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Post by 27182818284 »

Arzh wrote: post #32
oib wrote: post #26

Ugh, as someone with dyslexia, it's nothing visual, so trying to visualize being dyslexic is an exercise in futility. You know those "drunk" googles that distort your view? They certainly make it harder to walk, but they in no way make you feel drunk... Try explaining someone what it feels like being on LSD... you can't. Telling people that letters jump around is an easy way to dismiss people whit out having to do a…

As someone also with dyslexia, I thought it was pretty good. Yes it is not that extreme but that is the point of the piece I think.

I enjoyed the demonstration because although I could still read it I could notice that I had to spend extra effort to do so.

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Post by stordoff »

mgrennan wrote: post #25
krschultz wrote: post #4

Shameless plug: if you know anyone with Dyslexia or other learn & attention issues, send them to https://www.understood.org . It's a non-profit with many free resources for people trying to overcome these challenges.

Thank you for the link. I'm 60 and have suffered with Dyslexia all my life. I do well today thanks to spelling correction and Audio Books. But it is a struggle. There are "English Nazis" everywhere. I hear thing like "You might get promoted if you would play attention to your spelling." Most of my special Ed friends flip burgers even with 140+ IQs.

I'm not dyslexic, but I've also experienced a similar attitude towards spelling. It's something I've always struggled with (I tend to think faster than I write, so frequently muddle words together, and words tend to 'look fine' even if I know the correct spelling - writing this I typed 'thinker' instead of 'think faster', and something like 'wierd' wouldn't stand out to me without spell-check). Fortunately it's never held me back, and deson't effect, e.g., reading, but I've definitely encountered people with an attitude along the lines of "You can't spell, therefore are an idiot" which can be fustrating.

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Post by SandersAK »

Pretty interesting stuff.

What was strange for me is that I had no problem reading 90% of that at the same pace as I usually read except for word I have never seen before.

I tend to speed read contextually skipping over words entirely. Maybe a bad thing now that i think of it...

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Post by adam12 »

oib wrote: post #26

Ugh, as someone with dyslexia, it's nothing visual, so trying to visualize being dyslexic is an exercise in futility. You know those "drunk" googles that distort your view? They certainly make it harder to walk, but they in no way make you feel drunk... Try explaining someone what it feels like being on LSD... you can't. Telling people that letters jump around is an easy way to dismiss people whit out having to do a…

Thanks for your comment. I have suspected that I have dyslexia for years, but now I am almost certain that I do.

Interesting article: http://www.iflscience.com/brain/font-simulates-dyslexia-make...

“For most people with dyslexia, the letters and numbers do not jump around on the page and the colours remain the same,” Britton said. “It is simply a breakdown in communication between the eye and the brain. You can see the information, you can see each letter perfectly but there is something in your mind that is stopping or slowing the process of information.”

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Post by jackmaney »

AceJohnny2 wrote: post #29

This reminds me of the meme that went around a few years ago (dear god, 2003!?), claiming that Cambridge researchers showed that you had no trouble reading scrambled word text: "Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed…

I know that an anecdote is not data, etc, etc, but I can't read that garbage. I may as well be trying to decrypt it.

Re: Dsxyliea

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Post by stordoff »

geon wrote: post #24

For extra fun, try looking at the JS source in Chrome devtools.

Not sure why, but that 'bothered' me way more than the original article. I could read the text of the Wikipedia article without too much of an issue, but as soon as I saw the code all I could think was "This is wrong, and oddly unsettling".

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Post by ALee »

patio11 wrote: post #7

For extra fun, imagine you're reading in a language where the characters look like 紫 and sometimes the lines decide to wiggle like Medusa's hair.

posted above, but it's different for Chinese speakers than English people with dyslexia: http://www.economist.com/blogs/analects/2014/09/dyslexia-chi...

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Post by [deleted] »

geon wrote: post #36
Arzh wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone also with dyslexia, I thought it was pretty good. Yes it is not that extreme but that is the point of the piece I think.

Yes. It's just my interpretation of something I heard.

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