The Gift of Dyslexia: Why Some of the Smartest People Can't Read... and How They Can Learn The mental function that causes dyslexia is a gift in the truest sense of the word: a natural ability, a talent. It is something special that enhances the individual.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.
http://www.dyslexia.com/bookstore/firstchapter.htm
This book summary is a must have. I have been thinking about our education here lately and how the education system have been working so hard to commit a vast majority of the population as mental misfits.
And, at the same time build shrines, feel pity for little kids when they are young because they don't think like them, and then commit mental abuse against them when they are adults.
Today you see people who make huge profits studying cavemen, trying to understand how they lived while at the same time calling modern humans retards for being the same thing. Different hair cut and different clothes.
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