Dyslexia is a gift. Better multitasking. Heightened senses. Creative. Visionary.

@staceylouise5037

7 жыл бұрын

MegaHowtoMan Not for all of us. I have dyslexia and I am horrendous and multitasking, it's one of the things I struggle with most actually. I think that's why dyslexia is so hard for non dyslexics to understand, because it's such a varied disability.

@staceylouise5037

7 жыл бұрын

*at multitasking. Haha, prime dyslexia example, my brain wrote "at" my fingers wrote "and".

@hamzagallo2000

Жыл бұрын

You know the thing about my dyslexia normally dyslexics are great at creativity art spatial intelligence but not me I’m dyspraxic and dysgraphic aswell

I am dyslexic and I am lucky to be in my own world of imagination.

Growing up witnessing teachers humiliate my fellow classmates in front of the class and calling them stupid or slow had such an impact on me. I dont think teachers considered learning disorders back then. It was just expected that at a certain age you should be able to read and spell at a certain level. I am now faced with the recent diagnosis of my 12 year old child as being Dyslexic. I always felt she just learnt differently than everyone else and her teachers just used to tell me she needs to practice her reading and spelling more at home to improve. She has always been brilliant as sport and art and I have always tried to protect her from feeling like she's stupid because she cant read or spell properly or understand her maths as well as her peers. She is actually happy we can now say she has Dyslexia and understands it just means she learns differently not that she cant learn. SHe has never been ridiculed at school because of her learning disorder thank goodness.

@scrappycan

Жыл бұрын

Well how’s she doing?

I am "dyslexic! " and I am an engineer and I will kick the average person up and down the street when it comes to some things dyslexic and proud

@BimmerWon

2 жыл бұрын

You kick people? There is no excuse for abuse!

I have now watched about four talks on this hellish subject of being, having Dyslexcia. Not one of them has really hit on it. It is better to know that you are than to not know, sure. For me at age 34 until I was 38, I locked my self up in a studio app, and sat down with every written classic I could get my hands on, with a dictionary on my right, I memorized every word that did not make sense to me. W O R K. I new I could work, and that is what I did. The pain of all the beatings over my first 16yrs of life never leaves you, But I did know I could work, and work at it I did, no, I still don't spell very well, and writing is difficult. But I will never stop working on being a better writer and a better reader.

@tjm3900

3 жыл бұрын

Good for you! You story sounds a lot like mine, I would read anything I could get my hands on because that is what my parents were told I should be doing to help my inability with spelling and my slow reading. It did help BUT my turning point came when I decided I was NOT going to try to belike others, I would not play that game, I would put my energy into the things I was good at construction, fabrication, physical problem solving, aesthetic design. Since school I have had a mostly happy and productive life. :-)

@scrappycan

Жыл бұрын

I also find memorizing words is the best way to do it as a dyslexic

Excellent speech! I've watched several on the subject, and this one of the best! Well done!

I am so impressed with this yung mad. I know all to well what it's like to be dyslexic and I could never stand in front of a group of people the way he has. Great job yung man.

To do that at 17 is amazing, i'm 25 with dyslexia and the idea of doing a long speech like that in a room full of people makes me feel ill! nothing but respect for that girl.

@airicaxoxo

8 жыл бұрын

+Duck psyduck I would be stuttering and shaking....

@EmceeIntricacy

5 жыл бұрын

cop outs lol the world is a stage play it how you want.

@edratcliffe9239

5 жыл бұрын

My dyslexia makes me want to stand in front of the room. But I dont want to talk afterwards

I have dyslexia and i'm awesome

Great video I really enjoyed watching your presentation you carried yourself very well. I do suffer from dyslexia as well. Thank you for making people more aware of dyslexia Once again great job Thank you

A teacher called me stupid (I'm dyslexic) when I was 8 years old and I have never forgotten it, dyslexics aren't stupid

@richpiano8395

8 жыл бұрын

That sucks, i get called stupid too because I'm in the lowest english class and bad at everything else but science and maths. I just understand science and maths in different ways to others and thats why im a an A student in those subjects

@thatsoflysamurai4544

8 жыл бұрын

I can relate. I was diagnosed with dyslexia in pre-school. I was never openly called stupid, that may have been easier. Students and teachers alike just assumed that I was. When it is explicit, it is easy to fight, you know what your dealing with. When it is implicit you begin to believe it.

@livywoodward8666

8 жыл бұрын

ThatSoFlySamurai​ I totally understand what you're saying, have faced both in education I feel like both of explicit and implicit implications of stupidity are very hurtful. I constantly feel that I annoy people with my anxiety which stems from being called stupid and the things I do in lessons to get around my dyslexia. I've had stupidity said outright to me and implied by other people, to me it doesn't make a difference how it's done it still really bothers me because not only is it not very nice, obviously, but it's incorrect

@antoniosolerfeliu4171

7 жыл бұрын

I was called crazy by a teacher who didn't tell me why when I asked him. This is quite common...I guess who was really stupid and bad teacher...Some people just shouldn't become teachers if they don't even know how to deal with neurodiversity

@livywoodward8666

7 жыл бұрын

Antonio Soler Feliu​ very true

This video was wonderful to watch. I first discovered, not even two years ago, that I am dyslexic. I could relate to Jessica, in not really accepting/understanding it in the beginning. I am still trying to find my foothold, maybe because I was 31 as it was "diagnosed". Thank you for making this video and sharing it with us. Was great to hear how someone else manoeuvres the world with this "obstacle".

