decently broken through of APD. But I still have those crappy times it really hits me. Like the not understanding verbal orders, Not understanding Sarcasm very much, not understanding Verbal cues, etc.
I’m also very glad to see someone else has nearly the exact same issues as I do. I find it very difficult to find others with Severe Dyslexia and APD. Especially when everyone in the real world sees you awkwardly when you mention you have one of those disorders.
What were some of your key struggles with APD? I’d be interested to know, clearly sense I haven’t met another person with APD 😂
@@zanyawesome30 You too! Unfortunately, I never was able to do an IEP. It was all home schooling. In all honesty, Home Schooling kind of make it worse. There wasn’t any social situations for me to do in order to Verbalize things.
We did do a Barton Program, where it was spelling and pronunciation for words and sentences. But I always struggled with it. I’d often swap letters and couldn’t verbalize certain letters combinations. Like -Au, -Ou, -Ow, etc.
How did College work out for you? I’m considering it, (I currently want a degree in Horticulture) but just was concerned about being Dyslexic and such.
I missed a year of recess in 4th grade because I couldn’t do multiplication tables. And to this day I get the left/right thing confused. Never knew those were signs, I thought they were manifestations of anxiety in childhood.
Yeah, I remember crying for the first time about a grade for those timed multiplication table tests in 8th grade. They had moved me up a math class, but I didn't know hardly any of the multiplication at the time and I still don't, and I got my worst grade ever on it. I also get my right and left wrong too, along with other symptoms, but I never thought it was anything other than not being educated enough in math before hand.
I was diagnosed as dyslexic before I can even remember and was always treated as such throughout school. I took special classes, had easier reading assignments, and I even got extended time on tests. After watching this, I realize I definitely do not have dyslexia. Maybe I did at first and grew out of it or maybe I was misdiagnosed. Either way, this video has helped me put a seal on what I thought to be true for a while!
I do think to some extent children and adults can kinda build compensation skills or a balance with muscle memory through repetitious cycles. Like the reading and writing on tests can be a trial, because the student has to second guess judgment with words. If I'm overstressed or haven't slept enough in a week, I will butcher my sentences.
No the test is not correct I have dyslexia quite severe my friend has dyslexia but not strongly but we still get the same things like extra time on test and go to dyslexic classes all I am going to say is that you can’t get rid of dyslexia the test is not correct and it is also not correct for me
You can't outgrow Dyslexia sadly but it sounds like your compensation skills have become so natural you don't even know they are there or being used.
Bruh... I had really bad dyslexia, I still have and I wish I got special help like this. The only thing I got is a bit of a better treatment on tests when it comes to spelling errors and a LOT of almost failed classes
No,you can't grow out of dyslexia, but ,at the age of 60+,l can definitely say it is possible to learn compensatory skills. However, under stress the dyslexic symptoms/tics (sorry, l can't think of the correct word, l'm tired and that also makes dyslexia worse !),will increase/return. The answer then is to try and carry out important activities while not tired or stressed (l can't say that's particularly helpful for exams and form filling though !)
I answered yes to 8 and that’s after being heavily treated for my dyslexia/ thinking I was sort of past it. Interesting to think about the ways it still impacts my day to day!
I have no idea why I clicked on this I know very well I don’t have dyslexia 😂
But now I know for reference a few more affects of dyslexia that I can use in the case I give it to a character I write. I’m very uptight on getting those kinds of details right for the audience to feel close to them.
I've been struggling with symptoms of dyslexia for a while now. This was definitely helpful in my decision to mention it at my next doctors appointment. 9 of those questions were yes and 1 of them was hard to answer, because I don't write checks.
Good for you! You can get yourself checked and tested, and if you get fully diagnosed you can get accommodations or therapy :))
Watched this out of curiosity, I have an official diagnosis of dyscalculia, and I answered yes to almost every question even though I know for sure I am not dyslexic. For those who are having trouble with numbers, be aware of dyscalculia!
I only answered “yes” to two of the questions, but it was interesting to see this because lately I’ve been mixing up words and numbers a lot and I was worried that it might be some kind of late development of dyslexia. I never knew a lot of these things happen to dyslexics and it’s allowed me to understand what they go through much better.
