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I have pretty damn sever dyslexia and dyscalculia, I've followed the research over the years because of how very clearly "different" my brain is from the typica

by neom 2y ago

I have pretty damn sever dyslexia and dyscalculia, I've followed the research over the years because of how very clearly "different" my brain is from the typical, my thinking style is all audio/visual (funny because spelling is linked to phonics yet I think heavily in voice). I've read everything from cortical thickness to neuroplasticity to processing regions, but I believe the best correlation they found so far is around the depth of mini columns (interestingly also associated with autism research).

dijit 2y ago
My father once referenced the “voice in your head” and I had to clearly articulate that I don’t hear a voice, and such insinuations are sort of weird. I see words, as if written gliding through my mind as I think my internal thoughts. My father didn’t believe me, and probably still doesn’t; but it is interesting to me how our brains can be so different as to not even be able to understand another persons easy to define alternative internal experiences. I also always wondered if we all perceive colours the same or if colours are different to us but we just give them the same words- since colour could, in theory, be completely subjective.
- neom 2y ago
  Yah what you described is really interesting to me, when I'm "in thought" I am for sure looking at movies and pictures, but the idea of thinking that way is super weird, me typing this right now is basically just commanding my fingers to punch out the words the voice in my head is telling me to punch out, half the time I just close my eyes to do it because I'm jut touching typing anyway (I actually like to keep my eyes closed generally when thinking), reading it looking at the word, making my brain remember what the word sounds like, making the word sound using the voice in my mind, thinking about the voice in my mind, reading is VERY inefficient. On colour, my degree is in digital imaging technology and I have studied colour from the perspective of gamuts and profiles etc. Certainly we all experience colour differently. I suspect much like a real colour profile, there is approximation done between (real world light frequencies/real "colour") them and mixing them, it would make sense there is some compression and "fixing" in the "brain gamut" as well. Blue is between about 450 and 495 nanometers, never mind the neurology, the physiological difference between us alone to account for that, nature is magic but I'm not sure it's perfect? My totally unsintific just from hours of doing colour correction with various humans, is maybe a 1%ish difference in shade, and somthing about where in the colour range it falls also has a variance/tipping point (dress colour thing?) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide-gamut_RGB_color_space https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide-gamut_RGB_color_space)
  - dijit 2y ago
    > me typing this right now is basically just commanding my fingers to punch out the words the voice in my head is telling me to punch out. That sounds really annoying, but I would assume that you could transcribe what someone is saying out loud while continuing to listen? I would find that extremely difficult. In my mind when I’m typing out letters its a little similar to those typing games[0] where you see a word and punch it down letter by letter. In my head it goes bolder when I wrote a letter of a word I’m putting down. This makes it very easy to transcribe documents - an unnecessary skill in the age of OCR. I doubt there is any other advantage of this quirk, other than it seems that spelling seems to be easier for me than others on the internet. If I had to listen to someone I would have to pause while my brain processed it into text and only then could I continue. [0]: https://zty.pe/ https://zty.pe/
    - neom 2y ago
      I never thought about that but yeah, I can transcribe what someone is saying and listening at the same time I think I could do a good job of being a "dumb pipe" too just taking what they say and very quickly saying it out loud. I also sometimes watch the news while listening to music my wife finds that totally bonkers. Your thing seems cool but yeah, I can't imagine it and trying to imagine it is, annoying. You would have made a good lawyer, if you're not one already. The lawyers I know who are world class can both do what you can do + are also just intelligent/smart/fast. Oh I guess maybe you're a SWE? I guess a "10x" SWE is probably doing this too, it's why I never made it in comp sci.

by neom 2y ago

dijit 2y ago

My father once referenced the “voice in your head” and I had to clearly articulate that I don’t hear a voice, and such insinuations are sort of weird. I see words, as if written gliding through my mind as I think my internal thoughts. My father didn’t believe me, and probably still doesn’t; but it is interesting to me how our brains can be so different as to not even be able to understand another persons easy to define alternative internal experiences. I also always wondered if we all perceive colours the same or if colours are different to us but we just give them the same words- since colour could, in theory, be completely subjective.

neom 2y ago
Yah what you described is really interesting to me, when I'm "in thought" I am for sure looking at movies and pictures, but the idea of thinking that way is super weird, me typing this right now is basically just commanding my fingers to punch out the words the voice in my head is telling me to punch out, half the time I just close my eyes to do it because I'm jut touching typing anyway (I actually like to keep my eyes closed generally when thinking), reading it looking at the word, making my brain remember what the word sounds like, making the word sound using the voice in my mind, thinking about the voice in my mind, reading is VERY inefficient. On colour, my degree is in digital imaging technology and I have studied colour from the perspective of gamuts and profiles etc. Certainly we all experience colour differently. I suspect much like a real colour profile, there is approximation done between (real world light frequencies/real "colour") them and mixing them, it would make sense there is some compression and "fixing" in the "brain gamut" as well. Blue is between about 450 and 495 nanometers, never mind the neurology, the physiological difference between us alone to account for that, nature is magic but I'm not sure it's perfect? My totally unsintific just from hours of doing colour correction with various humans, is maybe a 1%ish difference in shade, and somthing about where in the colour range it falls also has a variance/tipping point (dress colour thing?) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide-gamut_RGB_color_space https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide-gamut_RGB_color_space)
- dijit 2y ago
  > me typing this right now is basically just commanding my fingers to punch out the words the voice in my head is telling me to punch out. That sounds really annoying, but I would assume that you could transcribe what someone is saying out loud while continuing to listen? I would find that extremely difficult. In my mind when I’m typing out letters its a little similar to those typing games[0] where you see a word and punch it down letter by letter. In my head it goes bolder when I wrote a letter of a word I’m putting down. This makes it very easy to transcribe documents - an unnecessary skill in the age of OCR. I doubt there is any other advantage of this quirk, other than it seems that spelling seems to be easier for me than others on the internet. If I had to listen to someone I would have to pause while my brain processed it into text and only then could I continue. [0]: https://zty.pe/ https://zty.pe/
  - neom 2y ago
    I never thought about that but yeah, I can transcribe what someone is saying and listening at the same time I think I could do a good job of being a "dumb pipe" too just taking what they say and very quickly saying it out loud. I also sometimes watch the news while listening to music my wife finds that totally bonkers. Your thing seems cool but yeah, I can't imagine it and trying to imagine it is, annoying. You would have made a good lawyer, if you're not one already. The lawyers I know who are world class can both do what you can do + are also just intelligent/smart/fast. Oh I guess maybe you're a SWE? I guess a "10x" SWE is probably doing this too, it's why I never made it in comp sci.