welcome back everybody to The Aspie World I'm Dan in this video we're going
to talk about a dyslexia
hey what's up my name is Dan I have Asperger's syndrome ADHD dyslexia and
OCD and I make weekly videos on these subjects so consider subscribing to see
more of this type of content let's talk about dyslexia when I was in
primary school which is kind of like preschool I was actually I was I was a
bit far behind you know I was I was kind of not up to speed as the other kid with
reading with writing with other types of motor skills and you know they didn't
know what was wrong and then I went through a few bits and pieces of testing
one of the things that he came across was dyslexia so they tested me on these
kind of reading and writing skills and then at the end of it they said hey you
know you sent us dyslexia and my parents are just like okay
what does this all mean how do we have any copy this they said oh well you know
they'll need additional help and stuff so the game we like this one to one in
school but it never really took off I never really had any gain from it
dyslexia is this kind of neurological neuro-diverse issue that people have
where their brain takes a long time to process words and letters and things and
sees them in a very different way to the average typical person so a neuro
typical person would see words and read things at certain pace but a
neurodiverse kind of dyslexic person will read the words slightly differently
and they they may not read the word correctly it may take them a while so
kind of break the word down and read them into small pieces and that's kind
of like how dyslexia work a lot of people make see dyslexia is like the
words being flipped on the page or that the person just sees the words melting
on the page and stuff but this isn't this isn't always true the idea is that
they see the word but the word doesn't look how it does to a neurotypical
person so though you know you see the word for what it is but it takes you a
while to process it because you gotta break through it down read it and then
find out what it's about this again is comorbid with my
Asperger's condition which is part of the autism spectrum disorders and this
is why they go kind of hand-in-hand you know if people have got Asperger's
syndrome more than likely it'll have dyslexia so that's a primary school so I
was basically going through these motions of having like a one-to-one like
a reading person I wouldn't feel like extra classes to see this person to read
and then they'd teach me how to read and write I know my mum sent away for like
these like additional help packs like learning pack your like mail it off and
then you get this thing and you have like this I don't know this picture of
this guy you have to write down you know I don't know what he's doing in the
picture and color some stuff and it was kind of like it was okay I get it but it
wasn't helping the situation it wasn't really it wasn't really engaging me and
I wasn't learning from it I was just going through the motions I still took
as long to read I still took as long to write and my handwriting was still
rubbish my handwriting still is rubbish it's
never gonna get any better so that was primary school and then in high school
they kind of said well okay you got dyslexia but we haven't really got any
resources for it so you don't have to go to this this additional class after
school to see a teacher so I went to additional class off to school and then
the teacher that was saying to me like oh you know you just kind of gotta learn
how these words work and learn this and learn that it was kind of like well you
know I had issues with homophones so like people with dyslexic have issues
with homophobes and homophones are like there they're and their you know the
different types of three words are sound the same but he'll be spelt completely
differently and like to too and two you know finding out which way that these go
and I found homophones was so overwhelming it was kind of like I just
didn't know which ones were right and I was like dang you know I'm never gonna
get this right but I've managed to learn some tips and tricks about it but
dyslexia is also a coordination issues well it makes me more clumsy and I can
fall over it quite easily and I knock into things and it's kind of held me
back you know so when this is a typical trait of someone with dyslexia right so
if you're gonna say oh that's cool nail varnish you're wearing but if you can't
spell the word varnish then you use another word like oh that's cool nail
polish so I always find like a way around writing out a sentence cuz I
don't know how it's gonna go it was so bizarre you know I found that
I don't know I I found it was kind of bizarre because you're taking twice as
long to do something because of an issue that you are unaware of all the fact
that you don't know how to spell the word and there's really
you know some need for improvement and support so when I'm when I was about 16
or 17 when I left high school I went to an opticians the opposition said hey
you know reading on different colored paper may help so I got these blue
tinted glasses I'm like this blue kind of sheet overlay thing that I'd put
