Dyslexics don't all develop the same gifts, but they do have certain mental functions in common. Here are the basic abilities all dyslexics share:
• They can utilize the brain’s ability to alter and create perceptions (the primary ability).
• They are highly aware of the environment.
• They are more curious than average.
• They think mainly in pictures instead of words.
• They are highly intuitive and insightful.
• They think and perceive multi-dimensionally (using all the senses).
• They can experience thought as reality.
• They have vivid imaginations.
These eight basic abilities, if not suppressed, invalidated or destroyed by parents or the educational process, will result in two characteristics: higher than normal intelligence, and extraordinary creative abilities. From these the true gift of dyslexia can emerge -- the gift of mastery.
The gift of mastery develops in many ways and in many areas. For Albert Einstein it was physics; for Walt Disney, it was art; for Greg Louganis, it was athletic prowess.
Excepted from “The Gift of Dyslexia: Why Some Of The Brightest People Cannot Read And How They Can Learn” by Ronald Davis. Souvenir Press, 1997. Buy a copy.
© 1994, 1997 by Ronald Davis.
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