Sunny but cold, winter is coming I guess.
I'm in my favourite cafe once again drinking coffee listening to music (Ambient techno). I do love this time of year though, cool and fresh it seems, even though we are heading into winter.
lately I have been thinking about my dyslexia and how I get around it so to speak, and how over the years it has hindered me from doing things I wanted to do because I coincided myself dumb!
it was only recently, in the last few years I changed my thoughts on this. A good friend of mine, her you daughter was diagnosed with dyslexia by her school. Now she went to a very prestigious school that had all the resources to do this. Myself I went to a School that if you fell behind, well you better try to catch up because there are no resources or time to help you individually. This was not the schools fault, it was actually a good school, not is was the dismal state of government funding into education.
Back to my friends daughter, What was it they told her that changed my thoughts on Dyslexia? The explained to her that Dyslexia is not defect or that something is wrong with you, that said Dyslexic brains just think differently that's all
Our curriculum is set on the majority which is fine and it should be.
* Example: Majority thinking/learning. (Step 1,Step 2,Step 3,Step 4,Step 5)
* Example: Dyslexic thinking/learning. (Step 1,Step 3,Step 5,Step 4,Step 2)
Where majority will think in a linear pattern and Dyslexic will think in what I like to think as a more colourful pattern.
Earlier I mentioned for many years Dyslexia hindered me from many things, it sapped my confidence, and kept me hidden internally for a very long time.
I still struggle with this mindset every day, it's not something you can just wake up one day and start a new life around a new mindset, it takes time. But if you keep working on it and keep moving forward with it, even though it seems like you are not making progress, if you keep at it you will.
Dyslexia is just a different way of thinking.
I often say to people, I think on tangents not straight lines!
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