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Re: Dsxyliea

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Post by slg »

Swizec wrote: post #62
slg wrote: post #20

There are a variety of different forms of Dyslexia, so I can't speak for everyone. However, this doesn't resemble my own personal form. I would be curious to hear from other Dyslexics to see if this is anything close to their experience. The way I usually explain my variety is that my brain is trying to read faster than it can physically. I have no problem reading words (which seems to be what this code is focusing o…

I'm not dyslexic, but I can relate to this. To me it usually happens when I'm talking, which is why I prefer typing since I can type at the same speed I'm thinking. Have you tried speed reading techniques? They're designed to get around your urge to "vocalize" words in your mind as you read. This enables you to read at the speed your brain can process at.

I only briefly looked at speed reading stuff. I never got over the internal vocalization. That might be something worth revisiting. It would be great if it could avoid whatever it is in my mind that is getting crossed.

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Post by losteric »

slg wrote: post #20

There are a variety of different forms of Dyslexia, so I can't speak for everyone. However, this doesn't resemble my own personal form. I would be curious to hear from other Dyslexics to see if this is anything close to their experience. The way I usually explain my variety is that my brain is trying to read faster than it can physically. I have no problem reading words (which seems to be what this code is focusing o…

Our brains are built on pattern recognition and probability, and I definitely notice that through dyslexia.

When I'm reading well written "human language" (novels, magazines, etc), I can read very quickly... over 400 pages on a 3 hour flight with high precision and recall. On the other hand, dense technical documentation is painful because the material is dense with little parsing context shared across sections. Bad grammar makes it worse, sometimes re-reading a sentence and it's neighbors multiple times to get a word to "click"

My natural reading mode is "subconscious". It's fast when all the patterns are known and unambiguous in context, but falls back on a slow conscious process when there are new patterns or insufficient context...

Re: Dsxyliea

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Post by ecobiker »

What tools do people use to get around dyslexia? I recently realised that most auto-correct and spelling correction tools breakdown for dyslexic people. The challenge for them is that they know how a word sounds but takes more time than usual to recollect the spelling. The recommendations suggested by standard spell checkers are way off the mark in those cases. Any recommendations would be appreciated.

Re: Dsxyliea

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Post by kumaraman »

baddox wrote: post #57
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…

I'm not dyslexic, but the bigger problem I see with this demonstration is that I actually still found it fairly easy to read. There's actually not that much ambiguity for most rearranged words when they're in the context of grammatical sentences. I'm sure that real dyslexia is a much more difficult challenge than this demonstration.

I have to agree with you, I am dyslexic and found this not much more difficult to read than normal text. I find when reading I will stare at words in sentences knowing what they say and what they mean but not knowing or being able to understand the meaning of the sentence overall. I will often re-read the sentence over and over and end up moving on not understanding what it means, just knowing certain words were mentioned.

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Post by randomgyatwork »

ecobiker wrote: post #84

What tools do people use to get around dyslexia? I recently realised that most auto-correct and spelling correction tools breakdown for dyslexic people. The challenge for them is that they know how a word sounds but takes more time than usual to recollect the spelling. The recommendations suggested by standard spell checkers are way off the mark in those cases. Any recommendations would be appreciated.

Spellcheck used to be a problem for me, but over time my muscle memory has improved and it has become easier to type words (ask me to spell a word and ill have no idea). Sometimes my spelling is so off spellcheck doesn't give me options, but putting it into google usually helps, googles guessing algorithm is better than most spellchecks it seems.

Re: Dsxyliea

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Post by baddox »

eterm wrote: post #60
baddox wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not dyslexic, but the bigger problem I see with this demonstration is that I actually still found it fairly easy to read. There's actually not that much ambiguity for most rearranged words when they're in the context of grammatical sentences. I'm sure that real dyslexia is a much more difficult challenge than this demonstration.

Especially when the first and last letters aren't changing as in this example.

Yeah, the first letter is a biggie. I realized that after I left my last comment. I bet if the first letter was able to transpose, things would get way more difficult.

Re: Dsxyliea

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Post by krschultz »

ecobiker wrote: post #84

What tools do people use to get around dyslexia? I recently realised that most auto-correct and spelling correction tools breakdown for dyslexic people. The challenge for them is that they know how a word sounds but takes more time than usual to recollect the spelling. The recommendations suggested by standard spell checkers are way off the mark in those cases. Any recommendations would be appreciated.

Check out http://www.atdyslexia.com/web-based-tools/ or Talk Typer (Chrome extension)
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