Abnormal brain structure seen in children with developmental language issues
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I cannot understand when I mispronounce words. I get corrected often and repeat back the correction but it sounds like what I said the first time.
I have a fantastic memory, a great imagination, and nonstop dreams during the night. I don’t enjoy the dreams anymore, I’m pretty bored of them now that I know what they probably do mechanically.
Not sure if I’ve gotten any benefit out of it. I think the memory might be in the family as default and the other changes I noted could be normal variations.
I have trouble reading when I’m tired. Or fully awake making out handwriting.
I have many years of practice adding a’s, the’s, and you’s - people will ignore everything you write if you come across as mentally subpar.
Physical books are slower but I can quote lines and remember more details. This might have to do with the longer consumption time…
1 week for physical or 3 days for an audiobook. More time mulling over the physical text = better memories maybe
I prefer audiobooks for difficult subjects, physical books for pleasure
I assume not, but I have the exact same thing with articles (“the” and “a”/“an”) that you have, except for me it was clearly caused by english being my second (my native language doesn’t have the concept of articles like that at all). And I got much better at it over time too, but it still slips through all the time for me. Less so in writing (even though it still happens not that rarely), but moreso in speech.
Why would you think that you know what the dreams are? Could you tell the rest of us please? Perhaps you are coming at this from a materialistic perspective?
I personally don't think there is anything straightforward about dreams. Whether you take a 'spiritual' approach (have you ever had a deja vu?) or a psychoanalytic view (messages from the subconscious, whatever that is) or some other perspective, there is nothing mechanistic or boring in dreams for me.
When I "realized" that dreams and dejavu's are all, litteraly just in your head, and just memories and visualizations that your brain is connecting together, I realized that reality is the same. You're just getting signals and processing them. Wether they come from outside ("real") or from within yourself, it doesn't really matter as long as you can tell the difference.
what I appreciated about the realization of dejavu and dreams being what they are, was that it gave me a much firmer grasp and believe that I can control my feelings and escape to a little fantasy where this worlds rules dont apply. And also accept that when you're just feeling shit, it's fine for a while, just some chemicals not playing ball.
Here’s the boring nightmare: so… your mind is thinking what comes next? What comes next? And it’s corrected repeatedly by information from the eyes and ears. Maybe the nose. It constantly corrects and that’s your ‘experience’.
When you dream the system is still running; just no correction from the eyes
so you see a man in your dream and your brain goes -> what’s next? And it’ll take a guess. If good: nicer dream. If bad: bad(der) dream. Frankly, it’s usually something (seemingly) random which counts as neutral.
When wacky things happen your eye input isn’t correcting, so things get pretty wild or tame depending on how good your brains prediction is.
Your brain is going through scenarios with no correcting input.
Since I realized this 8-9 years ago I’ve been trying to prove this wrong to myself.
I wish it was spiritual or mystical but it’s pretty conclusively my deluded half asleep mind doing this. I have said goodbye to loved ones in dreams, a physically impossible scenario and it’s like your living it, just no reality correction from the eyes or ears.
Most people forget their dreams, but I get 4-6 a night EVERY damn night and they are like being awake!
ps. If anyone knows how to reduce dreaming please leave a comment! I don’t mind dreaming, but I envy falling asleep and waking up 7-8 hours in the future ready for the next day.
I had many more / worse dreams when on anti-insomnia drugs, so if you are taking those I would suggest trying to stop. Although, getting off anti-insomnia medication is a terrible, terrible experience for a couple weeks (and get medical advice etc of course).
Prozac: Bad,annoying dreams but mildly so. Citalopram: Good dreams, sometimes epic dreams. Venlafaxine: Not sure I dream. Makes it harder to sleep too.
I know dreams are just hallucinations but it doesn't make them any less interesting for me. I lucid dreams sometimes and I enjoy that state the most, so much that when it happens I keep waiting to go lucid every night for next few nights until I forget about it. Some lucid dreams are so cinematically beautiful I remember them for a very long time. Bad lucid dream helps waking up because I know it's a dream.
Have you considered lucid dreaming or astral projection? The idea that you step into your dream and control yourself; that you can direct yourself in your dream state to explore whatever-it-is. You can go to places of your choosing, as you are not bound by the body.
If you look into these experiences, you find many people who say they learnt about parts of material reality, that they are then able to verify materially.
These ideas are highly intriguing to me. As you are someone with such a capacity for dreaming, you could certainly try these ideas out (ie explore in dreams then verify in reality), if you haven't already. If you have tried, I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on the matter.
