Talk:Hyperlexia

message: Is there a reason the article comes across like it only affects young children and develops into a different disability when the child ages. nothing at all really about if and how it affects adults. (unsigned comment)
:I think that a lot of the hyperlexia organizations are focused that way. I know that I joined a hyperlexia mailing list at one time, thinking there would be hyperlexics there to talk to -- but it was all parents going "woe is me, my child's life is ruined." People don't seem to think about hyperlexic adults; and to some extent, I think it's a recent diagnosis, so there aren't all that many adults running around with the dx. Anyway, I think that if anyone can contribute to the article in this area it would be great! But it has to have citable sources, etc.; it can't just be anecdotal or personal memoirs. -- ManekiNeko | Talk 12:41, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Why only children?

message: From anecdoal evidence gathered on the web, it appears to me that hyperlexia may have some hereditary component, with families often reporting that there are several generations of hyperlexics, or at least numerous instances of precocious (preschool age) reading, even if not accompanied with auditory processing difficulties.
Autism is highly heritable, so hyperlexia is probably as well, but to the best of my knowledge (and I have read most of the academic literature) there is no direct evidence of this.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Economicprof (talk • contribs) 02:49, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm from one of those families where hyperlexia is inherited, both my wife and (autistic) son taught themselves to read at age 3-4.  She has no problems with auditory processing.  He has problems with it, but how'd one know whether it was from the hyperlexia or from the autism?  In any case, I have no doubt that it can be heritable. 50.0.101.103 (talk) 01:51, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is it hereditary? 

message: Rather than being on the autism spectrum, my understanding is that hyperlexia usually occurs along with autism or ASD - thus, most hyperlexic people are alos autistic, rather than the two having a lot in common on their own.
--BlackJar72 23:35, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comorbid, not on the Spectrum 

message: I made a small change to the first sentence, in bold:
:Hyperlexia is a condition in which the main characteristics are an above average ability to read accompanied with a below average ability to understand spoken and/or written language.
Even though hyperlexic individuals can read well -- in the sense that they can decode written words, and successfully "get the words off the page" through grapheme-phoneme conversion, they still may not come away with the ideas expressed by the words they just read.
71.248.179.113 19:49, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: All sources mention only spoken language.SuperElephant 15:50, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  written language comprehension 

message: I think this might be getting away from the point. I am hyperlexic, I have difficulty in reading and writing but not so much speaking and listening. I could speak at a very young age. I think the article is worse now than it was a few months ago with regards to accuracy.82.6.29.26 (talk) 17:14, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Caution

message: The claim
 Hyperlexia is the highly developed ability to recognize words with little or no comprehension of them
is not clear to me. Would this imply that they could differ between "hyperlexia" and "dyslexia" (as words) at age three, but be unable to connect the word "hyperlexia" with the concept hyperlexia until a much higher age?
Please clarify, possibly with one or two specific examples.
88.77.145.143 (talk) 04:18, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confused by explanation 

message: I hypothesize, based on my own personal experiences, that in my case of hyperlexia, written/read English was my first language, and that I was not fluent in heard/spoken English.  I thought in text, not sound, and yet not in pictures of text but in an imagined sense of touch, of what the shapes of the words would feel like if I touched them.  It was that sense of touch that carried meaning and definition.
I was initially diagnosed with ADD/ADHD, but I was rediagnosed as an adult with Asperger Syndrome, on the high-functioning portion of the Autism spectrum.  I completely missed out on the hidden curriculum of my school days, which was taught by peers and teachers by nonverbal communication:  tone and volume of voice, facial expressions, hand and body gestures, posture, rapidity of movement, and fashion.  As a result, I was completely unprepared for college and the adult world outside of school.
I now believe that written language, spoken language, sign language, body language, and Braille are far more different than gestalt thinkers believe them to be, and far more similar than particular thinkers like myself can comprehend.  To be fluent in each is to be multilingual; to think in one and translate into another is to be a traveler, a tourist in another culture's world.  --BlueNight (talk) 00:21, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Autism and Hyperlexia 

message: I tagged citation 7 as a broken one because while the journal does exist; the author doesn't, and much less an article in the journal with that title. It's too bad. I thought that that was an interesting piece of information. Lighthead þ 23:23, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference no. 7 

message: I seem to fit the diagnosis for Hyperlexia III (except I understood fully well what I was reading; otherwise everything else seems accurate), however, I'm 22 now and my autistic-like symptoms have gotten worse, not better. I know that no one here is an expert, but what do you guys think about that? Also, the link to hyperlexia.net seems to be broken- all I get is a blank screen (but I'm running IE; that may explain it). SmallCheez (talk) 06:34, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: I Have an Odd Question

message: Reference number five in the references section is a broken link, there is no article and the page it links to is dead.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Esmeralda.rupp (talk • contribs) 00:23, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. Fixed. RCraig09 (talk) 01:46, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference #5 

message: The initial paragraphs of the article gave the impression that hyperlexia is simply "above normal ability to read"; it is written in a way that makes the reader even think "why this is a syndrome"? MiguelMadeira (talk) 02:37, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "above normal ability to read coupled with a below normal ability to understand spoken language" or only "above normal ability to read"?