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OuterLightness t1_itedp12 wrote

I can’t believe there are 24 genes linked to dyslexia. That’s amazing.

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Specialist_Citron_84 t1_itfd377 wrote

You inverted the 4 and 2.

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Ok_Neck_9007 t1_itecwbq wrote

Very interesting have Dyslexia myself. The thing about ambidextrousity is not surprising. Previous analyses have early brain lateralization is associated greater language scores, but also I feel a large amount of this condition would be epigentic combined with genetic causes.

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LeonMann t1_iteeam1 wrote

It very dyslexic and although I read god writing is hard it ruins my life. Can't keep a good job tbh it's hard

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Masterjts t1_iteov1n wrote

Dysgraphia.

Im dyslexic, Dysgraphic, and suffer from auditory hallucinating where my brain tries to make every sound into a word. So its like constantly hearing someone whisper but not be able to understand what is being said.

Between the three... Dysgraphic is the most annoying.

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LeonMann t1_itg11a8 wrote

Sound's super sad sorry about that if Nothing else makes you happy indeed it's good to know some people are actually fully deaf so there is always something to be grateful for

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No_Camp_7 t1_itg5t37 wrote

I think I have dysgraphia, when I write I start off ok but I just deteriorate into being illiterate

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feverlast t1_itfym51 wrote

Do you use assistive tech to meet writing/reading demands? I’m sorry you suffer like that.

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LeonMann t1_itg2lp5 wrote

I use speech to text but the problem is I can never see any issues with what is written I only have to trust what I'm saying is understood correct

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[deleted] t1_itedcxc wrote

My dads dyslexic and that made me a good reader. Helping him send and read emails for his tile company in the 2000’s was part of my life growing up. He also used to force me to read and practice my handwriting. Maybe since he knew how hard life is being severely dyslexic, he knew the importance of me being able to read well. He’s ambidextrous as well.

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grumpijela t1_itew0oh wrote

I recently read in a psychology course, that dyslexia is more prevalent in English speaking countries because we don’t have a phonetic alphabet. As in, every letter in the alphabet is pronounced the same in an actual word.

Interesting. Was this mentioned in the article at all? Ima read it tomorrow, it’s bed time now haha.

Afterthought. So they found the genes, so this could potentially be another nature and nurture argument. You got the predisposition via genes, but being in an English speaking part of the world, you are more likely, via the environment, to activate those genes and thus have dyslexia.

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whispered_profanity t1_itf8i73 wrote

Interesting. Dyslexic here and I also had a lot of trouble sight reading sheet music

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gerundive t1_itimg2k wrote

very interesting (and for me very relevant) -- i have long argued that people who find it difficult to read sheet music are neither lazy nor stupid (which used to be the common themes of posts on this issue from guitarists who could read sheet music), but instead most likely have a form of dyslexia

similarly my argument with music publishing companies that refuse to provide tab accompaniment to sheet is that they are discriminating against a sector of the public by preventing them having access to music that they have made available to non-dyslexic musicians

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whispered_profanity t1_itj8q4f wrote

Yeah I would like to think it’s my dyslexia, Lul. Tab is great. I also can’t go far up stairs without looking down at them.

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hyggety_hyggety t1_itmt6bu wrote

That’s me. Which was embarrassing for voice until an instructor shared that Pavarotti couldn’t read music and sang by ear.

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feverlast t1_itfyqe4 wrote

What was difficult, and how did you compensate?

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whispered_profanity t1_itgayq8 wrote

It was very hard to just scan across and play what I saw. My trumpet teacher insisted I get my eyes checked, but they were 20/20 per usual.

I gave up sight reading/trumpet. I play guitar now by ear.

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cheesefriesex t1_itflf2y wrote

I have also read this. I have also read that for speakers of more transparent languages, dyslexia manifests as a slower reading rate. So maybe the prevalence of dyslexia is the same but because it doesn’t have as much of a negative impact it goes undiagnosed in those countries.

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Successful-Winter237 t1_itglssa wrote

English is a phonetic language, however there are more exceptions than in most similar languages… aka French, Spanish, Italian, etc.

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Ok_Neck_9007 t1_itj20pb wrote

Find this interesting had no real problems writing or reading while attempting to learn Finnish, and heck I felt Chinese characters are easier than English at least for me(only got to beginner level so not fully reflective).

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Thejaybomb t1_itfj8qm wrote

This article is just nonsense, you are going to struggle to find a gene that reflects dyslexia when the tests that diagnose it are so poor and out of date.

If you talk to a lot of educational psychologists, they would/should tell you the tests for dyslexia are not all consistent and don’t really give a acutely diagnosis to give a good quality of support. The truth is, you can pay anyone who will take your money to give you a diagnosis. The problem is the term dyslexia is really broad and dated and can be broken down into a lot of other issues. At this stage, there are a lot of people making money out of this industry. On top of that, a lot of people who really struggle with reading and education don’t like the idea of the label being changed, it gets to be a really emotive situation as it is wrapped in so much trauma after feeling chewed out by the education system and continues to struggle with reading and writing.