I wanted to chime in, I have ADHD and a lot of this is familiar to me so I always brushed it off. I was always an avid reader but I didn't notice a problem I had until my professor asked me specifically why a answered a question a specific way. I notice that sometimes it feels like I see additional words or read them in the wrong order. Idk what it is but it feels like my eyes just skip around. Anyone my point is, that my professor is dyslexic and he explained that what I described sounded like a mild form of it. I wonder if that sounds familiar to you?
Yeah it's weird. It's not that we're stuiped it's just, uh. Evil that it's hard. I guess.
@@celestrial333 That does sound like what happens to me. I only have that problem with small text though.
@@celestrial333 having adhd when reading can also cause your brain to just see the first and last couple letters of words or even sentences and make a guess at what it says. That can cause you to add extra or remove some words while reading. The brain is good at guessing so it works for the majority, but it can hurt when there are words that are spelled similarly but have totally different meanings.
@@celestrial333 honestly same here i always thought i was just stupid you know so i never read out loud at all it still happens but not as much
Some of these also apply to dyscalculia - anyone who says yes to just the number-related ones here (mixing up numbers in a sequence, having trouble with multiplication tables, and even the left/right thing) but doesn't struggle with the letter-related questions might have dyscalculia instead of dyslexia. Growing up, I only heard about dyslexia, which I knew I didn't have - words and letters are my jam - but I thought I was just stupid when it came to math. I had already graduated by the time I learned about dyscalculia, and once I figured it out sooo many things made sense for me.
my exact thought
omg this, I have the exact same thing! I was already reading and writing at college level by age 9, but numbers have always been my cryptonite. I would always joke that I'm only number dyslexic but the struggle is real, I even based what I studied in college over the fact that it had no math classes
wait this is a thing? i know my multiplication table but i always get my numbers confused when writing them down even though i know the stuffy in my head.
i thought i was just problematic
yep! same. i have dyscalculia but not dyslexia
I've always had a hard time in school, especially when it came to reading and writing. I had to take special classes. But I never thought I was dyslexic. Until I got older. I realized that I always say numbers backwards, I've always been bad at multiplication, I can read in my head but not out loud. And so much more. So I feel like I do have it. I answered 8 so. Thank you!
I did this test and I answered 10 right and I later got a official test and I was right. Thank you for the help!
I also answered yes to 8 of these. I’ve never thought I might be dyslexic, but I didn’t know these could be signs of dyslexia
Same and my family always say it’s because you need to wear your glasses 😂
same i just clicked on the video for fun but now i am worried
Hi I answered yes to most of these questions and have an official dyslexic diagnosis. Mine was from school years ago and have always wondered if it's ever worth being retested when in the workforce to see if things have changed 🤔.
There are certain accommodations that you could also receive in the workforce. If your employer requires a renewed diagnosis so that you receive those accommodations, then it might be worthwhile. I, however, have always managed to deal with this on a personal level with my employer. No one ever wanted to see my official certification.
I find that if I slow things down and REALLY focus on taking things slow then I won’t have any issues with writing. Otherwise, when I look back at what I wrote I’ll see that some words were sometimes missing while other words were written twice. Also, if I find a book, or a part of a book, particularly engaging then I won’t have any issues at all getting through the chapter quickly with ease. However, as soon as I lose focus my eyes will have trouble finding where I am on the page. I was barely able to get through this test with any no’s, so I’ll probably end seeing a doctor for a true diagnosis. I’m sure there are others out there who have similar experiences as myself. If you have any tips please share! Thanks for the quick video!
Sounds like hyper focus. It can be amazing for clearing work if you can sink into it but the down side is if anything knocks you out of it you are going to be unable to concentrate for double or triple the time you were in the flow. The last time I truly went into the flow like that was a decade ago. I honestly don't miss it because it made test taking overall a worse experience because I couldn't pull off the sink multiple times back-to-back in finals but I didn't know how to handle it any other way.
My biggest suggestion on improving spelling is don't give in to auto spelling or filling words. Make yourself spell it. It is how I fix words on my head. Write on paper it will feel different then typing and will give you another path.
