Dyslexia: scientists claim cause of condition may lie in the eyes

Re:Dyslexia: scientists claim cause of condition may lie in ... by pavement on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @09:50PM (#15504864)

  In people with the condition, the 
  cells were arranged in matching 
  patterns in both eyes, which may 
  be to blame for confusing the brain 
  by producing “mirror” images.

I mean, geeze. I’m kind of flabberghasted reading that.

Wow. Weird. Of all the things. A rare moment when symmetry in the human body turns out to be a bad thing. I guess if it was going to a problem, optics would be the rational place where that sort of issue to seems to crop up.

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Re:Dyslexia: scientists claim cause of condition may lie in ... by shamas on Thursday October 19, 2017 @03:35AM (#15506091)

This feels like a scenario where something is so weird and surprising that it is almost certainly incorrect. Amazingly weird reasons are almost never the reason.

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Re:Dyslexia: scientists claim cause of condition may lie in ... by twobyfour on Thursday October 19, 2017 @07:47AM (#15507061)

Why would this be a problem for reading but not for every single other freaking task where both eyes look at and identify the same object?

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Re:Dyslexia: scientists claim cause of condition may lie in ... by to3m on Thursday October 19, 2017 @10:11AM (#15508016)

3 random guesses:

- most objects are larger than letters

- the details of most objects are less relevant than with lettering

- you can spend more time recognising each thing, whatever it is, without slowing yourself down so much that the task becomes intractable (when reading, you have to recognise, and correctly, a lot of letters per minute)

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