S4E12: The War on Dyslexia - Why IDA's New Definition Fails the Community

In this conversation, Juliet and Brent discuss the challenges faced by individuals with dyslexia, particularly in relation to educational initiatives and advocacy groups. They critique organizations like the Reading League for their lack of genuine understanding and representation of dyslexics, emphasizing the need for authentic voices in discussions about dyslexia. Their insights highlight the disconnect between those who create educational programs and the actual experiences of dyslexics, calling for a more inclusive approach to advocacy and support.

 

Chapters:

00:00:07 | Introduction and The Pain Behind the Discussion

00:01:27 | Critiquing IDA and Its Board Members

00:03:07 | Comparing IDA's 70 Years to Autism Awareness

00:04:01 | Visual Disrespect: The Flawed Definition on IDA's Website

00:06:55 | The "Reading League" and Money in the Dyslexic World

00:09:09 | Board-Driven Decisions and the Lack of Approval

00:13:26 | IDA Seeking Relevance and the Impact on Dyslexics

00:15:37 | Who Gives IDA the Right to Define Dyslexia?

00:17:47 | The Scum and Lack of Care from Non-Dyslexic Organizations

00:19:34 | IDA's Focus on Money Over Community Needs

00:21:16 | Made By Dyslexia and the Focus on Stage Five Cancer

00:23:44 | Brant's Post-Retirement Struggles and Made By Dyslexia's False Claims

00:27:31 | The Font Change on IDA's Website and Community Impact

00:29:17 | Defining Dyslexia and the Dictionary Analogy

00:30:10 | The Reading Proficiency Score that Missed Diagnosis

00:32:36 | The Problem with Low Reading Proficiency Standards

00:34:03 | Final Thoughts: IDA, Be Better

 

Transcript:
00:00:07:00 - 00:00:22:00

Unknown

Welcome back to word blindness to sexy Expose. This is Juliet Hon here with my co-host Brant Sokol on a Monday before Thanksgiving. How are you? When's this going on? This is going out in the new year.

 

00:00:22:01 - 00:00:43:15

Unknown

But it's going out in the new year. So what's going on? Oh, no, it's not this. I'm in. I know they say it might be. Might have to slip this in. Right? It could go in after the first week in December. Because we have one thing. I think it's probably a good spot for. Or it's good. Everything that's going on with it.

 

00:00:43:17 - 00:00:58:12

Unknown

So why don't you want to start how we got here? Well, good. Good morning. Good morning. Okay, so I got so much to say. Thanksgiving week. All right. You know, we're entering the holidays. You're.

 

00:00:58:14 - 00:01:27:13

Unknown

Getting everything we're going to talk about today. Comes from pain. It's not anger. Well, there is anger. There's anger. There's anger and hurt. Yeah. In this, you know. Exactly. I thought about this all well. You know, people think on, you know, on here that I'm negative. You know, I can be, you know, that kind of guy. But it's it's all coming from pain.

 

00:01:27:15 - 00:01:54:19

Unknown

You know, and we're going to talk about idea in the definition, you know. But let me preface. None of those board members who are making the decision on idea wake up thinking they're stupid every day. I do. None of those board members think they don't have a skill. They bring nothing to this world. I do. None of those board members have made the decision.

 

00:01:54:20 - 00:02:02:23

Unknown

Think about suicide every day. While they might, you might. But if you don't have one, and 2 or 3 doesn't come into play as much, I do.

 

00:02:03:01 - 00:02:39:01

Unknown

You know, and that's who's making our decisions in the saying, you know, these were the loudest are the loudest. And that's right, we're loudest. We're putting out definitions of dyslexia. They don't live with anything. I just I do every day. Every single day. You're it's almost when I my my last wish. You know when I die my my ashes might get sent to Ida to show what kind of blood is on their hands.

 

00:02:39:03 - 00:03:07:13

Unknown

Right. Because I'm not the only one. There's millions and millions and millions. Millions of people that are same as me. Yeah. The International Dyslexia Association. Is that what. How is it? And it does that. And it's been around for 70 years and around for 70 years. So something that's been around for 70 years is really if you've been around for 70 years.