The opposite is true: the CIA wasted lots of money on this, and they came up entirely empty handed, obviously. It is very very thoroughly debunked.
I can do this, too, but usually while I'm awake and bored. Reality is quite redundant, and we get all sorts of information from all sorts of sources, and sometimes I can put the puzzle pieces together and deduce things I "shouldn't" have known.
This power doesn't extend to localised information, such as the value of a hidden dice roll, and it's quite mundane. A generalisation of cold-reading. What Sherlock Holmes would call deduction, though it's actually abductive reasoning.
Examples: • Entering a building, imagining design constraints, deducing the presence of exactly one lift, inferring its location, inferring the existence of an extra wing behind the building (to place the lift in the middle), extrapolating observed foot traffic, and guessing which floor and corridor a particular office was. • Listening to someone explain geopolitics for half an hour, and inferring that they're a double-jointed insomniac.
I have not astral projected but I’ll look into it and if I remember I’ll message you after a few months
But this is pretty interesting as your subconscious is bubbling up into your ego!
On Prozac I sleep well but have 100% formulaic dreams. I don't like them. Each one is a mildly to moderately annoying situation that I cannot escape from.
For example, I'm in a building or neighborhood and I want to get away from some antagonist or who knows what. Using much effor and willpower I sort of get away but in that instant it resets and I'm back to getting away.
Citalopram (Celexa) though.....those dreams were the opposite. Wonderful and enjoyable with a bit of flying. Lucid too, I often realized I was in a dream and learned to manipulate it at will as well as some flying.
What syllables do you hear? (I'm assuming you have English as a mother tongue?)
I'm always on the lookout for new ways to think about how we process the world, just curious if you're aware of this distinction appearing in something like poetry / music?
makes me wonder how much of what we call developmental issues are culturally dependant to manifest
> I cannot understand when I mispronounce words. I get corrected often and repeat back the correction but it sounds like what I said the first time.
Interestingly, both of these 'symptoms' are completely normal, for people learning a second language.
Hearing problems and production problems are both common, and they overlap heavily, but they don't overlap perfectly.
Speaking of how people perceive foreign words, I'm still interested in the following:
1. Mandarin and Cantonese both use the sounds /s/ (just like English S) and /f/ (ditto, just like English F, though there are Chinese speakers who, like the Japanese, don't distinguish F and H).
2. Neither Mandarin nor Cantonese uses the sound /θ/ (beginning of the English words thorn, thunder, thwack, etc.).
3. Mandarin speakers perceive an English [θ] as being the sound /s/. It's not just that they hear it as something strange but get /s/ when they try to produce it - they cannot hear the difference between [θ] and [s]. I have a friend who learned to produce [θ] accurately, which didn't help much because her English experience is mainly auditory and she ends up using [θ] in words that use /s/.
4. Cantonese speakers are different; for them, an English [θ] is the sound /f/. This means that if a Mandarin speaker and a Cantonese speaker both listen to an English speaker pronounce "thin", neither will necessarily perceive anything particularly strange about the word, but they will disagree with each other's attempts to mimic it.
5. By now, there must be many people who are native speakers of both Cantonese and Mandarin.
6. What do they think when they hear [θ]? My best guess is that they can tell it's a strange sound, but I don't really know.
> Richard in Chinese is commonly transliterated as Lichade (lee-char-duh), even though it's only two syllables in English, and Charles is Cha'ersi (char-err-suur).
I should note that the Mandarin syllable cha is not at all rhotic; the transcription "char" only makes sense if your variety of English doesn't have rhotic vowels.
I have the exact same problem.
I had troubles learning pronunciations when I was a kid, but I never had other learning problems.
As an adult, I struggled enough with pronunciation that I consulted two hearing specialists to determine if there were any issues with my ears. It turns out my hearing is fine.
Is it possible for someone to get a diagnosis for dyslexic based on pronunciation problems only?
I must say I am relieved to finally find someone who shares my experience.
You can Google dyslexic signs. I think last time I looked auditory processing anomalies and the retina or lens was oddly shaped in 95% of dyslexics. Dyslexic is also an umbrella term for a bunch of things so you’ll have to sort through to find your flavor.
Best fix is a good nights sleep. Also make sure you move closer to speech you want to comprehend and the people you interact with most enunciate and speak at a good volume (too many people speak poorly and could use 2 weeks of beginner theater classes)
Kids are taught that “cat” phonetically is “c-a-t”. Almost sounds like three syllables at that point. Do that with other words and one will quickly question how many syllables are in everything!!
