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Mx. Alba :tranarchy_punk_transgender:<p><a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/Introduction" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Introduction</a> with a billion <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/hashtags" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hashtags</a><span>... <br><br>I'm Alba, a </span><a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/trans" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trans</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/nonbinay" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nonbinay</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/bisexual" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bisexual</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/autistic" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autistic</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/vegan" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vegan</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/antifascist" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antifascist</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/activist" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#activist</a> from <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/Nijmegen" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nijmegen</a>, <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/NL" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NL</a>. In addition to my <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/autism" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autism</a>, I've also got <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/ADHD" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ADHD</a>, <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/hyperlexia" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hyperlexia</a>, related auditory processing and executive function issues, <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/aphantasia" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aphantasia</a> and <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/SDAM" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SDAM</a> (Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory). I'm an IT <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/tech" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a> at a large <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/international" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#international</a> company, a volunteer for the <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/radical" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#radical</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/intersectional" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#intersectional</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/anticapitalist" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#anticapitalist</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/political" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#political</a> party <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/BIJ1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BIJ1</a> and a freelance <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/translator" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#translator</a>. I speak <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/Nederlands" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nederlands</a>, <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/français" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#français</a>, <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/English" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#English</a>, <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/Deutsch" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Deutsch</a> and <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/Esperanto" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Esperanto</a>. I play <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/saxophone" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#saxophone</a> - I have a bari sax, a tenor sax and a soprano sax. I also have a <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/flute" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#flute</a> and a <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/ukelele" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ukelele</a> but I don't play those nearly as well as the saxes. I love playing <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/TTRPG" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TTRPG</a> like <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/DnD5e" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DnD5e</a> and <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/PF2e" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PF2e</a>, and I have two <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/cats" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cats</a><span>, an orange slonk called Hobbes and a void chonk called Nita.<br><br>I used to hang out on mastodon.lol until early 2023 when that instance shut down. I then moved to todon.nl and recently decided to hop on to blahaj.zone </span>​:Blobhaj_Love:​</p>
Shantell Powell<p>I learned to read when I was two or three. I suppose that means I have/had hyperlexia. My vocabulary has gotten me in trouble. I've been accused of being pretentious, but there's no pretense. I know what the words mean. I was also accused of plagiarism in university because "no second year student can write that well."</p><p>That accusation resulted in serious writer's block. I did the research for my paper, but I couldn't make myself write it. I was worried I'd just be accused of plagiarism again. </p><p>Another time I wrote a paper and a prof was upset that I used uncommon words without defining them. I didn't know which words she meant because I read a lot and know a lot of words. I wasn't sure how I was supposed to know which words needed to be defined. </p><p>When I don't know what a word means, I look it up. I love learning new words. </p><p>I was a very unpopular, bullied child, and I learned my vocabulary from all sorts of books. I read pretty much everything with words, from toilet cleaner labels to Regency romances to westerns to dictionaries to Beowulf. And when I was in high school, I read medical journals for fun. </p><p>I guess it should be no surprise I ended up being a writer. <a href="https://c.im/tags/hyperlexia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hyperlexia</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a></p>
Tuomo H<p>I'm now on a Wikipedia streak on all things autistic. It's been a while since I did this kind of thing in Wiki and I'm loving it. Personal discovery of this morning is that hyperlexia, precocious reading, usually without training, highly overlaps with autism. </p><p>I learned to read when I was four, spontaneously. I don't remember this myself but my mother later told me how I was standing next to her while she was sitting on a chair, reading a letter from her friend. Suddenly I started to read out loud what was said in the letter. </p><p>Been fascinated by language since then, especially in written form.</p><p><a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/hyperlexia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hyperlexia</span></a></p>
Bernie Luckily Does It<p>The first rule of <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/hyperlexia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hyperlexia</span></a> club is you can't stop talking about hyperlexia club.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a></p>
