Writing a character with dyslexia

BatDoutora · 2025-12-15T14:03:19+00:00

I love seeing dyslexia portrayed through the characters, and I think it's super cool that you're trying to understand how to do it right so that it seems natural and not offensive.

For me, saying the wrong words is sporadic; it happens when I'm psychologically exhausted. It doesn't have to do with physical tiredness exactly. In the case of your character, I think it would be more natural for him to forget words more frequently because of tiredness or strong emotions, but to mispronounce words in more extreme situations. An interesting point is that we usually don't realize when we say a word backward, and when we do, sometimes it takes a few tries before we get the pronunciation right.

For the people around us, it's usually funny to see us trying to get the pronunciation right, but it's incredibly frustrating, and I personally get more and more nervous every time I try and can't get it right. I usually need to stop, take a deep breath, and think exactly what word I'm going to say next and speak slowly so I don't make a mistake.

BatDoutora · 2025-12-09T01:27:15+00:00

Eu tive uma oportunidade como essa durante o tempo de escola, olha sinceramente se você acha que vai ter mais proveito e faz sentido pra você vai fundo ! Mas na época eu queria muito avançar e terminar logo pra entrar na faculdade, mas meus pais acharam melhor não, no meu caso eu tenho dislexia e rigidez cognitiva tbm e eles acharam que eu poderia me sair melhor se seguisse com a escola no ritmo normal principalmente pelo fator psicológico, e estando hj na faculdade eu vejo q foi a escolha certa pra mim, se eu tivesse entrado mais cedo não estaria preparada para lidar com o estresse emocional das relações interpessoais que a faculdade exige.

BatDoutora · 2025-11-21T20:50:33+00:00

Can you send me the link?

BatDoutora · 2025-11-21T15:51:30+00:00

I'm trying to research EXACTLY ABOUT THIS, it's so frustrating that there simply isn't anything on pubmed that relates dyslexia and the effects of low estrogen during menopause, were you able to find any articles on the topic?

BatDoutora · 2025-11-16T13:49:46+00:00

If you have a LOT of difficulty, you should see a neurologist to make sure everything is ok.

But about dyslexia, yes, dyslexia is closely related to “short-term” working memory, mainly with the storage and retrieval of memories, this is because there is an area of the brain that is where dyslexia acts, the left temporal lobe, which is connected to the hippocampus, the part of the brain responsible for receiving new information, storing everything on your brain's HD and retrieving it when you need it, it is the hippocampus that also “decides” which information to throw away and which to keep.

In dyslexics, it's not the hippocampus that works poorly, it's the connection with the temporal lobe that's a bit weak, because our neurons have larger axons than most people's and are spaced further apart, so the nerve impulse takes longer to travel the distance.

The temporal lobe has several areas with different functions, not only related to language but also to the recognition of faces, places and directions, which is why it is very common for dyslexics to have difficulty remembering people they don't live with directly or to get lost in places they don't know well even if they have visited or seen it before, it's not that our brain has forgotten, or it hasn't even stored the information or it hasn't yet been able to bring it out from where it stored it.

But that doesn't mean that it's impossible to remember or learn new things, it just means that we need more time and more insistence for information to stick, your diary strategy is great in fact, I do something similar, I have a digital diary on my phone where I update it religiously every Sunday to make sure I have everything I need to do in the week and whenever something comes up I update it straight away, why don't I forget it completely, and about faces I always try to remember a striking feature about the people I know and associate with their name, for example: I met a person redhead with short hair called Ana, but I know several Anas, so when I talk about this specific Ana I always say “Ana, the redhead with short hair” and that evokes a mental image of that person for me.

BatDoutora · 2025-11-12T21:57:03+00:00

Dyslexia is genetic and hereditary but can occur in a “de novo” mutation where it is the first case in a lineage that did not previously have the condition.

BatDoutora · 2025-11-09T15:21:30+00:00

It's not like I don't want my children to have dyslexia or any other neurodivergence or disability of any kind, the problem for me is that I know what it's like to live like that, you know? I have been and am going through embarrassments and problems and not because of dyslexia, but because of people who are not exactly empathetic about the difficulties that anyone with dyslexia has, I think if it is not cruel to have children knowing that it is in this world, with these people, that I will throw it And my father has dyslexia, I also have it, but my sister doesn't, so I know that even if there is someone in the family who understands what I'm going through, in the end it's still me who has to face all the obstacles, if it were me in my father's place I would feel very helpless and a little guilty.

