Is there a different way that a dyslexic person would think since they see things differently, obviously the brain is doing something different than most people.  I have heard there are other symptoms, anybody know?
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Good question. I'm curious to see some of the answers myself. I 'outgrew' my dyslexia, but I still have some problems, and I have been curious if they are related. I am terrible at math for one, I still do have some problems reading, usually only when I read out loud. When I go to jot down a phone number I will sometimes mix up the numbers. (write down the last bit backwards, or inverted). Sometimes I don't seem to make sense to people, it sounds right in my head, but I have a hard time getting my point across. I feel like maybe their is a short circuit somewhere, and things get mixed up and backward on the way out.
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Your teacher was probably referring to ambidextrous people (im able to write, do anything actually with both hands, legs etc.) true ambidextrous people, not people that teach themselves how to do it think differently to just right handed or left handed people. Apparently i can switch my thinking to either side of my brain, over all i tend to have a "center" of thinking.  i can also read backwards and write backwards or with both hands at the same time without even thinking about it. I discovered this when i was a teenager, all my friends thought it was awesome and tried to do it! i thought it was so funny because they were all trying so hard when i didnt even have to think when i did it! \nI'm not sure if im smarter then other people, maybe i am lol! i did always get great marks in school so yer, but there are disadvantages-always have had trouble working out left from right, learning languages, trouble with figures/maths in general. All of those disadvantages are proven.\n\nYou cannot make yourself be left handed or ambidextrous and get the positives with it-like being intelligent (so they say).\nSo dont try to be, you cannot change how your brain works. \nHope this helped.
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great idea.\n\n((my friend is dyslexic and he is also cross-eyed so he reads perfectly fine))\n\nlol
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They are more likely to have them depending on the cause of the learning disabilities.  \nJust so you know most people with dyslexia get it from pregnancy issues, such as, but not limited to, women drinking and/or doing drugs while they are pregnant, and malnutrition to the mother while pregnant and/or nursing, being deprived of oxygen during birth.  \nDo more research on the learning disabilities, if they are caused by genetics chances are high, if they are caused by abnormalities during pregnancy then the mother needs to take care of herself.
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It's dyslexia involving numbers instead of letters and words.  There is no cure, but compensation techniques.  If you are a student, your district/school/university is required by the Federal government to provide help for you and to make compensations, etc (oral exams, special equipment).
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oh my gosh. I totally have that dyslexic type syndrome. i consider myself very smart (I'm a lawyer), but feel quite stupid with giving directions and I always say right when I mean left and vice versa.
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Do you know how some people are dyslexic, where they have trouble reading?  I am an adult who has always had a terrible time with anything that has numbers in it.  No one tested way back when I was in school but they do now.  Have your child tested, they will find out if he needs some help.  In some cases they will give him extra time to finish his math exams.  Some people need to take "open book" tests.  I am one of those people.  I have always excelled at reading, math was a nightmare.  I studied so hard, and as long as the book was open, and I could see the formula to finish the math problem I was okay.  The second the book closed I had no idea what to do.  It is good to know now if there is a problem, because it kept me away from getting more education.  If I had been tested they could have helped me, I would have gone for a four year degree.  Good luck to you and your son.  You are a good mom.
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Some people experience a phenomenon known as synaesthesia. That occurs when people perceive multiple senses in repsonse to one stimulus. For example, many synaesthetes report being able to smell the colors they see, even if there's no chemical around to cause them to smell something. It's just a quirk in their brain.\n\nI can "see" loud noises if my eyes are shut. Loud clattering and crashing sounds cause me to see a flash of white when my eyes are shut. Likewise, I perceive colors when I think of certain numbers. \n\n0 = white\n1 = black on a white field\n2 = yellow\n3 = green\n4 = light blue\n5 = red\n6 = brown\n7 = magenta\n8 = dark blue\n9 = brown
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EDIT: Half of my answer didn't post for some reason.\n\nScientists have been studying this for years, but never have found an answer.\n\nWhen I spoke to a deaf woman about this idea, this is what she said: "When I think about what I am going to say, I think about it in sign and I sometimes sign in my sleep.  However, when I read something (because there is no written version of sign language) I think about it in English.  Concepts are created visually more often than in English."\n\nFor an actual study, when presented with a stimulus, the visual and language areas of the brain become active, whereas in a hearing person, the auditory and language areas of the brain become active.  While they are processed differently, the language area of the brain is used at all times.\n\nThe only other help I can offer is a study on Genie, a girl who was locked up and unsocialized until about the age of twelve.  While she was able to be somewhat rehabilitated and learn some basic vocabulary, she never figured out how to put complex sentences together, which was thought to show she was not capable of complex thought.  However, the data was compromised because it was thought that she may be mentally challenged.
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Wow tahts raelly itersenitng!\nThat's pretty cool the way our minds work... even though the words are scrambled, they're still understandable because the first and last letters.
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I have dyslexia.  I live with it, it is part of me.  I think it would be wrong to attempt to "cure" it.  Although my spelling is awful (as you can probably tell - I will not use the spell check on this so you get the idea) and I would hardly make a professional cricket fielder I think that I have some benefits from dyslexia which although not obvious are still there.  Like how autistic people are often super-numerate.\nBasically our minds all work in different ways and dyslexia is one of these differences.  You should try to ensure your daughter is happy and can cope with her failings and use her strengths, don't try to "fix" things that are not broken and remember "if it seems to good to be true it is".\n\nAnyway that is all I have to contribute on this matter.  Have a great day.