 

00:03:07:15 - 00:03:37:07

Unknown

Now let's let's just use this for, Autism Speaks. Autism speaks been around for 15 years, 20 years. Why do we know everything about autism? And let me rephrase that. We don't know everything. We know lot about everything. Right. Autism. There are 15, 20 years deep. Ida International Dyslexia Association 70. And we don't know fuck all.

 

00:03:37:09 - 00:04:00:23

Unknown

So you know they might get my ashes. That might be my wish to show what kind of blood does on their hands. Those people don't have any of these feelings that I do every day. And there's millions and millions and millions and millions of kids that feel this way. Yeah. And I just want to state. So the episode that went out the last what?

 

00:04:01:01 - 00:04:21:06

Unknown

So went out Thursday. What date was that? Can you look as we're talking. So went out on Thursday. We talked about the definition of Ida. I read the definition. It was very it was a vulnerable situation. The 20th though would have been November 20th. Yeah. On the if you go to the YouTube video of it, you will see I show the definition, didn't I?

 

00:04:21:06 - 00:04:41:08

Unknown

Hold it up so you can see how everything is spaced together. It's all smushed. So I'm coming from there's a there's a lot of layers to this. But the, the the first and foremost that I have to get across is that the fact that that I'm not even talking about the definition, I'm not even talking about everything that Brant just talked about.

 

00:04:41:13 - 00:05:06:13

Unknown

I'm talking about the fact that that was approved and sent out on a website. So someone said, okay, I'm putting it out and checked it. And the fact that they let it go out with the font, the way it was, there was letters cut off at the bottom. The G's were cut off. Now, listen, I understand we all make mistakes on our websites and some things like this, but I'm coming from they have been around for 70 years.

 

00:05:06:15 - 00:05:25:18

Unknown

They are where parents in schools or when a neuro psych diagnose someone, they say if if they don't know the whole world of the, you know, the neurosis. But if they I mean, if the dyslexia, they're like, hey, go here because they have the most resources. They, they do conferences. They put conferences on throughout the year. They put, teacher training on.

 

00:05:25:18 - 00:05:46:06

Unknown

You can get credited there at universities like University of Georgia. They have a program for dyslexia. Okay. So people look at them as the experts and they put a definition on their website that someone that has dyslexia or someone that has a kid that has dyslexia goes to it. You hardly can read it because of the font. That is my first thing.

 

00:05:46:06 - 00:06:06:08

Unknown

And I want you to sit and think about that, because right there, it shows that we're not sensitive to this community because you would double check it and be like, oh, wait, can everyone read this? And again, I'm not going into the definition. I have a problem with the definition, but I'm not even going into the definition. I'm going into the way it visually was put on a website for dyslexic people.

 

00:06:06:10 - 00:06:29:22

Unknown

There is no way in hell someone fucking said, oh, this is a good idea. It's because they don't understand what we go through every day. And, you know, let me, you know, don't care. Exactly. They 100%. It's okay. They don't they don't care. They don't give a fuck. You know, everything. Like everything I said, you know, people might think it's harsh, you know, talking about, you know, committed suicide and sending their ashes.

 

00:06:29:22 - 00:06:55:00

Unknown

That's what goes on every day in the dyslexic world that that's what is like the calls I get. This is how I feel today. Like that's okay in your segment. Like who gave them the right. You know, this is one thing. There's no headquarters for dyslexia. These are bored viruses. They care about their paycheck. They care about their ego.

 

00:06:55:01 - 00:07:19:15

Unknown

They don't care about the kid in the chair. They don't care at all. You would never do anything, any of this stuff if you cared. But you've been around for 70 years, and this is the dyslexic world. And and I'll I'll tag this with, you know, some more understanding is there's also have you ever joined a league in something that you sucked at?

 

00:07:19:17 - 00:07:43:18

Unknown

No. So I played I love golf if I, I do suck, but if I was horrendous, would I join a league in it? No, I can't swim. So am I joining a swimming league? Maybe to die. Pick me up on the pool? No, nobody joined the league. So there's something Syracuse, New York, called the Reading League.

