Basic Abilities that All Dyslexics Share

If you are dyslexic, you have to understand what your mind can do differently than other types of minds. The mental functions that cause dyslexia are special. The basic abilities that dyslexics share include:

1. The ability to alter and create perceptions 
2. Acute, 3D awareness of their surroundings
3. The heightened sense of curiousity
4. The natural tendency to think in images - not words
5. The enhanced intuition and insight
6. Multi-dimensional perception using all senses
7. The ability to experience thought as reality
8. Heightened vividness of imagination

Check out these great books:
Gift of Dyslexia
In the Mind's Eye

Seeing the Way a Dyslexic Might See

This is a series of animations that depict "the dancing letters of dyslexia". They were created at Coventry University by working with dyslexic kids for the purpose of demystifying Visual Dylexia. This is an example of how I see. It's great, actually. I reasoned early that if my mind could do this then I could control it and I used my belly button as a tool - imaging that it was the center of gravity - and I sucked the letters back to a line. Sometimes I created the "line" in my head; sometimes with a ruler or edge of a piece of paper.


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The Dyslexic Belly Button Trick

How I learned to read ...

What could be more important than to learn to read? Afterall, it's really the first great step a writer must take. But when you are dyslexic, there are a few challenges around reading. In my case, the letters danced. They wiggled and jumped and flipped around like a gang of crumpers. I had to find a way to stop them so I used "belly button gravity" - an imagined force of gravity that eminated from my navel and tamed the dancing letters that misbehaved in all my books. The belly button gravity anchored my letters so I could read the words. I assumed they danced for everyone. I assumed everyone settled down the paragraphs with belly button force fields. 


It's hard to know what you don't know. But when the letters obeyed, I could read. It took a few years to stop my head nodding at every syllable though.

The dyslexic belly button trick did not solve the syllabic head bobbing. So, follow the blog because that story's a cliff hanger.


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