Thanks Andy Burgess AKA " Edward Scissor Hands " for the great video to help me understand my gift as an inventor and alternitive thinker .

Like yourself, I found out at 21 years of age. Took me a while to embrace it. Drop out of many many courses and finally got support at uni at 28 at got a 1st class honours. Yes! Dyslexia has nothing to do with intelligence. Hate when people say I'm a little Dyslexic when they mean they're stupid ugh! Embracing my Dyslexia has given me confidence, I see the strengths I bring to the table in a team!

Thx for the sharing

I just found this video. My son is dyslexic and were gaslit throughout his elementary school (K-5). I highly recommend the new edition of The Dyslexic Advantage by Drs. Brock and Fernette Eide. Everything you say is in that book and more.

Dyslexia is a disadvantage. It depends what you perceive as a disadvantage. If you’re in a western culture and you perceive success as being : - your contributions are held in higher regard in society and so you will be either paid more for the same amount of time input; or - you’ll be paid the same as the guy collecting bins, but you only have to do half a days work to his one week of work. - how you use societies rewards (cash, being an IOU from society) is up to you. Some people even collect savings and use them to retire earlier, to explore other things in life. If any of that appeals to you or rings true as your mindset, then the western world is currently built on an academic system. Forget the examples given in the video, there’s always exceptions and outliers. The masses rely upon the education system to elevate and differentiate themselves into a higher rewarding job, or at least one that doesn’t eat up all their time. Dyslexia hinders anyone who enters into that academic system. Dyslexia is also on a spectrum. There seem to be many different ways it can affect people, often referred to as severity, but also different aspects of brain function. Dyslexia is also indiscriminate. It can be inherent within high functioning people, or those with very low brain function and abilities. That’s why there’s no one fit or fix or single suggested alternative avenue. Although you can generalise. So if someone is struggling with the academia, the reading, retaining wide arrays of facts etc., then alternative routes and approaches to life can open doors - finding more vocational avenues; finding a qualification is less written or at least more coursework based. More ideally practical based. Looking into apprenticeships rather than the traditional routes. And choosing a career that fits better; it maybe one that’s creative, doesn’t require reading or memory; or the function is repetitive and becomes second nature (often helped when we’re keen and interested). That’s my own hindsight experience. It’s not right. It may not be totally wrong.

OMG! I found out I had Dyslexia at 54 as well! I have always been told that, "you don't think within the box, do you?" My response was, "what box?" I am always looking for a way to fix things not stay stuck. I teach kids with dyslexia now.

Great video, you might want to see if you have ADHD, I've both

Not just the weather - everything in the UK is disappointing

Great video for my 9 year old daughter. It is really inspiring for her as she loves video making too. It's her her first video of someone explaining how dislexia affects their lives she's seen. Thanks again

The worst about dyslexia, it's very often just a symptom of something bigger.

Free mac book? I only got a free entry to zoo’s :(

Yeh 2years on still being flooded with illegals

I wish it’s always cold in London

I can't even lie. This ruined my life.😢

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My 10 year old son just got diagnosed and we will continue to support him throughout his life ❤

I just wanted to thank you this video prompted me 3years ago to get diagnosed I got my diagnosis last year and now going getting one for adhd before I go for my masters so I can have access to the right support.

My old battleax 1st grade teacher thought I was retarded. I was ambidextrous but forced to write with my right. I could read whole words before kindigarden and read better backward or upside down After testing? Far from retarded. Once it clicked I was reading above grade level. Still comes out under stress.

The reason why is because of the elevation of UK and if you put a 3 to 6 km ball in the water the clouds would go towards the ball and it would rain and snow on top of the ball. Clouds attract to the highest point that is why it does not rain in regions where there are a lot of mountains

Some dyslexics did well in Arabic language, because it read right to left.

It's annoying when some try to call a disability an advantage.

Excellent little film Mr Burgess..Loved the editing and presentation and of course the subject....

I am severely dyslexic. I was diagnosed at 4yrs old. In my experience, there is nothing positive to being dyslexic. You must work hard to deal with it. Find what you're good at and stick to it

I really appreciate your point of view. It have been open minded as to how to help my own little boy. And myself for more understanding ❤ Thank you 👍

In Kentucky we have a saying: if you don't like the weather wait 2 days

What an awesome video great work super informative

Just throwing it out there, does anyone else feel like they have super hearing but just can't make sense of the sounds till after. It's like I have to reread my life event's in order to understand what really happened. It makes me say stupid shuff because I have to anticipate words in order to keep up. I've only ever felt clear once in my life for like 6 hours. Something about the rhythm of the day made it so everything I said was the appropriate response. I didn't even try and start a conversation. But I can hear the wires buzz in the walls when it's quiet or those cheap charger boxes always. Then I can't let it go and I'm stuck empty headed till it stops. Can't wrap my head around one and can get the other out no matter what.

Just found out my 6 year old is dyslexic. As a father I want to be there for her as much as possible so thank you for educating me.

Most of my life, I thought I was dumb. Alright, at least it's really hard to shake the subconscious feeling of that, After having it implied to you all throughout your school years. " You have difficulties. You can't do all these things like others " People laugh at you and notice it, even if they don't say anything. Its a hard mindset to brake out of. thank goodness for voice to text, and text to speach! though it can feel accwerd to use in public or quieter spaces.