100% dyslexic - I was placed in special needs during my education since the beginning. I was never told or aware that I was dyslexic; I always thought I was never smart or normal like other kids. This killed my self-esteem and resulted in me feeling anxious, like forever. (which explains my desire and wish to be smart). Just recently, have I been questioning what brain I have, lol. This has been a massive revelation for me. I was NEVER dumb; I surprise myself as I continue to learn. It helped me understand why I always avoided reading or ever risking to pronounce words in front of people. And all the spelling and grammar mistakes I would make on social media as a teenager caused me to get bullied and be called stupid. WOW- thank god I know now... When I asked my mom why I was in a different class than the rest of my friends; She said, "Because we don't speak English at home." lol I don't think my mom even knew why I was in a different class. She may have been the one to say the word dumb, but shit, what shame that caused me... ALL FOR NOTHING! I must say, I've been reading for 3 years now; I'm doing better when I cross a word that's so hard, I try, but I can literally feel my brain get irritated, so I move on or mumble. This was the reason for my search. I want to give myself what I need - especially if I want to pursue a writing career - round 2- The first time I tried, I was told to go "learn English" Ahha, people could be ruthless! Anyway, THANK YOU, ARIJE! You da man!
thank you for good video
It's been 38 years since I was defined as dyslexic.
understanding and treating dyslexia has not improved in the last 38 years.
instead of putting children in special classes with a teacher who has experience with dyslexia, they give it today a computer to help.
about 30 years ago I moved to a school for the dyslexic
about 200 Students from that time who still have contact with each other as everyone is dyslexic It is not a disability but it is something You have to learn to live with.
on a daily basis, we all have small different methods of dealing with the day in relation to dyslexia.
I can recognize all the points that you mentioned in the test
from my side I just have no problem with the numbers
but many of my friends have that problem.
and I am 46 years old
Thanks for your comment! It will be interesting to see how technology changes the life of us dyslexics moving forward. I can definitely imagine how teachers might use it as an easy way out of properly teaching dyslexics according to their needs in the classroom...
I recently was tested for dyslexia through my uni, the test was enough to make me cry! I just couldn't understand some of the questions, worried me a bit that the test alone caused so much stress, the results came back saying I do show symptoms, and I now have things put in place to make uni and assignments a bit easier. I answered yes to 9 of these questions!
It is an interesting test. I got a firm yes to 4 of them, and an sort of to 4 of them. Then the final 4 I am luck to not struggle with really, but also aware I concentrate more than most people to not make the mistakes. I was diagnosis when I was 8YO, and then went to a specialist school for 2 years that really helped me to get the right tactics and support that meant in senior school I didn't get any extra support lessons. Had one very interesting learning support test when I was at Uni, he ended it saying I was clearly Dyslexic but well adjusted and able to work around it.
I also think one question should be "can you spell dyslexia without having to think about it?!?" Always thought it was an ironically difficult word for a disorder know for issues spelling.
The word dyslexia how ironic agree 🤓
I genuinely don't know how to spell dyslexia or dyslexic with Google. It took me a while to write this 😂
I answered yes to 10 and I have an official diagnosis 💪 lmao. This is generally helpful If you are trying to explain to a doctor your concerns about possibly having dyslexia. So when talking to a doctor try to use it as pinpoints about the things you do struggle with. They’ll definitely ask you other questions but if you struggle like me to find the words to explain it this is very helpful
I answered yes to 7 of them.
One being the right and left one. Even using my hands or saying "righty tighty lefty loosey" I still get confused. My brother makes fun of me for it sometimes because he'll tell me to go left and I'll go right. I do get frustrated sometimes because it seems so simple to other people and I thought maybe I didnt learn it right or something... I dont think my parents will believe that I am telling the truth, but maybe I can get an official diagnosis when I'm older. Thanks for the test anyways. It makes me feel better to know I'm not just dumb
Same thing with the multiplication tables. My parents always told me that I just wasn't taught them in school. I'm in 9th grade and not knowing them or being able to learn them is why I think I struggle so much with math. I've also been told by my doctor that I have a disorder which makes it difficult for me to focus and learn math. That on top of adhd just makes it impossible
A little trick I learned although it doesn’t always help but you left hand makes an L ( I was an adult when I learned this) it’s also an easy way to understand greater and less then when it comes to math.
