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

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Post by ineedaj0b »

wizzwizz4 wrote: post #57
verisimi wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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. I can do this, too, but usually while I'm awake and bored. Reality is quite redundant, and we get all sorts of information from all sorts of sources, and sometimes I can put the puzzle pieces together and deduce things I "shouldn't" have known. This power doesn'…

Yeah I think a lot of it is having a strong imagination and going along with it for a bit.

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

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Post by ineedaj0b »

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

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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…

Lucid dreaming is fun and you should try it. It’s tough to get the hang of in the beginning but a very interesting experience. If you do it well it’s whatever you imagine: done poorly, you’ll get close… but your own expectations might hold you back. When you wake up you can reflect on those and plan how to do better with your more capable conscious mind.

I have not astral projected but I’ll look into it and if I remember I’ll message you after a few months

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

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Post by filoleg »

ineedaj0b wrote: post #55
filoleg wrote: post #52

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Not trying to pry, but is english your second language? I assume not, but I have the exact same thing with articles (“the” and “a”/“an”) that you have, except for me it was clearly caused by english being my second (my native language doesn’t have the concept of articles like that at all). And I got much better at it over time too, but it still slips through all the time for me. Less so in writing (even though it sti…

English is 1st. I learned other languages as an adult and have similar pronunciation issues and with hearing my own mistakes.

Wow, that’s interesting. Thanks for the response, I genuinely appreciate it!

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

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Post by ineedaj0b »

potatowaffle wrote: post #54
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 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 the exact same problem. I had troubles learning pronunciations when I was a kid, but I never had other learning problems. As an adult, I struggled enough with pronunciation that I consulted two hearing specialists to determine if there were any issues with my ears…

You might be able to be diagnosed, but there’s no medication or cure. You can get extra time on tests if you’re younger.

You can Google dyslexic signs. I think last time I looked auditory processing anomalies and the retina or lens was oddly shaped in 95% of dyslexics. Dyslexic is also an umbrella term for a bunch of things so you’ll have to sort through to find your flavor.

Best fix is a good nights sleep. Also make sure you move closer to speech you want to comprehend and the people you interact with most enunciate and speak at a good volume (too many people speak poorly and could use 2 weeks of beginner theater classes)

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

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Post by fuzzfactor »

What is "abnormal" anyway?

"Unusual" is probably just as accurate a description.

How about "developmental language issues"?

Does that cover everything including far above average development? Seems like as important an issue as any.

The most highly developed might just be the most abnormal extreme outlier after all.

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Post by ProDemoNo »

hibikir wrote: post #8
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…

While I can't quite say how big each effect is, it's undeniable that a big part of the difference in autism diagnosis is just the fact that we test at all. I grew up in the 80s, where the level for someone to be diagnosed with autism required being pretty close to non verbal. But if I look at my old classmates and think of people with significant sensory issues, social dysfunction and such, it's easy to imagine that…

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

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Post by BobbyTables2 »

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’ve always wondered about how language is taught.

Kids are taught that “cat” phonetically is “c-a-t”. Almost sounds like three syllables at that point. Do that with other words and one will quickly question how many syllables are in everything!!

I’m not dyslexic but I feel like the way we teach language is broken.

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Post by BobbyTables2 »

mkl95 wrote: post #13
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…

> We went from 1/150 to 1/36 Children with Autism in the last 20 years. Go back further, and it was practically unheard of. Sounds like doctors got better at diagnosing people on the spectrum.

Some diseases have guaranteed diagnosis rates…

For example, osteoporosis is diagnosed based on how many standard deviations one is away from the mean.

In other words, they aren’t diagnosing an actual medical issue — they are simply guaranteeing a particular rate of incidence!!!

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Post by asveikau »

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…

My experience is that English speakers are terrible at knowing how many syllables there are in a word. I think it has a lot to do with how our vowels are. Some vowels like /i/ tend to get their own syllable in places where most languages would blend it into an adjacent vowel and maybe make it into /j/. Other times what we think of as a single vowel is actually 2-3 vowels.

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Post by bamboozled »

vixen99 wrote: post #42
bamboozled wrote: post #15

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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.

It tells us we do hear a lot more about autism then we used too. It’s a talking point.
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