I’ve been thinking I’ve been stupid all my life, wearing a mask to fit in. I’ve created a lot and capable of doing much more, just didn’t know what was wrong with me. Now I know, it’s nothing wrong with me. I’m just different. Thanks for explaining this!

My boys' father is dyslexic, he is an award winning live sound engineer. Hes also has an amazing ability to visualise how something should look within a physical space and can build stuff really good!

I have been dyslexic my entire life and I have always been smarter than most normal people, it is fascinating to me how successful i have been compared to other people and I have no college education 😮this is on point about creativeness ❤

I have worked in metal fabrication a lot, i can look at the layout on paper, only to see the finished item. I have designed complex jigs for work. As well as doing the most rudimentary sketchs to build furniture. I just see it in my minds eye, then only to make it. Plus i remember most everything i have studied.

Thanks Stephen!! All through school, I did horribly on tests. I could read well but didn't comprehend the info because my brain was playing word find! My mother told my teachers to allow oral testing for me and I blew their socks off with my IQ numbers. Without the oral, I did not answer all the questions correctly or in the time given and had an IQ in High school of 69. My IQ result two weeks later in an oral exam was 152. We are not stupid, we just need to be understood.

OMG!!! Are all of us empaths??? This is crazy. Where haveyou been my entire life??? I need your help please

I remember as a young boy my father would tell say horrible things to me like I ain't worth a s***t, I couldn't understand what he meant. I knew to myself that he don't know me, I never really excepted his opinion because I knew he was wrong, but I did see I was different though. I set out to prove him wrong which I did, he past away when I was 16 so he didn't get to see my accomplishes I am now 66 and have done good for myself.

Love the way you vividly describe mental models that use imagination to connect unrelated ideas together to create something new. Thank you for taking the time and sharing your self.

I got into photography and so many around me thought I was nuts. Like, why spend all that money and time. I refused to listen to them and now I have created great landscape photos. I’m an award winning photographer. F&ck em, I’ll do what I want.

When I was growing up they made dyslexic people like me sound dumb

Great video! Love how you’ve learned to trust your intuition.

I call it mind designing! I am excited to have found your new channel. Mo Green here,. I cannot stop creativity. My husband would study me when he saw what project I was working on or just finished. He obviously pondered this question having ruminated on it frequently for as many times he asked this same question. He would ask, "How do you think up all these ideals?" I would answer, "How do you not". I am never bored. People talk about trying to think outside of the box, I think how I can get inside the box.

Such a refreshing video to watch. Thank you!

@TruthAboutDyslexia

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Andy appreciate the kind words!

I was diagnosed dyslexia when I was 8

Well, when life gives you dyslexia, you might have ocd and sensory issues.

Thank you, loved listening to this. I definitely have creativity and the ability to feel others feelings. I knew the creativity was a dyslexic supper power didn't realise the feeling others feelings was, how kl 😀 Definitely going to try and use this and develop it more.

@TruthAboutDyslexia

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Alison, that is great to hear!. There is so much more to being dyslexic and this is one of the hidden talents. Vanessa

Eyup Stephen. I am compelled to offer you a few technical suggestions for your next stream or production. In this one you have a lot of camera shake and it looks like it is coming from the table/desk you have the equipment sat on. Each time you touch the table, the camera accentuates the movement and the picture jumps all over the place. A simple fix.. If you have another table, or stand, or ironing board, or just something you could put the device with the camera on so it is separate and not able to be affected by your 'desk' being used by you while you share. Sound... just as the camera is being affected by movement transfer from the 'desk' your device is resting on, there is also a lot of thumps and bangs being picked up by your microphone on the device. Separating the device and giving it its own stand or support table will help fix this, like the camera shake. Hope this helps you :) I plan to come back to this and listen properly when I have an activity where I can listen, and 'do' rather than just watch..

@TruthAboutDyslexia

3 жыл бұрын

That really does help. I'm new at the video side so always looking to up my game! Let me play with the setup!

Can also write and good at reading but it's the maths with me I'm a self published author

💪👌🙌👏 nailed it Stephen

I puzzle people because I have discalculia and can play my own tunes and tunings on my guitar and create music from it yet the mathamatics of music theory stumps me. But I hear the music in the notes and I put my voice to it. They think how does she do that

@TruthAboutDyslexia

2 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for taking the time to comment on the video. In our organisation we have a mix of neurodiverse and neurotypical people working together and we all use the terminology that is the preference of the neurodiverse people. I totally agree that neurodivergent can also be used to describe people with dyslexia, ADD and other conditions, however neurodiversity is our preference and so that is what we use. Hope that clarifies for you.

Great videos and it’s true

It's simple: dyslexia-dyscalculia use to cohabit with giftedness, the first one getting invisibilized and neutralized at the same time by the second one. That's why the most of people don't realize you own any of both, and they end seeing you as even more stupid/naïve that the average gifted folk. A very different wired brain has this kind of "funny" short-circuits A good quantity of dyslexics are also gifteds, that's why they're smart, intuitive, creative and highly sensitive.

Hey, I am dyslexic but I do have so many problems I can't get over, but I can create stuff in my head and can come up with great ideas, but I don't have confidence and this is my problem, I'm bullied at work and even management don't want me there because I cause them to do work to fix up plans at work

Please help me!!! Im begging...