Hey. Just wanted to say you're doing great in school, just by giving your best effort. Keep it up. You're not dumb - we all have unique strengths.
Thank you both for the advice and for the kind words.
I answered yes to 9 of the questions. And I’m diagnosed as dyslexic! I’ve had a few things happen over the years I didn’t realise was because for my dyslexia. Thank you for the video
Dyslexia comes in many different forms, for example, I’m great at math as I think and see things in a pattern, similarly to people with autism. Other people suck at math and can a form of dyslexia that’s calf dyskalkyli. This important to remember watching this video as it do not cover all the symptoms that a dyslexic person can struggle with.
Also Dyslexia (words) Dyscalculia (numbers) and Dyspraxia (spatial awareness) and Dysgraphia (can't remember that one, but images I presume.)
I am diagnosed with dyscalculia, and I think having dyscalculia might also link to other things like dyslexia
I already knew I was dyslexic but UA-cam decided to recommend this to me. I can say I deal with all of these. I had no idea my ability to say large words was affect by my dyslexia though.
I was properly diagnosed when I was 9 or 10 (I'm 26 now) and since getting older I've learned a lot of tricks for some of the things, but I do still struggle with certain things and this test definitely showed that.
I don’t think I’m dyslexic. I think my mind is trying to get things done fast and that’s why I mix things up. The only ones I have a major issue with that made me think I might be dyslexic is my lefts and rights and the fact that I have a hard time writing down the date. I also sometimes read things wrong the first time. I honestly really think my brain just likes to move faster than my eyes though.
Didn't know for along time I was dyslexic. Then when I did find out, everything made a lot more sense. I sat here and answered yes to every question, and didn't surprise myself with my answers at all. XD
I’ve never been told I have dyslexia but I answered yes to 10 of these
I answered yes to 4 of the questions.
Times tables, left and right, spending ages on a page of a book and long complicated forms. I never thought these could be linked with dyslexia.
I keep telling my family that Im dyslexic based on how hard for me it is to write and to answer. The number 1 in the video is really accurate and I realized that when my mom made me fill up a form for the electric bill. When I write, I misspell words alot of times, sometimes Captalling letters in the middle of a sentence, and writing the same statement like 3 times until I noticed it. Aswell as left to right, I take a good second in figuring out which one is which. This video is making me even more curious whether I have it or not. Thank you for these tests, it made me want to get myself checked just to make sure.
I have struggled with a learning disability for most of my life and I have never been officially diagnosed but multiple people including teachers say I have dyslexia and some people even think I have autism hopefully soon I will be officially diagnosis. It's hard to get diagnosis as an adult because most people don't realize they have it and continue struggling and thinking that every body struggles sometimes.
This video is vary helpful for people unsure if they are dyslexic.
I have struggled all my life with a learning disability. I was diagnosed in the 1st grade with dyslexia, but back in the early 1960s, they didn't know much about it or how to work well with it. I was put in all the "dumb-dumb" remedial classes and kids made fun of me thinking I was mentally challenged. My I.Q. was tested and is above average. I struggle with social skills and have often wondered if I am autistic as well. When I have watched videos on autism and taken online tests for autism, I do score within the spectrum, but I have never had an official diagnosis for autism. You are correct, as an adult, it is difficult to get tested or even recognize the problem.
I have always known that I am dyslexic and I just got a diagnosis last week and I answered 10 yes
Me before: "I keep making typos more than normal, i might be dyslexic"
Me after: "Nope, its just me"
I asked my therapist about being tested for Dyslexia, and she said it was harder to test in adults because they usually run tests on younger children. She was also walking me out of the session when she said this so I was able to ask more, but if its possible to get a test as an adult, I think that'd be helpful
This was really interesting. I was diagnosed with dyslexia when I was six however after yours vision training and tutoring I found that a lot of the symptoms I had as a kid have gone away or are less severe. I did however relate to some of the questions on this test!
today I learned that my dyslexia explains a lot more things that I struggle with than I thought. More people need to know about this, I feel like ADHD and Autism, for example, are well known and people will know that people with these things struggle with some stuff but no one really knows that Dyslexia can also make many things difficult. I mean until just now I didn't know about most of these things and I've known I had dyslexia since I was a kid.
