# Blindness and Dyslexia?

Category: Let's talk

## Post 1 by daigonite (the Zone BBS remains forever my home page) on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2014 17:10:25

Crazy curious question and apologies in advance if I am being ignorant but
can and/or do blind people have the potential to be dyslexic? If so how
does it impact them? Like, I just tossed this idea around and now I'm
genuinely curious. I would imagine it might impact braille processing but
since usually the blindies with decent hearing are using TTS and similar
stuff anyhow it might not be as impacting, but I wonder if dyslexia has a
neurological effect on the processing of that too.
I'm mildly dyslexic and it causes me to confuse letters and word
configurations that look similar. For example, COD and OCD are really hard
for me to read because I mix them up.

## Post 2 by LeoGuardian (You mean there is something outside of this room with my computer in it?) on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2014 17:33:58

Yes, I have a mild version. Ironically it helps when looking at code backwards sometimes. But parts of Braille were hard for me to learn because the symbols would get turned around.
Right to left and left to right are easy for me to turn around also.
It gets exaggerated if I am under stressful situations or if I am trying to figure something out I've never looked at. Like helping assemble our Ikea furniture. Lol

## Post 3 by Imprecator (The Zone's Spelling Nazi) on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2014 19:45:09

I swear I'm not lisdexic. I've often stayed up late at night wondering if there's a dog.

## Post 4 by season (the invisible soul) on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2014 20:22:16

In short answer, yes, even if you are blind, you can get dyslexic. It might not be the same with the sighted way of dyslexic, but blind person can get it too. dyslexic is not just about your visual processing, it can also effect auditry etc as well.
However, as it is at the moment, there are very little research on either people with sensary impairment can get Dyslexia, maybe i should focus on that. :)

## Post 5 by rdfreak (THE ONE AND ONLY TRUE-BLUE KANGA-KICKIN AUSIE) on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2014 23:43:40

Oh wow, Leo, I have the same experience with braille.
Funnily enough, even though I'm right handed, I read braille best with my left hand with my right ahead to more guide it, but when I have to read characters with my right hands, they look back-to-front; it's strange. Makes it very hard to read music with my right hand while trying to play with my left hand.

## Post 6 by daigonite (the Zone BBS remains forever my home page) on Thursday, 24-Apr-2014 0:11:13

Intriguing. Also, learning about you guys reading braille is interesting. I never
really noticed that with my friends before, although he rarely reads it...

## Post 7 by Imprecator (The Zone's Spelling Nazi) on Thursday, 24-Apr-2014 0:41:13

If I lost my index fingers, I'd be totally fucked, as far as braille reading goes. Some people tell me they can read it with any of their fingers, but not me.

## Post 8 by Striker (Consider your self warned, i'm creative and offensive like handicap porn.) on Thursday, 24-Apr-2014 0:52:28

yes, this effects me while reading or writing either print or braille. Its really
annoying, at times. Made learning spelling really difficult as well, and honestly,
I never learned to read at a really fast speed as a result.

## Post 9 by Striker (Consider your self warned, i'm creative and offensive like handicap porn.) on Friday, 25-Apr-2014 1:55:53

I've been thinking about this for a while now, but how do we as blind people
work threw/cope with this? considering most of the jobs we can take are
basically customer service, of some form, or another, how could/would one do
these or any kind of jobs that require professional grade writing, with little time
to edit your work effectively?

## Post 10 by faithfulwolf (Veteran Zoner) on Tuesday, 29-Apr-2014 14:07:46

I don't think i have it, but this is a very interesting topic to me. My grandfather and two of his children and their children have it. My mom doesn't have it and neither do I or my siblings. My grandfather is one of the most intelegent people I know. And along with dyslexia, he is hearing impaired. As far as I know reading is the thing he has the most trouble with, it took him a long time to figure out how to read, but he does it well now. I don't know if it effects his processing of auditory information, but I could ask him. We are very close.