Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Dyslexia and hyperlexia~Brain Damage~Sugar

Many people have a bad perception of dyslexia. Dyslexia is not as simple as it seems and it is Not Reading Backward.
- Difficulty with maintaining concentration
- Problems remembering facts
- Delays in learning language
- Problems paying attention
- Taking an extreme amount of time a get homework tasks done
- Low self-esteem
- Difficulty with handwriting and grasping writing utensils
- Difficulty with auditory processing
- Difficulty staying on-task
-Difficulty reading
- Lacking awareness of physical surroundings
- Problems with impulse control
- Problems with time organization
- Trouble interacting with peers or participating in normal childhood activities
- Feelings of anxiety, tension and/or depression.
- Words almost dance/move on the page 
I learned at a young age that I had dyslexia and later in my life I found a way to manage it. I learned that I was 1 of 9% of people that can manage dyslexia and improve.
Upon research of my disease, I found that there is another form of dyslexia called hypodyslexia/hyperlexia an sugar induced for of dyslexia causing brain damage.
Often what happens to kids with dyslexia is that they have low self-esteem, so there parents give them comfort foods to make them feel better, not realizing that is causing a downward spiral for their kids.
Refined sugar causes those with dyslexia to become in a extreme state of ADHD and memory loss. When eat or drink something that has refined sugar  in it, your blood-sugar raises and with that causes the brain to go overload, this doubles the affect of dyslexia. Then when you are coming off your sugar high and your blood-sugar drops, your brain slows down, just like after a sugar crash, making it now vertically impossible to now retain what you are learning and also processing anything.
 Stop reading and trying will end up causing a certain amount of brain damage and causes you to have a reverse in your muscle memory.

2 comments:

  1. I was fasinated when I read this article. It was interesting to learn that refined sugar can have an affect on your brain.
    I have noticed nowadays children having fastfood or food with hidden sugars in it, which may be causing a increase in ADHD in our society.

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  2. You are born with ADHD, you either have it or you dont, its not something you acquire over time from eating too much anything.

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