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He stopped playing violin because he had no one to play for and didn’t see any purpose in playing in the first place. They simply do things because they want to and know they must be done, and then…
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Why dyslexia is not just a gift
I have had the great fortune to study dyslexia in-depth, to have worked in classrooms for the better part of twenty years, and to work as an editor for a publishing company that focused uniquely on dyslexic writers.
I have worked with students across the neurodivergent spectrum. I have preached the fortunes of having dyslexia, whilst watching students face a huge struggle to access learning. I’ve found myself trying to bolster, ladder, scaffold, and restructure their education to make it work for them. Stretched between saying: it is a gift and wondering what the hell I can do to give them equal access to education.
I have in many diverse forms been working as an advocate of dyslexia, diversity, and education from different sides of a hedge, under different hats in different guises and all the while I was trying to convince myself dyslexia was a gift, whilst seeing struggle. This paradox gave me blinkers. It was like shutting one eye to either side of the coin.
On the gift side, I was seeing writers with courage, creativity, and exploring narratives in ways that drew out an idea about the beauty of error and connecting ideas, surrendering if you like to the mistakes that occur, and seeing them as opportunities. But they had resilience. They had a drive that could not be reduced to dyslexia per se.
In the classroom and my research, it was hard to overlook the inconsistency of the experience. Dyslexics do not feel dyslexic every day. Some days were more “dyslexic” than others, just as some days can be more “creative”…
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