Does Donald Trump have dyslexia?

  

 

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Donald Trump HAS Dyslexia.

 

To skip the detailed explanation, click on the 20 second

one-page screening test in the link below:

 

Personality Screening Test

 

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It is obvious to many people that Donald Trump’s narcissistic, corrupt, and immoral behavior is from his abused childhood and alcoholic father.  The result of that abuse and dyslexia is that Trump learned as a child to lie to hide his illiteracy and bully others to hide his incompetence.  

 

HOWEVER, what gives Donald Trump his “power” and “influence” is NOT his competence or intelligence but rather is the support of his gullible followers.  More important than TRUMP’S dyslexia and abusive behavior is WHY those supporters see him differently, and trust and support Donald Trump despite the fact of his documented lies, illiteracy, business failures, personal incompetence, and immorality.

 

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How Dyslexia Affects Psychology

 

Due to their Unstable Near-vision Image, people with dyslexia, tend to overcompensate for their visual instability.  When they walk down a hallway, their heads will tend to bob from side-to-side (also known as the "Steve Jobs walk").  That visual instability also leads to overcompensate with excess overconfidence (aka, the Dunning Kruger Effect), as well as assertiveness, and a preference for authoritarianism (aka, the "Steve Jobs management style ").  That visual instability frequently leads to difficulty with written academics (such as "Steve Jobs, the college dropout"), and a disposition for drug use such as marijuana or alcohol in an attempt to reduce the visual stress from the difficulty in focusing on near images.   (Jobs went to India where marijuana was legal and widely available.)   When those “hidden dyslexics” have an abusive or unstable childhood (e.g., Donald Trump) they may also learn use their overconfidence to lie and bully other people to try to hide their illiteracy and incompetence.

 

Based upon body language, behavior, and the (above) videos showing Donald Trump in situations where he is expected to be able to read, it is overwhelmingly obvious that Donald Trump has dyslexia.  His abusive and narcissistic behavior is not only a collection of character flaws but reflects his attempts to hide his illiteracy AND his incompetence by being excessively aggressive and/or abusive.

 

The common denominator for Trump supporters is their preference for authoritarian confidence rather than documented competence as a result of their dyslexia and authoritarian childhood.

 

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Measuring the Preference for Authoritarianism

 

The number one motivating factor for all animals is a sense of control contributing to their survival, which is why a sense of excess overconfidence may be a survival asset.  Control may be measured in terms of security, money, nourishment (food), companionship, sex, possessions (toys), a sense of purpose, or a sense of cognition (religion, politics, or science). 

 

Individuals who experience a secure (non-abused) childhood usually find it easier to become functional adults.  Regardless of whether or not they have dyslexia, those secure individuals tend to be symbiotic in their relationships with other people and are better able to maximize their development of productive skills.  However, if they have an insecure or abusive childhood, they retain those anxieties into adulthood and tend to prefer hierarchical (structured) relationships rather than symbiotic (dynamic) relationships.

 

Matthew MacWilliams, author of ON FASCISM, developed an “American Authoritarian Index” as presented in his book.

https://www.matthewmacwilliams.com/

 

To use the test, below are four pairs of desirable qualities.  For each pair, ask the individual WHICH of the two qualities in each category (either A or B) they think is more important for a child to have?  These items are qualities which most people believe children should have.  Every person also thinks that some qualities are more important than others.

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If the individual selects the FIRST of each pair (A) of the FOUR options, it indicates that the individual prefers authoritarianism.  If the individual selects the SECOND of each pair (B) of the FOUR options, it indicates that the individual prefers cooperation.

 

HOWEVER, what IS significant with the overwhelming majority of Trump supporters is NOT just their dyslexia, but rather that their dyslexia symptoms of overconfidence combine with their personal experiences of an insecure or fear-filled abusive childhood.  That childhood insecurity results in authoritarian beliefs and gullibility towards both Trump and other authoritarian concepts.   Individuals with dyslexia, and an insecure/abusive childhood, learn to lie to hide their illiteracy, tend to tolerate manipulation or become bullies like Trump (or killers like Putin) to hide their incompetence.