 

00:07:43:20 - 00:08:17:04

Unknown

It tells me right there that it's ran by people without dyslexia because no dyslexic would join a reading fucking league. Meanwhile, I know, people that know them, and I know they got a multi-million dollar, Donation that's blocked out. Can't be traced. It's funny. And why I mention that and why I'm tying the two together. It's proving they don't care about dyslexics.

 

00:08:17:06 - 00:08:39:11

Unknown

You name it, the Reed League. Right? You had anonymous multi, multi million dollars donated in your account to start this all. It's all about money. All that money that's all about here. And I go back to Ida, the board members I'm on a board right. I'm on a big board. Look at my ego, my pocket protectors, my paychecks.

 

00:08:39:11 - 00:09:09:05

Unknown

They're not here for dyslexics, ever. And it proves it real, you know, colleges or we wouldn't be having this problem if Ida had a clue what they're doing. And cared and had people with dyslexia. Part of this, we would never be having these conversations. And this is what's going on in the dyslexic world. So even my dogs getting pissed off at them right now on a Monday morning.

 

00:09:09:08 - 00:09:36:11

Unknown

Right. It's. It's heartbreaking. It's why parents can call me and call us and say, we don't even have to even say anything. We can look at another dyslexic and know that we're understood, right? There's a reason why we say you're not alone, Ida. They don't care. They don't care. You go to their website and you can see that they don't care.

 

00:09:36:11 - 00:09:59:12

Unknown

It's so overwhelming and I'm not going to get into it if you guys want to listen to my rant, but my whole point is after this. And thank you for sharing all that, Brian, because it's relevant to the feelings behind all of this. Correct. If you go, and then I'll just preface, there was someone on LinkedIn that put some information out helping people navigate the, the definition.

 

00:09:59:14 - 00:10:19:21

Unknown

And I, was reading some of the comments, which I typically don't, but one of the comments talked about our podcast about word blindness and about, you know, that we talked about this and I was like, oh, I so I introduced myself and I said, yeah, I have a huge problem with that. I think it's ridiculous and got me and went back and forth and it's really nice as it individual broke down what the definition to help people.

 

00:10:19:21 - 00:10:32:03

Unknown

But I said why, how many? How about all the people that don't go on LinkedIn? How about all the people that don't know who you are? How about all the people that are sitting there going because they're like, oh, everyone's talking about a new definition. Is this going to help me? And you go and you feel even more stupid?

 

00:10:32:05 - 00:10:54:09

Unknown

I said, it is so crazy. And then I had a lot of people send messages to me in my Instagram DMs, text, LinkedIn DMs saying, thank you so much for your podcast. I just want to listen because we feel the same. And either they were a part of the definition because apparently it was. It says underneath it this you know, the definition was by the board members.

 

00:10:54:12 - 00:11:23:06

Unknown

Apparently they had parents, dyslexics, board members and a bunch of other people. It went through rigorous. Yeah, rigorous. Okay. Final stages and then was put out. Okay. I've heard from two people that had said that they were part of that, and they did not approve it, and it still went out. So there is so much. And then I had parents that actually wrote into Ida and said, I'm not dyslexic, but my my daughter is and or my son is whatever.

 

00:11:23:06 - 00:11:44:20

Unknown

There was a couple a few people and I don't know how many others, but some of that reached out to me just to let me know. Thank you for the podcast. I actually went in and sent an email and yeah. And they went in and said, this is horrendous. Like, who approved this? Why? This is ridiculous. And then on Saturday morning, I went to go show my mom the definition because I was, you know, still on my rant.

 

00:11:44:22 - 00:12:04:06

Unknown

And I was like, oh my God, they changed that font. Interesting. Now, again, I'm not getting into the definition because I don't agree with the definition, but I also am not. I'm not saying like that. That's a whole different thing. And I know you have like so much to say, right? No, no, no, I just want to finish with to touch on.

 

00:12:04:06 - 00:12:32:22

Unknown

We just had so, you know, people you just said there was people were part of that in that, in that room with Ida. I did not approve this, which tells you that it was done by the board. The other people are just smoke and mirrors. And back to my point. They give a fuck about their paycheck.

 

00:12:33:00 - 00:12:48:02

Unknown

They give a fuck about their title. You know, I stood on how many boards, as you know, a rich person does. I sit on this board, I'm on 22 birds. Well, next board me. You know what? And when I do die, I'm going to do die. Maybe it might be my ashes on that table. See what you know.

