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The other side of dyslexia

Source: The Guardian

Nov 03, 2009

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Dyslexia Awareness Week focuses on the benefits it brings to a sufferer, such as high IQ, curiosity and a strong work ethic

I didn't discover I was dyslexic until I was 50. After discovering our children were dyslexic my wife, wanting to support the children, took herself off to study dyslexia and qualified as an assessor. The confirmation of my own dyslexic disposition came when she used me as a guinea-pig to practise her newly acquired skills.

Thus I have made two journeys through dyslexia – my own in blissful ignorance, and a second with my children which was altogether more traumatic. I discovered the dyslexic world is full of conundrums and I have written a book about them.

For my part I am a hitherto undiagnosed adult dyslexic, schooled in the 1950s and 60s by chanting mantras of reading, writing and arithmetic in a rote fashion that suits the way many dyslexic brains learn. For many of my cohorts, life worked out, but those schooled in the experimental 70s and 80s may not have been so lucky.

Statistics suggest around 1 in 9 people struggle with dyslexia. S

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