So dyslexia or dyscalculia.
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Anyway, so.
That is a very interesting, uh, term.
It does calculate now a lot of people, um, you know, use the term dyslexic
for a lot of different things.
So I was diagnosed with dyslexia when I was about, I was about 12 or 11 and,
um, cause my reading and writing skills were what were lacking considerably.
Um, and so we did the test and they got dyslexia.
Now dyslexia impacts a lot of, of a person.
Um, it kind of impacts how a person, um, you know, moves into in, in, in
coordinates themselves and, and reads and writes and understands complex tasks.
And there's a lot of things that dyslexia interrupts and disrupts, but
there's one thing that doesn't encompass within dyslexia now is the issue with
numbers and reading and writing numbers.
Now dyslexia is normally for the language of written word, rather than
the language of something like a coding or numbers or the area of numbers.
But a lot of people say the term I'm dyslexic, but with numbers,
And I hear this term all the time.
And it's really funny because I'm really good at numbers, but I'm dyslexic.
So I'm really bad with like words and on reading and writing and stuff.
But a lot of people would say like, we'll be quite amazed.
I'm really good with numbers.
Even though I'm dyslexic, they say, Oh, you're dyslexic and you stop at a numbers.
And I'm like, well guys, at the end of the day, it's a different thing.
I'm not different things called dyscalculia now dyscalculia calculator
is a condition that impacts someone's ability to, um, read and
write on the level of accepting.
Numbers and like mathematical things.
So, um, recognizing numbers and reciting numbers, uh, efficiently
and directly, uh, is somewhat of a, of a difficult challenge.
And sometimes I miss where people with this calculus now, a person
can be diagnosed with just this discalcula or just dyslexia.
But a lot of the time people aren't diagnosed with dyslexia.
I'm this calculus kind of like algebra one thing now.
There is another one that comes into this circle of loveliness here,
which is something called dyspraxia.
Now, dyspraxia again, is something completely different.
It's a different, um, condition altogether.
Um, and I will cover that in another video, but for now I was
just going to wanting to talk about dyslexia versus dyspraxia.
Now there is a lot of people who will suffer with discalcula and not dyslexia,
but I do believe that statistically.
There are more people with dyslexia than out this calculus.
Now being a disadvantage with dyscalculia means that you can't
recognize numbers efficiently.
You can't recite numbers efficiently.
You probably poor at maths and numbers pretty much rule the entire world.
So if you think about it, everything uses numbers from dialing a phone number to
ordering food and paying for your bills.
Everything is numbers, right?
So this calculus can really impact and rock some of these worlds.
And it's a very serious condition.
Now, a lot of people think that they have dyscalculia when they're just.
By the maths and this isn't really the case.
One can be bad at maths, but really not have this calculus.
Because again, you've got to think about the efficiency and the impact of
not being able to recognize numbers or recite numbers or re even read numbers
when you, when you say written down.
So in terms of actual discalcula, you have to have quite a severe relationship
with numbers and number nomenclature to kind of really qualify for that.
That means said.
There are lots of people who do have dyscalculia and it is a
very crippling kind of condition.
Now dyslexia kicks my butt pretty much every single day.
Um, ever since I could read up potentially read, uh, I just had issues with dyslexia.
Um, you know, my brother always stick the Michael out of me for
like my spelling of my, my Stetser.
I was Thomas and also dyslexia kind of really Howes me.
My handwriting is terrible.
Right.
My handwriting hands down is terrible.
Now people can have dyslexia.
And not have bad handwriting, but it's very rare.
But if you have dyscalculia , um, your handwriting probably will be
okay because you can read and write and spell like any other kind of
typically, um, able brain person or whatever you want to say about it.
Um, but in terms of, uh, in terms of people with this calculus, um, there is
a, uh, there is a diff difference when you're trying to write down numbers.
Now it's interesting how this affects the brain, know where it comes from.
It is in its essence, a learning difficulty, just like dyslexia, dyspraxia.
Autism.
These are all learning difficulties and learning difficulties
need to be treated as such.
So a lot of kind of educational establishments will treat them as a
disability or a disadvantage, which means that we'll give you, um, kind of
like a recommended access to things and programs like they'll have we have, well,
I live with something called the miles dyslexia center, which is like a world
famous award-winning dyslexia center.
And I was.
Privileged to use that when I was in university doing my degree, which was
fantastic, but in terms of everywhere else, um, they should recognize it
and give a reasonable adjustments to dyscalculia and to dyslexia and to
dyspraxia and to autism because all of these, neurodivergent kind of ways of
thinking and abilities to see things, um, really impacts your day-to-day
life because the world is set up for people who are of typical kind of
neurological conditioning, neuro typicals.
And so.
You got to think, you know, everything's set up and you're typically, so dyslexia,
dyscalculia, dyspraxia, autism, ADHD, all of these things are going to be really
difficult to fit into those kinds of like, it's like the round peg, but it's
a square hole it's never going to work.
So it's a, it's something that we have to take into consideration to being a very
serious condition and super interesting.
Yeah.
But I do not have dyscalculia.
I love numbers.
I love mathematics.
It's actually fantastic.
And yeah, mustard is just great.
But in terms of, um, dyslexia, I do have dyslexia.
It kicks my butt daily.
I wish I could just get rid of it.
Um, but you know, practice makes progress.
I practice every single day.
I'm trying my best to, to, um, improve that.
So next time somebody thinks that dyslexia.
With numbers exist.
Just tell them it's not dyslexia.
It's discalcula guys.
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