 

00:12:48:02 - 00:13:05:05

Unknown

And I blood on it to see what they think. Because they clearly don't care. We just got that information. So. And people always think we're kind of crazy with some of the stuff that we come up with. Like reading, like, I know, I know people that know them, they don't even know how many people my kid, my kids are born Syracuse.

 

00:13:05:07 - 00:13:25:22

Unknown

I know there's money, millions of dollars by the market, by a black market person that got donated their account. So I know what's going on, and it just proves that we're on the right track. What we're talking about that somebody confirmed to you what you just said, that they were in the room. They're a part of it, and they did not approve it, and it still went out.

 

00:13:26:03 - 00:13:44:06

Unknown

That's how much they care about dyslexic kids. And I've said we said on, you know, we say on every podcast this as and as Brant said, this is coming from hurt. It brought me back. Obviously, if you listen to the other podcast, it brought me back to when Montgomery was first diagnosed, and I went to go get support and help, and I was like, oh my God.

 

00:13:44:06 - 00:14:06:23

Unknown

Like, this is like made me feel even dumber than I felt already. And you know it. There's so many. They did it personally. Now again assumptions death. We also say that. So I'm saying in my opinion they did it to become relevant again. They just had, you know, one of their conferences, they're trying to do more in the dyslexic community.

 

00:14:07:03 - 00:14:27:07

Unknown

Maybe someone can come back and say, hey, I actually really feel this way, and I don't appreciate how you guys are assuming that this is how we feel. You know, action. There's a lot of people can put words together, but actions speak louder than words. And the action of putting that definition the way it looked. And I'm going to go back to that every single time.

 

00:14:27:07 - 00:14:41:12

Unknown

And I don't care if someone can fight and yell, oh, it was a mistake. It was a no, no, no, you don't put something out and then talk about it in the dyslexic world. Like we came out with a new definition and then have people go to that. And if no one said anything, this is what I and I, we probably will never know.

 

00:14:41:16 - 00:14:58:22

Unknown

But like it was it really just that my LinkedIn conversation and our podcast that made that and then people going in or did someone like I how many? There's no way in hell that people were like, this is a great idea. And if they were in the room and they approved it and said this was a great idea, they have no balls.

 

00:14:59:03 - 00:15:17:13

Unknown

And if they're a woman, they have whatever. I don't even know what you want to say, but they basically were yapping people to death. And I have no time and space for people that yes, people to death because you need to you need to be authentic and you need to be stand by your truths. And if you clearly thought, well, you said like the lady said, she was in that room right to to your.

 

00:15:17:13 - 00:15:37:09

Unknown

But I just want to add to your point that they they didn't agree. Right. Yeah. And what do they do exactly. So it's so you know and this individual is part of Ida. Right. And doesn't you know who the board members are and you're part of it and you're contributing things to it. Yeah, that's two separate things. But yes there's a person that right doesn't.

 

00:15:37:09 - 00:15:57:00

Unknown

Yes. Right. Yeah. They weren't the person that said that they didn't approve it. But yes. So nobody knows who the board members are y'all. It's all because they used to be. You used to be able to go on there. Now it's funny how it's gone off. Right. So, it's and and I'll take another angle. Who gives in the right.

 

00:15:57:02 - 00:16:19:18

Unknown

So people we always talk about dyslexia. There is no headquarters for dyslexia in the world. So groups like Ida or like the Soap Foundation, we could create a word for dyslexia or excuse me, I think we should we could, but who gives them the right to who? Listen. Who wants to listen to them? There's nobody controlling this. And this is what also.

 

00:16:19:18 - 00:16:36:21

Unknown

And you know, we could do one and they could do one, and there could you I send you a couple. There's a bunch of different definitions that are out there that are floating around. You know, back to your point. You are trying to make them relevant again, trying to trying to make put money in their pocket. They're not trying to do it for kids.

 

00:16:36:23 - 00:16:55:06

Unknown

Let's be clear. It's not for kids. It's not for dyslexics. They don't care. You wouldn't be doing this. You wouldn't go through in oh two. They do the definition. Who give them the right. Because this is what we talked about the other day. And I said, this is actually this can be fun because we can debate about this and debate about it.

