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fullofsunsetwhispers · 2 years ago

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Hi! I love your blog, thank you so much for keeping the fandom alive, i just joined this year!

I want to ask you if you think Omi has reading disability, dyslexia? I want to hear what other people the the fandom think. Cause it feels like he has, and to me all four of the monks have ADHD, they just fit the charts.

Hello there! Oh my gosh, thank you for such nice words! Well, I’m here to infodump and throw ideas here and there sometimes with additional drawings, so knowing some folks pay attention to it makes me really glad and it encourages me to post more.

As for your question, usually, I’m not into coming up with disabilities’ headcanons mostly because of my fear that I can get something wrong. However, since you come to me with such a request I’ll try my best to present my outlook on the matter. I may be oblivious to some things so anybody who reads this post – please correct me if something may sound disrespectful/ improper/ or simply wrong from the scientific point of view.

If that’s cleared up, let’s move on to Omi’s dyslexia. Ok, I see your point – cheeseball surely shows some tendencies that may be attributable to such a condition. The most notable one is present in every episode, that is Omi’s failed slang. When someone corrects his mistakes his reactions vary from acknowledging it was something ‘off’ with the word choice/order or simply he refuses to accept the correction, brushing the issue off by telling the others ‘that makes no sense’.

The most troublesome thing in assessing whether it’s a case of dyslexia is the fact we don’t know how advanced Omi is in his native language.

But my assumption is - he has already accomplished fluency in Chinese. He can read and understand what is written and he can talk about it without making mistakes. The additional issue is that monks most probably communicate with each other in English so Omi has to translate the contents of the scroll to his friends.

To my understanding, a dyslectic person has problems in:

dividing words into syllables

spelling

phonetics (they can't differentiate similar sounds, hence the word they want to pronounce may turn out to be a word with a different meaning)

there may occur an evident overactivity, speech defects, writing words in reverse, no ability to apply interpunction rules in writing

there may occur some neurologic problems such as memory loss, and dysfunctional space orientation( for example confusing the left side with the right). Sometimes the easiest puzzle game can't be completed.

and the matter of our discussion: inability to understand idioms. We may also include the inability to understand jokes, math, and reading a-loud.

So, it seems as if only overactivity and inability to understand idioms track in Omi's case. I can also add confusing lefts and rights and directions whatsoever but as far as I can remember Omi can tell lefts and rights in battle. Only when he uses directional words in a conversation, he utters something like 'upside up' 'I won't let you up' etc. As a consequence, we can assume Omi can't grasp the metaphoric and idiomatic meanings, but I would not take that for granted either. Because we have Master Fung's sayings, Chase's riddles and not to mention that official language presented in old scrolls and... aren't they metaphorical to some extent too???? And on top of that Omi proved he can say a lot of puns to their enemies to mock them.

Y'know, I'm no expert but the fact there is so little evidence in the show isn't helping either. It's a cartoon - rather old cartoon and who would have thought about proper representation back then?

This analysis can't go further until I tackle the issue of dyslexia and bilingualism. In one source, it is said if the child is dyslectic it is almost certain it would show these symptoms also in learning L2. However, the other source states bilingualism enhances many abilities such as problem-solving as well as the capacity to analyze different aspects of language (a skill that is needed for reading and writing). And tbh if Omi has dyslexia this clearly applies to him. Because I get the impression he's also fluent in English and he figured out the rules quite successfully (apart from idioms and some phrases, of course).

I've made a list of Omi's mix-ups.

I smell bad = stink

in your head = in your face

it’ll be cold, dude → Kimiko says ‘cool’

rutted timing = rotten timing

remove the led = get the lead out

push your arm = i’m pulling your leg

piece of pie = piece of cake

skating = surfing the Net

obtain game = you’ve got game

peace on = peace out – saying goodbye

check me in my friend – check me out

dilly our dallies – dilly dally

it’s time we get to the top of this – (the bottom of this)

but you’re going up – he means you’re going down (you must be defeated)

event turning - turn of events

do we look as if we were born next week? - last week

I’m in heat – No Omi you’re on fire!!!

I’m very much top-tip – correct – tip-top

I won’t let you up = I won’t let you down

Jermaine: You must be tripping! Omi: I’m not taking a trip!

