In high school I tried telling my counsellor I thought i had dyslexia and she grabbed my hand patted it and said sweetie it’s all in your head. YEAH JANET YOU DON’T SAY!!! THATS THE WHOLE ISSUE LMAO

Yessss I'm dyslexic and iv been waiting for years for you to do this episode. I always struggled in school and was told it was a confidence issue and I was lazy, slow learner. But when I went to college at the age of 25 they noticed I was struggling so sent me to a dyslexic assessment. Turned out I was dyslexic.

38:40, my favourite example of this is the contraction of "could not have..." which when you speak comes out like "couldn't've" which just doesn't make sense when written down 😂 Great episode as always guys!

In films they often show dyslexia like letters moving on the page, but that’s not true, platters just don’t make sense hahaha. Like you see them, you recognise them but they don’t make sense, don’t create a word. Also, as you mentioned, long words, especially new ones, are freaking nightmare. I have such an anxiety to read out loud especially when it comes to long words cause I know I will missread it

Dyslexia was classed as a learning disability in the past. The distinction between a disability and a difficulty sounds pretty ableist, to be honest. More about keeping people in the abuse cycle of Capitalism than reducing any harm the individual experiences.

One of the thing that has always bothered me with the diagnostic criteria of dyslexia was the fact that you needed to be below the average passing grade to even be considered for it ( which was not my case ) since it completly ignore the struggle of the child to even get to a passing grade. Maybe I'm thinking a bit too much of my own experience, but I do feel like it's quite strange to me. Also, yes, I have dyslexia and dysgraphia ( and keep googling words to see if I've typed it correctly ahahahah ! )

yes I'm dyslexic and spend a long time trying to decipher my own handwriting, its irritating as well as I have a decent vocabulary but would use simple words at school as I couldn't spell the more complicated ones losing me marks on tests in class lol the amount of red squiggly line under these words 😅🤣😀

Holy shit, I had no idea that mixing up phonemes was a part of dyslexia! I have dyslexia and I have done that since I was a child, and I never connected the dots. The number of times that I just swap sounds around in words is too many. Some words are differently mispronounced every time, and others, it's the same. Like, New York is a special verbal nightmare for me as it either comes out as You Nork nor not at all 💀💀

Fun fact: you can be dyslexic in one language but not another. And English is the most common language for dyslexia while languages with more defined characters such as Japanese has the least about of dyslexia

I'm dyslexic dysgraphique and dyspraxique and i been waiting for this video for years.

dyslexia is mostly a language thing, for example I'm dyslexic in my mother tongue but not in english. and because of the nature of my mother tongue, and how it is taught we got like 80~90% dyslexic children here.

I may have mild dyslexia to the point it made me pronounce some things wrong. My maternal grandfather is dyslexic. The gaming brand Bethesda I read and pronounced "Beth-say-da". I pronounced psyllium as "sigh-lum". The site Deviant Art I read as "de-vahn-tee". Maybe it's mostly the letter "i".

You earned your 5 stars with that one. I was diagnosed with dyslexia almost 30 years ago so I’m well versed on the subject. All the information presented matches up with my understanding as well as a lot of my personal experiences. Keep up the good work.

I hope one day you’ll do an episode on Dyscalculia or other lesser known learning disabilities :) 💕

Yes I'm dyslexic and yes I often can't read my own handwriting.

aw yeah science

I didn't learn I was dyslexic until my mid 20s, but looking back all I can see are examples of time someone should have noticed. my mom would get so frustrated with me bc she knew that I "wasn't stupid" but I could get lucky and spell a word correctly and then turn around ten minutes later and completely misspell it. I certainly couldn't explain it. I remember being so relieved when they stopped doing spelling tests bc I hated every second of it. No one ever picked up on it bc I think there's a belief (esp in the 90s) that dyslexia means you can't read at all but I'm good at reading comprehension and test taking so clearly I can't be dyslexic. I still hate having to read things aloud bc I know I'm going to mix words up and mispronounce some. my last boss once asked if my last name was spelled phonetically and I had to admit that I didn't know bc I will never understand phonetics. I have to run all my emails and important things thru a text to speech program to find out if I'm missing words or used the wrong one bc I'll never be able to tell just from reading it. I once had a coworker tell me that I couldn't be dyslexic bc I worked at a library...

