I just had a coworker seek me out because of my dyslexia. Asked for my special dyslexia powers. They were working on engineering concept that needed to be clear to construction workers for safety. Stuff that can kill you.
With my dyslexia, I make the same kind of interpretation mistakes the field often makes. I just don't have the working memory easily process (badly written/presented) written material, doing so by force of will rather than ease.
Through experience am able to diagnose and articulate where my working memory screws things up. Mainly by "how much am I needing to study to understand it."
Was able to quickly help them figure out what was wrong. This info here needs to be clarified so it isn't conflated with that info over there. This is the mistake people can make.
And poof, a plan to fix.
Always feels good when you know you may have prevented someone else's screw up that could have killed someone.
since am one of those #ActuallyAutistic people Dx at the tender age of 50 (yes, 50. and yes am older now, shut up), am not acquainted with the american rituals of national days or awareness months involving autism.
AND IF YOU ARE A TEACHER IN PARTICULAR it would be wise to reconsider how "slow" or "not so smart" is that bilingual kid in your class.
BILINGUISM IS NOT NORMAL so they fact they can speak more languages than YOU prove they can do more with their brain than you. so why treat them as defective, less than, even useless?
so next time you see a NANNY, a NURSE, a SUPERMARKET WORKER a SHORT ORDER COOK who is Black, or Latine or Native American, or all three and even then A WOMAN, you may be dealing with a multilingual savant who was never given a chance to make their mark in history because of how they looked.
even worse, those people may even exhibit the characteristics of #autism#adhd#dyslexia and have never gotten the help & mentorship they needed because of what they look like and where they come from...🧵
I, for example, need TTS apps to read text and interpret image both due to neurodivergency and Neuro-visual issues that often make it imposible for me to read, understand images or differentiate/properly see colours. My optic nerve is thinner than it should, making me often see as if things in front of me were out of focus, and it's getting worse, but I still haven't reach the point of needing screen readers to navigate.
And remember: that blindness is an spectrum. Not every Blind people has cero vision. In fact, most have some level of residual vision that allow them to see colours, or shadows, to give some examples.
If you find a user here that requires alt text for text screenshots, but not for images without text (or viceversa) don't put in doubt their need for it.
Needless to say, don't make fun a light mode users (sadly I've seen this happen in the #Fediverse). Many blind people with low light perception and some people with VPDs need light theme to be able to navigate a site/read.
Any dyslexics out there willing to share? I am reviewing my font selection process. I understand that studies so far show that fonts specifically for dyslexics work no better than fonts like Arial and Times New Roman. At the same time, I am looking at contemporary webfonts. What fonts work best for you? #Dyslexia#Dyslexic#Accessibility#a11y
Tech Tools for Dyslexia at work, in education and at home: great tips and list of tools to help you (or someone you know) with dyslexia, a review of dyslexia simulators (be careful those might be misleading) and a great panel to help you understand the different issues people with dyslexia might encounter on the web and in their workplace
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“The Human Side of Neurodivergence - A Technologist's Journey” with Matthew Saunders
Matthew knew from a young age that he was different. Though he didn't know why. It wasn't until he was an adult and really dug into his own daughter's special needs, that he was able to begin a journey of self discovery. We'll talk about his lived experience with #Autism, Attention Deficit Disorder, and #Dyslexia.
had to take an actual photo of my laptop's screen because i can't get a screenshot of it with the Mastodon deck search field tab exposed.
am kinda frustrated with the #accessibility issues i've had with the platform. no matter what i tried, i could not properly perform a search... because i couldn't register correctly what i was seeing in that exposed tab.
where it not for the #Stylebot#Firefox extension, i would have ditched Mastodon a long time ago.
Together with Florian Naudet and Mark Seidenberg, I've coauthored a commentary on a 2017 paper by Le Floch and Ropars that argues for atypical visual asymmetry as a basis for dyslexia. The journal's guidelines don't allow us to include ethical issues in the comment, so we've just posted them on PubPeer: https://pubpeer.com/publications/A49D0064BDA0529CC994B19DE8A432#4
Will post again when comment is published #dyslexia#vision#ethics#consent
Did something I very rarely do and kept a pen and ink in rotation after I'd finished it.
The more I use this pen and ink the more I'm enjoying it. Which kinda feels mad as it's one of more affordable/obtainable pens in my collection. But the ink is so lovely for actually staying purple on yellow paper #JustDyslexicThings and the fude nib just so versatile with line width, particularly if you use reverse writing. ✒️ #FountainPens#FountainPen#fountainpenink#fountainpeninks#dyslexia#dyslexic
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If you read large print or dyslexic font paperback books do you prefer this to be indicated on the cover (say on a banner at the top) to help you identify the accommodation?
I compiled a quick poll based on different perspectives I've read.
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Reminder: Neurodiversity is much broader than Autism, Dyslexia or ADHD.
Many conditions are often left out in the conversations, and ultimately in research and further in the allocation of resources. Let's strive towards equity.
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Telling someone with a learning disability to 'study harder' is like telling someone trying to find their way in a dark room to just 'look harder.' What they need is a light, not more effort in the wrong direction.
Not every hardship is a result of a personal moral failing. In fact, MOST aren’t. Life is hard.
I wonder what tense you've all chosen to write in and why.
I know past tense is likely the most common, but I have experimented with both and decided that present tense offers more direct immersion for my purposes.
This also ties into who the narrator is. In my WIP, it is a person in the room invisibly tagging along with the MC.
How did you decide, and is it reflected in the identity of the narrator?