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It's just a simplification, many people experience dyslexia differently, but for some people with dyslexia that may be a good way to describe to someone what th

It's just a simplification, many people experience dyslexia differently, but for some people with dyslexia that may be a good way to describe to someone what they experience. It's not actually a medical diagnosis, though can achieve the qualifications to test for it, it's a learning disability that doesn't have a well understood physilogical mechanism behind it. For me I was slow to learn to read, and was in remedial classes until halfway through elementary school, but I was eventually able to get it down and am now a very active reader with an average reading pace. Spelling was the issue that never went away for me. When I try to spell a word I can remember the general set of letters it's composed of, but knowing the precise order, or if a word ends in one or two ls, are things I really struggle with. I'm constantly having to look up the same words over and over, It just doesn't stick. My first job was a short term remote developing contract. My coworkers thought I was foreign for the first few weeks because of my poor spelling in code comments. It's better when I have access to good spelling or grammar checkers, but often times I misspell a word so completely that even the software has no idea what I'm trying to say. I also still mess up you're/your and their/there/they're all the time. In my head words are auditory not visual, so I have to put extra effort into resolving homophones.

auganov 6y ago
> My first job was a short term remote developing contract. My coworkers thought I was foreign for the first few weeks because of my poor spelling in code comments. It's better when I have access to good spelling or grammar checkers, but often times I misspell a word so completely that even the software has no idea what I'm trying to say. I also still mess up you're/your and their/there/they're all the time. In my head words are auditory not visual, so I have to put extra effort into resolving homophones. I'd actually say these kinds of mistakes are often a good indication of someone being highly fluent in a language. Isn't it more natural to write things as they're spoken rather than obey a bunch of arbitrary rules? When you learn an initially foreign language you're much more likely to pay attention to these "rules" as you don't know any better. If you speak the language well already, you will care much less whether or not your serialization of speech into writing obeys rules exclusive to that domain. Don't have any data on this but wouldn't be surprised if "dyslexia" shows up much less in people's second languages.
- narwally 6y ago
  I actually learned Dutch as an adult, I'm around a B1/B2 level. I did actually notice my dyslexia at least felt like less of an issue in Dutch. Since I learned mostly through reading, I learned new words in their written form, and then had to learn rules for how to translate them into their spoken form. Pretty much the exact opposite of how you learn your native language. It also may feel like less of an issue because I don't use it nearly as often as English, and because it is a second language, so I'm not nearly as hard on myself for any mistakes I make.

auganov 6y ago

> My first job was a short term remote developing contract. My coworkers thought I was foreign for the first few weeks because of my poor spelling in code comments. It's better when I have access to good spelling or grammar checkers, but often times I misspell a word so completely that even the software has no idea what I'm trying to say. I also still mess up you're/your and their/there/they're all the time. In my head words are auditory not visual, so I have to put extra effort into resolving homophones. I'd actually say these kinds of mistakes are often a good indication of someone being highly fluent in a language. Isn't it more natural to write things as they're spoken rather than obey a bunch of arbitrary rules? When you learn an initially foreign language you're much more likely to pay attention to these "rules" as you don't know any better. If you speak the language well already, you will care much less whether or not your serialization of speech into writing obeys rules exclusive to that domain. Don't have any data on this but wouldn't be surprised if "dyslexia" shows up much less in people's second languages.

narwally 6y ago
I actually learned Dutch as an adult, I'm around a B1/B2 level. I did actually notice my dyslexia at least felt like less of an issue in Dutch. Since I learned mostly through reading, I learned new words in their written form, and then had to learn rules for how to translate them into their spoken form. Pretty much the exact opposite of how you learn your native language. It also may feel like less of an issue because I don't use it nearly as often as English, and because it is a second language, so I'm not nearly as hard on myself for any mistakes I make.