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Thank you for showing tangible examples of what it’s like to live with This.

Thx this is helping me understand what my friend sees

Che Dio vi benedica!❤❤❤❤❤❤grazie infinitamente per aver inventato questi occhiali. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

I'm a bit conflicted by this because I could do this voluntarily with my vision if I found myself bored in class. If im doing all these visuals intentionally ( meaning I can be fully out of focus, floating, haloing, and bringing it back to complete clarity by choice ) is it still considering IS?

Oh, that's funny I was coming back to comment, and look what I wrote six years ago, just below! The most relevant examples in the video are Floating the Swirl, seesaws, Shakey, and Wavey but not all together and not so extreme.

Might have this lmao but if I do, you forgot the text flashes for me sometimes

But the halos and ripples are in colors~ 🟣##🟢

APPARENTLY IT ISNT LIKE THIS FOR EVERYONE. i got floating, halo, rivers, seesaws, shakey, and washout...holy shit

Does a person with irlen syndrome have to wear sunglasses everyday and all day

why do people with Irlen syndrome wear sunglasses all the time?

I get mostly the "Ripple effect" I have had it since childhood but didn't get diagnosed until I was about 50 years old. I only found out because my son had issues, and then I got tested. I found that by using different color plastic overlays on pages of books or especially glossy white paper it helped a great deal. Then I found out that it is not an eye condition, but a way the brain sees things, especially words and numbers. It gets worse and worse the more tired I get. I eventually found out that I could get specially tinted prescription glasses that helped a great deal. I also ordered them in frames that are often used for safety glasses that cut out the light from the sides. I could only read about 4 or 5 pages in a book before I had to stop for a few minutes in between, whereas my sister could read a 300 page book in a few evenings. Many people still don't acknowledge this condition, but those of us who have it sure know.

As someone without this gave me an instant headache. I feel for my son 😢 revently diognosed

I have daily aura migraines. Blurred vision is constant even with new glasses... do I have Irlen syndrome or is it just apart of the aura migraines?

I just recently got diagnosed with irlens syndrome

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An issue I have with this video is that it portrays Irlen syndrome as merely seeing blurry/moving letters while reading, and that it affects mainly children. That may turn away people who can't relate to that, but do otherwise show many other symptoms - sensitivity to light, issues with reading except the letters look normal, attention problems, unexplained fatigue especially during activities focused on visual perception, unexplained headaches/migraines, issues with depth perception and motor coordination, etc. The issue with letters dancing/moving/being blurry is common in those with Irlen syndrome, but it's not a necessary symptom to qualify for a diagnosis. There are better resources on this online. Personally I don't experience any kind of visual distortions, but I was referred to testing due to my extreme sensitivity to light, issues with attention, unexplained migraines, and trouble reading but for the reason that it makes me tired and gives me headaches. If you experience similar issues with no other explanation for it, or you do have a diagnosis that should explain it (ADHD, autism, learning disorders, etc as explained in the video) but your indicated treatment isn't helping you, it might be worth looking more deeply into this and possibly getting tested by a professional.

would i 100% know if i had it??!!

i have rivers, and it always made it hard for me to understand where a sentence begins and ends, so i have a hard time reading books and some long texts unless i read it out loud to myself. boyfriend always thinks im just talking to myself lol. its not so bad on the phone for me, mostly just on paper, but its a nightmare

Ive wondered if I have this issue, the tests and visual for it online always seemed so confusing, but I do remember REALLY loving this pair of red and blue glasses i had, and they almost helped me see better in a way i couldn’t identify. I wonder….

I was diagnosed with Irlen Syndrome when I was ten, and I am now twenty-seven. When I read large blocks of text, usually black on a white background, I see the burriness, the rivers, and the washout. In this video they are very overly exaggerated, but the reality of them are still hard to deal with all the same. I tend to tell professors and bosses that I am "dyslexic" or that I simply just have a learning/reading disability so that they might be more understanding of why I might not understand something in writing or just read so slowly, rather than explaining the complexity of my condition. I think that this video is very informative and has probably helped a lot of people who are like me but have never gotten the opprotunity to be properly diagnosed.

It also makes you hear classical music I understand?

For me the words can blur, slightly move back and forth. As well as light flickering around words. A white highlight behind words. Recently some random letters bolded throughout twi sentences. My glasses have made huge improvements except recently I got the wrong colours. So now I'm queezy again, through the day. Heachaches. Tired.

Im so happy to know this is an actual thing.. I had a coworker say something shady about people who don't read books when telling another person that i hate reading, and I felt awful. I can read well, was in AP English all through high school, its just very stressful looking at a wall of text- more so on paper.

Hi my grandson had a orange glasses we stay in South Africa I want to help kids but don't no how can you give me advice here is doctors but it's very expenses

Who knew “shaking” and “blurry” words wasn’t an eye issue. I’ve been to countless doctors who have sent me to the optometrist and countless optometrists who have prescribed glasses that have never worked. It is incredibly frustrating that doctors don’t seem to know much about health. Every single one of the mental and health issues I have, I have found on Facebook support groups or in TH-cam. Every single time I go back to said “doctors” with a printed diagnosis and the right testing just to confirm, then, I am typically left trying to figure out the right medication or dosage because they can’t even do that. I have seen over 80 doctors and it has been the exact same experience. The healthcare system is a money making machine useless to the patients.

