Quote Originally Posted by Kival View Post
I see. Despite the paper and some internet-knowledge, I only know the typical "dyslexia"-genius: (Very) Good in math and abstract thinking, terrible ortography and also grammar, very bad in learning foreign languages. She even writes books (so far without success) with interesting stories but I have the impression that the dylexia also leads to less sophisticated "formal" aspects of writing. Not only mistakes in orthograph and grammar (which are easily corrected) but also lacking a feeling how to write the story well. Story arch, tension etc. are good but the literary instruments (1) are lacking.

Of course this doesn't have to be related to the dyslexia. I'll not claim one (or rather few examples) to be conclusive.

(1) Not sure, if this is a good translation für "literarisches Handwerkzeug", but didn't know how to translate it otherwise.
Translation looks about right to me, but I'm sure both your English and German is better than mine anyway, honestly, I wing it a LOT.

Well, dyslexia often does lead to less sophisticated formal aspects of writing, because many parents and schools are ill equipped to give the dyslexic kids ways to work around their issues.

That's what I meant with it not directly being a factor. Indirectly and in practise it's of course a factor, but my point is that a dyslexic kid with dedicated parents and a teacher who cares to read up on stuff have no reason to do worse than others.