I can’t tell you how much this video helps. I’ve been trying to get an official dyslexia diagnosis my entire life but always end up getting stopped by my parents or my doctors. They say that “my grades are too good” for me to be dyslexic which is really infuriating. I hated reading for so long in elementary school and when I did read and write there were some many clear signs that even my teacher picked up on. It would take me days and days to read the same amount of pages it would take my friends in a single afternoon. I constantly mix up the first letters of different words and phrases or smash the letters together . For example, saying “The Snarry Snight” instead of “The Starry Night”. I can’t read aloud to save my life. I constantly struggle with letters and numbers like: d 9 b 6 q p i l j. I especially can’t read anything from a text book. It’s like looking at an optical illusion where all the lines of text muddy together and chnage each time you move from one word to the next. Most of the time I can do okay on spelling and grammar with with the help of spell check, but I’m completely screwed without it. I wish people would take children and teenagers more seriously when they come to doctors offices asking to be assessed for something. We can tell when something wrong or when our development doesn’t match that of our peers. My friends and teachers could testify to my grammatical errors and difficulty with speach and yet my parents and doctors refuse to even begin assessing me for dyslexia just bc I have good grades.
And most parents anddoctors are boomer trash.
Ignore them. You know the truth in thiscase. Go with your gut and stop wasting your life trying to convince boomer trash that REFUSE to learn squat.
Your parents and doctors frustrate me. It’s quite obvious from everything you’ve just explained here that you have it. Maybe if you write all this down on paper and give it to them then, maybe they’ll be surprised at the level of detail and precision you’ve described it all. And hopefully then they’ll take you seriously. If not, you could try changing doctors, or emphasise that people with dyslexia can achieve good grades too, they just have to work harder at getting them and thus those extra efforts should be acknowledged. However they can’t be appreciated if you aren’t even officially diagnosed !! Also considering how official papers are what make the education system and people in general believe such claims.
They’re such let downs omg. Especially the doctors, they’re just embarrassing. Can’t even do their jobs properly. You’ve worked hard. And considering how you’re getting good grades despite everything you have to deal with, makes you so admirable.
I can relate to this, I started showing signs of Dyslexia when I was 7 and my parents went to my school asking them to test me as it was clear I was struggling (and my mum also has Dyslexia so obviously there was a good reason to assume I had it too). However, the school refused to test me stating that I just "wasn't as bright as the others" and that I had a "below to average intelligence" which is complete bs seeing as my dad's intelligent enough and my mum has taken a proper IQ test (like, one she paid for and everything) and she's in the top 3% of the population for IQ, and I'm pretty sure if I remember correctly my grandparents on her side are top 1%, and intelligence is genetic believe it or not so I obviously I wasn't going to be a dumb child. Well anyways, my parents kept fighting and fighting with my school to get me tested, and for the whole 4 years they refused. I was put in bottom classes for everything, and not because I couldn't do the work, I could, but it's just I was too slow at doing it, and my spelling at the time was awful. I got bullied and everything due to me being the odd one out and I didn't even understand myself why I struggled so much. The school finally gave in to testing me at the end of my final year (and of course they had to wait until after my exams), turns out I had Dyslexia and Dyscalculia.
And now look at me, I'm 15, getting amazing grades, and doing fantastic in almost all my classes. Sure I'm not top of the class, but you couldn't tell I had any learning disabilities, I mean funnily enough my English teacher said to me today "I wouldn't be able to tell from your work that you were Dyslexic if you weren't diagnosed.". It just goes to show that Dyslexia doesn't necessarily affect grades, and I really hope some day your parents and doctor take you seriously. It sucks that this is happening to you and I really hope you get the support that you need. I'm no professional but everything you've listed I have struggled with or still do struggle with to this day, so it's clear that you are struggling with Dyslexia or a similar type of learning disability.