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Dyslexia refers to any reading difficulty not associated with obvious problems such as bad eyesight. Dyslexia occurs more often in boys and among left-handed individuals. Common dyslexias include the inability to name letters, to read words or sentences, or to recognize words directly even though they can be sounded out. Each kind of dyslexia may reflect different deficits such as in speech-sound processing or memory for word meanings. Likewise, the different dyslexias are probably associated with different brain regions, and most theories focus on nonprimary areas in the frontal lobe and the temporal lobe. (Galaburda, 1994; Rosenzweig, Lieman, et al., 1996;) Recent studies have linked several forms of dyslexia to genetic marker (Grigorenko, 2001; Grigorenko etal., 1997; Grigorenko, Wood, Meyer, & Pauls, 2000).\n\nIt is said to be a neurological disorder with biochemical and genetic markers. Dyslexia was originally defined as a difficulty with reading and writing that could not be explained by general intelligence. One\ndiagnostic approach is to compare their ability in areas such as reading and writing to that which would be predicted by his or her general level of intelligence, but some would say that it is not certain that intelligence should be a predictor of reading or writing ability; and also that the causes, effects and treatments of reading disabilities may be similar for all levels of intelligence.
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This sounds like synesthesia. Most of the times I've heard of this it ties colors to letters. A is red, q is yellow, that sort of thing, but I think the term applies to any mixing of the senses.\n\nAs neurological conditions go, this one sounds kind of fun. Enjoy!
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yes. this is what you said:\n\nI could not believe that I could actually understand what I was reading. The phenomenol power of the human mind, according to a research at Cambridge University, it doesn't matter in what order the letters in a word are, the only important thing is that the first and last letter be in the right place.\nThe rest can be a total mess and you can still read it without a problem. This is because the human mind does not read every letter by itself, but the word as a whole.\nAmazing huh? yeah and I always thought spelling was important!
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You can't "treat" it, per se, because there's not actually anything broken.  It's just that your brain processes information different.  Get in touch with the disability coordinator at your school (you are probably entitled to extra time on exams and other accomidations), and if your struggling with a particlar class, talk to the professor.  Yeah, dyslexia sucks most of the time, but it comes in pretty hand when you have to find the reverse compliment of a DNA sequence (I, at least, have no trouble reading a seqence from right to left...).\n\n__________________\n>>>my university didnt do much in this field, and the school im \n>>>know in has no teacher in it whos even familiar with it\n\nIf you're struggling, you might want to consider transfering to a school that would be more supportive.  I've had to deal with schools that didn't do much (my 2nd grade teacher was adamendly convinced that I could spell if I wanted to and just wasn't trying), and now I'm at a school that actually gets it.  Believe me, it can make a huge difference.\n\nWithout knowing more about what you're having trouble with I don't have any specific tips.  You said you were mainly having trouble with writing, so if your school has writing tutors, take your papers to them to read over.  And use spell check with the red underline thing turned on - speaking from experience it can actually improve your spelling.  You may also be able to have your profs let you off the hook for some of the spelling and grammar stuff you have trouble with (so it won't hurt your grades so much), but for content and organization stuff it would kind of defeat the point of the assignment.  If you're really having trouble writing essays on in-class exams, many profs will be willing to give an oral exam instead.\n\nThe main thing is you've got to think about how you think (metacognition).  Don't count on other people understanding it unless you explain it to them.  Even though you know you're dyslexic, that's a very broad diagnosis.  You said you have no trouble with reading, but a hard time with writing, right?  I'm dyslexic too (and I'm also 19 and in college), and I have almost no trouble with writing (appart from spelling and flipping letters around, which just makes it go slowly), but my reading rate is at the 1st percentile, which is a bit of a problem when I have 100 pages of reading a night.  The point is that just "dyslexic" doesn't tell me, you, or anyone else how you actually think.  If you can go to the professor of a class you're struggling with and say this is how I process things and here's why and how it's making this aspect particlar of this class hard for me, I bet they'll be able to help you out quite a bit.\n\nAs far as I know, the "therapies" with colored glasses and repetitive eye movements are total BS.\n\nOh, and you don't need to be in special classes, you just need to modify your normal classes a little bit.  I was diagnosed as dyslexic in 2nd grade, and I've been not only in mainstream classes my whole life, but almost without exception in the highest level classes my schools have offered.
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As I understand it, it is quite possible for savant skills to appear in someone who suffers physical brain damage. I would also think it would be possible in a multiple personality disorder case, that someone has a talent that is suppressed, and the alternate personality might be an outlet for it.\n\nThe mind is a strange and mysterious place.
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I do it all the time and i'm not dyslexic, i put it down to the fact that i'm thinking too far ahead of what i'm saying and get confused or when i get too tired i can't even remember certain words or i say the complete different word like you did, almost like i'm not concentrating.If its really bad and upsetting you, go see someone to put your mind at rest.(no pun)