Name: ディスレクシア - spell what now?[CC] (Dyslexia - spell what now?! [CC])
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T10:51:32.000Z
Duration: 13 min 55 s
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If you're new here, welcome, I'm Jessica. On this channel I talk about vintage fashion

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(obviously), gayness (not so obviously) and invisible disabilities (really not obviously).

Make sure to subscribe, if you haven't already, for some great amusing and educational content

on Tuesdays and Fridays! And hit the little bell to get notifications. Because otherwise,

Well… unless you follow me on Twitter and Instagram…

In today's video we're going to be discussing: dyslexia!

I'm really interested to know how many of you watching identify as having dyslexia (or

dyspraxia- although despite being related that's very much a video in itself!) and

whether you've made it over the hurdle of being officially diagnosed. There will be

a little question card in the corner above.

This was actually a request I was sent by a subscriber, Dylan, and my channel members,

The Kellgren-Fozard Club, helped me decide on the content. If you would also like to

become a member and have a say on future videos then click the 'join' button below or

I'll go into what dyslexia actually is and the signs of Dyslexia in a minute but for

now just know that it is one of a family of Specific Learning Difficulties.

Don't panic! 'Learning difficulty' and 'learning disability' are not the same

If you're a parent watching this and you've had no prior contact with anyone has brain

troubles of any kind and your child has just been diagnosed with dyslexia… well this

Ha! 'Process'. Nice use of words, Jessica.

It's a 'difficulty', not a 'disability' although it can be classified as one under

the UK's Equality Act of 2010 and thus extreme cases will make a person eligible for various

Also: people with learning disabilities are cool.

Trust me: I have brain damage and I'm fabulous.

It's estimated that up to 1 in every 10 people has some degree of dyslexia but it

A Specific Learning Difficulty affects the way information is learned and processed.

It's a neurological, rather than psychological, problem- that means it's caused by your

nerves not functioning the way they should, rather than something you can physically see,

like your brain being in the shape of a peacock.

Weird example. Guess my favourite animal (!)

Although dyslexia usually runs in families- my mother, brother and various cousins are

dyslexic- doctors have yet to find the root cause or even the one specific gene that controls

it. Whilst dyslexia has a significant impact on your ability to learn and acquire literacy

skills, it occurs completely independently of intelligence.

So you can be a genius and also be dyslexic!

Leonardo da Vinci, Walt Disney, Albert Einstein, George Washington, Whoopi Goldberg and Richard

- Granted, he might not be winning any prestigious prizes for his intelligence but he IS worth

over £3 billion so he's doing something right.

You can also be dyslexic and… not… a genius.

That's why an IQ test is given alongside a standard test for dyslexia: to

make sure the issues the person is facing are specific to dyslexia and not part of a

As with any disability, no two people experience the same combination of difficulties. When

most people find out I'm dyslexic they assume it means I can't read very well. Interestingly,

whilst my mother and, to a lesser extent, my brother really struggle with reading, I

was that little Matilda who spent the summer holidays dragging a cart full of books to

At my peak I was reading six books a day and by the age of eight I'd gobbled up everything

in the children and young adult section so stumbled into the weird adult fantasy romance

section because they had pretty colours and- boy- were those not okay for a child to be

I was also very loquacious as a child but when it came time to put those words onto

I could chat to my teachers all day about a topic but the second they asked me to pick

It was as if the words would form in my brain, travel down my arm and then get stuck in my

hand. I just couldn't get them through my fingers and into the pen.

I tried bright colours, sparkly gel pens, different types of paper… but nope! Even

when I was writing a nice note to my Nana or a birthday card to a friend, I just couldn't

make the words come out of my hands and I'd more often than not sit crying over a sheet

- You should see me attempting to write an Instagram caption-

I can read when a word is wrong but I can't tell you how to make it right.

I would sit in exams, wasting hours and hours, trying to work out how to spell the word 'of':

- that last one was because I'm aware 'z' seemed like an underused letter of the alphabet

and yet we still had to learn it so surely it was used for something, right?

Why are you making me learn unnecessary letters, like this isn't already hard enough?!

Writing is a little easier if I'm creating things as I go- whether that be fiction writing

or a script for something I'm very passionate about.

BUT when it comes to concrete facts and stitching them together…

Even writing a text to a friend is something I really struggle with. Once we get into the

flow of conversation I'm good to go and can instant message backwards and forwards…

as long as no one says a date, time or 'to do'. Then I'm stuck.

Please feel free to weigh in on why on earth you think that happens to me. I think it might

be because I'm so worried about 'getting it wrong' like mixing up my times, days

and places that I just stop, drop and roll out of that conversation…!

So far, nine different genes that control the development of the brain have been identified

and several more have suggested. These genes all control the development of the brain and

can cause differences in its structure which can create abnormal collections of nerve cells

in the wrong places during development. These miscroscopic differences in connectivity between

neurones particularly affect 'magnocellular' systems which are specialised for rapid information

Meaning if you ask me to spell something immediately, quickly, now, on the spot!- I will freeze

up and 'letter, who they? I hardly know them.'

This is because dyslexic brains are wired in such a way that they find it difficult

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constantly

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