Elon Musk was reported to be a voracious reader growing up. Sometimes he would finish two books in a single day. I'd like to see a dyslexic read one book in a single day without hurting their brain.

😊 hi how would adult of a certain age find out if they have dyslexia but they know they have seen different about them all their lives how can adults get tested in this day in age?

@Moraenil

24 күн бұрын

From what I've found out, we can't. Not only the fact that no one tests for it, but my nurse (who I hate but I can't get a doctor) says that it's impossible to test adults for dyslexia because we've already grown up and figured out how to manage it on our own. I don't know anymore. No one has ever taken me seriously about anything in my life and tells me that I don't know anything, so who knows? I'm certain I have dyslexia and adhd, but everyone else just sees me as stupid, incompetent and worthless.

Yes your right. I found out i was serverly dyslexic at age 32 yet i succeeded wellpassed everyone i knew in all aspects of life except i was a high school drop out after flunking 3 times only making it to 9th grade. Yet i own ywo businesses and 90% oy knowledge is common sense to me. Ive always felt iwas norn too early in historyon earthor too late durring a period whereveveryone is stupid as hell. I can barley stand talking to most people becaue they frustate me to death because they never understand a damn thing and i always have to explain everything. Uuuugh!!!! Imless stressedbeing alone. On rop of it all im curseas an empath and i married a lazy stupid man child thinkinghe was funny when he was neverbeing fnny because he was and is actually stupid as hell. Uuuugh i ate my life😡😡😡

I have a question is it possible for a person to develop dyslexia due to Post traumatic stress out? Like watching his/her parents get shot in front of him/her.

@TruthAboutDyslexia

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Denzel, not that I am aware of. Usually it is something someone has always had but I do believe it can become more active or obvious due to anxiety & trauma.

@denzelepelle5497

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for letting me know.

@ND-tb4df

3 жыл бұрын

If you’ve hand a brain injury, yes. I haven’t read about trauma induced dyslexia.

@markwaynewindle5848

Жыл бұрын

No, Dyslexia is a genetically passed 'disorder' if you will. Stuttering from seeing your parents being shot, is just P.T.S.D. Yet it can be revealed through such events.

I think of it this way; generally speaking, in math class, everyone gets the same problem, everyone gets the same formula, and everyone gets the same answer or it's wrong. In art class everyone gets the same problem, everyone gets the same formula, and everyone gets a different answer... or it's wrong. I teach art and I have dyslexia and adult ADHD.

@Moraenil

24 күн бұрын

I've had the opposite happen. Get called on in class to give an answer, I give the right answer in my own words and it's wrong. Another person is called on and gives the same answer but quoted from the book and it's right. Talk about adding confusion to an already confused mind and cutting any confidence I had in myself. I have been wrong my entire life with anything and everything I do.

@augiespicer1270

14 күн бұрын

Hi, dyslexic here, in algebra class I could routinely get right answers cuz the problems looked like puzzles to me. The answers seemed logically, cuz answering what's X waseasy, but I could never "show my work" cuz the solution was in my mind. Constantly down graded due to that. Like somehow I must have the teacher's guide with all the answers. Sigh. It was frustrating. When my daughter struggled w/algebra told her think of problem as a puzzle it worked, tho still the damn issue of show your work. Grr.

@augiespicer1270

14 күн бұрын

Oh dyscalculia too. Hehe.

@augiespicer1270

14 күн бұрын

Documented along w/ADD in my 50's

OMG i thought i was just crazy

@Coach_Chris101

4 ай бұрын

What!?!?!? LMFAOOOO

How your opinion on Trump ended up here? By saying that you are clearly making a political statement, I was really engaging in your video, still learned something, thanks.

The Dyslexia brain is interesting. We are more likely to land in the sweet of IQ of above average intelligence but with it range before EQ started to decline. We can also tend to be very analytical and excel at Law and IT. I remember being asked recently if I thought with words or pictures and how supposed to learn most people think with words opposed to using words and pictures like I do. We also tend to be bad at abstract \ conceptual \ theoretical concepts but can own it if we can contextualize it. I was always trash at the pattern recognition exercises that used shapes because it doesn’t make sense and I couldn’t follow if I was supposed to understand and follow something about the circle being 360’ and the triangle as 3x 45’. Then I had a teacher explain to assign a different name persons name to every shape and think of it as they were in queue at the post office. 9 people are in line to mail a packaged. Sally is in-front of John but behind Mike. Tom is behind Josh but in front of Sue. Paul is in-front of Josh but behind Will. If Frank is behind John, who is behind him?

#RespectDyslexia

@TruthAboutDyslexia

3 жыл бұрын

Spelling is not the decider of genius. Richard Branson is Billionaire and can not spell. Would you say he is smart?

@ssj4gogeta778

3 жыл бұрын

@@TruthAboutDyslexia I'm so sorry. I didn't know what I was thinking when I wrote that harsh comment. I didn't even know what was going through my head. I'm sorry for what I did. #RespectTheDyslexic

@TruthAboutDyslexia

3 жыл бұрын

@@ssj4gogeta778 no sweat. minds can run faster than our fingers when typing.