 

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A Psychological Explanation for the

2016 US Presidential Election

 

Prior to the November 2016 Presidential Election, I anecdotally noticed that many of the enthusiastic Trump supporters I knew also had symptoms of Near Vision Stress when using the Dyop (short for dynamic optotype) color screening test.  

 

 At a nearby Shopping Mall Food Court in 2016, I asked 30 "registered voters" two questions:

 

1.)   "As the identical diameter spinning Blue and Green rings appear to become smaller by moving away from the screen, you will detect ONLY ONE of the two rings as spinning.  Is it the Green-on-White or the Blue-on-Black ring that is spinning?

 

2.)  “If you were to vote today, would you vote for Clinton or Trump?"

 

3.)   How stressful was your childhood, on a scale of 1 to 10?

 

In the initial survey, 17 subjects preferentially saw the Blue/Black Dyop spinning, and 13 subjects’ preferentially only saw the Green Dyop spinning.  Of the 30 subjects, 11 were Trump supporters and 19 were Clinton supporters.  (There were also six individuals I approached who refused to participate in the survey.)

 

ALL 11 of the Trump supporters preferentially saw the spinning Blue rather than the identical diameter spinning Green.  Of the 19 Clinton supporters, six of them preferentially saw the spinning Blue and 13 of them preferentially saw the spinning Green.  NONE of the Trump supporters preferentially saw the spinning Green, indicating that the overwhelming majority of the 13 Trump supporters had Near Vision Stress.

 

However, there is a childhood factor as to the correlation of dyslexia and Trump support.

 

(See below for a discussion of the psychology of abusive relationships.)

  

This is a very limited test with an insufficient number of subjects, but it is something which needs to be objectively validated with a much larger subject group.

 

Trump supporters tend to be Fundamentalists (100%) as to their convictions and a preference for Confidence over Competence.   Clinton supporters tended to be Collaborative (68%) and more concerned with literacy and logic indicating a preference of Competence over Confidence.  However, unlike dyslexics who are NOT Trumps supporters (6), dyslexic Trump supporters (11) typically all had a childhood history of a neglect (such as Steve Jobs) or abuse (such as Donald Trump).   

 

Near Vision Stress in the ranks of the Trump supporters could also explain the dominance in that group for being non-college graduates (less motivated to go to college due to reading difficulties), as well as their gullibility for Trump's dementia and lies.  Very few of the Letter-Based Stable Near Image people were Trump supporters.

 

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Factors of Vision and Childhood Stress

 

The number one factor motivating all animals is a sense of control contributing to survival.  That control may be measured in terms of security, money, nourishment (food), companionship, sex, possessions (toys), a sense of purpose, or a sense of cognition (religion, politics, or science). 

 

Individuals who experience a secure and non-abused childhood tend to become functional adults.  Regardless of whether or not they have dyslexia, they tend to be symbiotic in their interactions with other people and maximize their development of productive skills.  However, if they have an insecure or abusive childhood, they retain those anxieties into adulthood and tend to prefer hierarchical (structured) relationships rather than symbiotic (dynamic) relationships.

 

What IS significant with the overwhelming majority of Trump supporters is NOT just their dyslexia, but rather that their dyslexia symptoms combine with their personal experiences of an insecure/fear-filled or abusive childhood.  That childhood insecurity results in authoritarian beliefs and gullibility towards both Trump and other authoritarian concepts.   Individuals with dyslexia, and an insecure/abusive childhood, learn to lie to hide their illiteracy, tend to tolerate manipulation or become bullies like Trump (or killers like Putin) to hide their incompetence.

 

Again, there are TWO key elements in voters who are Trump supporters, and BOTH must be present:

 

1.    A preference for authoritarianism due to an insecure/fear-filled/abusive (authoritarian) childhood (similar to Trump’s)

2.    Symptoms of visual dyslexia (Near Vision Stress) due to either a higher ratio of red to green photoreceptors) or strabismus.

 

The overwhelming majority of individuals who do NOT test positive for dyslexia OR who had a supportive-positive childhood tend to loath Trump and are incredulous that Trump supporters are gullible enough to fail to realize the implications of Trump’s lies, adultery, and business ineptitude and illegalities because they feel the need to subservient to his (abusive) authoritarian personality.

 

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Measuring a Preference for Authoritarianism

 

In 2016 Matthew MacWilliams discovered that Trump supporters seem to have a high preference for "authoritarianism."