 

00:16:55:06 - 00:17:16:00

Unknown

Meaning like no one gets them right. But that's not like my problem because anyone can put anyone can can put a definition. Yes. I think that there needs to be bigger controls. And like that's part of the whole dyslexic world. Problem is that it's like a, you know, fucking wild, wild West where anyone can say anything and whoever has the louder voices or the more money or the more clout is the one that's going to get ahead.

 

00:17:16:04 - 00:17:31:14

Unknown

But if they are going to get ahead and they want to if they want to own it, then fucking own it and do it right. If you want to be the ones that are going to be the voices and you want people to go to you, you want teachers to go to you to learn. You want parents to go to learn, then fucking do it right.

 

00:17:31:14 - 00:17:47:18

Unknown

I don't need to be in that playground. I don't need to be in that sandbox. You fucking do it right. And if you're not going to do it right, step the fuck aside because you're hindering. That's my whole point. No, and I agree with it, you know, and I'm saying that as, to show. Yeah. Where they stand.

 

00:17:47:21 - 00:18:12:12

Unknown

Right. To show how they don't stand, you know, in the dyslexic world for for the parents, you know. A parent hates when they're kids struggling. Just kills them. And then they open that, open up their website or open up, they're like, or you're going to go and find the Reading League and stay, you know, and that's a dyslexic community.

 

00:18:12:12 - 00:18:39:22

Unknown

The Reading League, you know, people that don't have dyslexia is the one trying to tell us what to do. So I can't tell you how to feel. When you were pregnant. And you guys are all, look at me like I'm an idiot. So why aren't we looking at Ida like they're fucking idiots reading League. Why aren't we looking them like they're fucking idiots?

 

00:18:40:00 - 00:19:01:15

Unknown

They're scum. And I'll call you as they're to every one of their faces. Because they're not. They don't care about us. You cared. You wouldn't do it and do the things you're doing. The thing that. And I've gone back and I've said this a million times, you know, it might have started in a place of someone wanting to make change.

 

00:19:01:17 - 00:19:16:20

Unknown

You know, maybe it's a parent. And I think the Reading League as a parent and their, their child is dyslexic. That started you know, I think in the right ones, you know, originally when you get a million, million, millions and millions and millions of donations and you've got your name on a school in Syracuse University, you don't get there for no reason.

 

00:19:17:00 - 00:19:34:09

Unknown

You got there with, you know, so I'm not even going to say they did it for the good reason. Right? Okay. So we won't use them as an example. But I do think everything starts. You know, we all were born with good hearts, right? People don't all they're not born like, oh, I'm going to be an evil person.

 

00:19:34:09 - 00:19:56:08

Unknown

I don't really think. And I know we all have different thoughts on this, but I don't believe that people come into this world bad. There's things, circumstances that makes them, you know, twist them. And usually it has to do with money. And that is one of the things if you lock, you know, you go to Ida's website and it is just, you know, they they make money on a lot of different things.

 

00:19:56:08 - 00:20:24:01

Unknown

And again, if they were doing a really good job on things, I would be like, okay, you know what? I don't agree with the definition. But okay, I wonder where they came up with that. All the other stuff that they do is really good, blah, blah blah. But I don't and I don't think people that are behind it, I really don't think I would love to do a poll and really ask people, okay, if you think they're good, tell me what you think is good about it.

 

00:20:24:04 - 00:20:42:23

Unknown

If you're a teacher and you're a part of their, you know, their what is it called? Additional credits, but they're not whatever, whatever it's called. If you're a teacher and you get you've done training under Ida and you think, you know, you tell me that there's good things I want to hear about that if you're, you know, you go to their conferences and you learn stuff.

 

00:20:43:02 - 00:20:57:05

Unknown

I want to hear about that. But I think if we all really just sit down and really think about it, I think there's a lot of times people are like, oh, I don't know if that's right, but I don't know what's right. So I'm just going to go with these guys. We're not here saying we're the best foundation we know at all.

