Induced Dyslexia

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The Age of Comprehension

Our eyes developed as survival sensors to detect motion and distance and not just to see the difference between the letters “E” and “C.”

Dyslexia is commonly described as a comprehension disorder where a person miscues the identity or sequence of letters and or numbers resulting in a reduced ability to read and comprehend words. Dyslexia is normally viewed as a biological condition resulting from neural pathways improperly transmitting information.

Induced Dyslexia is a comprehension disorder caused by misaligned and/or mis-prescribed glasses, primarily progressive glasses. Progressive glasses, unlike single-vision lenses, have a continuous range of magnification in the lower half of the lens that allows the wearer to see close objects from the graduated reduction in viewing magnification. To see "clearly" the wearer moves their head to face the object, and then raises or lowers the horizontal angle of their head to match the magnification necessary to being the object into focus.

With the advent of the skill of reading, we started the Age of Information in which “knowledge is power.” As reading became an almost universal human skill, we entered The Age of Information Overload. Now we are beginning The Age of Comprehension.

Human survival evolved from the need for strength to the need for knowledge. Information was the key to that knowledge, but information is now so plentiful that the key to survival is no longer the acquisition of information but rather the ability to filter or weed-out extraneous information. Knowledge requires comprehension. Knowing what to ignore is becoming almost as important as what you know, and being able to clearly see relevant information is now becoming the key to survival.

While comprehension is an art, reading is a use of vision NOT originally in our evolutionary makeup. Instead when we create language we took our binary perspective of "us versus them" or "food versus predator" and refined that into a multiplicity of terms and labels to give that "airy nothingness a local habitation and a name" which we call words. Starting about 3500 years ago we took those words and the pictorial symbols we used to represent it and turned them into written words.

As you read these words on your electronic display (or printed on paper) you likely fail to realize that the biology that lets you see words has NOT changed from that of our "caveman ancestors" in over 5000 years. The perceptual skill that lets you see rocks, trees, clouds, the sky, plants, and animals has evolved to let you interpret the coded symbols we subconsciously compile into words and concepts.

While progressive glasses create specific areas of clear vision, at the same time they inherently reduce peripheral vision. Comprehension, however, is also dependent upon peripheral vision which progressive glasses inadvertently minimize with the result being Induced Dyslexia.

This page is dedicated to helping people overcome that problem.