I order you to spill your internal organs – spill your guts

The luck is spitting on us = the luck is shining on us

blond leading the blonde = blind leading the blind

we punish their watches = clean their clocks

you’re gonna chew on that sentence =you’re gonna eat those words

Oh that thing is very icy – very cool

spoon over the wu = fork over the wu

The majority of mistakes are the result of Omi confusing English phonemes OR he uses synonyms to compensate for a lack of the appropriate word. However, what is interesting, is his word choice in several instances relies more on imagery and association. For example, in 'The luck is spitting on us' Omi associated shining with the way light can cover all of our bodies, just like the spit. 'the thing is very icy or heat-fire? - the same elements that remind Omi of the feeling of coldness or warmth but used in a more metaphorical sense. My boy may have made a mistake but he was close anyway. Spoon instead of the fork? They are both kitchen appliances. Tripping and trip? Almost the same words but with the -ing ending so in this instance Omi couldn't recognize the category of the word (verb vs noun). What I'm trying to say, Omi has developed a certain pattern that only he can understand to make his communication slightly better and I'm proud of these attempts.

So, I totally agree with flycotte these speech patterns are connected with dyslexia. Omi mixes the phonemes (rutted vs rotten or blond vs blind), and confuses the order of elements in phrases. The top for him is the bottom, so he also confuses directions, and sometimes he adds to the words wrong prepositions.

But you know? he makes those mistakes IN ENGLISH. Omi is quite young, so what if these errors arise because he can't accustom to L2 yet? I've read somewhere that for Chinese speakers English is difficult to learn. You have to switch from the pictorial alphabet to the English one. Reading problems in L2 acquisition arise due to inability to match sounds to letters accurately. If you're Chinese and want to learn English you have to develop an entirely new sound-letter mapping. Omi is rather a fast learner but what I admire about him is his dedication to learning and I hc he would practice writing in English for hours. I really like the last sentence from that article because it sums up Omi's approach to being understood by others

'You don’t need to have perfect grammar in order to communicate. In the beginning, making yourself understood is what counts.'

In Omi's case, he mastered the grammar but slang and minimal pairs are yet to be learned. Taking into account English isn't his first language, he's doing good.

On another note, I do believe Omi's failed slang is to some extent attributable to that there are no Chinese equivalents of these phrases/sayings. Or Omi has never learned the Chinese slang expressions because of the fact before meeting with Raimundo, Clay and Kimiko he has never left the temple? Considering how Master Fung speaks in a formal manner along with Master Monk Guan, you kind of see where Omi picked it up from soooo maybe Omi overuses English Slang expressions to appear more knowledgeable (and impress) his friends!

The last thing I wanted to analyze is his handwriting. He wrote one and only letter in the show so let's focus on that.

As you can see, Omi isn't confident enough with lowercase letters. He prefers to write in uppercase, in some places he's not sure how to divide words, and sometimes letters are too close to each other. More drastic errors are the lack of the pronoun (I think 'I must leave would be more correct) and that weird line that is supposed to replace 'R' in some words (orderR and futuRe). Omi also forgot about the letter 'i' in 'friends'. Overall, Omi tries to remain punctuation but my little dude could've made a couple of shorter sentences instead of one long one.

This piece of writing could belong to a dyslexic child but I wonder if I saw the same message in Chinese (and most importantly knew Chinese) and compared it with the letter written in English, would there be the same amount of mistakes?

So, yeah I would rather opt for the possibility ‘Omi isn’t dyslexic. He’s in a process of learning English and his errors are failed attempts to recreate a more ‘lively, casual’ type of speech.’ However, there are, in fact, many hints he might be dyslectic as well. In fact, it's a matter of his motivation and the guidance of his fellow monk friends whether he manages to eliminate these speech/writing habits. The results of his efforts will all be revealed in Omi's adulthood but since there won't be any XS continuation with the main cast as adults we can only speculate.

To wrap things up, Omi is one determined fella who tries his best. Dyslectic or not, he takes learning very seriously so I do believe he will keep on improving his English in the same way he's fixated on improving himself as a warrior regardless of his disability. In fact, that would hype him up even more to be better at expressing himself.

