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Re: Abnormal brain structure seen in children with developmental language issues

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Post by thaumasiotes »

ineedaj0b wrote: post #19

I’ve got one of these brains. Dyslexic. I still to this day, cannot hear what syllables are in words. ‘Cat’, 1? I hear 2. I cannot understand when I mispronounce words. I get corrected often and repeat back the correction but it sounds like what I said the first time. I have a fantastic memory, a great imagination, and nonstop dreams during the night. I don’t enjoy the dreams anymore, I’m pretty bored of them now tha…

> I still to this day, cannot hear what syllables are in words. ‘Cat’, 1? I hear 2.

> I cannot understand when I mispronounce words. I get corrected often and repeat back the correction but it sounds like what I said the first time.

Interestingly, both of these 'symptoms' are completely normal, for people learning a second language.

Re: Abnormal brain structure seen in children with developmental language issues

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Post by vixen99 »

bamboozled wrote: post #15
dukeofdoom wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure why you would think that. There's all kinds of substances that humans take (Alcohol, drugs) that change their mental state. Why is the idea that environmental pollutant could be doing the same, so rejected by people. Is it an ego thing ?

I think people take offence to the suggestion that there might be more autism.

Yes and it tells us zilch about the reality of the situation.

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Post by [deleted] »

jan_Inkepa wrote: post #31
ineedaj0b wrote: post #19

I’ve got one of these brains. Dyslexic. I still to this day, cannot hear what syllables are in words. ‘Cat’, 1? I hear 2. I cannot understand when I mispronounce words. I get corrected often and repeat back the correction but it sounds like what I said the first time. I have a fantastic memory, a great imagination, and nonstop dreams during the night. I don’t enjoy the dreams anymore, I’m pretty bored of them now tha…

> I still to this day, cannot hear what syllables are in words. ‘Cat’, 1? I hear 2. What syllables do you hear? (I'm assuming you have English as a mother tongue?)

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Re: Abnormal brain structure seen in children with developmental language issues

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Post by ardaoweo »

Aurornis wrote: post #9
dukeofdoom wrote: post #2

I remember a few years back reading how cellphone signals will cause mental disturbances. I'm not claiming it has, though sometimes I do think the world is going kind of bonkers. Just that eventually we will definitely stumble into something like this. Just like the Romans were oblivious drinking from lead pipes was causing their mental problems. If there's a mass psychosis event, would the people under going it even…

This study is in very young children who haven’t had cellular phones yet. RF radiation falls off very rapidly as you get away from the cell phone. The increased rate of autism is largely due to increased diagnosis. Autistic people existed long ago, but the diagnosis of Autism obviously didn’t exist in the distant past.

I agree. It's likely common that children with ADHD or autism diagnosis also have parents with such condition, but they were simply never diagnosed. At least in my family's case it's quite evident, though it took me a while to recognize.

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Post by tsimionescu »

verisimi wrote: post #40
ineedaj0b wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can tell you but it’s a bit depressing. So turn back yea who are happy! Don’t read this. I thought it was something spiritual/mystical when I was younger and I liked that a lot more! And if you wanna keep enjoying dreams collapse my comment right now!!! Here’s the boring nightmare: so… your mind is thinking what comes next? What comes next? And it’s corrected repeatedly by information from the eyes and ears. Maybe…

Thanks for your thoughts. Have you considered lucid dreaming or astral projection? The idea that you step into your dream and control yourself; that you can direct yourself in your dream state to explore whatever-it-is. You can go to places of your choosing, as you are not bound by the body. If you look into these experiences, you find many people who say they learnt about parts of material reality, that they are the…

> If you look into these experiences, you find many people who say they learnt about parts of material reality, that they are then able to verify materially.

The opposite is true: the CIA wasted lots of money on this, and they came up entirely empty handed, obviously. It is very very thoroughly debunked.

Re: Abnormal brain structure seen in children with developmental language issues

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Post by ardaoweo »

It's absolutely fascinating how differences in brain structure can cause a wide variety of conditions. Somehow I was linguistically (especially reading and writing) way above average in my childhood, but suck at mathematics and motor skills. Due to my mother's health condition my brain was scanned after I was born, and they found some abnormalities with left lateral ventricle. Apparently it's located near basal ganglia, which makes me wonder if the abnormality has a connection to these conditions.

