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I’ve got one of these brains. Dyslexic. I still to this day, cannot hear what syllables are in words. ‘Cat’, 1? I hear 2. I cannot understand when I mispronoun
by ineedaj0b 3y ago
I’ve got one of these brains. Dyslexic. I still to this day, cannot hear what syllables are in words. ‘Cat’, 1? I hear 2.
I cannot understand when I mispronounce words. I get corrected often and repeat back the correction but it sounds like what I said the first time.
I have a fantastic memory, a great imagination, and nonstop dreams during the night. I don’t enjoy the dreams anymore, I’m pretty bored of them now that I know what they probably do mechanically.
Not sure if I’ve gotten any benefit out of it. I think the memory might be in the family as default and the other changes I noted could be normal variations.
- BiteCode_dev 3y agoBut you write and read fine apparently? I always thougth it was linked.
- ineedaj0b 3y agoWhen I write I leave out a lot ‘the’ and ‘a’ and ‘an’. I have to edit what I write often (and I usually still don’t notice them missing). I have trouble reading when I’m tired. Or fully awake making out handwriting. I have many years of practice adding a’s, the’s, and you’s - people will ignore everything you write if you come across as mentally subpar.
- falserum 3y agoAre audiobooks much easier for you than physical books? (I’m just comparing notes)
- ineedaj0b 3y agoAudiobooks are easier! However, I don’t retain details or turns of phrase very well. Physical books are slower but I can quote lines and remember more details. This might have to do with the longer consumption time… 1 week for physical or 3 days for an audiobook. More time mulling over the physical text = better memories maybe I prefer audiobooks for difficult subjects, physical books for pleasure
- tryauuum 3y agoIs English your native language?
- ineedaj0b 3y agoYes! Lovely language
- filoleg 3y agoNot trying to pry, but is english your second language? I assume not, but I have the exact same thing with articles (“the” and “a”/“an”) that you have, except for me it was clearly caused by english being my second (my native language doesn’t have the concept of articles like that at all). And I got much better at it over time too, but it still slips through all the time for me. Less so in writing (even though it still happens not that rarely), but moreso in speech.
- verisimi 3y ago> I don’t enjoy the dreams anymore, I’m pretty bored of them now that I know what they probably do mechanically. Why would you think that you know what the dreams are? Could you tell the rest of us please? Perhaps you are coming at this from a materialistic perspective? I personally don't think there is anything straightforward about dreams. Whether you take a 'spiritual' approach (have you ever had a deja vu?) or a psychoanalytic view (messages from the subconscious, whatever that is) or some other perspective, there is nothing mechanistic or boring in dreams for me.
- mylastattempt 3y agoJust pitching in my 2 cents here, and not sure if it is what the parent commenter meant: When I "realized" that dreams and dejavu's are all, litteraly just in your head, and just memories and visualizations that your brain is connecting together, I realized that reality is the same. You're just getting signals and processing them. Wether they come from outside ("real") or from within yourself, it doesn't really matter as long as you can tell the difference. what I appreciated about the realization of dejavu and dreams being what they are, was that it gave me a much firmer grasp and believe that I can control my feelings and escape to a little fantasy where this worlds rules dont apply. And also accept that when you're just feeling shit, it's fine for a while, just some chemicals not playing ball.
- ineedaj0b 3y agoYou’re on the right track!
- ineedaj0b 3y agoI can tell you but it’s a bit depressing. So turn back yea who are happy! Don’t read this. I thought it was something spiritual/mystical when I was younger and I liked that a lot more! And if you wanna keep enjoying dreams collapse my comment right now!!! Here’s the boring nightmare: so… your mind is thinking what comes next? What comes next? And it’s corrected repeatedly by information from the eyes and ears. Maybe the nose. It constantly corrects and that’s your ‘experience’. When you dream the system is still running; just no correction from the eyes so you see a man in your dream and your brain goes -> what’s next? And it’ll take a guess. If good: nicer dream. If bad: bad(der) dream. Frankly, it’s usually something (seemingly) random which counts as neutral. When wacky things happen your eye input isn’t correcting, so things get pretty wild or tame depending on how good your brains prediction is. Your brain is going through scenarios with no correcting input. Since I realized this 8-9 years ago I’ve been trying to prove this wrong to myself. I wish it was spiritual or mystical but it’s pretty conclusively my deluded half asleep mind doing this. I have said goodbye to loved ones in dreams, a physically impossible scenario and it’s like your living it, just no reality correction from the eyes or ears. Most people forget their dreams, but I get 4-6 a night EVERY damn night and they are like being awake! ps. If anyone knows how to reduce dreaming please leave a comment! I don’t mind dreaming, but I envy falling asleep and waking up 7-8 hours in the future ready for the next day.
- jan_Inkepa 3y ago> I still to this day, cannot hear what syllables are in words. ‘Cat’, 1? I hear 2. What syllables do you hear? (I'm assuming you have English as a mother tongue?)
- Sammi 3y agoHis mind emphasises the consonants instead of the vowels.
