Is this how people who suffer with Dyslexia think?

Question

I suffer from Dyslexia and just recently found out that my brain functions exactly like a computer program. I am studying computer programming and finding that the structure and commas are extremely logical and clear.

If you suffer from dyslexia, and know a little about computer programming, do you find that writing down notes (in programming form) is much better, faster than the traditional method of sentence structure, and spelling?

I know some people might say that computer programming is highly dependent on structure and normal English sentence are not so defined. Hey, you try telling my brain that.

Any thoughts? Please share you experience on how you deal with Dyslexia.

Answer 1

I have almost no programming experience at all, although I've been meaning to learn for a quite a while. But I did learn a little Basic when I was maybe 9 or 10 years old, and I find myself occassionally thinking in Basic commands when they fit, which maybe is kind of related to what you're describing.

But it might also have to do with how you learned and practice programming languages as compared to written natural language. Programming languages are written, and they have to be spelled correctly to work, so it might just be that you've learned them primarily as written sequences of letters, rather than as words that have a particular spelling. I'm not sure that really explains it (it made a lot more sense in my head), but maybe you can kind of figure out what I was thinking from that. Either way, I think that it's probably stored differently in your brain, which could well exempt it from the issues that effect writing natural language.

I usually find find it easier to write things when I have a more clearly defined structure for them, but I think that might be related to something else I have going on that I don't think is part of dyslexia. I can't think of any reason why that should be related to dyslexia, but maybe it is (or maybe you have the same "something else" going on that I do, which I don't have a name for, and the psychologist who tested me commented on it but didn't know what it was diagnostic of).

Answer 2

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Answer 3

if you have dyslexia, you should know how you think. Why would you even care about how others think?

Traditional methods tends to work better for people who start learning to deal with their problem at a younger age say.. before 12. But the other method works better for these who seem to be more motivated. Some just do whatever they want. It's not that hard to deal with once you get used to it. You can live normally. No one has to know it. They're just normal people, you won't even notice.

whatever works for you works for you.

Answer 4

Actually that does make allot of sense to me- I took to programming allot faster then other people- I just seemed to have a "knack" for it.

I guess the difference for me is in reading- in that I can speed read through code very fast- but not normal reading material-

I'm going to go try changing how I take notes- thanks

Answer 5

i have it my self and i realy dont have clue