 

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/01/donald-trump-2016-authoritarian-213533

 

​​The correlation of authoritarianism to dyslexia symptoms is from the overcompensation to the unstable near vision image. .  That behavior was typified by the head-bobbing motion of “Steve Jobs" and his style of management prior to getting fired by Apple.  (It also is typified by Jobs' academic failures at Reed College and his forays into drugs since marijuana acts as a muscle relaxant to reduce the near-Dyop visual stress of Near Vision Stress).

 

​​The most recent (and stunning) observation, however, of Trump's dyslexia was from watching a videotape of Trump's inauguration.  Trump and Pence walked down the corridor towards the inauguration podium with their heads bobbing from side-to-side typical of someone with dyslexia.   Trump and Pence were followed by Obama and Biden walking down the corridor with their heads and eyes moving in a straight line.

 

Both Michelle Obama's and Jill Biden's heads moved in a straight line.  Melania's head also moved in a straight line, possibly indicating her training as a model, or likely that she does NOT have dyslexia.  Eric and Barron Trump both demonstrated head bobbing as they walked, while Ivanka and Donald Junior did not.

 

However, a third of those who HAVE Near Vision Stress are NOT Trump supporters (and are terrified of him).  Their negative response to Trump is likely from training their parental training (nurturing) to be nice to others rather than abusive.  The explanation as to those dyslexics who support Trump is that they seem to be either abused or neglected in their childhood.  

 

https://www.researchgate.net/project/Dynamic-Model-of-Psychopathy

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/02/01/how-your-parenting-style-predicts-whether-you-support-donald-trump/?tid=hybrid_experimentrandom_1_na&utm_term=.1cf425fb20b3

 

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/01/donald-trump-2016-authoritarian-213533

 

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Printable Personality Screening Test

 

The following three steps should enable validating

the combined effects of vision and childhood stress

 

1.  Ask an individual to take the following personality preference test:

These eight items are qualities which most people believe children should have.  Every person also thinks that some qualities are more important than others.

 

Below are four pairs of desirable qualities.  For each pair, ask the individual WHICH of the two qualities in each category (either A or B) they think is more important for a child to have?

 

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If the individual selects the FIRST of each pair (A) of the FOUR options, it indicates that the individual prefers authoritarianism.  If the individual selects the SECOND of each pair (B) of the FOUR options, it indicates that the individual prefers cooperation.

The sample questions (above) are from Matthew MacWilliams, author of ON FASCISM, in developing the “American Authoritarian Index” as presented in his book.

https://www.matthewmacwilliams.com/

 

 2.  Use one of the 5 second Dyop color screening tests (which should work on any electronic display) to determine potential symptoms of dyslexia:

PC/iPad/iPhone version of the Dyop Color Screening test:

https://www.dyop.net/documents/Color_iPad/index.html

 

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Individuals who preferentially see the Blue/Black ring spinning likely have dyslexia and a higher ratio of Red photoreceptors (75% Red, 20% Green, and 5% Blue) and Near Vision Stress.  Non-dyslexics tend to see the Green/White spinning ring and have a more balanced Red photoreceptor ratio (50% Red, 45% Green, and 5% Blue).  

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17435537/

 

 3.  Ask those individuals if they are voting for Trump or Harris?

 

Symptoms of dyslexia, migraines, and/or epilepsy are indicated when you can ONLY detect the smaller Blue/Black Dyop as spinning and NOT the identical diameter spinning Green/White Dyop.  This Dyop color screening test has a 90% correlation to personal or family history symptoms of Near Vision Stress such as dyslexia, migraines, and/or epilepsy.

https://www.dyop.net/documents/Dyslexia_and_Color_Perception-SandraStark.pdf

 

Our theory is that approximately 85% of the Trump supporters (see Pre-Election Survey below)  have BOTH a stressed or authoritarian childhood (as indicated by their selecting the (A) Option of ALL four of the questions in variable #1) AND "Near Vision Stress" (indicated by their preferentially seeing the spinning “Blue” ring in variable #2).

 

 You will want to run your own evaluation of the test for yourself and with your friends.

This is CAUSATION, NOT COINCIDENCE.

 

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