# Q about Dyslexia **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 17, 2016, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-about-dyslexia/772228 "2016-11-17T02:52:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2016, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-about-dyslexia/772228/1 "2016-11-17T02:52:53Z")
According to one of the comments in this video: Dyslexics have no “inner voice”; I assume this means the running commentary inside your head whenever you don’t say anything out loud, this aside from reading. Do dyslexic dopers concur? ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2016, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-about-dyslexia/772228/2 "2016-11-17T06:30:35Z")
What running commentary? - A very baffled non-dyslexic. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2016, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-about-dyslexia/772228/3 "2016-11-17T14:46:12Z")
Many people, myself included, perceive mental existence as a mostly continuous verbal monologue. Yes, it’ll shut up while I’m concentrating on doing something sufficiently absorbing. Although it’s an interesting question whether it shuts up or whether “I” just don’t notice it droning on the background. Right now as I pause in typing this I’m debating with myself when I should abandon SDMB timewasting this morning and get on with showering and starting my day’s “useful” activities. The debate is fully verbal with rhetoric and “on the one hand … on the other hand …” back and forth. My understanding is this is by far the most common way humans perceive their mental existence. There are exceptions, but they’re relatively the minority. ---
**Author:** ![Lasciel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2016, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-about-dyslexia/772228/4 "2016-11-17T23:53:15Z")
Husband (dyslexic) reports inner monologue “narrating” pretty much constantly when not reading. It also narrates reading, but he reports the narrator has a lot more trouble there. ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-about-dyslexia/772228/5 "2016-11-18T00:31:19Z")
Not dyslexic, and my running narration is documentary-like: “When using the ladies room near the lobby, it is important to use the sink nearest the door, because it has both the foamy soap and the gentle stream of water…” ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-about-dyslexia/772228/6 "2016-11-18T11:45:05Z")
I would not think so, since I’ve seen dyslexics subvocalize more, actually mouthing out the the words. Well, unless the narration and subvocalization are separate processes. But I’ve always seen them treated as the same. ---
**Author:** ![muttrox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a8b319/32.png) [@muttrox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muttrox)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-about-dyslexia/772228/7 "2016-11-18T14:03:06Z")
My dyslexic daughter clearly has a continuous inner monologue. I didn’t watch the video, but at a minimum it sounds like a gross exaggeration. Bear in mind that dyslexia is a very broad categorization. Not all dyslexics are alike, so I suppose there might be some odd varieties of dyslexia that go down this road.