Disability in phonics & experiencing

Ali Shaharyar Siddiqui
Bootcamp
Published in
4 min readJul 25, 2021

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Sounds are made from instruments these tools vary from biological made or man-made, throughout the centuries these sounds were created but not document, since last 5000 years ago humans started creating shapes to create a system for other humans to learn or read about the past, and therefore as time moves on these turn into languages. Assigning a particular sound to each shape which is called letter now.

As human created these shapes which carries a sound with it, become complex when other shapes were started binding with them, these complex sounds which generated from multiple shapes as we called them alphabets become part of our daily lives.

But all this progress in languages comes with a price, the hearing sound disability is not related to your ears but it related to how your brain process information which knows as Dyslexia, As I have mentioned these sounds given a shape to identify the nature of the sound, but once the shapes of sounds bind with other shapes they started to create complex sounds, these complex sounds become a difficulty for people who were suffering from dyslexic.

It's astonishing how the human brain works, but every human brain is different from the other one. as these alphabetical sounds start getting complex it becomes hard for a dyslexic to carry on with. And why not!! Look at these words we use in English its written something it sounds like something else and its have an accent as well. Not every brain can understand all this information at once.

The brain hears something and then decodes it, but in these cases where bound shapes create a sound that can be created by one single alphabet, so what's the point of binding so many letters to create one alphabet sound. I know most of you who are reading this will be saying in your head, it doesn't make sense language doesn't work like this… but try opening your minds a bit human has created these shapes and assigned a sound to it and then we make it complicated further as we thought it was great for us.

Look at history in English most of the complex words which were created was for the royals because these words were considered as a high-class society, Langauge was the luxury brand 200 years back not only for Brits but it has happened same in south asia where Urdu drive so many things just because of Mughal empire. As it gets complex and still a major part of society both in the west and east sell it as a luxury brand.

So as a dyslexic it becomes a problem for me when I started learning, most thing makes no sense when it comes to the language of any sought. We say something does something, we write something pronounced it something else, we have letters which silent and don't know why they are there, I know readers still have something against it that it's not the way it is there is a reason behind it.

Language should be straightforward, it should have easier words and less complexity for 17% of the population of this world. If you understand why things get difficult when it comes to communication where jargons has been used which means something and the context is totally different its totally understandable.

These sounds with the assigned shapes have nothing be structure or created in a way for others to understand it was made by the elites and imposed on others to follow then pattern. These elites aren't just only mean rich, they were poets, writers, and other people who want to get fame just like and artists who do a painting without using words. But these people who did this on fame have cost many lives of dropouts, leaving education forever and those who consider themselves dumb.

https://www.behance.net/gallery/40120465/The-Gift-of-Dyslexia By Andy Summers

Maybe if we create a world a system where we make things less complex and more understandable in terms of language or communication or the sound we use in our daily it would have helped us a lot and to those who consider it be a brand remember who are hurting those who are born differently from you.

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