#thatadhdlife

[somecreativecc]

Are you still making/updating your cc?

Not really. If someone has a request or tells me something needs an update, I will, but I am not really making anything new. I honestly just stopped playing Sims and lost my hyper fixation. There is always I chance I will come back as I could renew my interest again.

[dammt]

Experience of Print Distortions

Video from irlen.com

Ignoring the dramatic background music and skipping the half minute too-many-words displaying way-too-slow intro, this video pretty accurately describes some of my reading issues.

I most identify with blurry, floating, halo, shakey, and washout. Floating being the worst for me.

tl;dr

This sample video of ‘print distortions’ shows how my Neurodiversity effects how I process content NOT my ability to learn content.

the too long version

Floating letters is when letters move around on the page as you’re trying to read. It causes me to misplace where I’m reading as I’m reading it. This sucks the most because it plays off my ADHD issue of re-reading sentences over and over and over again to retain the content.

This is when Irlen Syndrome or Sensory Issues (or whatever you’d like to call it) makes it even more difficult for Neurotypicals to understand how ADHD actually affects us. EVEN AS ADULTS.

A lot of my teachers (and even my parents) could never grasp that my issue was rarely understanding the content, but instead processing what the content was in the first place.

Read words in a sentence backwards. The meaning is different than if read forwards, correct? Exactly. Now understand that reading words of a sentence backwards (or in my case in pieces) is how my brain processes all written content.

It’s not that I am unable to understand, it is that I am unable to process as fast or as clearly as many. Once I can process the content, I guarantee I am just as able to understand as any other Neurotypical.