Thursday, June 22, 2006
Omega 3 & And the Complete Inablity to Spell Dyslexia
The Fool on the Hill has unearthed more startling facts. After years of fruitless endeavour trying in vain to master the Spanish language, it appears that my resounding failure has been due not to my utter lazyness or complete stupidity but because I don't eat any fish, oily fish in particular.
According to George Monbiot its all due to a lack of efficent brain connections. Its all revealed here and I can't say I'm surprised by the news. For the last few years I have been frustatingly searching for an excuse, sorry reason, for my sorry state of Spanish and have come to the obvious explanation that my Dyslexia is to blame. This manifests itself in appalling spelling with the resulting constant need of a spellchecker and an inabilty to properly remember sounds.
For a long time I have noticed that my wife can be told or can hear a foreign phase or word and the following day can remember it. Give her the Greek or Arab phase for hello and its still there weeks afterwards. In my head, unless I write it down in phonetics, its gone within seconds.
Back in March I managed to track down a book in the library that explained that one ear is for voice sounds and the other for other sounds (!), stay with me here. The sounds from the right ear travel go to the left hand hemisphere of your brain and are then connected to the area that controls speech recognition. For some reason Dyslexia occurs when these connections are not properly created in childhood.
One thing you must know straight away - I don't like fish, all those scales and tiny bones sticking in your throat. But hold on there - no, I'll swiftly rephase that. Its not that I dislike fish, to be honest I really LIKE fish. Can't get enough of them, show me a fish-tank and I could spend hours just watching. Silent swimming around what a luxury, what peace, what serenity. What I don't like is eating them.
And maybe my mother didn't like them either so here we are with Dyslexia and the struggle to learn impossible spanish.
According to George Monbiot its all due to a lack of efficent brain connections. Its all revealed here and I can't say I'm surprised by the news. For the last few years I have been frustatingly searching for an excuse, sorry reason, for my sorry state of Spanish and have come to the obvious explanation that my Dyslexia is to blame. This manifests itself in appalling spelling with the resulting constant need of a spellchecker and an inabilty to properly remember sounds.
For a long time I have noticed that my wife can be told or can hear a foreign phase or word and the following day can remember it. Give her the Greek or Arab phase for hello and its still there weeks afterwards. In my head, unless I write it down in phonetics, its gone within seconds.
Back in March I managed to track down a book in the library that explained that one ear is for voice sounds and the other for other sounds (!), stay with me here. The sounds from the right ear travel go to the left hand hemisphere of your brain and are then connected to the area that controls speech recognition. For some reason Dyslexia occurs when these connections are not properly created in childhood.
One thing you must know straight away - I don't like fish, all those scales and tiny bones sticking in your throat. But hold on there - no, I'll swiftly rephase that. Its not that I dislike fish, to be honest I really LIKE fish. Can't get enough of them, show me a fish-tank and I could spend hours just watching. Silent swimming around what a luxury, what peace, what serenity. What I don't like is eating them.
And maybe my mother didn't like them either so here we are with Dyslexia and the struggle to learn impossible spanish.
// posted by daniel @ 9:00 am 