Ultimately this becomes a barrier to people getting the correct kind of help. It’s a quick easy label for a complex issue and that doesn’t help address an individuals issues. Anything in life with a convenient answer rarely addresses the problem and there are a lot of sharks in this industry.

Being diagnosed as dyslexic i was thrown all sorts of a mystic cures and tools that never really helped. The only thing that really helped, was pushing myself to read more and this was really hard. But it’s different for everyone.

Look up Julian Elliott, he’s a critic of the current provision of help and is pushing to update support in this area.

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jonathot12 t1_ithefwc wrote

Yup, I remember years ago a small movement of clinical psychologists and school counselors pushing to end the concept of dyslexia entirely. Not sure if that was an overreaction, but they were responding to some research that showed that dyslexia “treatment” is the exact same as treatment for “low reading ability”. Since they couldn’t find a discernible difference between those two, they thought maybe we aren’t doing our best by treating something as a disorder when it is more likely due to lack of practice and skill-building.

It’s like expecting everybody to be able to play basic music scales at age 8, then giving a child a diagnosis because their family never played music growing up so they didn’t develop an ear for it. If we can support the child’s growth and development to where they no longer “meet criteria” then we ought to hold discourse on whether such denominations are helpful or useful at all.

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No_Camp_7 t1_itg76qv wrote

Apparently I’m dyslexic, but I’m great at reading. Was miles ahead of my peers at school. Reading comprehension measured to be in the 99th percentile and similarly high score for symbol processing found when I took the Weschler Adult Intelligence Scale test (a 3 hour long examination with a clinical psychologist). The test did find my pronunciation for made-up words was not as strong as expected but nothing shocking.

But my spelling is in the 34th percentile, and my handwriting in the “less than 1st percentile”. My typing is awful, yet all I hear is other dyslexics saying how computers are a godsend.

When I write it type my writing just unravels into not just illegibility, but actual illiteracy. I stop being able form words, chose the right words, chose the right letters. On a keyboard I cease to be able to tell the difference between the letters, lose all sense of where the letters are etc. This can happen after five minutes, half an hour or sometimes a little longer.

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Uuu-dontcallmeauu t1_ithu8nu wrote

I recently bought a specialist keyboard, the key caps are printed with dyslexie font, much like the one mentioned a few comments above. Game changer. Also had Dyslexie font set as default in Windows 10. Makes my screen easier to read.

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No_Camp_7 t1_ithuxuc wrote

I don’t have any problems with reading though, l can’t figure out exactly what the problem is. Good that you found something that works!

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banuk_sickness_eater t1_itlo3gr wrote

I think his point is also that the keyboard itself is more legible

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No_Camp_7 t1_itls5hx wrote

Yes but I don’t have difficulty reading the keyboard, I have difficulty knowing where to put my fingers probably because the act of typing shorts my working memory after a while. Then I don’t know what I should be typing because my brain is so scrambled. I feel like I cannot tell up from down on the keyboard. Then I can’t understand the difference between the sounds the letters make….so r and t phonetically sound the same to me.

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No_Camp_7 t1_itlt36n wrote

I just googled dyslexic font. Interesting. Because I don’t have an issue reading this almost feels more taxing to read than normal font.

I’m seriously confused as to how I seem to have one half of dyslexia but not the other.

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Neutronenster t1_itgco9r wrote

If I’m not mistaken this is more commonly called dysorthographia, though it could also be regarded as a subtype of dyslexia.

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No_Camp_7 t1_itggtmh wrote

Googled it and it sounds familiar. I pretty much feel at a loss as to how others remember the ‘rules’ of constructing words.

My suspicion is that my brain becomes exhausted quickly from writing tasks and this causes me to go from barely dyslexic to illiterate within minutes.

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ubermeisters t1_ithitny wrote

did somebody double check to make sure it wasn't 24 genetic variants? I mean..

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methyltheobromine_ t1_itg2c6g wrote

I imagine that there's also advantages to be found somewhere in these genes, so that it's a tradeoff

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CXV_ t1_ithilc6 wrote

See, what if dyslexia isn’t a problem but just a type of humans with a different aspect of communication.

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No-Fishing5325 t1_itibv5o wrote

I don't think I needed to read the article to tell them this.

I have ADHD and am Dyslexic and am Ambidextrous btw. And I was diagnosed 40 years ago before the everyone has it was happening.

My oldest has Asperger's and my middle child has ADHD too. And all 3 of my kids exhibit traits that point to having Dyslexia but they compensate for it in reading and learning habits. The reading expert my oldest had in kindergarten theorized that it was because I taught them to read.

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