 

00:20:57:05 - 00:21:16:15

Unknown

No, not at all. That's not all we're doing. That's not right. And, you know, so like the the Red Foundation in Orlando for Orlando Florida not ran by dyslexic but they're the best you know just ask them right. You go made by dyslexia okay. They're both dyslexic not caring about kids. All right. So that's not our wheelhouse because we care about the kid in the chair.

 

00:21:16:19 - 00:21:32:06

Unknown

If we can't take care of the kid in the chair, we're not worried about the bullshit that mean, just like you. I mean, you know, again, Richard, parents, one of the richest people in the world. Whatever Griggs or whatever her name is one of the richest people of worlds. So don't stand there and think that you're you're you're you're like me.

 

00:21:32:06 - 00:21:50:20

Unknown

Who? Who thinks about suicide every day. You know you're not right. So don't play that game. Right. So we're not talking about we're the best foundation, but tell me how some of them are ran by people that have us have these feelings. Know what these feelings are, right? Because we're talking about the brain. It's not a broken ankle.

 

00:21:50:20 - 00:22:09:18

Unknown

You know how to fix it. Like there's we don't know. We only know how much about the brain I've heard less than 5%. Like, you know, that could be wrong. I don't we don't want any more with the brain. And if you don't have something that goes on in the brain, how are you supposed to tell us? And these are the people that are controlling.

 

00:22:09:18 - 00:22:29:00

Unknown

We wouldn't if if Ida cared, we wouldn't have 50% of people in prison in the world being dyslexic, right? Right. And I would love to know when those numbers continue to increase, because 70 years they've been around for 70 years and 50% of people in prison are dyslexic. So we've been around for eight years. So big difference. Like I'm, you know, I'm not doing the math.

 

00:22:29:00 - 00:23:01:18

Unknown

That's like 62 years, right? So, my dad and my parents are very boring, right? So you don't care if you cared. They are finding a way to make the most money for longevity. Because when you don't have something, you're not affected like we are. And the way we are. And we don't. They don't.

 

00:23:01:19 - 00:23:33:12

Unknown

Live the same way they don't. Under the same way. They don't eat the same. They don't do anything the same way because you don't have that. And you had mentioned paid for performance. Good. You know, with good hearts. But things derail that. Yeah. Fucking dyslexia. Not diagnosed. Dyslexia. You know, for me, I was diagnosed, you know, when I was 32, but I really didn't know what that meant.

 

00:23:33:12 - 00:23:44:12

Unknown

I was 40 because I still planned. So I basically quit it myself at 40 years old. Being in grade five.

 

00:23:44:14 - 00:24:03:19

Unknown

I know I thought about this week, right, because I had, you know, first time nobody's ever hired me. I've been retired for ten years. Try to find a job ten years. Nobody's hired me. Not one person. I don't have experience. I had dyslexia, dysgraphia, ADHD. What can you do? No, I can't type, I can't. I mean, you know.

 

00:24:03:21 - 00:24:33:17

Unknown

Yeah. And I want to go back to the made by dyslexia because they do a lot of speaking. You know they have dyslexic university. They just put out an email about, you know, the athletes and all of these things. One of the things that again, we go back and I'm not I wasn't even thinking about comparing the foundation and, and what I'm talking about people taking action and doing things and made by dyslexia.

 

00:24:33:17 - 00:24:45:09

Unknown

You kind of brought it to my attention like, well, really, what has he done? And it made me think. And I was like, okay, well, you know, let's let's think about some of the stuff. I know some of the quotes and some of the social media and stuff they put out. I actually resonated with and I really liked it.

 

00:24:45:09 - 00:25:00:07

Unknown

And I stood by that. I was like, you know, I like that. And then when they did the, and but then I was like, okay, I'm going to now I'm going to think about this. But then when they did, the were teaching all the New York City teachers about dyslexia. And I was like, okay, this is actually really great.

 

00:25:00:07 - 00:25:15:13

Unknown

I was really excited and I was like, okay, I'm going to then go back and and show Brant guess what they actually did? They are doing good things. I know you don't love them, but they are doing good things. We started talking to a bunch of teachers. I talked to a bunch of my teacher friends. I talked to Mike, my cousin who's a principal.