Wait, so this stuff isn't normal? I haven't experienced all of these but I have experienced about half. It's worse for me when it's electronic. Used to be a voracious reader. It's only been in the past few years that I haven't been reading something all the time. I think I need to dig a little deeper.

I just realized I've had this all my life and thought it was normal..

OH MY GOD HOW DID I NEVER FIND THIS EVER BEFORE?! I comsidered to go to an eye doctor, but maybe telling a neurologist about my issues wouldn't be too bad either then.

How do those who wear those Irlen glasses get around the common office and school dress code prohibition on wearing sunglasses?

I think it’s a little funny Nimrod is the song playing 😭

When I got a tablet for reading, since I have low vision, I remember it being difficult to read. I would get nauseous and dizzy and my head would hurt amd my eyes so I changed the color of the font to dark blue and the background to light blue and it helped! I wonder if this is why.

WOW! I should be moved to know that I wasn't crazy for this when I was a young insecure child. I have never told anyone until recently for fear that I'd get locked up in the loony bin. Only when I coincidentally purchased colored sunglasses and began to improve in my general well being did I start to question. Why do my sunglasses make me feel.... SO GOOD! I LOVE THEM! I'm so glad it's a real thing!!! Should I get diagnosed? Does it matter?

I have this. I have halo and blurry on white paper and rivers or seesaws on any other colour that isn’t blue and purple

Why is the music so dramatic

I'm crying. This is a visual representation of what I've been trying to tell my eye doctors for years. I didn't know it had a name.

Here I am 30 years old. I have adhd. Diagnosed around age 6 in the 90’s. I have a sensitivity to the sun. My eyes water a lot just like it does my moms. I love reading. So does my kiddo. I have astigmatism just like my mom. Now I’m wondering if I should schedule another appointment.

I have recently been diagnosed, I have blue lenses currently. Before getting glasses I’d have blue filter on my phone and the overlays are great for reading but to write you really need glasses

I would literally tell my teachers the words get fuzzy and dance and zoom in and out on the page and it makes my head hurt and they’re just like “oh that’s weird” I wish I would’ve learned about this condition before adulthood

Ok so I don't have Irlen's Syndrome because I'm not actually seeing things like this, but boy the Halo/Doulbing one, well that's how it feels for me trying to read something quickly that's cluttered with information like a ticket at work or look for a specific item on a big shelf of items at the store.

while reading the white space between the lines create some kind of vibration sometimes ripples and move very fast...

Does anyone else get "color ribbons"?

how do I try the glasses?

Why is Trump on the intro?

Irlen affects me in an unusual way. As I read, the letters seem to move off the the right (I always likened it to a marching band). If I read faster to catch the letters up, they speed up even more to the point where I am not taking in the meaning of the words anymore. Anyone else have this? Caused me massive problems when studying, until I started doing oral notes instead of written. At school I was beaten by teachers countless times for not doing homework (it was the 70's and beatings were not unusual).

If anyone struggles with this, try read and write app(text to speech software) helps so much it's either called read and write or orbit but it's ace if it's computer reading :) I found out I was severely dyslexic, and have irlen syndrom and suspect adhd at 28 at uni studying theology. Managing to get. 2:1 and hoping to do a master's, but every day reading is a battle

Girlfriend told me that she's pretty sure she has this and showed this video to me. The floating words part hit me like a brick, because I've been dealing with that my whole life. I don't know why I never really felt the need to externalize and tell others about it, since I didn't exactly think it was _normal,_ just that I didn't really have the words to explain it and didn't think it was serious enough to bring up. Finding out that there's a name for it and a way to treat it is mind-boggling.

I am 34 with a Master's in fine arts. I was watching Pen15 on HULU this evening and one of the main characters was diagnosed with Irlen syndrome. Since then I have been hungrily researching this. I guess I thought everyone was experiencing. I hope to learn more and seek treatment.

My daughter is 22 years old and has tried to tell me since childhood that her words blurred and she had halos around her words. Many trips to the Optometrist and perfect 20/20 vision. I cried when I saw this. I finally understand. Thank you.

I live with both irlen syndrome and dyslexia, growing up I was called lazy and or stupid because I didn't read at the same level as my classmates. My Pop's had trouble reading and writing, he said it hurt his eyes and got headaches. I currently wear reading glasses with a prism lens so that I don't see the pages like one of Picasso's painting, I'll look into getting colored lenses as well. I've had a number of head injuries, one of those injuries I was unconscious for four days, the foster parent hit me with a maul handle and a few other things. I waited for karma to get her, suffer she did in the end, I didn't even go to her funeral. Anyway if I get the colored lenses I won't have to carry overlay sheets with me everywhere.

I have dysclacula and now I sometimes think it was Irlen Syndrome as I cant see words correctly and it's all rippled and I needed glasses. I got a test sheet for Irlen but my stupid mom put it in the trash, now I'll never know.