Concerning Dyslexia

[Beskar]

http://www.dyslexia.com/famous.htm
http://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/about-...dyslexics.html

I always thought the Celebrity List of people with Dyslexia was interesting. There is always a social stigma associated with people with Dyslexia as if they cannot produce anything of value for society and in the contrary, it seems some of the greatest people of our times were actually dyslexics. For what they make up in lack of literary skill is attributed elsewhere, for example a blind person has heightened senses of hearing and touch. Though oddly enough, literary style of playwriting is actually better suited for people with dyslexia as they are more natural at doing it.

Is it more of a case that language and communication is constructed in an inefficient manner?

[Fragony]

They are not too stupid to read or write, they just can't get the logic. People who have it are often very good at math, so they can't be all that dumb.

[caravel]

http://www.dyslexia.com/famous.htm
http://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/about-...dyslexics.html

I always thought the Celebrity List of people with Dyslexia was interesting. There is always a social stigma associated with people with Dyslexia as if they cannot produce anything of value for society and in the contrary, it seems some of the greatest people of our times were actually dyslexics. For what they make up in lack of literary skill is attributed elsewhere, for example a blind person has heightened senses of hearing and touch. Though oddly enough, literary style of playwriting is actually better suited for people with dyslexia as they are more natural at doing it.

Dyscalcula and dysgraphia in my case. Reading, typing and spelling, etc is not a problem. In fact by the age of 6 I was well ahead of my peers and pretty much "top of the class" in that respect. Of course back when I went to school you were simply "thick" or "lazy"... mathematics on the other hand is still an uphill struggle, even at my age, especially mental arithmetic. Absolutely useless at it.

[Kadagar_AV]

I also believe the premise of this discussion is... off putting....

What are you getting at here HT?

[Fragony]

Dyscalcula and dysgraphia in my case. Reading, typing and spelling, etc is not a problem. In fact by the age of 6 I was well ahead of my peers and pretty much "top of the class" in that respect. Of course back when I went to school you were simply "thick" or "lazy"... mathematics on the other hand is still an uphill struggle, even at my age, especially mental arithmetic. Absolutely useless at it.

I would't call myself dyscalculist but maths was a nightmare for me as well. My brother could just look at a formula and understand it immediatly, but to me it doesn't make sense. I managed and passed all exams, but I was very very lucky that the exams were very easy that year, I never scored higher than a 3.9 when making older ones. Now I had an 8 for both math and physics, lucky me

[Kralizec]

I've always been pretty good at mental calculations, and probably could have been reasonably good at mathematics if I had even the slightest bit of interest in it. But in high school I thought it was the most boring thing on the planet. There were other subjects/courses that I had to work for in order to get passing grades*, such as economy, but for those it took considerably less willpower to do homework. In the last years of high school the math tests became a lot harder and I seriously regretted that I paid so little attention to it earlier.

* for some subjects, like history or English class, I never had to do any real work - I pretty much absorbed that knowledge like a spunge with no effort at all.