I’m not dyslexic but I feel like the way we teach language is broken.
"Unusual" is probably just as accurate a description.
How about "developmental language issues"?
Does that cover everything including far above average development? Seems like as important an issue as any.
The most highly developed might just be the most abnormal extreme outlier after all.
Just that eventually we will definitely stumble into something like this. Just like the Romans were oblivious drinking from lead pipes was causing their mental problems.
If there's a mass psychosis event, would the people under going it even realize it was happening.
We went from 1/150 to 1/36 Children with Autism in the last 20 years. Go back further, and it was practically unheard of.
I agree regarding the psychosis thing. When I read the comments section of politically themed YouTube videos I actually get scared how insane people have become.
One of the major differences about why it's so visible right now is that the internet is enabling psychotic people to find like-minded psychotic people and form communities. Qanon is one example. "Gang stalking" is another. They find people with the same delusions and riff off of one another.
In the olden days, one individual suffering from something like this can stay isolated, and their ideas do not travel that far. Today, they can find their tribe online. They can have meetups. They can act out their delusions en masse.
We have different standards and different levels of attention. We don't just re-diagnose adults, so it's possible that there is a higher rates today. Maybecaused by something you mention, or straight out selection. Still,ignoring the differences in diagnosis standards is going to get us, at the very least, exaggerated conclusions.
If I use a pebble as my metric, some things we think of as 'small' would have to be counted as 'big'. The idea of abnormal is all wrong imo, but just the idea brings constraints with it.
The increased rate of autism is largely due to increased diagnosis. Autistic people existed long ago, but the diagnosis of Autism obviously didn’t exist in the distant past.
1) Increased diagnosis due to
A) Increased awareness of the issue for both parents and medical staff. I think that one is clearly true.
B) Rational response to educational incentives around relaxed testing for those diagnosed with syndromes. Extra testing time is big. During the Varsity Blues scandal it came out that you could buy paperwork for accommodations for around $5000. Or parents might see a legitimate issue and testing and in-school accommodations convince them that it’s worth getting their child diagnosed.
C) Merging of Aspergers into autism.
2) Increased assortative mating for those with autism or those with autism risk. Some evidence here https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.28.358895v1
As to why it might be increasing?
A) Collapse of traditional paths to marriage. If you’re less likely to meet mates by meeting them at church or other community events with a more wide spread selection of people, are you more likely to meet someone else on the spectrum?
B) Increased career rewards for those with autistic tendencies, so less need to find a non-autistic spouse.
I am not saying there is proof for the contrary, mind you, just science and laymen should avoid the hubris of thinking we haven't made a mistake along the way. It would not be the first time. Radium in toothpaste, cigarettes for sore throat, cocaine in health tonics, DDT, teflon, and the other hundred teratogen chemicals we have given pregnant women over the decades.
You dont even know what or where to look for them.
(Though I agree regarding hubris part)
How about carefully testing something new, especially something that one ingests? As far as I know no such testing is done, if it's done, it's done with the goal of gaming the safety standards that may be expected of the product. You cannot fix an ignorant, corrupt society.
Should there be double blind clinical trials for it’s health impact when caried daily on a tool belt?
For most people, answer will differ depending on what the hammer is made of (iron vs uranium vs radium).
My point here would be that a) we must choose appropriate set of tests as they cost in money/time/opportunities, b) the choice of tests must be influenced by what we know and/or suspect.
If unknown is unknown, then we don’t know that we need a test for it.
Sounds like doctors got better at diagnosing people on the spectrum.
For example, osteoporosis is diagnosed based on how many standard deviations one is away from the mean.
In other words, they aren’t diagnosing an actual medical issue — they are simply guaranteeing a particular rate of incidence!!!
There is a decent amount of evidence around this, though of course there are some assumptions made that are difficult to show directly (such as RF causing changes over intermittent use for years on living tissue from direct observations of hypothesized mechanisms, either RNA, protein or otherwise.). The typical argument is 'it is significantly altered in individuals that use devices more, has a "dose/time-dependent" effect, and convincing ipsilateral patterning', paired with 'there are changes in cell behavior under RF in vitro'. So a leap made is sticking the two together, but it's not a completely crazy one.
I would think it goes way beyond that long term.
> Just like the Romans were oblivious drinking from lead pipes was causing their mental problems.
We are worse than the Romans in that regard, there is literature that suggests, that in general man made EMF waves are not safe and yet, immediate convenience trumps over any concerns of safety as with may other thing that people use. Bring up the subject and you will be labeled a pseudoscience indulger.