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Dyslexia And Dyscalculia (Do YOU Know The Difference) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  So dyslexia or dyscalcula? Do you know the difference in
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  this video? I'm covering the difference
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  right now. Hey guys, what's going on?
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  Welcome back to the aspy world. My name is Dan.
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  I have autism, ADHD, OCD, and dyslexia.
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  Guys, what is going on? Welcome back to the place where
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  we think differently daily. What's up, different thinkers?
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  Good to have y'all here yo. Anyway, so there is a very
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  interesting term dyscalculus. Now a lot of people you know use
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  the term dyslexic for a lot of different things.
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  So I was diagnosed with dyslexia when I was about I was about 12
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  or 11 and because my reading and writing skills were were lacking
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  considerably and so we did the test and they got dyslexia.
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  Now dyslexia impacts a lot of of of a person.
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  It kind of impacts how a person you know moves and and
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  coordinates themselves and reads and writes and understands
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  complex tasks. And there's a lot of things that
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  dyslexia interrupt and disrupt. But there's one thing that
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  doesn't encompass within dyslexia and now is the issue
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  with numbers and reading and writing numbers.
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  Now dyslexia is normally for the language of written word rather
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  than the language of something like coding or numbers or the
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  area of numbers. But a lot of people say the term
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  I'm dyslexic but with numbers. And I hear this term all the
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  time and it's really funny because I'm really good at
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  numbers but I'm dyslexic, so I'm really bad with like words and
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  on reading and writing and stuff.
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  But a lot of people would say, like, we'll be quite amazed that
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  I'm really good at numbers, even I'm dyslexic.
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  They say how you dyslexic and you're so good at numbers and
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  I'm like, well guys, at the end of the day it's a different
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  thing, another different thing. It's called dyscalcula.
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  Now this calcula is a condition that impacts someone's ability
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  to read and write on the level of accepting numbers and like
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  mathematical things. So recognising numbers and
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  reciting numbers efficiently and directly is somewhat of a of a
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  difficult challenge and sometimes a miss with people
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  with dyscalcula. Now a person can be diagnosed
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  with just dyscalcula or just dyslexia, but a lot of the time
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  people are diagnosed with dyslexia and dyscalcula kind of
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  look as one thing. Now there is another one that
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  comes into this circle of loveliness here with something
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  called dyspraxia. Now dyspraxia again is something
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  completely different. It's a different condition
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  altogether and I will cover that in another video.
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  But for now, I was just going to wanting to talk about dyslexia
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  versus dyspraxia. Now there is a lot of people who
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  will suffer with dyscalcula and not dyslexia, but I do believe
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  that statistically there are more people with dyslexia than
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  our dyscalcula. Now, being a disadvantage with
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  dyscalcula means that you can't recognize numbers efficiently,
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  You can't recite numbers efficiently, you probably poor
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  at maths and numbers pretty much rule the entire world.
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  So if you think about it, everything uses numbers, from
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  dialing a phone number to ordering food and paying for
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  your bills. Everything is numbers, right?
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  So this calculator can really impact and rock some of these
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  world and it's a very serious condition.
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  Now a lot of people think that they have this calculator when
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  they're just bad at maths and this isn't really the case. 1
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  can be bad at maths but really not have this calculator because
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  again you've got to think about the efficiency and the impact of
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  not being able to recognize numbers or recite numbers or
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  even read numbers when you when you see them written down.
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  So in terms of actual discalculator, you have to have
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  quite a severe relationship with numbers and number nomenclature
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  to kind of really qualify for that.
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  That means said there are lots of people who do have
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  discalculator is a very crippling kind of condition.
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  Now dyslexia kicks my butt pretty much every single day.
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  Ever since I could read or potentially read.
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  I just had issues with dyslexia. You know, my brother always take
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  them Michael out of me for like my spelling or my stutter or
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  stammers And also dyslexia kind of really has me.
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  My handwriting is terrible, right?
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  My handwriting, hands down, is terrible.
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  Now people can have dyslexia and not have bad handwriting, but
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  it's very rare. But if you have this calcula,
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  your handwriting probably will be OK because you can read and
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  write and spell like any other kind of typically able brain
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  person or whatever you want to say about it.
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  But in terms of in terms of people with this calcula, there
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  is a there is a different difference when you're trying to
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  write down numbers. Now it's interesting how this
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  affects the brain or where it comes from and it is in its
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  essence a learning just like dyslexia, dyspraxia, autism,
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  these are all learning difficulties and learning
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  difficulties need to be treated as such.
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  So a lot of kind of educational establishments will treat them
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  as a disability or a disadvantage, which means it
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  will give you kind of like a recommended access to things.
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  And programs like they'll have we have where I live in
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  something called the Miles Dyslexia Centre, which is like a
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  world famous award-winning dyslexia centre.
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  And I was privileged to use that when I was in university doing
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  my degree, which is fantastic. But in terms of everywhere else,
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  they should recognize it and give reasonable adjustments to
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  dyscalculate and to dyslexia and to dyspraxia and to autism.
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  Because all of these neurodivergent kind of ways of
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  thinking and abilities to see things really impacts your
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  day-to-day life. Because the world is set up for
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  people who are of typical kind of neurological conditioning,
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  neurotypicals. And so you've got to think, you
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  know, everything is set up here typically.
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  So dyslexia, dyscalculus, dyspraxia, autism, ADHD, all of
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  these things are going to be really difficult to fit into
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  those kind of like like the round peg putting into a square
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  hole. It's never going to work.
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  So it's something that we have to take into consideration to
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  being a very serious condition. And yeah, super interesting.
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  But I do not have this calculator.
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  I love numbers. I love mathematics.
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  It's absolutely fantastic. And yeah, math is just great.
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  But in terms of dyslexia, I do have dyslexia.
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  It kicks my butt daily. I wish, you know, I could just
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  get rid of it. But you know, practice makes
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  progress. I practice every single day.
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  I try my best to to improve that.
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  So next time somebody thinks that dyslexia with numbers
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  exist, just tell them it's not dyslexia, it's dyscalcula.
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  I'll see you next time guys. Peace.