The apparent enhanced ability (or strength) among at least some dyslexics for noting similarities and differences in patterns is quite interesting. I wonder if it's something that could actually be utilized in a more systemic fashion.
Originally shared by +George Wiman:
I learned to read at a very young age – I am told that I taught myself how. But I wasn't diagnosed dyslexic until my mid-30's, and it explains a lot. In my lifetime I've read thousands of books, and I just thought reading was hard. To get the reward of reading, I was forced to reconstruct meaning from context when the actual text on the page was visually unreliable. (This works in sentences and paragraphs, by the way, and doesn't work with numbers.)
The author, in the last paragraph, engages in a bit of Kum-By-Yah "isn't it wonderful how diverse we all are" but the idea that disabilities force different ways of looking at reality, is sound.
"Systemic" or "systematic"?
Dang. There goes my resolution to be less pedantic.
Yeah, probably should be "systematic."