#ask #omi #omi's dyslexia #flycotte #sorry it took me so long for some reason i kept on rewriting this answer like 10 times in word document #maybe my answer is a little biased because i happen to teach english #as a hobby #and believe me: 10-year-olds and even some of 15-year-olds do not understand concepts of phrasal verbs and idioms #all i have left is to do some drilling excercises with them #and therapy of dyslexic people also include a lot of drilling and exercises on minimal pairs as far as i am concerned

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omicrontheicequeen · 6 years ago

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[So my friend was so kind to get me a ticket to tfcon, and I was looking at the list of guests, I want to talk to the writers and have things signed.....is...is it really 35-40 dollars a signature??? 40 for a voice clip??

Gods, I'm going mostly for the voice actors and artists...I have no money for even one even if I magically get dream catcher commissions. Shite.

I still want to go and give a few catchers to those actors that mean a lot to me but that's a lot per signature. Is that like that at all tfcons?]]

#from the mun ( ooc )#from omie #tfcon #tfcon la #well this is a dreak out moment #i hope this is my dyslexia confusing me

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minstage · 7 years ago

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“You know like the sausage.” “He’d kill us if we named him that.”

S T A T S.

NAME --> Devon Hudson NICKNAMES --> Dey. Dev. Hudson. AGE --> 17 GRADE --> Junior. High School SEXUALITY --> demisexual FACE --> Markel Williams

B I O.

Unlike their younger siblings, Devon and Syrah grew up and vividly remembered their parents struggle to kickoff their restaurant. It was a lot of physically & emotionally tiring work, a lot of expenses, and a lot of uncertainty. Their parents went through such a long tough journey and yet their marriage didn’t waver nor did their love and attention towards their kids. These two never went without courage, hope, and love. They respected their parents for doing everything they can for them and thus the values they taught them stuck.

The first value Devon learned was family. Unity. The knowledge that no matter what happens, no matter where their dreams take them, family always remains. This wasn’t a hard lesson to remember considering how much his mom stressed family activities. Dinner was the most important time of the day because that’s when they all sat down at the table and caught up with one another. If they were going to miss it, they needed a good excuse.

His next value. Love. Seeing his parents stumble upon this fairytale love made Devon hope for the same. He’s a lowkey romantic and wants this sort of hits you in the face love and yet he hasn’t fallen for anyone. It’s sort of frustrating for him since here he has his two younger siblings who are huge flirts and easily gains feelings for people, and yet he had maybe one crush on someone before. There were people in his life who wanted to be in a relationship with him or said I love you far sooner than he was ready for, and he can’t give it back but he wants to. He doesn’t understand why he’s so slow; does he have high standards? Is he feeling it but he just doesn’t know that’s what the feeling is? His parents always say that he’ll know when it happens but maybe he won’t.

His last essential value was. Staying humble. Unlike his egotistical younger siblings, Devon is very conscious of all the hard work his parent went through to make their lives the way they are. He knows that if he wants to make his dreams come true he needs to work hard to achieve them. No one is going to make this happen but himself. He’s ambitious to work at a big business and become a CEO. He hasn’t figured out the details just yet but he has big goals and he is determined to see them through. (and has taken a ton of business courses throughout high school to start off)

Dyslexia. Devon always had trouble with text or numbers. It made his business courses throughout high school pretty damn difficult especially when he just kept packing on the courses even skipping lunch in order to get ahead. He’s not going to let this slow him down but he does end up beating himself down for simple mistakes he makes.

RECENTLY PLAYED;

Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love Queen - Another One Bites the Dust Kendrick - Humble Zayne - Pillowtalk OMI - Cheerleader

C O N N E C T I O N S.

New Chara! Wip + opened to connections

#devon #c: devon #the classic case of this (name) started out as joke and then we got attached #tiana's kids #nextgen #waltnextgen

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omicrontheicequeen · 5 years ago

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Fill out & Repost ♥ This meme definitely favors Canons more, but I hope OC’s still can make it somehow work with their own lore and Lil’ fandom of friends & mutuals. Multimuses pick the muse you are the most invested in atm.

Tagged by: @panickedforcefield and @wild-at-spark

MY MUSE IS. canon / oc / au / canon-divergent / fandomless

* is your character popular in the fandom? YES/NO Icy is a predacon? After TFP there seemed to be a re-surge of Predacons!

* is your character considered hot™ in the fandom? WELL… / NO / IDK. Depends on how you see it? Big predacon lady with lots of sharp edges?

* is your character considered strong in the fandom? YES / NO / IDK. BIG PREDACON LADY......she can bench most mechs but also Optimus I’m sure could ride on her back in beast mode..........maybe. Icy might just play dead of he did.