 

00:25:15:15 - 00:25:33:20

Unknown

He's here from York. So let's be clear. Like you grew up in the city, you're you're in the city. So you, you know, these people get asked around, you ask them to ask around, ask them them to ask around. Ask them to ask their friends around. And every single person either said they didn't know what I was talking about, or they did it.

 

00:25:33:20 - 00:25:55:01

Unknown

And it was the biggest joke. And I was like, what? And then we found out Microsoft needed to kind of out whatever it needed to spend money. And it was like, oh, this sounds good. And they ran with it. And that is the kind of things I don't have patience for. I don't have like that. You're dead to me now.

 

00:25:55:01 - 00:26:13:20

Unknown

Like, you know what? Go fuck yourselves because that is bullshit. Don't sit there and talk around that. You did it, okay? Say you went to go do it, and it didn't work out the way that you wanted. Then say that and own it. We had the good intentions, but it didn't work the way we wanted. Say that. Don't continue and say we've everything they say.

 

00:26:13:22 - 00:26:32:16

Unknown

We've educated every New York City teacher on dyslexia. No, you fucking deny it. And let's compare this to what people know cancer. Everybody knows cancer, right? Basically. I mean, maybe dyslexia is okay and happy and trying to diagnose cancer at stage five.

 

00:26:32:18 - 00:27:02:08

Unknown

We're so profoundly trying to get stage one or before get stage one. That's the difference. They're good with stage five. Why? Because the workplace they're trying to find people who work for them is what they're trying to do. But they're okay. At stage five, they're they're okay at getting stage four cancer, dying two weeks. That's basically, you know, kind of, this simulation of when they want to find, you know, be okay with dyslexia, right?

 

00:27:02:08 - 00:27:18:20

Unknown

They're okay with finding it at four. I'm four. Does it look like I'm okay? What's the thing? Because they they know that they can't make a difference where that is because it takes a lot of fucking grit and a lot of patience. And so I've had problems. They grew up rich, right? Not here again. That doesn't make you right.

 

00:27:18:20 - 00:27:48:00

Unknown

They haven't suffered. They were diagnosed and this is thing they were diagnosed early. So guess what. They're diagnosed at at stage one. Oh I'm happy for them. I'm I'm I don't care. They were diagnosed I mean you prove my point not stage four like me. Yeah. So I just think it's very interesting that the font was changed. And spacing was changed when our episode went out Thursday.

 

00:27:48:02 - 00:28:09:17

Unknown

There was a whole discussion on LinkedIn on Friday. And, Friday, it wasn't Thursday. Oh. They're listening. Yes, people are listening. We said, that's a great job by you, you know, by reading that. And, you know, so this, episode goes out to you for, for doing a great job reading it because I, I would have never, you know, doctor, you did a great job.

 

00:28:09:19 - 00:28:31:00

Unknown

So we had to do we definitely had an effect on getting getting it changed. But it's it's just sad. It's really sad because it really doesn't. It's still a people need to be better, period. They need to be better in so many different worlds, so many different things. I know everyone you know is suffering this and that.

 

00:28:31:04 - 00:28:56:18

Unknown

Everyone just needs to be fucking better. You know, you said or you know, said, you know, care. Do they care or do they say they care? Words, actions. You can say you care all you want, but we don't. And that's the thing. Like, even if someone from Ida was like, well, wait, because this is what I had so many people be like till they changed it.

 

00:28:56:18 - 00:29:17:04

Unknown

Isn't this great? And I was like, yeah, it is great for everyone else that goes and doesn't see it the way we saw it, because guess what? That put me and you know, that's shit I have to work on. I get it, I get it. It's not that I have to clean out the closet and realize it was going to tweak me as much as it tweaked me, except guess what?

 

00:29:17:06 - 00:29:35:22

Unknown

Now I you know, I've always known. I've always known Ida. I've always been like, you know, since Montgomery. So listen. But they keep making their bed or whatever, putting the nail in the car. I don't know what the term is, but. So when you when you're growing up, your mom tell you, go look up the definition in the dictionary.

 

00:29:36:00 - 00:29:51:17

Unknown

Yes. That's all I got. If I or or if I ask her to spell anything, she would say you have to go to definition in the dictionary, which is a pain in the ass. Fine. But give you the definition, right? Oh, I, you put out a definition or you need other people to, to break it down for the definition.