I have a little bit of advice that can help with the reading though, not necessarily from a book, but if you're doing homework or school work or like work for a job on a Word document or another similar programme, change the background colour. The main reason people with Dyslexia struggle with reading is because of the black and white contrast so changing the background colour to a (I recommend light) green, yellow, pink, red, or any other colour may help stop the words blending together. If your school offers them, ask to try some overlays, they're like thin plastic see through coloured sheets that you put over writing that helps with reading, and maybe in the future you can get specialised reading glasses, I did and the cost of the tests needed and then the making of the lenses was expensive, about £350, but they're worth getting if you really struggle and you have the money. I don't use mine because they messed them up and they give my eyestrain, however a classmate of mine has them and they work really well for him so I recommend getting some if you can find a place that does all the testing for them!
Anyways, as I said, I hope things turn around for you and you get tested one day, and don't let other discourage you from trying your best. You'll find tricks around the difficulties you face one day, and it'll get easier over time I'm sure. Good luck!
Well, you are a good writer, as seen in this comment, and you must have a high level of intelligence to be earning good grades even with these obstacles. So maybe tell your parents; imagine how much more I could achieve if I had help with these challenges. They have nothing to lose by looking into it, so at least you'll know exactly what you're dealing with. Knowledge is power.
Helpful video. Glad to have an alternative to text-based dyslexia screenings! Keep up the good work Arije 💪
I’ll do :) and thank you for the support!
I only got 4 “yes”. However I am challenged by CPTSD. My reading is off, and my spelling is not good. I think that it could be as a result of the fog in my brain, but I will ask my doctor about it.
Thank you for sharing this test, and a bit of yourself.
Stay safe, stay sane, be well
I did get diagnosed a while ago, but I still wanted to watch this video, I answered yes to 11 of these questions
Dyslexia runs in my family (and im one of the lucky ones who inherited it) and I answered most of those with yes. But I definitely don't have the left right thing🥳 that's probably because i was so determined to lern it wen I was 5. I still remember that so well its one of the first really clear memories that I have.😄
I think its pretty interesting how different dyslexic people are. I'm really bat at spelling (especially in English because its my second language) but understanding a language is easier for me than a lot of people without it.
What a hard challenge to live with. I hope those who are doing so know that they are smart, valued, and that we’re counting on their contributions to the world. ❤️
Hey thank you ! That's so nice
I'm dyslectic, known since I was 11, 12 or so. Only when I was 30+ did an aunt tell me that being horrid at my tables was a dyslexia thing. Surprising to me, because I always felt extremely dumb that while I could do math, all kinds of calculations in Excell, basic sums for elementary school are a problem.
Now that I'm no longer in school I can read fast. When my friends started to have kids I finally understood why. In school the word order in a sentence is relevant as well as reading all words (in a test). While reading normal, fiction books it doesn't really matter, context will make it clear. So when the friends started having kids, and I started reading out loud again, I noticed the thing I believed to have outgrown was there: dyslexia, and unable to read out loud.
Reading out loud I found that at the end of my sentence I would have some words left over, which I already read.
So "Jimmy played with his ball in the sun" would end up with me reading out loud:
"Jimmy played in the sun with his ball",
Then stumbling on "in the sun." again!
So I found out that I pretty much read a bunch of words in a bit of text, and then make a logical sentence from those words, instead of reading the actual sentence.
I can read "1000", understand "1000", yet say "100" thinking/believing I said "1000". Very annoying.
Not only are left and right a problem, I also make mistakes with green and blue, like the 1000-100 thing, completely different in my head to what comes out my mouth.
Saying any number over 1000 is hard, but admittedly, I also blame my native language, Dutch, as we have a very illogical way of saying numbers. Most countries do left to right, or right to left, we jump around: 356, would be something like three hundred six and fifty. Who makes that crap up!?
He :) bedankt voor het delen van van van je ervaring. En ik vergis me ook af en toe als ik over kleuren praat… Voor mij is het meestal roze en paars 🤷♂️
Oh zo herkenbaar die nummers! Echt zo jammer dat wij nummers zo raar zeggen!
en ook het 1000 zien en begrijpen maar toch 100 zeggen is echt herkenbaar!