Katy Elphinstone<p>Awesome symptom no. 7<br>Interesting reading and writing skills</p><p>Some autistics can read very fast, or very early, and/or in quite unusual styles. </p><p>For example, mirror writing and reading/writing upside down are among the interesting skills that can be sometimes seen in autistic people (these skills, when seen in more prounounced ways, are known as hyperlexia).</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autism</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Hyperlexia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hyperlexia</span></a></p>
anomalon :gi:<p>I just came across this image in my folders and it still cracks me up.<br>"Mommy, what is pathologization?"</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://autistics.life/@ActuallyAutistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyautistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe</span></a></span> <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/hyperlexia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hyperlexia</span></a></p>
Luna_Catriona<p>I'm hyperlexic. It comes with my autism. It was fuelled by my mother giving me a dictionary the size of a gravestone when I was four years of age. Now she maintains that my struggles with people are my fault because I'm "intimidating" and "try to make people feel small by using words they don't understand."</p><p>Make it make sense.</p><p>(In case it needs said, most of my struggles with people come from feeling like I'm in a game and nobody will tell me the rules.)</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autism</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/hyperlexia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hyperlexia</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a></p>
Oisín<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mas.to/@KatyElphinstone" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>KatyElphinstone</span></a></span> I never realised that being able to read upside down wasn't something everyone could do until one day at school the teacher got freaked out that I was writing down what she was about to say before she said it.</p><p>Her desk was facing mine, and she was just reading from notes sitting in front of her, and as I could read and write faster than she could speak, I didn't see much point in waiting. Apparently most people could barely read her handwriting even right-way around, never mind upside-down :D</p><p><a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/Hyperlexia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hyperlexia</span></a></p>
Oisín<p>Lots of us watch videos or listen to podcasts at 2x speed, right? This seems to be a pretty well known thing. Less than 1.75 just always seems too slow for me. </p><p>But this is only true when someone is speaking normally. If someone is reading from a script, it sounds completely unnatural to me, and I can't process it all, even at normal speed, unless I concentrate exceptionally hard. </p><p>Someone suggested that maybe it's that the average person isn't very good at reading aloud, but I don't think it's that. Even top-rated audiobooks are also entirely impossible to listen to.</p><p>Doe anyone else relate to any of this, or have any pointers to anything where I could learn more? I've read some stuff on <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/AuditoryProcessingDisorder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AuditoryProcessingDisorder</span></a>, but most of that doesn't apply to me, and I'm struggling to find anything else related.</p><p>One clue seems to be that stand-up comedy seems to work, even though that's mostly scripted. I don't really know what the difference is, but my guess would be that they work hard at making it sound natural, whereas most people reading speak in a different manner. But I don't have the vocabulary for describing any of this, so don't know how to google for more.</p><p><a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/AskingNeurodivergents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AskingNeurodivergents</span></a> <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/AskingAutistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AskingAutistics</span></a> <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/AskingADHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AskingADHD</span></a> <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/ADHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ADHD</span></a> <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/Autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autism</span></a> <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/Hyperlexia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hyperlexia</span></a> <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/APD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>APD</span></a></p>
Michael Valiant ✅ ⚔️🚀📚<p>I thought I would brighten up the image today considering how dark yesterdays was! </p><p>Also, I know todays word is NOT one that would likely get a lot of use... but I LOVE that we have words for the strangest things. Todays word is about how the light shines out of gems in a particular way. Love it! It made me think of the dispersion of light into rainbows, which led to waterfalls... and here we are.</p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/hyperlexia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hyperlexia</span></a></p>
Autistic Fairy<p><a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/Hyperlexia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hyperlexia</span></a> can look and feel like <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/Dyslexia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dyslexia</span></a>.</p><p>I read faster than my ability to process it. My brain is word-hungry and forages for delicious information like a hunter-gather looking for the juiciest fruits. The words jumble up because I jump from place to place in the sentence/paragraph.</p><p>As a child I was an advanced reader, but now as an adult I would probably be picked up on a dyslexia test. I often wonder if some dyslexics are actually hyperlexics.</p><p><a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/actuallyautistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>actuallyautistic</span></a> <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/adhd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adhd</span></a> <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/autistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autistic</span></a></p>
Autistic Fairy<p>I'm <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/SemiSpeaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SemiSpeaking</span></a> <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> because I require monotropic flow to organize my thoughts, which is difficult in social situations, and my age-intensified <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/hyperlexia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hyperlexia</span></a> and <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/ADHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ADHD</span></a> has made that extra difficult.</p><p>Physical socializing is a <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/polytropic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>polytropic</span></a> situation. There's environmental inputs, the person talking and my feeling of the person perceiving me. This prevents monotropic focus from forming so I can't organize a sentence.</p><p><a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/Monotropism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Monotropism</span></a> <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/Nonverbal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nonverbal</span></a> <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/SemiVerbal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SemiVerbal</span></a> <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/Autistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autistic</span></a></p>