* are they underrated? YES / NO. Most OCs are, but that’s all good! She can be the big momma to her friends or that ‘oh shite we need help’ back up XD

* were they relevant to the main story? YES / NO. I made and re-made Icy that she can be in the background of things, or be the Big Scary Monster the heros stumble into, even when she’s just sneezing.

* were they relevant to the main character? YES/ NO Not really? depends on the rp

* are they widely known in their world? YES / NO. PFFFT Depend on who has been keeping an optic on the wanted posters/alerts!

* how’s their reputation? GOOD / BAD / NEUTRAL. LOL At worst Icy is a pirate, at best a neutral, Her morals are a tad skewed

HOW STRICTLY DO YOU FOLLOW CANON? Omie has a habit of mushing TF worlds/cannons. Icy follows the rough cannons of TFP and RiD2012 and a sprinkling of beast wars. Between space bridge and transwarp tech she can be punted into different detentions.

SELL YOUR MUSE!(aka try to list everything, which makes your muse interesting in your opinion to make them spicy for your mutual.)

Heyo need some heavey lifting? You might be able to bribe this pirate to help, need someone kidnapped? She can do it! [Warnings: There is no promises there will be kidnappings of person or even the right person, or that that person won’t be delivered to a confused Autobot/Decepticon. ] And is able to- eventually- break out of near any prison!

Once you’re deemed as Crew or Colony, Friend/family, there’s not much the big dragon will not do to for you! She’ll hunt a car for a present for you, won’t mind being your couch or just be a gaint shade predacon.

She also has ice powers! Over heating? Get some new ice packs. She could even start a fire when its cold.

Also.....hatchlings. There’s always some stage of hatchling running around her ship so you have a high chance of being love molested! Even by the other adult predacons!

NOW THE OPPOSITE!(list everything why your muse could not be so interesting (even if you may not agree, what does the fandom perhaps think?)

Icy is at that older crocodile stage where she’s inclined to just sit to the side, not really wanting to get involved with the Autobot/Decepticon spats. and...well, she will steal stuff without too much regard. If it will benefit her, and more so her crew/colony no shame. Medical supplies she has a bad habit of stealing all that stuff.

WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO RP YOUR MUSE?

The RiD Predacons XD Just the big scary baddies are really just spazzy pirates. That is just FUN to write, but also the new renovation of Icy having some spazz moments but.. she’s just this massive big thing that’s scary...but really wants brushies on her back sometimes.

WHAT KEEPS YOUR INSPIRATION

Chubby Crocodile pictures =3! And also getting to chance to play with friends

SOME MORE PERSONAL QUESTIONS FOR THE MUN.

do you think you give your character justice? YES / NO.

* do you frequently write headcanons? YES / NO.

* do you sometimes write drabbles? YES / NO. look up ‘store clips’ but its a wide range of drabbles. I am trying to write her back story

* do you think a lot about your muse during the day? YES / NO.

* are you confident in your portrayal? YES / NO.

* are you confident in your writing? YES / NO.

* are you a sensitive person? YES / NO. <__<;;;;;;

DO YOU ACCEPT CRITICISM WELL ABOUT YOUR PORTRAYAL?

Yes if its constructive criticism, I don’t mind talking about things and I know I have dyslexia so.... yeah.

DO YOU LIKE QUESTIONS, WHICH HELP YOU EXPLORE YOUR CHARACTER?

Y.E.S!

Not just for Icy but my other blogs. I do like to just sit and geek and world build. That is FUN!!

IF SOMEONE DISAGREES TO A HEADCANON OF YOURS, DO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY?

One is always welcome to disagree with a head cannon, just please don’t try and start shite over it. Its that persons’ own views and what they enjoy enough to share.

IF SOMEONE REALLY HATES YOUR CHARACTER, HOW DO YOU TAKE IT?

I’m not forcing you to hang around, Icy can care less and eat most mechs so -shrugs- they can bugger off

DO YOU THINK YOU ARE EASY GOING AS A MUN?

I Hope so, I try to be easy to get along with, I know I worry about other muns and want to hug them and throw presets at them to cheer them up.

I’m sorry I know the misspellings can be weird, and I poof off an on. But I try!

#Dreaded Wings #from the mun ( ooc )#from omie

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