I'm not dyslexic as far as I know (and I said yes to only 5 questions), but damn I relate to this comment way TOO MUCH! I didn't know these were dislexya things, I thought everybody lived like this lol
This test helped my roommate who has been silently suffering from dyslexia her entire life. thank you for educating the world, and the lord for making her special.
I got 5 out of 12, and I was officially diagnosed with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia well over 4 years ago now (I'm 15). If I took this small quiz a few years ago I probably would've got around 10, however despite not getting the best support, I've learnt ways around the difficulties I face; and honestly sometimes I forget I have Dyslexia and Dyscalculia because it never really affects me as much as it use to. I mean, I still make spelling mistakes, and I still get my left and right mixed up all the time (the way I figure it out is that I write with my right hand), and many other things, but it's much more manageable now.
Never let others discourage you from learning and adapting to any learning disabilities you may have, and also we need to get rid of the idea that people with learning disabilities are dumb or stupid. Many people with learning disabilities are actually very smart, and just because our brain processes certain things differently to others doesn't mean we aren't as bright!
And please, if you do think your Dyslexic, get tested for it! I don't know about other countries or other schools, but if your in the UK at least, you are allowed to ask to be tested for Dyslexia if you have reason to suspect you are Dyslexic. Don't self-diagnose yourself with it straight away, there's many different learning disabilities and conditions that may seem like Dyslexia but are completely different, so please get tested before assuming!
I was left handed and my father beat me for it and forced me to be right handed. Literally if I’m driving and someone says oh turn left or right it takes my brain so long to process which is my writing hand I miss the turn anyway!!! I have literally looked at my left hand on my stiring wheel told my self I write with this hand then look where this person telling me to turn freak out and yell “what the f do you mean ? There is no road to turn right! - as I’m near tears looking left. 🤷♀️
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I taught myself that right hand goes right trick when I was little!!! I love that you do that too!
@@joanbaczek2575 I'm so sorry to hear you had to deal with that when you were younger. And I mean I wouldn't be able to drive to save my life so you're doing better than me!
@@vanessavargas3687 My Nan taught me it a few years ago, it still takes a few seconds to work out but it's quicker then any other methods I've tried. I'm so glad to hear someone else uses the same trick too!
This is very interesting. As a kid in elementary school, I had trouble learning anything language related. They thought I was dislexic or hyperactive but they ruled it out and I never got help for it (I wonder why because I kept making up new words for the ones I kept forgetting the pronunciation of). I answered yes to 7 of your questions, but I am 29 and technically I dont have (big) problems anymore because I have ways to work around all those things. I guess I could be dislexic after all but I got good tips along the way that help me function well.
How accurate is this? Can someone tell me. I was told at a young age that I'm dyslexic but I answered no to most of these questions. On top of that I was placed in Special Ed classes early in my school life but when I reached junior year of high school I was taken out of those classes and joined the "normal" students because I tested above average on all of those state mandatory test. But by the time I graduated I still didn't know enough to really prepare myself because of all those years in special Ed. I remember when they first put me in those classes they asked me how I felt about homework and if it was easy or difficult for me to understand my classes. I told them I didn't care at all and that only my test scores should matter (never failed a test in my life even tho I do not study). After that they put me in those classes and I'm pretty sure it's because they mistook my laziness for Dyslexia. I guess I'm asking and sharing because I'm a little upset that if I truly am not dyslexic then a good chunk of my education was stunted because a bunch of teachers didn't know how to properly communicate with me. The day they threw me in special Ed they made it seem like a blessing and I believed them. It wasn't. To loosely quote Bart Simpson, "you want us to catch up with the rest of the world while going slower than them?"
Edit: or maybe it was Bobby Hill that said that
Should have been tested probably
Elementary special education major here and we have a better system now that is far better at catching stuff like this. As teachers we are supposed to gather data through homework and class work and make suggestions for further testing based off of that then depending on how that goes further recommendations are made. By law we are now required to teach students in a general education classroom whenever possible and we cannot separate the student from a general education class without cause of the student is disrupting the class/setting or the class/setting is disruptive to the student with a disability or the teacher in the general education class does not have the ability to provide the proper accommodations to the student.