- Folcon 3y agoThat is such a helpful insight. I'm always on the lookout for new ways to think about how we process the world, just curious if you're aware of this distinction appearing in something like poetry / music?
- cultofmetatron 3y agothis is makking me think more about japanese where every consonant is paired with a vowel. makes me wonder how much of what we call developmental issues are culturally dependant to manifest
- ineedaj0b 3y agothat’s right! I hear Cah and a T sound. I never realized it was consonant I was hearing. ‘Button’ has 4? I could have divided all my answers by 2 and passed those quizzes when I was younger…
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- thaumasiotes 3y ago> I still to this day, cannot hear what syllables are in words. ‘Cat’, 1? I hear 2. > I cannot understand when I mispronounce words. I get corrected often and repeat back the correction but it sounds like what I said the first time. Interestingly, both of these 'symptoms' are completely normal, for people learning a second language.
- gravescale 3y agoEspecially from languages that don't have the same final and consonant cluster options that English does. For example Richard in Chinese is commonly transliterated as Lichade (lee-char-duh), even though it's only two syllables in English, and Charles is Cha'ersi (char-err-suur).
- thaumasiotes 3y agoIt's not necessarily the case that Chinese speakers hear the English word "Richard" as three syllables. They might or might not; either way, it isn't possible for them to produce it as two. (Or as three, as you illustrate, but there's a limit to how far you can go in the attempt to produce a foreign name accurately. A country can be named 圣文森特和格林纳丁斯, but that's just not going to work for a person whose name you need to pronounce more than once.) Hearing problems and production problems are both common, and they overlap heavily, but they don't overlap perfectly. Speaking of how people perceive foreign words, I'm still interested in the following: 1. Mandarin and Cantonese both use the sounds /s/ (just like English S) and /f/ (ditto, just like English F, though there are Chinese speakers who, like the Japanese, don't distinguish F and H). 2. Neither Mandarin nor Cantonese uses the sound /θ/ (beginning of the English words thorn, thunder, thwack, etc.). 3. Mandarin speakers perceive an English [θ] as being the sound /s/. It's not just that they hear it as something strange but get /s/ when they try to produce it - they cannot hear the difference between [θ] and [s]. I have a friend who learned to produce [θ] accurately, which didn't help much because her English experience is mainly auditory and she ends up using [θ] in words that use /s/. 4. Cantonese speakers are different; for them, an English [θ] is the sound /f/. This means that if a Mandarin speaker and a Cantonese speaker both listen to an English speaker pronounce "thin", neither will necessarily perceive anything particularly strange about the word, but they will disagree with each other's attempts to mimic it. 5. By now, there must be many people who are native speakers of both Cantonese and Mandarin. 6. What do they think when they hear [θ]? My best guess is that they can tell it's a strange sound, but I don't really know. > Richard in Chinese is commonly transliterated as Lichade (lee-char-duh), even though it's only two syllables in English, and Charles is Cha'ersi (char-err-suur). I should note that the Mandarin syllable cha is not at all rhotic; the transcription "char" only makes sense if your variety of English doesn't have rhotic vowels.
- braaileb 3y agoI'm like this too and I've found I thrive with autonomy and burn out in rigid environments.
- potatowaffle 3y ago> I cannot understand when I mispronounce words. I get corrected often and repeat back the correction but it sounds like what I said the first time. I have the exact same problem. I had troubles learning pronunciations when I was a kid, but I never had other learning problems. As an adult, I struggled enough with pronunciation that I consulted two hearing specialists to determine if there were any issues with my ears. It turns out my hearing is fine. Is it possible for someone to get a diagnosis for dyslexic based on pronunciation problems only? I must say I am relieved to finally find someone who shares my experience.
- ineedaj0b 3y agoYou might be able to be diagnosed, but there’s no medication or cure. You can get extra time on tests if you’re younger. You can Google dyslexic signs. I think last time I looked auditory processing anomalies and the retina or lens was oddly shaped in 95% of dyslexics. Dyslexic is also an umbrella term for a bunch of things so you’ll have to sort through to find your flavor. Best fix is a good nights sleep. Also make sure you move closer to speech you want to comprehend and the people you interact with most enunciate and speak at a good volume (too many people speak poorly and could use 2 weeks of beginner theater classes)
- potatowaffle 3y agoThank you for the kind, detailed reply. I wish I had known my condition may be dyslexic when I was younger. Taking a beginner theater class is now on my todo list.
- BobbyTables2 3y agoI’ve always wondered about how language is taught. Kids are taught that “cat” phonetically is “c-a-t”. Almost sounds like three syllables at that point. Do that with other words and one will quickly question how many syllables are in everything!! I’m not dyslexic but I feel like the way we teach language is broken.
- asveikau 3y agoMy experience is that English speakers are terrible at knowing how many syllables there are in a word. I think it has a lot to do with how our vowels are. Some vowels like /i/ tend to get their own syllable in places where most languages would blend it into an adjacent vowel and maybe make it into /j/. Other times what we think of as a single vowel is actually 2-3 vowels.