U Jokking

EP1 — The Deep End
Most people start life in the shallow end.
I didn't.
I was born with dyslexia, raised on Traditional Chinese, and somehow ended up fighting a final boss before I even understood the rules of the game.
In this episode, I share what it felt like to grow up believing I was simply not trying hard enough, and how seeing the world differently eventually became one of my greatest strengths.
Welcome to the deep end.
Let's start swimming.

Music-Georgie Taylor- Bitter-2026



What is U Jokking ?

“U Jokking” isn’t a typo — it’s when the letters dance.

I’m Yujo, a dyslexic designer and visual storyteller with a noisy mind who loves turning chaos into creativity and laughing through anxiety. English isn’t my first language — and that’s part of the design.

U Jokking is a quiet podcast about thinking, creating, and being human.
Through personal reflections, sound, and slow conversations, this show is a space to pause, notice, and stay with questions a little longer.

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Thank you for judge tellers Peter. When most people are born, the nurse generally say, Welcome to the world, little one. And life carefully lowers them into the water. Someone holds them. Someone explains how to breathe.

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Someone teach them how to swim. And they start in the shallow end. But on the day I was born, I imagine Le Neuve looked at me, took a deep breath and said, Alright kids, this is the ocean. Good luck! And they threw me straight into a deep end.

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Swimming lesson, no survival guide, no one asked if I was ready. And before I could even read the tutorial, life automatic click. Everyone knows Chinese. But Chinese isn't just one writing system. There are two major versions, simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese.

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With simplified Chinese like IKEA, very simple and budget friendly. And you look at it but think, yeah, I probably can afford that. But for traditional Chinese, traditional Chinese is totally different thing. Every stroke has a stroke. Every detail have another detail hiding behind it.

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And writing one character feels like a communication. So for most of people, it's just a language. But for me, it feels like being through into the ocean before I knew how to swim. I have dyslexia. Although, I didn't know that at the time All I knew was that everyone else seems to understand things much faster than I did.

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While other kids were learning to float, I was swallowing water while everyone else was following instructions, I was trying to figure out why the instruction makes no sense to me. Too many stroke, too many details, too many things happen at once And when you don't know you have dyslexia, you don't think: Maybe my brain works differently? You will think: Maybe I'm just stupid or lazy or not trying hard enough. But that's a strange thing. When you throw into a deep water, you learn things other people don't.

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You stop relying on instructions. You learn rhythm, timing, patterns, observation You don't read the water, you feel it So I grew up decoding the word differently through image, through sounds, through emotion, through moment Words were never my first language. The word itself was. And maybe, just maybe, that's why I see things differently now. Not better, not worse, just differently.

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So if you are listening to this podcast right now, you are listening to someone who was born through into deep water, and eventually learn how to move with it instead of fighting against Hi, this is U Jokking. I'm U Jokking. Someone with dyslexia, someone with anxiety, someone who spent a long time thinking they were broken before realizing they were simply swimming in a different ocean. This pakas might make you laugh, it might make you cry. But most importantly, I hope it reminds you of something.

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Some people really do start life in deep water And that's okay Because deep water can teach you how to move And sometimes, it can even teach you how to fly See you next time