Joe Rogan | What Do Dyslexics See When They Read? w/Eddie Izzard

Now when you say dyslexic, so if you read something, what do you see? I read it, I see it, but I get word blindness. Word blindness. I just see other words, long words. I couldn't wrap to my life. This took me ages to say, let alone to spell. I just find it, I subvocalize so that in my head I'm going, the man goes down, he turns around, Jack, what are you doing here? I will almost say that, and you know when you're kids they actually read it out loud, and I'm not reading out loud but I'm saying it in my head. And other people, they can do a page, you know, they do this speed reading and they just shouldn't, shouldn't, and they could just take it whole pages and it's stunning. I can't. I don't understand that either. That's, that's tricky. So my spelling was cat with a K, ceiling with an S, very logical spelling. My writing is all over the place, bigger letters, smaller letters, bigger letters. And they tested me and they said I'm severely atypically dyslexic. So I have a huge mental map, memory. I can hold a lot of things in the memory in my head. So that's just sort of a permanent distinction, like you just, this is just who you are, there's no way to fix that? It seems so. I haven't heard of anyone coming out of dyslexia and saying, now I can read much faster, now I can do things. I just think you're stuck with that. But it means you think sideways, and I think a lot of creative people are dyslexic, I think. Sideways. Yeah. So you see clouds, you see a lion in the clouds. You see, probably there's a train going through the sky, you know, it's a creative thing. Juxtaposing things on your wall. You have to juxtapose things, which is, they don't lead from one to the other. They can be fighting right against it, or completely bonkers are out of it. Just looking here in the room, you know, and linking things together. I think creativity, we're always trying to throw ourselves in comedy, buy something that's weird and opposite and funny. Caesar, you should, you know, I'm going for the salad line when I said that Caesar Di over think it's salad. And then people, it seems to make people laugh and go, oh yeah, Caesar salad. Man, this guy was, he murdered a million Gaulish people, you know, and he ends up as a salad. He's not a cognac. Napoleon gets a cognac, a brandy. But he's a salad. What's that about? So yeah, this is my, the Selects of Traits, but I think you get dealt these cards when you're born, whatever genetic cards they are. And the art of life is to play your cards as well as you can.