{"id":49246,"date":"2015-01-13T06:37:52","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T13:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/13\/how-dyslexia-can-sometimes-work-to-your-advantage.html"},"modified":"2015-01-13T06:37:52","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T13:37:52","slug":"how-dyslexia-can-sometimes-work-to-your-advantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/13\/how-dyslexia-can-sometimes-work-to-your-advantage.html","title":{"rendered":"How dyslexia can sometimes work to your advantage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#39;s something that could actually be utilized in a more systemic fashion.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+George Wiman<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I learned to read at a very young age &#8211; I am told that I taught myself how. But I wasn&#39;t diagnosed dyslexic until my mid-30&#39;s, and it explains a lot. In my lifetime I&#39;ve read <i>thousands<\/i> 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 <i>doesn&#39;t<\/i> work with numbers.) <\/p>\n<p>The author, in the last paragraph, engages in a bit of Kum-By-Yah &quot;isn&#39;t it wonderful how diverse we all are&quot; but the idea that disabilities force different ways of looking at reality, is sound.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/dyslexia-can-deliver-benefits\/?WT.mc_id=SA_Twitter'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/GcqgQHqFb6RCK5Dj5A8ERbv_fN4RvFmtPzhCLebgZ7DNWBk2dbf9NP42iQ1TT9Yl1gj9WNMD9uuOJxk9MbvhJTJMGwVn1o8CbeWCKMfsY-uSFJb1FD8kSwmIgiBmLOIUVHd0c-APmtFSnw=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/dyslexia-can-deliver-benefits\/?WT.mc_id=SA_Twitter'>Dyslexia Can Deliver Benefits &#8211; Scientific American<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/Ntdysjs9KAT'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#39;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 &#8211; I am told that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/13\/how-dyslexia-can-sometimes-work-to-your-advantage.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How dyslexia can sometimes work to your advantage&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":48427,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/19\/rt-godisalivenrock-reading-is-fundamental-but-misreading-is-fundamentalism.html","url_meta":{"origin":49246,"position":0},"title":"RT @GodIsAliveNRock Reading is fundamental, but misreading is fundamentalism.","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 19-Nov-14 5:21pm","format":false,"excerpt":"RT @GodIsAliveNRock Reading is fundamental, but misreading is fundamentalism. 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