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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:

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• They can utilise 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.

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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.

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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.

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Excerpted 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.

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© 1994, 1997, 2010 by Ronald Davis.