over pages and I'd read them it kind of helped the strain of reading because the
page one so harshly white on your eyes but it didn't really solve the issue
that I couldn't spell I still couldn't read one of the other tips I had from
when I was in high school is that the teachers like you just need to read more
you know you need to read more and I was like okay so when I was at the store and
about Harry Potter the Prisoner of Azkaban and it was I had this book and I
thought well I can't read these letters and then another thing was that when I
was in school they were saying to me hey you should use a dictionary because by
using a dictionary you get to look up the words and you know how to spell and
I said yeah but I don't know what I'm looking for you know how can you look up
a word if I knew what the word was how was spell so I could look up in a
dictionary then I wouldn't need the dictionary I mean it was almost
pointless exercise in the world so people really clutching at straws here
to find out what the heck was wrong and obviously after my Asperger's diagnosis
it was kind of clear that he was comorbid you know I've got dyslexia
I've got asperger's syndrome ADHD OCD and all those kind of stuff and it kind
of made sense to me and I was like dang you know I need to embrace the fact that
i'm dyslexic and so what if my hand writting is terrible so what if my you know reading
speed is rubbish and so so what you know and i was always a believer that in the
future we won't need handwriting we won't need to read things as intensely
as they do back then because we'd have computers to help us read and i really
believed in this but fast forward to the future
when I was doing my degree I was given a laptop by the University and that was
dictated but it was an Apple MacBook Pro so I can listen to words so I'd
highlight word and I'd play it and then one of the best tools I've come across
is Siri for my iPhone because I don't know how to spell something I'll just
type I'll just press the microphone button on the on the phone and I'll say
the word and I'll spell it for me it's amazing it's such an overcoming way
of doing it and also spellcheck on a computer so I type in the word and I
click spellcheck then that's how it helped me now how I
overcome all of the spelling stuff because I believe my Spelling's got way
better I'm a punctuation is got way better and the and how I over come that
was I was doing an access course and the English teacher was telling me about
something and what my brain needed to do was really understand and engage with a
kind of a story or a or a revision of how something works and so with the
right side of the brain which is like arts and music and stuff and then on the
last side when you got like maths and science dyslexic people take in all the
information and then right so the brain is working overtime and and it just
filters across little bits and pieces of the literature site and that's one takes a
long time to get over to the side of the brain but if you're presented words in
a a more picture environment or more image friendly environment then the
person with dyslexia may understand it a little bit better so I was learning how to
write our paragraphs and stuff and for the things this teacher told me was that
like look we'll just write down here you have like a bubble at the top for for
each subject so each subject you're gonna write about in your letter it has
to have a separate bubble and as I her so she was like look we're going to talk
about a camera so we talked about the camera we're in the same letter that we
want to also talk about a dog so we talked about the camera and that's one
bubble up here and then we talked about the dog in the second bubble and every
different kind of different on so you have these paragraphs and then spaces
and paragraphs of spaces and that's how we've built up and I never understood it
before because no one ever taught it's been that way and then another way is
that is having additional things to to add to your vision of how things are
displayed so with homophones so with they're so they are I think of a picture
that would go with that word so how the word how the letters in that word appear
I would know that like with with what they're going to get something it's like
if something is like their fault I know that there's an iron and E in
there and the irony is is their issue you know it's it's their fault because
there's too many things and I you know the irony is that and then whether the
they are they're going somewhere I learnt that if they if you're going to
have there's two words there's they and are but you need to squash them together
so I realized that this is there's a bunch of things in there so as they and
in a little posture you know so they are and I really thought those two words
together and so when you start to visually build up these building blocks
you can get better at reading and writing my reading writing is still
terrible but I'm Way better than I was when I was a kid I'm way better when I
was in high school and way better was when I was in university and because I
can don't give up and I always strive to want to learn more about dyslexia and I
think that is key to to anybody trying to overcome dyslexia from from that
point of view