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Post by marconaut »

verisimi wrote: post #21
ineedaj0b wrote: post #19

I’ve got one of these brains. Dyslexic. I still to this day, cannot hear what syllables are in words. ‘Cat’, 1? I hear 2. I cannot understand when I mispronounce words. I get corrected often and repeat back the correction but it sounds like what I said the first time. I have a fantastic memory, a great imagination, and nonstop dreams during the night. I don’t enjoy the dreams anymore, I’m pretty bored of them now tha…

> I don’t enjoy the dreams anymore, I’m pretty bored of them now that I know what they probably do mechanically. Why would you think that you know what the dreams are? Could you tell the rest of us please? Perhaps you are coming at this from a materialistic perspective? I personally don't think there is anything straightforward about dreams. Whether you take a 'spiritual' approach (have you ever had a deja vu?) or a…

I would like to randomly chime in here regarding antidepressants and dreams.

On Prozac I sleep well but have 100% formulaic dreams. I don't like them. Each one is a mildly to moderately annoying situation that I cannot escape from.

For example, I'm in a building or neighborhood and I want to get away from some antagonist or who knows what. Using much effor and willpower I sort of get away but in that instant it resets and I'm back to getting away.

Citalopram (Celexa) though.....those dreams were the opposite. Wonderful and enjoyable with a bit of flying. Lucid too, I often realized I was in a dream and learned to manipulate it at will as well as some flying.

Re: Abnormal brain structure seen in children with developmental language issues

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Post by marconaut »

RheingoldRiver wrote: post #30
ineedaj0b wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can tell you but it’s a bit depressing. So turn back yea who are happy! Don’t read this. I thought it was something spiritual/mystical when I was younger and I liked that a lot more! And if you wanna keep enjoying dreams collapse my comment right now!!! Here’s the boring nightmare: so… your mind is thinking what comes next? What comes next? And it’s corrected repeatedly by information from the eyes and ears. Maybe…

> ps. If anyone knows how to reduce dreaming please leave a comment! I don’t mind dreaming, but I envy falling asleep and waking up 7-8 hours in the future ready for the next day. I had many more / worse dreams when on anti-insomnia drugs, so if you are taking those I would suggest trying to stop. Although, getting off anti-insomnia medication is a terrible, terrible experience for a couple weeks (and get medical adv…

Antidepressants certainly affect my dreams.

Prozac: Bad,annoying dreams but mildly so. Citalopram: Good dreams, sometimes epic dreams. Venlafaxine: Not sure I dream. Makes it harder to sleep too.

Re: Abnormal brain structure seen in children with developmental language issues

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Post by gravescale »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #41
ineedaj0b wrote: post #19

I’ve got one of these brains. Dyslexic. I still to this day, cannot hear what syllables are in words. ‘Cat’, 1? I hear 2. I cannot understand when I mispronounce words. I get corrected often and repeat back the correction but it sounds like what I said the first time. I have a fantastic memory, a great imagination, and nonstop dreams during the night. I don’t enjoy the dreams anymore, I’m pretty bored of them now tha…

> I still to this day, cannot hear what syllables are in words. ‘Cat’, 1? I hear 2. > I cannot understand when I mispronounce words. I get corrected often and repeat back the correction but it sounds like what I said the first time. Interestingly, both of these 'symptoms' are completely normal, for people learning a second language.

Especially from languages that don't have the same final and consonant cluster options that English does. For example Richard in Chinese is commonly transliterated as Lichade (lee-char-duh), even though it's only two syllables in English, and Charles is Cha'ersi (char-err-suur).

Re: Abnormal brain structure seen in children with developmental language issues

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Post by cultofmetatron »

Sammi wrote: post #33
jan_Inkepa wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I still to this day, cannot hear what syllables are in words. ‘Cat’, 1? I hear 2. What syllables do you hear? (I'm assuming you have English as a mother tongue?)

His mind emphasises the consonants instead of the vowels.

this is makking me think more about japanese where every consonant is paired with a vowel.

makes me wonder how much of what we call developmental issues are culturally dependant to manifest

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