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Those of us with dyslexia share a common thread of growing up in a society that judges us. In some cases, we have been judged as retarded in our abilities to read or do math. In others, we are seen as less able or less intelligent. In most cases, though, the judgment is usually wrong.
Each of us can narrate an early experience of failure in schools. Because of it, most of us have known some form of peer persecution. But what most non-dyslexics don't know about us, besides the fact that we simply process information differently, is that our early failures often give us an important edge as we grow older. It is not uncommon that we "dyslexics" go on to succeed at the highest of levels.
I don't care much for the word dyslexia. I generally think of "us" as spatial thinkers and non-dyslexics as linear thinkers, or people who could be most often described as being dys-spatios. For spatial thinkers, reading is clearly necessary but over-rated. Most of us would rather write about our own adventures than read about someone else's. Most spatial thinkers are extremely visual, highly imaginative, and work in three dimensions, none of which have anything to do with time. Linear thinkers (dys-spatics) generally operate in a two-dimensional world where time is of the...