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by thybag
2508 days ago
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Dyslexic's of the world untie! I actually think a lot of people underestimate quite how many dyslexic people are about in industries you wouldn't expect them. I work in software development for instance and have worked with vast swaths of dyslexic devs, QA/test automation engineers and all sorts of other technical roles. A lot of the time its never really brought up as thanks to syntax & spell check its fairly hard to go wrong (I'll admit to having been responsible for a couple of pretty questionably spelt variable names tho). Its really only in fully written out text it can become obvious as even with spellcheck, if you bungle a word bad enough (or somehow skip a few which i also do more frequently than i'd like), what gets fixed can sometimes be far more bazaar than the spelling error itself. For the most part I think people develop coping mechanisms for the majority of day to day issues it gives them, although some bits Ill admit I've never been able to fully work around (I feel most 6 year olds would likely out do me trying to alphabetise a stack of books for instance) - not that its something that comes up regularly in my day job `book.sort();` :) It's probably also notable that the stuff under the term "Dyslexic" vary's a lot - both my wife and i have it (future kids are doomed), and although we share a lot of stuff, some symptoms are entirely different. Its actually a pretty interesting thing to read up on - especially as a remember some of the info being pretty much none existent only a decade or so ago - while now there is are ton of research about in to what on earth is going on with it. |
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For instance, I read The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy and genuinely thought that the Wizard's name was Grandalf.
I had a tough time in grade school learning to read and write, but I credit my Grandmother constantly reading to me for giving me a strong desire to learn to read myself.