Cause of dyslexia and digraphs

[Pawelk198604]

I wrote this in other thread but it was closed when writing replay to this http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/87542-Question-for-admins-Do-you-take-me-as-online-troll-LOL?p=1293138#post1293138, please not consider this as trolling i want know what cause dyslexia at school and university i want know what it cause

I would say that as your English improves, less people will think you are a troll.

Also, IRL when someone asks a question, you don't always have to answer it. Let someone else answer most of the time, unless no one else knows the answer; no one will think any less of you. personally I find people that always answer questions a bit annoying. Just my advice, I'm not trying to criticize you.

Grammar has never been my forte, nor in my native language Polish nor English.

Both my language language teachers (Polish) and (English) was complain about my grammar, my Polish language grades was good, but mainly because school Polish language also covered Polish and World literature although my grades was good but was lowered because misspelling (2) E in English grading system + (5) "B" for creatives and reading comprehension) and average 3.5.

English the same thing, now i doing my masters thesis in library science. Next year, I defend my thesis (written in Polish). I remember mine my supervisor. I was similar to this:D

She said, oh my god how many grammatical errors, she said that the work is very interesting and has potential, but can not believe how many errors of grammar, spelling and style. She said that if it showed the faculty council she probably hid in shame to her head in the sand. She said that Grammatically it looks worse than Gimnazjum middle school student work that was expecting something better from a student at the University of Wroclaw

She said that there is no objection to the substantive level of my work, she said that podtym respect is good, but my workshop editorial leaves much to be desired.

But it's not my fault that I have dyslexia and dysgraphia: D

Edited July 22, 2014 by Pawelk198604

[Pawelk198604]

I do not like to brag but I have a high IQ, although I'm not a genius I do have quite a lot of problems with grammar and writing.

I wonder as causing some (like me) have dyslexia

[xcorps]

You should start a blog. Ask all the questions about yourself you want. People can answer them in the comments section.

[Scotius]

Blog might be a good idea. However, let's not discourage OP from asking questions here, eh? It often sparks interesting discussions

As for your question - i've read about a quite compelling theory. Dyslexia and dysgraphia (and other similiar conditions) might be an leftover from earlier stages of human evolution. Today they might be seen as a disadvantage - but tens of thousands years ago brain areas affected by them would be used for performing vitally important tasks. Like allowing to notice small changes in environment signalling a danger, better keeping track of places with seasonally available foods (like berries or mushrooms) and so on. Back then such skills were advantageous, and people possessing them fared better than rest of the population - which lead to these traits becoming widespread. Unfortunately times changed, and now ability to read and write fluently became more important than ability to easily recall where you did find a fruit-bearing tree two years ago. Apparently your brain is still "wired" slightly differently to the brains of people having no problems with grammar and orthography. It does not make it deficient, just...different.

Take me for example I have discalculia - which means my ability to perform and understand math is waaaaay below average. I never managed to learn multiplication table, and i need a calculator to do anything but simplest calculations. And yet throughout the school i've got mostly A's and B's (except that darned math ) Including chemistry and physics - heck, i can do chemistry equations without trouble. And they are practically identical to mathematical ones - but change chemical symbols into numbers, and my brain goes blank. Also, i've learned english twice as fast as my classmates. While they were struggling with english grammar, i was writing Stargate fanfiction in my spare time All-in-all, at least i know i'm not stupid - and i have diplomas to prove it It's just my brain that is "wired" a bit differently than others.

[Pawelk198604]

Take me for example I have discalculia - which means my ability to perform and understand math is waaaaay below average. I never managed to learn multiplication table, and i need a calculator to do anything but simplest calculations. And yet throughout the school i've got mostly A's and B's (except that darned math ) Including chemistry and physics - heck, i can do chemistry equations without trouble. And they are practically identical to mathematical ones - but change chemical symbols into numbers, and my brain goes blank. Also, i've learned english twice as fast as my classmates. While they were struggling with english grammar, i was writing Stargate fanfiction in my spare time All-in-all, at least i know i'm not stupid - and i have diplomas to prove it It's just my brain that is "wired" a bit differently than others.

discalculia i have this too, along with disortographia, i also never learn multiplication table

[jwenting]

let go of your belief in conspiracy theories and your automatic distrust of people who've actually studied for something.

See a doctor, or ask a professor in medicine at a Polish university.

The time of Lysenkoism is over, even in Poland.

[Idobox]

A common hypothesis for the cause of dyslexia and associated troubles is a slight impairment in various sensory pathways, mostly visual and auditory.

Basically, if you don't hear or see the same way, it's going to be very difficult to learn how to speak and write properly.

For example, if visual pattern recognition doesn't work very well, or some noise is added, the difference between p and q becomes much trickier than for the rest of the population.

A commonly proposed explanation for this impairment is slight differences of the cerebellum, causing some scrambling. The cerebellum is thought to finely adjust inputs and outputs in time and space, and you can imagine that if you screw up the order of sounds, letters or words because you have some random noise added to their position or timing, then you get symptoms that look a lot like dyslexia.

ADHD has also been linked to dyslexia. The idea being that if you have trouble focusing on language, it is easy to screw up.

All in all, there are many theories of dyslexia, none of which can explain everything, some of them compatible with each other, some others not.

And human communication is extremely complex compared to what other apes can do, it also takes up a large part of our neo-cortex to process. In short, it is one of the most difficult things for our brain to do, and as a result, even small differences in any of the large number of areas/functions involved can result in a big difference

[Sky_walker]

You should start a blog. Ask all the questions about yourself you want. People can answer them in the comments section.

Yes. Do this instead of spamming forum with some weird questions.

Also: Dyslexia is a pathetic excuse for not using a spellchecker.

It's build in a web browser and automatically highlights you any mistakes you make suggesting a corrected version so you wouldn't have to bother with anything.

Start using spellchecker. Seriously.

[Clockwork_werewolf]

Having dyslexia and having friends with dyslexia I know that there is no such thing as one cause or one type of dyslexia. It is the same as labeling everyone that can't walk well as disambulatory whether they lost a leg, have cerebral palsy, are weak from celiac disease or any other leg problem.

Some people have problems with the words "moving around on the page" this can be fixed with a coloured filter. This is obviously a visual problem and in some cases the filter can fix the problem. This backs up Idobox's post, but in my case the filters make no difference as nothing was "moving about" in the first place.

I myself have a bad short term memory (but not long term) but I can remember routes and faces better than most people. This backs up Scotius's post for my type of dyslexia. It is also worth noting that when I was young I had problems telling b's and d's apart and telling which way round an R went. This was not because I didn't know the symbol but because I saw it as an object that could be turned over or around. My brain was working with objects not abstract symbols on a page. I still have above average 3D spacial awareness even if I sometimes loses where the sun is in Kerbal orbit. I would like to clarify that when I was diagnosed at 7 I had a reading age 1 year below average but an IQ of 138, I have no idea what it is now.

I sue a spellchecker on EVERYTHING I write, it's a pain but people tend to assume literacy is always equatable with intelligence.

also: Dyslexia is a pathetic excuse for not using a spellchecker.

Spelling is not the same as grammar. A computer can't help with that. I wish it could.

[Sky_walker]

Spelling is not the same as grammar.

I'm not complaining about grammar. Don't have any reason to - my own grammar is far from perfect.

A computer can't help with that. I wish it could.

So do I ~_~