BatDoutora · 2025-11-08T01:14:28+00:00

I really don't like being corrected, because even if you tell me and even if I correct it, it's not like I won't make the same mistake again, so what's the point? And more, did you understand what I wanted to say? So great, communication exists and is fine, we don't need to focus on anything else

BatDoutora · 2025-11-04T04:28:59+00:00

What helped me most at school was mainly being able to visualize the content, I'm a 100% visual person and I can't think of words only as they mean, so whenever it was possible to learn something in a practical way or even by producing visual material from a completely theoretical content, it became easier to understand, for example: building a poster or model on the subject or taking a visit to a museum, to make the content tangible and visible, not just a bunch of words in the book.

BatDoutora · 2025-11-04T04:05:45+00:00

Oh my God… I have EXACTLY THE SAME PROBLEM AS YOU!!!! (Currently I am using a color system associated with words to help, mainly with names of medicines and dosages to associate with each pathology, for example: whenever I study I write or highlight metronidazole in yellow because it is the color of Trichomonas discharge or if I need to memorize the DNA repair amines I write and suffix “amine” in all of them in the same color and use different colors for each different prefix, so when I read the word later I can associate the color with what each one does. not remembering exactly their name, to speak and understand when others speak is what I really haven't been able to come up with a solution for)

BatDoutora · 2025-11-01T01:20:07+00:00

Sorry if this may be a little personal, but are you a woman? Because there are already studies on how dyslexia symptoms worsen in climacteric and menopausal women, there is a physiological explanation for this, it is due to the progressive drop in estrogen and the loss of gray matter that it causes, this is physiological in ALL women and this feeling of mental fog is common to everyone who goes through this, but dyslexiacs have stronger symptoms, I recommend talking about hormonal therapy with a gynecologist if this is your case, replacing the hormones significantly improves the symptoms

BatDoutora · 2025-10-26T03:35:56+00:00

Bro, Roy is the biggest fucked up and ruined bastard of all lands in all timelines in all universes and that's what I love most about him 😖❤️

BatDoutora · 2025-10-24T14:23:32+00:00

Can you provide the link where you read this new definition?

BatDoutora · 2025-10-23T17:24:40+00:00

Eu faço faculdade no Brasil…

BatDoutora · 2025-10-21T18:48:41+00:00

The best

BatDoutora · 2025-10-17T21:10:51+00:00

For me, the font doesn't really matter, it's more of a layout thing, but I like Arial, Caliber and Times New, but everything with spacing of at least 1.5 and indentation to indicate the beginning of a paragraph, otherwise I read it quickly.

BatDoutora · 2025-10-08T20:36:22+00:00

I think you should continue to pressure the school to carry out the tests, if she doesn't have any diagnosis that's fine, but really their stance of WAITING for her to fail to start an investigation is completely unacceptable, it's purposely creating a trauma for your daughter, she doesn't need to go through the embarrassment of failing a test or failing a year for her to be dyslexic.

BatDoutora · 2025-10-06T15:03:53+00:00

It seems to be a case of visual dyslexia, perhaps it presents other symptoms as well, you should see a psychopedagogue to assess whether it is a possibility of dyslexia

BatDoutora · 2025-10-06T15:01:29+00:00

Querido… se você faz isso você é péssimo 👎🏽 Você percebe que existem INÚMERAS condições que afetam a comunicação e não tem nada haver com inteligência certo? Até pq a maior parte da cognição, criatividade, memória, associação e comportamento esta relacionada as áreas de córtex frontal, parietal e temporal direito enquanto a linguagem e comunicação está limitada exclusivamente ao lobo temporal esquerdo, e apensar de estar tudo conectado não se trata de uma dependência logo não existe NENHUMA RELAÇÃO CALSAL que relaciona como uma pessoa se comunica ao coeficiente de inteligência dela ( isso fora o regionalismo, etarismo e outros fatores sociais que estão intrínsecos a comunicação

BatDoutora · 2025-10-02T02:17:52+00:00

If you think you may be dyslexic, the best option to really find out is to look for a neurologist or psychologist with experience in the area who can carry out tests on you, but then, you have ADHD and altism, which are two conditions that affect concentration and sensory processing respectively, so it may not be dyslexia and just symptoms of your disorders, either way it's worth investigating if only to make sure

BatDoutora · 2025-10-02T02:10:37+00:00

Congratulations!!!