Dyslexic people dwell on there short comings (spelling, reading fast...) and dismiss or assume non-dyslexic people have the same special abilities/skills they have (creativity, strong people skills...) It really is a gift! STOP beating yourself up and start noticing the positive aspects of dyslexia!!!!

Thank you for your presentation, i’m a little late to the game seeing this but it is very informative. You speak with such maturity and intelligence that I would swear you were much older.

Great talk. Helped me to understand dyslexia better. Thank you

Jessica, that was some job! I am 40 years old and have severe Dyslexia. You really opened my eyes again and I thank you so much for that. I want you and everyone to know that Dyslexia is a label, a way to help others identify the difference. But that is all it is. We are all amazing in many ways and just because we learn differently most certainly does not mean we are stupid. I was bullied in school so much so that when I was 8 my best friend at the time was paid to hit me in the face by a guy who years later came to me begging for a job. (I did not give him one). This difference should be embraced. Most of my life I have pushed myself to try and be ¨normal¨ creating a very low self-impression in the inside as I never did feel ¨normal whatever that is¨. But I was a good actor and from the age of 23 I started my own company and always managed to hired people to do the jobs I could not. Yet even with huge success I still believed it was not really me that is was everyone around me who made my success. Yet what I missed was it was my charm my way with people my creative way of seeing things my determination never to fail that made it all happen. Yet still, somehow I missed the fact that I was 23 earning more money than everyone around me. The point is I did not believe in myself like everyone around me did because I was so consumed with trying to be ¨normal¨. Only now after 40 years of thinking I was just a bit slow and yet obviously lucky, I now realized that I am different and I am going to embrace the fact. I guess if I have been successful in the past by pretending to believe in myself, imagine what the world would look like if I started to feel the way people perceived me to be. Believe in your selves, stop focusing on trying to fix yourself as there is nothing wrong with you, understand they are just a difrence and then put all your energy and passion and imagination into creating a great future. P.S this took me one hour to write using assisted technology.

@RockSimmer-gal4God

5 жыл бұрын

Justin Boland I understand u I decided not to work 4 myself struggled to find work

@laurajones6398

4 жыл бұрын

I tutor kids with dyslexia, who teachers have given up on. They are fortunate to have parents who care. I cried as I read your experience with your friend being paid...

I still struggle with my dyslexia, i’m currently learning how to use it in this world around me which I don’t feel I fit in because nothing is made for dyslexics. However something that I was once told by a gentleman I was dating. He would notice that I would be frustrated in situations, he would remind me that my brain works faster than most and that I have to wait for the world to catch up. This has kept me from feeling like I’m in adequate but instead I must be more patient for those around me.

well done, really inspiring.

Awesome talk. Thanks.

God bless you. Only we truly understand

Great I am going to use this Jessica in a presentation to 70 secondary school teachers. Thanks Liz D

Kudos, Jessica!

Why doesn't every school have a test for Dyslexia at a certain grade? Then most dyslexics will be diagnosed and there will be less people in society getting into trouble.

@satchelsieniewicz738

7 жыл бұрын

its not that simple

@RockSimmer-gal4God

5 жыл бұрын

Or failing school

@damionmarkham9835

4 жыл бұрын

School to prison pipeline , it's all about the money

@GramaZonayou2

4 жыл бұрын

No brainer

thanks really helpful to understand dyslexia as I am suffering a lot

@ravindrasinhjadeja3688

6 жыл бұрын

virat ahuja me too

I too live with dyslexia and irlen syndrome, I struggled in school but I had a great teacher in my sixth year of school. One thing that I do is I don't claim the disability, I say I live with dyslexia and irlen syndrome, in that way I am taking control of the issues as best I can. I also live with health issues and by not claiming them I have a better grip on life. I sustained a head injury from the foster parent and since then I see the world like Picasso's paintings and need special glasses so that I don't see the world like Picasso's paintings.

Well Done, we Dyslexics are in good company!!!

Please can we change the way that dyslexia is talked about. Let us say goodbye to words like ’impairment’ and ‘disability’ which is deficit based language. Can we please start to speak about ‘thinking differences’ and ‘thinking strengths’, and ‘multiple intelligences’. We are ALL different and as long as we compare ourselves to a ‘normal’ model of acceptability we will forever be putting someone on the back foot.

Very well done. Nioce courage to speak about this..Theres a bit of tremors in your voice but that really should boter you as much ! Really well done !

There needs to be teachers who can deal with this

@crabtrap

8 жыл бұрын

+airica cisneros Teach yourself, if you rely on a public school teacher.....you have already lost the battle.

Dyslexics are placed in a corner and drained of every idea they have.