Oh yeah, that’s true that with dyslexia some fonts are impossible to read. Also one of the symptoms/results of dyslexia is inability to recognise the word with a missing letter. That’s was my biggest struggle on my final language exam: there was a task to fill gaps in the words, and the amount of times when I made mistakes just because I couldn’t recognise the word with a gap and thought it was som other word…. P.S. I didn’t know ADHD and dyslexia was connected! Well, my life makes more sense now (I have both)

I think ancient Latin is a thing, modern latin would be the one used in come context like the Vatican which have at least more words for modern things, don't know about grammar differences. But probably common etymology make sense in whatever version of Latin.

Interesting! Could you please also mention dyscalculia ( same stuff but with numbers)? I have it and it sucks, and it was so unknown when I was in school! The fact that I was a disaster at arithmetic and did well in algebra should have rung a bell...

Let’s go! I’ve been waiting a very long time for this episode!

I have dyslexia and it definitely makes my schooling harder

Aw yeah science!

Ye haw, science!

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet

I'm in Ethiopia where we use Amharic letters(eg. ሳይ ጋይስ). Since our letters are not phonetic but an abjad where every phoneme has its own letter variation, I wonder if the incidence of dyslexia might be the same as for other places, or if the letter acts as a kind of development therapy taking those predisposed out of expressing it in later life? Just something I'm wondering.

I think its a syndrome. It can be caused by many things. Something, I think, could cause it would be tightening of the lingual/labial frenula. Which, I believe, would explain why people have issues turning words into the proper sounds or vice-versa. I had very tight lingual/labial frenula until recently. I turn 28 this year, have cancer, figured out I was trans, (mtf / she/her), and got diagnosed with auDHD. That's so much stress. As we all know, stress can consistently make your muscles tighten up. They may be very small, comparatively, to other disorders caused by undeveloped physical traits , but the frenula in your mouth are very close to your brain. All that tension around the most important organ we have, does not sound like it's something that allows for proper speech development. . (Which is something I know of personally as I had extension speech therapy sessions when I was little, but my parents took me out of them resulting in a halt in both my physical and mental development.) . Without our brains, we wouldn't have logical thinking and introspection. Increasing pressure due to oral frenula can severely derail the proper tracks of neonatal development. In conclusion, I have a feeling that, any kind of prenatal condition that leads to tightening of oral frenula has an increased potential of resulting in development delay disorders. . In my opinion surgery is a rapid way to fix these issues. I mentioned my developmental disorders and health issues before because, I wanted to explain why someone with very tight lingual/labial frenula would have issues matching the 'shapes' of letters to the sounds 'inside their minds'. If there's constant tension right next to your brain, its going to cause pressure to build. It can only hold so long. This started last Autumn for me. First with my tongue, slowly, and starting over the last few days my labial frenula have begun to tear. The instant pressure release was amazing. Like a worn out rubber-band finally snapping. I'm Noticing every spelling 'mistake' I make before I finish typing the word. Rather than noticing it after I've completed my thought and re-read through my work. It's Such a weird thing to experience at my grown age lol. I also have pretty bad stigmatism which I think was caused by the near 30 years of pressure in my head. Which was a result of the frenula I mentioned earlier. Its funny, the word is 'stigmatism' but gets called 'astigmatism' probably because of people with labial/lingual frenula not being able to move their facial muscles properly to annunciate written word. It's something I'm experiencing as I type this out. . . Just thought I'd share the thoughts I've been arranging for the last 5 months lol. - Adahlia S.

I just realized the reason I'm good at mental math is because of my diabetes. I practice mental math on a daily basis.

Idk, 10% of school classes sounds about right to me 🤷‍♀️

Yes, I'm very dyslexic lol

I alwaya thought dyslexia was a neurological thing! But they dont really know. Interesting!

I don’t have dyslexia but my old roommate/friend has it

I don't have Dyslexia, but I think my fiancé might 😂

i am dyslexic and have discalculia

This is cool and all. But will you ever make an episode on a very sexy learning difficulty, known as sexlexia?

I DIDNT KNOW GOD WAS GINGER ?!

I had dyslexia up until I was about 10. Idk what that was

No, I'm not dyslexic. Quite the opposite: hyperlexic! (But equally neurodivergent...)