Sounds like you are probably not dyslexic. It seems like every few years there’s a new thing that gets over-diagnosed. It’s bad for the kids who get a label that doesn’t fit them, and bad for the ones that actually have it because people don’t take them as seriously. I’m no expert, but if I was you I would seek a second opinion.
@@whyeventry45 sadly your story is not unique. It’s only been in the past 5 years that in America we have made good progress in helping students wit special needs and identifying them.
i was diagnosed when i was 10 but thank you for the video it made me relize i am not alone
The overlap with ADHD is pretty high with some of these. Is it common for them to be together? Like if you have one, the chance of you having the other is raised by x%?
They're very commonly comorbid, which means they often occur together! :)
Yes it is common for a person with ADHD to have other disabilities besides ADHD. I have ADHD as well as anxiety, OCD, dyslexia, and neuropsychological delays (autism type stuff but because of a unique factor we can’t label it that because if a genetic mutation I have.)
@@kaylimcginnis Damn interesting. I have my own comradery of disorders (adhd and autism the big ones) which I confused a lot of the symptoms with dyslexia/depression when I was younger (also both adhd and autism had a pretty big stigma back in the 90s where I'm from so not like my parents would've fought for those kind of diagnoses). Still trying to figure everything out about myself and always stumble on these random videos that'll pop up in my recommended. Any video or creator/channel you recommend watching to learn more?
Yea, a person could have both adhd and dyslexia and it's pretty common apparently.
But while i do have ADHD, i am pretty sure i'm not dyslexic, and still ended up answering yes to some of the questions for adhd-related reasons (for example it sometimes takes me FOREVER to read a page just because i can't focus).
OHHH so that's why! I am diagnosed with ADHD and I scored 7 out of 10.
When I was in elementary school they told my parents that my IQ was way too high for me to be dyslexic, my dad is dyslexic, and I struggle daily with all of these questions that I said yes to. Sooo maybe I should get retested, is it true that you can’t be dyslexic if you have a high IQ??
There are very famous inventors who are dyslexic or are suspected to be like Einstien or Newton so I'm pretty sure that it is possible to have an high QI and be dyslexic ( English is not my first language, I hope I was clear ^^)
@@juliebaillet40 ya it does! Thanks I wasn’t sure I was tested when I was In the 1st grade in like 2005, so maybe my results would be different
It is definitely possible to have a high IQ and to have dyslexia the same time…
I have a high IQ and I’m dyslexic. I also had my 1st grade teacher tell my mom I couldn’t be dyslexic. Then in 3rd grade I had to get adhd testing and found out I have dyslexic and adhd.
I'm dyslexic and I'll never forget just after I was diagnosed one of the professionals at my university asked me about my studies in college. When I said Japanese she was shocked and said "I've never heard of a dyslexic person learning a second language!" I now have a degree in psychology that included all the stats, and have written at master's level. I used to read books constantly and I write for fun.
You can have any IQ, any skill in in writing or maths or none. It is only because education systems wont usually test those that are high achievers.
I think my IQ is 104, and my dyslexia is the 4th or 6th percentile (so 96 or 94% of people my age outperform me on dyslexia specific tasks) so I'm smart enough I think.
Plenty of smart people are dyslexic. It is a processing disorder and an early sign of dyslexia is toddlers reaching milestones faster than others. In terms of evolution and a pre-literate society, I'd argue dyslexia would be an advantage as well.
I have photographic memory so it took me so long to figure out that I was dyslexic. I show basically all symptoms of dyslexia except that fact that I can spell, but that’s only because I was able to memorise every word I’ve seen. I tested this out with my friends saying easy words I’ve never seen before and I couldn’t spell most of them correctly.
I went to the doctors a few years ago to check if I actually have dyslexia and I did. I struggle reading and writing, always mixed up left and right, basically everything that was mentioned in the video except the spelling part.
2nd video.
I was diagnosed with dyslexia at 15, and thanks to the new home economics teacher. My case helped my tiny high school of 153 students leap forward into speiecal education for people like us. I just wish I had caught my adhd at the same time.