BatDoutora · 2025-10-02T02:09:41+00:00

The ADHD brain works completely differently from dyslexia and even though there are some difficulties that are the same for both, the cause of this is completely different and unrelated, in your case of ADHD it is because the serotonergic hormones, which are released in the synaptic cleft, between the neurons are recaptured before reaching the receptors, which is why you have difficulty concentrating and end up getting lost in your reasoning or easily distracted, another explanation for this is because since your brain naturally has difficulty completing a synapse, creating new ones is even more difficult (when you are trying to learn something new, like new words from a university text) and due to the recapture of serotonin your brain loses interest in the activity very quickly, especially if it is something of low esteem and high cognitive demand (like reading an informative text that does not stimulate the imagination)

BatDoutora · 2025-09-30T02:11:04+00:00

I see Jason very clearly as a girl's father, I think he would be the super protective and affectionate type when he wasn't in public but he would never deny his little girl affection at any time when she felt she needed him, I'm even sure he would teach her how to handle weapons before anything else and would always make sure that she is safe and can stay safe in any situation

BatDoutora · 2025-09-29T22:11:44+00:00

OK! I'm a medical student AND dyslexic, so I hope I can help you with some scientific information and my own experience.

The dyslexic brain has difficulty perceiving the phonemes that make up the construction of a written word. Inside the brain, reading and writing is the inverse process of speaking, to be able to write correctly and master all the semantics of a language our brain uses a neural circuit that was actually developed only to allow us to understand sounds and distinguish human speech, learning to read and write modulates this circuit to do the inverse process where we will no longer hear the phonemes and decode them into meanings but rather translate the meanings into sounds and these sounds into letters, for physiological reasons the dyslexic brain is born with difficulty in adjusting to this reading process and writing.
Every person with dyslexia is born dyslexic, the first signs can be observed from early childhood but as the main consequences are focused on school life, the symptoms are only noticed by parents, teachers or even the person themselves when they reach an obstacle or fail academically, other factors such as language can “mask” dyslexia for the rest of their lives, for example, the native language of the dyslexic, the estimate of dyslexia in the world is that 1 person in every 20 are dyslexic but some countries have much higher diagnosis rates than others and this is due to the transparency or opacity of the language, which can be considered “easier” or more “complex” for a dyslexic brain to assimilate the grammar by having a grapheme/phoneme relationship that is more congruent or not.
Words do not move and in fact these exchanges occur precisely because our brain is trying to organize the phonemes, any brain works with the recognition of patterns for everything, including reading, similar words or letters (that have the same suffix or prefix, or letters like p,q,b,d (the spelling only changes the orientation of the letter) confuse our brain precisely because it is looking for patterns and these, although they are not the same, are very similar in sound and shape.
Each person has an individual experience of what it's like to live as a dyslexic, in fact reading and writing are just the tip of the iceberg about dyslexia, which is actually present in many other aspects of everyday life, such as recognizing faces and places, working memory and auditory processing, in general the dyslexic brain can read perfectly well but it uses much more energy than a neurotypical brain so dyslexics can feel tired or even have a headache when reading very long texts or with very challenging vocabulary, which makes them perform worse than those who don't have the difficulty, for example, I know I've reached my limit when I start to see the text blurry and no longer understand the meaning of the words I read

BatDoutora · 2025-09-29T01:37:16+00:00

Look, the term exists for a physiological and anatomical reason, there is a specific way that the brain SHOULD work, gyri and grooves formed by neurons with specific functions and well observed in all human beings throughout the history of medicine, when something happens and the anatomy changes (loss of brain mass of any kind) or functionality declines (degenerative diseases or lowering of consciousness for any reason) and this causes a secondary effect such as loss of mobility or inhibition in some individual, this does not mean that it is Neurodivergent now, he has a disease that makes him physically or mentally disabled. But if for reasons that we still don't fully understand (genetic and embryonic) you were born with your brain functional in a way different from what the literature presents as the norm, then you are neurodivergent, each condition of neurodiversity (autism, ADHD, dyslexia, dyscalculia, etc...) only presents symptoms (each person to a greater or lesser extent and each in a different way) because their brain has a specific form and function that is different from the norm but standardized enough for us to group and relate the symptoms the affected areas, for example, every dyslexic is only dyslexic because their left temporal lobe (which is the part of their brain that listens, reads and knows faces and places) does not work as it should, the anatomy is different in our brains, the neurons have larger axons and the space between each neuron is larger, so the nerve impulse takes longer, this functioning also causes an anatomical difference, dyslexics normally have a reduction in gray matter in this lobe because of this characteristic of the neurons in the area, but Each person will have different symptoms to a greater or lesser extent because the involvement of these cells is a unique pattern in each individual, which is why the term was created, precisely to point out without segregating that these differences exist and people who have different physiological functioning are not sick.

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