 

00:29:51:17 - 00:30:10:11

Unknown

So is that a definition. So no. And you know what. And I don't think I ever I'm going to go real quick because I as I said, I spent time with my mom and we were talking about in certain states because, you know, she's a teacher and there's things that she doesn't always she thinks that I get a little aggressive on some stuff and not in a bad way.

 

00:30:10:12 - 00:30:29:05

Unknown

She's just like, well, she likes to debate about it. And I was telling her about all the states, you know, that are allowing lowering the reading preferences, you know, so like, it's lower and lower and she said something to me that she's never said. And I was like, she's like, yes. You were like one point off of the lower one.

 

00:30:29:05 - 00:30:55:21

Unknown

So they didn't diagnose you or they didn't identify you in school. Say it was like a 16. You had a 17. Yeah. So they were like, and that's why I went undiagnosed, you know, all through school. And it was like, am I catching what you're saying right now? I think we need to say it. So they try to identify you when you're in school.

 

00:30:55:23 - 00:31:25:09

Unknown

In elementary school, and you ended up with. One point shy, which which is a 17% if you're if you want to get into it. Yeah. And over in schools they won't identify. So you're telling me you were you were 18%. Yep. 18 or 19 I was I was right there. So I just got the support. But it was like oh you're just dumb, right.

 

00:31:25:11 - 00:31:43:19

Unknown

And now we know that doesn't. But like when she said that to me, I was like, why don't she's like, I've said this to you before. And I was like, all right. And that's why my older sister had different labels, but I didn't. But again, they don't identify dyscalculia. That makes no more sense. So. Right. Yeah. But yeah.

 

00:31:43:21 - 00:32:03:04

Unknown

Or dyscalculia or dysgraphia. Right. They, they, they didn't do any of those. And so that's why ADHD in college was my first thing. Because. Yeah. So I was like And I was like mom they're even lower now. Like that's the thing that's like a joke. You know? It's like because of Covid, they realize they can't catch people up.

 

00:32:03:04 - 00:32:36:10

Unknown

So they're like, well, they're going to lower it even more. Yeah. You know, so right now, you know, to to touch on those numbers for, for listeners. So if you, changed identified in school, if you were above 17%, you don't get it in your reading proficiency. Reading proficiency. Thank you. Don't get diagnosed. So if your kid came home from school and said, hey, we're identified because it's a school identified saying, yeah, if I came home and your kid came home and was just pumped, yeah, I got 20%.

 

00:32:36:10 - 00:32:59:13

Unknown

This is amazing. You'd be like, fuck you. Yeah, it's not good, but it's okay for a kid to be at the 20% reading and now they're okay. They might well, again, Ida, where are you on that one? I don't see you run in the States. I don't really see you moving that up. Tells me again, you don't care, right?

 

00:32:59:15 - 00:33:17:21

Unknown

Yeah. Those things should be fight fought for. You know, when you're driving because, you know, Thanksgiving people are going to be driving. So when you're driving, you're like, oh, there's 17% of gas in my car. I got three more hours. Go that good thing. Probably not. But it's okay. We'll just leave it. We'll just test it. We'll just try it.

 

00:33:17:23 - 00:33:21:21

Unknown

One last.

 

00:33:21:23 - 00:33:44:00

Unknown

Yep. So I learned that this weekend, I was like, yeah. Yeah. I mean, I knew the I mean, I remember her saying like, yes, well, you they, they identified you with some like they that you got extra reading because you were low, but you weren't low enough. And then they were like, well, you're low enough, but maybe this is all you can do.

 

00:33:44:00 - 00:34:03:01

Unknown

So I was one of those kids that was like, you're dumb, this is the best that you could do. And I as I said, I probably took the test and I had like, you know, read, you know, number 15 and was like attention deficit out of control. Yeah. So yeah. All right. We're going to leave it at that.

 

00:34:03:03 - 00:34:23:16

Unknown

Thanks for listening for another, another episode of word blindness, dyslexia exposed. And Ida just be better. Yes. Great that you change the font. Glad. You know glad you're listening to something. But how about you do better in everything? That's what that your whole fucking website. Okay, like, rate, review and share. And.