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Dyslexia is only ever portrayed affecting the Latin alphabet, amirite?
by Anonymous1 week ago
Because if you can't read Cantonese showing how dyslexics read doesn't really mean anything
by Anonymous1 week ago
Bilingual (Mandarin Chinese and English) dyslexic here! Chinese is actually usually easier for me with a few exceptions. Stroke order doesn't confuse me, and most characters in simplified Chinese don't even approach 40 strokes. It's like how in English you would never start writing a word by going backwards letter by letter. They aren't strict rules, but applying them makes your writing neater and more legible. There are some characters that confuse me because they look similar, but they usually have very different meanings and context clues in the character's composition and the text around it can overcome that. English is a nightmare for me. Bad kerning destroys my ability to read. I confuse b, p, and d; t and T; m and n; p, g, q, and j; etc. Don't even get me started on numbers. There's simply more letters that look similar, and you see them more often, and there's tons of combinations that also look similar. Fonts that emphasize making letters more distinct than making them more similar helps me a ton, and I have software that helps me read.
by jocelynhayes1 week ago
Interesting analysis, yeah not only are b, d, p, q etc. similar but you might need six of those just to write one word in English
by Anonymous1 week ago
Yeah, and sometimes upper vs lower case gets in the way too. My father is also dyslexic and when he was young, he learned how to write his name (David) correctly when he realized that the "bumps" in the D and d needed to "face each other". He'd routinely spell his name as "Davib."
by jocelynhayes1 week ago
English is a nightmare for me. Is Hanyu Pinyin equally/similarly difficult?
by Agitated-Ad1 week ago
It's interesting- there's about 1,200 unique syllables in Mandarin including the tones. In pinyin, they're written in predictable patterns, use fewer letters, and things are pronounced exactly how they're spelled. This ends up making it easy for me to read. However, it's rarely actually used for communication because there's so many words that share syllables or pronunciations. You have to do a lot of work with context and have a good vocabulary to read pinyin without having the characters to guide you. Ultimately, easier to read than English but you have to do a lot more work to comprehend it.
by jocelynhayes1 week ago
Doesn't the number one have a different name?
by Vandervortarman1 week ago
It is not a form of dyslexia which is plainly stated on the wikipedia page: "It is sometimes colloquially referred to as "math dyslexia", though this analogy is misleading as they are distinct syndromes."
by mdietrich1 week ago
no worries!
by mdietrich1 week ago
TIL, thanks!
by Kaylinhagenes1 week ago
Hahah!! I appreciate it!
by Kaylinhagenes1 week ago
Theres an indian movie about a kid with dyslexia. "Taare Zameen Par"
by Upper_Blackberry1 week ago
This movie is beautiful
by Anonymous1 week ago
Meanwhile, sexlexia is only ever portrayed affecting Zapp Brannigan.
by Anonymous1 week ago
It's a very sexy learning disability.
by Anonymous1 week ago
I haven't watched enough Chinese or Japanese movies to say for sure, but here's a Korean example. Master's Sun - Wikipedia
by Anonymous1 week ago
It's true, I have literally never seen dyslexia portrayed in Uzbekistani in a movie. I bet Netflix doesn't even have a single movie with a Malaysian dyslexic.
by Anonymous1 week ago
malay actually uses the latin alphabet as well
by Disastrous-You1 week ago
Damn. Ive even been there. I'm probably thinking if Brunai. Either way, the point about confirmation bias still stands.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Brunei uses the Latin alphabet as well. Maybe you saw sone older signs or something but they've used the Latin alphabet (primarily) for several decades at the very least.
by Anonymous1 week ago
It was pretty rural so there was definitely a few of the Arabic style signs.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Do you see many other disorders/mental disabilities portrayed in Uzbekistani or Malaysian media?
by Anonymous1 week ago
Yeah every time. Actually, I was being fecetious to make a point. A joke even. The point is that you don't notice things like that in languages you don't want h media from.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Man consuming western media notices western afflictions More at 7
by Kovacekkayla1 week ago
Fun fact: dyslexia is language dependent. It's more common in English speakers than in Italian speakers because the mapping of Italian sounds onto letters is far more straightforward. Source.
by Williswitting1 week ago
It's not, though. Did you read the article you cited? The second sentence of the first paragraph specifically says that 'languages can either mask or expose the disorder.' MASK. So Italian speaking dyslexics would actually exist at a similar frequency to English speaking ones. But because their language is easier to read, and they're only catching the super serious cases. The mild ones get to 'pass' as normal (while struggling to read maps, getting lost easily, struggling with word problems in Math, and every other non-reading/writing related symptom.)
by Anonymous1 week ago
Mine affects numbers more than words.
by Icy-Positive5161 week ago
So... Discalula then?
by Agitated-Ad1 week ago
And only ever useful when speaking pig Latin
by Anonymous1 week ago
Dyslexia is more common in English than most other languages because we have more possible phonemes per letter and the language tends to not follow its own rules. Apparently dyslexia amongst Italian speakers is very rare because it has far fewer phonemes and it's very consistent to its rules. Just listened to a whole podcast episode on dyslexia a week or so ago
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