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How I’ve Made Dyslexia My Secret Code | Jackson Gregory | TEDxTheBenjaminSchool


hi I bet you think I’m here to talk
about my new scientific innovation
called NCO fusion but actually I’m not
I’m here to talk about confusion the
confusion of living with dyslexia
when someone hears dyslexia or someone
is dyslexic they’d only think that
person is a dust pie I mean stupid or
dumb and doesn’t know how to read but
what they don’t know is that dyslexia is
a ok maybe it’s not TGIF
but it is a gift I found out I dyslexia
in 4th grade actually something really
funny happened I was reading a book with
dyslexia in it nice my teacher what it
wasn’t what it meant a little a little
while later I found out I had dyslexia
and reading without pictures became hard
for me I realized all the extra things I
did do to just make words and letters
out of clay my life has been since my
diagnosis one of being told that there’s
an exclusive club with a secret dominant
coded language and I am not allowed to
become a member
unless I can crack the code I’m supposed
to be in the outside looking in but what
if this isn’t the way it’s supposed to
be or has to be suppose the way I see
words shifted into crazy scrambled forms
of themselves is a secret extra subtext
and meaning of the word and people
without dyslexia can’t see what I can
different meanings in the words there is
a very weighty tradition of artists who
had deeper meanings and anagrams
she just such as the author Vladimir
Nabokov gave himself a guest role in his
novel by inserting the character vivian
darkbloom i chew anagram which is in
fact switching up the letters of a word
into a phrase that comments on itself is
far from an exercise of being dust by
it’s the ultimate form of claim with
language like check out what happens
when my dyslexia scrambles the greatest
so all this talk about secret code and
languages and reveling in them instead
of perceiving in them becomes even
cooler when I tell you I’m a twin my
twins name is chef and even before I
knew about my dyslexia I knew that we
had our own idioglossia or secret
language only spoken by field a lot of
kids do this but it’s even cooler when
twins do this is a phenomenon called
crypto aphasia we used to remember the
full language but now we only remember a
few words such as I could say out of is
a chef and he know I’m an ice cream when
playing tennis we use this to our
advantage
so our opponents have no clue what we
will do next so what someone tells you
that everybody else is invited inside to
see something and you’re locked on the
outside that door looking in remind them
of what liberation and insight there is on your side of the door thank you
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