Ode To My Illiteracy Or Dysgraphia VS Atychiphobia

2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43

Light irony at the beginning of working days has not bothered anyone yet) I do not know how the reader interprets what is written, for my part I can say that I put more information for thought into the written text, and I really would not want it to be perceived as some kind of moralizing. Because it is in moralizing that the essence of the problem lies.

Yes, the rapid development of Internet technologies has built a system not only for exchanging information, creating and strengthening ties. For many, this created an opportunity to sublimate their suppressed talents, personality traits, and all sorts of extraordinary abilities, the existence of which many of us might not even have guessed. But xenophobia, like body temperature, is always and in everything. The only difference is that maybe 36, 6 - to recognize the difference and build relationships, or maybe 38 and higher - to harm both the individual and others.

We have learned to cope with this, thanks to the properties of the network to create closed groups, ban ill-wishers and hide our pages from the "bad eye". However, due to the fact that a person is essentially social, it is not always possible to sit in a closed space, and leaving our "comfort zone" we always run the risk of running into people who, as it were, specifically hunt for negativity, destruction, and if for a long time they find nothing anywhere, they provoke squabbles themselves.

Due to the fact that lately I myself have personally tried to write short artistic notes, I inevitably began to get into various groups of teaching writing skills, and learned the stories of some people that I want to share with you.

In various circles, there is an opinion that the association of "literacy" with the level of general intellectual abilities, worldview, success, etc., is a kind of mental atavism, since in those days when such concepts were born, everything was very simple. If you have the opportunity, you go to school, read books and, accordingly, relate to a certain circle of people. Uneducated = not educated = soulless = poor. Today, many linguists pay attention to how the forms and rules of communication are rapidly changing, with the advent of the same Internet technologies, including emoticons, various programming languages (like the "Padonskaf" slang that came from the IT sphere as opposed to the intelligence of literacy), substitution of symbols, mixing of languages (including the inclusion of Americanisms), etc. If earlier, an illiterate person was considered uneducated, today the trend is that the more languages, including symbolic and sign a person knows, the higher the likelihood that he will make more mistakes in his native speech (control function is removed). I cannot say that this is sad, because today, as never before, the professions of proofreaders, editors, etc. are becoming popular. And if a person at heart is a perfectionist or an inborn "grammar-nazi", he has a unique opportunity to improve his well-being with gentle recommendations and tips.

However, the other modern side of the coin is better research in psychology and neuropsychology. And today it is no longer a secret that many creative people suffer from various kinds of neuropsychological disorders. For example, to convey your state of mind in a sublimated form in the form of a work of art or music is especially good at the so-called alexithimikov, people who have difficulty communicating their emotional experiences in words. Thus, a person can simultaneously be an excellent artist, intellectual, educated and highly spiritual, while writing rather clumsy texts.

Also, recently, scientists have been paying more and more attention to recognition and correction (they work hard with children, because the younger the age, the higher the likelihood of correcting the problem and vice versa) of such a disorder as dysgraphia … Under him, a person with absolute safety and high indicators of intelligence makes ridiculous mistakes in writing, even when he knows all the rules by heart and knows how to apply them.

Various kinds of mental disorders can affect memory and especially attention. Often people themselves do not fully realize that they are in a state of depression, that they suffer from an anxiety disorder (and there are a lot of them on the network, precisely because increased anxiety does not allow them to build relationships in real life). Mind games, which we call cognitive distortions, catch us literally at every turn. Sometimes we are absolutely sure that we are right, we frantically prove something, and as a result, it turns out that just a simple defragmentation has occurred in our brain and some information has moved to another shelf.

Often, various kinds of literary "editions" invite a proofreader and an editor to the rate, because they know that a person who writes large texts (if this is not an order that is constantly corrected) is always emotionally involved, therefore, while reading, he sees not letters and commas, but is included in emotional experiences and images. Therefore, so often you can see typos, inconsistent endings (I rewrote a fragment, but somewhere the ending remained from the previous thought), etc. So many journalists, bloggers and writers may note that when they postpone the text, returning to it after a while, they see it a little differently and make amendments, and this process can last indefinitely. The more emotions behind the text, the more so-called. "author's punctuation" about the rules of which there is also controversy among linguists, and other author's elements (for example, for an accent write a word with a capital letter in the middle of a sentence, or oversaturate the text with quotation marks, implying convention of designation, combine non-existent words, etc.)). This is especially often the case when a person speaks several languages, because behind each sound in a particular language there may be a different visual symbol and a person is trying to convey something in between, not directly expressed. And the more the languages are similar in structure, the higher the likelihood of admission and other errors.

It happens, of course, everything is much simpler. In my personal practice, there was a case when I also experienced a significant language complex. There are usually a lot of foreigners and immigrants in the institutes of our city, and once the guys who came from the "West" made fun of my language and dialect. This for a long time discouraged the desire to communicate in Ukrainian. Only after a while I learned that of all the existing dialects, it is Poltava (Slavic) that is the literary language. And they, on the contrary, spoke Ukrainian + Romanian + Polish in local surzhik. Therefore, personally, I do not play these games anymore). However, now, when I already have considerable experience of working with different people, I am surprised and saddened to realize how much interesting and really talented we are losing because of the fear of condemnation and discussion, because of someone else's assessment, and not the fact that it is professional. After all, professionals behave somewhat differently in their desire to help, imagine at least for a minute if a psychologist (dentist, cook, etc.) stands above everyone and comments on all actions in terms of potential mistakes you have made)

As you probably already guessed, I want to remind you that when a person opens up to us from any side, and does not always do it linguistically correctly, we need to remember that "the worst advice is unsolicited."It’s not for nothing that, according to the rules of etiquette, it is customary to pretend that you did not notice when a person sneezed, and not rush to inflict good wishes with drawing attention to his person. Perhaps, making a remark about someone else's illiteracy, someone actually suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder or atychiphobia. It happens that a person experiences fear and panic at the sight of mistakes, creates various rituals in order not to make mistakes, and when an error is found, "maliciously punishes" both the mistake itself and the person who made it, etc. Of course, there are cases traumatic school experience and neurosis on this basis. However, in this case, it is important first of all to pay attention to your mental and psychological health. For the most part, our upbringing is such that many people have artificially low self-esteem, and they try to increase it by belittling other people. There is some difference between the desire to help a person fix something by giving an alternative version of the error, and between the desire to prove to yourself that you are at least something better than others. When this difference is palpable, and someone sees it behind him - it also makes sense to think about it.

Do I want to say with this note that I urge you to tolerate illiteracy and abandon language learning? Of course not. Not from the point of view of moralizing, but from the point of view such that the more we adhere to generally accepted rules, the higher the likelihood that we will be understood by the interlocutor and vice versa. And the transmission of information is one of the key functions of speech. With this note, I rather want to note that, like any form of assessment, the assessment of a person by literacy is a subjective matter, and more often a projective one. We hardly know what actually stands behind the illiteracy of this or that individual, and how our remark can affect his future fate. While our state and our reaction, we can analyze in more detail. What is the essence of the question, do we really want to help a person correct mistakes, or do we want to assert ourselves at someone's expense? And as in all other spheres of activity - if we can fix something - let's fix it, if not - we will accept it as it is)

Well, the number and quality of mistakes made by the "author" can certainly be discussed in the comments)