What language do those deaf dyslexics read? Could they speak it before going deaf? Is it their first language or a second language after a sign language?

I can't think of a comparable situation elsewhere in the world for hearing people. The closest that comes to mind is learning Classical Chinese in ancient Korea or Japan or ancient and medieval Vietnam, but nowadays all those countries have good phonetic writing systems and still don't expect everyone to learn Classical Chinese.

[–] trinsec@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Sign language first. Written language (Dutch) second. The ones I happen to know cannot speak Dutch at all. They're pure sign language users. They're all born deaf.

[–] Shihali@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's interesting. Since they were born deaf and can't speak Dutch, do they act like they're memorizing words as if they were hieroglyphs?

[–] trinsec@piefed.social 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not sure. I know one of them fairly well, and he has the tendency to swap letters around. So can we go watch a fun movie on a VDV, and he could also copy a DC for me... Those particular words being finger spelled.

[–] Shihali@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think a specialist would be interested. I don't know enough about dyslexia to make a sound guess as to whether this is more like hearing-people dyslexia or character amnesia.

Character amnesia (forgetting how to write Chinese characters, often ones you can recognize without trouble) for me shows up as forgetting components or slightly misremembering them, as if I couldn't quite remember whether it was "CD" or "CP" or "CO", or if it was a "DVD" or a "DVV".

[–] trinsec@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

Well, he does have the right letters. Just the order might be random sometimes. 😅 I agree, it would be an interesting case.