Oh I sound things out too! I put e’s at the end of words! I took a test and my spelling is upper extreme but I have it apparently? I have dyscalcia(so?) I could never write because without an acronym. Reading is kinda inefficient cause I can’t retain information as well, I have to reread so much. Letters also have personalities idk if that’s part of it

Jesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssicaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! - You did great :)

My mom was called malassus by her teacher for just being slow and nobody ever helped her nor did they know what it was at the time and she had no friends and was bullied by everyone.

Dyslexia isnt just mixing up letters and words. That's just a symptom. It's how the brain processes information

I have dyslexia I am so lucky

children do not need know what is Dyslexia but teacher or educator need too.

I don't have dyslexia, I have a disease called dystonia, it happened when I was 12 or 13. And it happened when I was coming home from my friends house.

There's an app designed for dyslexics called, 'Wordspeller'. They can misspell their word phonetically (by the way it sounds) and the correctly revealed word appears in seconds along with available suffixes spelled out and prefixes all spelled out. A free version to try it is at 'phoneticdictionary.com'.

I had to teach mysepf these techniques and because of that my school refused to give ke a proper diagnosis they gave ke a hearing test and told me i was not but i know i am mildly dislexic

I am a dyslexic went twiche to Kindergarten and was put into a special School in Switzerland . The only Person in our Family my Grandfater from my Mums side , encuraged me always , and one Teacher . But in these days I tell Boses from the start im a dyslex and if some thing get spel dthe rowng wAY that is way. Other ways at home i show it to my Husband or use the Commoiuter .

My nightmare was when teacher ask me to read aloud a passage, n its still is

It is not an impairment

dyslexia...that's why i'm paid from the neck down...

@jasminflower3814

7 жыл бұрын

I bet your'e smart with certain things, though. And could be an expert on something you loved and had passion for that suited your mind.

Please explain why you are treating the word “phoneme” as a synonym of the word “syllable.” As a linguistics major (and a dyslexic), I struggle to understand why you regard the word “ dyslexia” as having only four phonemes. For example, the first syllable of that word contains _three_ phonemes - /d/ /ɪ/ /s/ - so why are you calling them all just _one_ phoneme? Please help me understand.

Einstein was dyslexic. It's a gift.

@alexsnoxell8528

5 жыл бұрын

It ant a gift

i’m pretty sure i’m dyslexic but i excel at spelling and am average at reading though

My dad's adoptid and I'm dislcesic mildlay. His parents mite have been dislcesic but he is not.

I think my son and I have dyslexia.

Unfortunetly, the worlds definition or normal is based on the average and that's a person whom doesnt have dyslexia. Due to this educators and education including the wider society will always seek to direct its efforts towards non dyslexic people. The day when any mental disability is classed as OK or normal in massively way off. Indeed mental health issues don't get much in the way of funding so people whom can function in society like dyslexics aren't going to be catered to any time soon. This talk was good but the audience is really the world where the majority will not be bothered, where educators will think "I have too many other children's grades to worry about then to focus all my efforts on the few" and employers whom with think if the majority of people in criminal institutions have dyslexia is it a risk to employ one here?, or what extra provisions do I have to pay for to employ a dyslexic and how often will there dyslexia cause mistakes and reduced productivity.

@crabtrap

8 жыл бұрын

+ronald steele dyslexia is not a mental disorder like ADHD,Bi-polar etc etc

@MrsGreenStrauss

8 жыл бұрын

+crabtrap Uh ADHD is also not a mental disorder.

@crabtrap

8 жыл бұрын

GreenStrauss i guess i can somewhat agree with that. but it is NOT a sensory disorder like Dyslexia is.

@dragonoftaters

8 жыл бұрын

+crabtrap Dyslexia is not a sensory disorder. That would indicate that there is a problem with the nerves connecting either the eyes or ears. There isn't. I'm dyslexic, and I can hear and see clearly. In fact, sometimes my senses get really good. Dyslexia is a language based phonological processing disorder. During prenatal development, the neurons in the brain of a dyslexic responsible for auditory processing get out of place. They travel too far into the cerebral cortex, causing them to link in weird ways which hinder the brain's ability to rapidly process and decode the phonological sections of a word. Other aspects of the way the neurons link together and to other parts of the brain also affect the person's ability to process and correctly sort through phonological signals. The ears and eyes are fine. It's the actual wiring in the brain used to sort through, analyze, categorize, and retrieve information which causes the disorder.athome.readinghorizons.com/blog/50-interesting-facts-about-dyslexia

@crabtrap

8 жыл бұрын

so your premise is that its the brain connections but somehow it can't be the sensory connections. sorry but Dr Leveinson has proven the cause since the 70's. the problem mostly centered in the inner-ear. oh and btw , i have 20/15 vison...your anology presumes it is an eye problem...NOT the data sent FROM the eye.....which it is. I suggest you research Dr.Leveinson's work.

wow so iam dyslexia

We are looking for a solution to the dyslexia problem not for justification to use to tell ourselves nor others . Also this is a very bad recording , the camera man did not let us see anything of what was on the screen of the presentation .

Is it just me or is it becoming in vogue to call your self dislexic . Maby theirs just more awareness.