Sounds just like weather in Luxembourg, it was raining and hailing like crazy for a few minutes and the next second the temperature drops and it starts snowing really heavily and after 20 minutes it's all sunny outside😅

And after 2 years of impotent attempts and the government fell because of that, Illegals still invading the UK coastline.🧐 Maybe it's time to organise "free navy" and make things happen. 😎

The UK Weather has and is turning more severe We are having way hotter Summers,stormier Winters and less Winter Snowfall

annoying to read one page of notes for 2 hours just to understand but solving a chess puzzle layout in a flow state despite its difficulty even going back to the 17 th back puzzle and solving it with ease and remembering each piece placement 😅(i do type my text convert it for easy understanding from my way of understanding and retype it as official text/msg yes in exams i carry a pencil and an eraser with me to even in the office

I feel i am very likely to be Dyslexic, I speak 5 different Languages and i am a Robotics Engineer

What the 🔥🥵 months in United Kingdom and less rain 🌧️☔ the most sunny months i am from Australia

Discovered this fascinating video while researching for a current project. Could you let me know where you sourced the UK Time Zone ( prior to GMT) Map, please? It would be extremely useful for information I'm trying to find.

Thanks bro, I'm feeling great to know that I am a dyslexic person. From my childhood I always Wana know what is the problem in my head. But thankfully my hard work changed my life in professional angles.

Leave the favelas alone give people jobs and they will make happy

I’m not officially diagnosed, but discovered that i might be dyslexic a few months ago. I changed my shcool habits and ways of studying and it’s much easier for me to do well in school now!

Dyslexic brains (or souls) carry the remnants of a time when communication was telepathic. Instant. Words were not needed.

I'm 30 years old and have known I have always had it. I find learning the most stressful thing. I love sports more than anything and excel at them more than non dyslexics :)

Lol, I deliberately make mistakes in my writing to make sure that the spell checker is active... It's that bad. Inspiring video and perspective about dyslexia.

Melbourne in Australia is the same........ we have four seasons in one day.......minus rain.

I am a 60 year old English woman and passed a degree in analytical science at 26, but only got my English level 2 in my 50,s. I lost my job and career because I couldn't transfer into an office job from a lab job when I was pregnant because I couldn't read very well. I taught my kids to read, now I have three adult kids with PhD, so I give the finger to those who called me stupid 😅😅😅

This may be like weird. But I don’t think that we’re in essence “more creative” we just see problems differently-especially social ones I think. This is bc we kinda miss the problem and don’t do all the thinking but just cut straight to a logical solution without all the extra thinking or emotions envolved.

I know the route I had to go thru was a scenic route but I do not have dyslexia, some call it a disability I prefer to say a learning challenges. I cannot do the same things as others and fast pace. Like my first job at McDonald’s I was put on French.fries station and I wanted a detail list on how to work I got basically a brief instead and most of them doing my job for me and I actually tried to do it but some said I was too slow, one time I had to start over because one asked for extra crispy fries so I left them for slightly longer and the person doing sandwiches came and threw them away one customer asked for them to be extra crispy so that coworker probably caused me to have redo it. 3 minutes takes awhile but when you get a system going it gets easier I wanted more times on the French fries station since it was fun but I only got to do it twice.

I was diagnosed in 3rd grade. My record for my diagnosis was thru my elementary school and they lost my record resulting in me lossing out on allllll the help i needed. So after 5th grade the extra reading classes stopped. The one on one reading and writing lessons stopped. I didnt read a "chapter" book (a long none pictured book because im a child still and idk the correct word for a long book) until i graduated high school. I read only when i have to and now ive graduate college with two degrees and I still am left feeling extremely unintelligent because i cant sit down and read an article without getting distracted and giving up and then havin a melt down later because I needed to get it done (im in my masters now and doing research). I hate my brain. I hate it. It doesn't help that so many people treat me like im stupid all because i ask them to repeat themselves or because i accidentally spell my d or b backwards. My actual friends in life are the reason I am able to joke about my dyslexia but I feel braindead at times. I was just diagnosed with ASD and diagnosed with ADHD two years ago now, im sure that hasnt helped with my feeling of being an imposter. I feel like im on the verge of getting fired or failed every day despite my professors and bosses telling me I do a good job.

I don't see any plus just minus I don't really see anything to be really happy about having dyslexia so to this Day I'm not sure what are good and positive side of having dyslexia It's still hard to be successful especially when you meet people who don't understand you or don't give you a chance to show them that you be able to achieve something in life.

Great video.

Bruh when I was in kindergarten they wrote like something is not right like yk (ADHD or dislexic and more..) then I got to 1-5 grades I had teacher who bullied my and she clearly new that I am dislexic but when I got on the test for it she wrote that I have straight A (I had like 2 things on A's) so they didn't put me to special test now I am in 7th grade I did go to the test what came out that I was hardly dislexic now I have papers half of year and my(new) teacher kept it in secret so that no one will now that I have dislexia now I did go to some of teachers and finaly one teacher is understanding the situation