How does a “dyslexic” really “think” and why we should eliminate the label and all “methods of intervention”

This is totally different “thought process” than the one we are accustomed to and most of us in the West understand. It takes a really open mind to understand and it takes experience to know.

I have said many times that there is no such thing as “dyslexia” for me and that by the term we are totally ignorant of the “higher” form of “thinking” that takes place in the mind.

Here, I will try to explain what goes on in a "dyslexic’s" mind, although, we still have a long way to go to “mapping” this unmapable mind.

Words

We don’t understand each other because each one speaks through our own ideas, beliefs, needs and perception. All this, immediately and autonomously erects an invisible barrier between us, whether we know it or not.

It still sometimes shocks me, when I experientially realize that my words might be fully understood only by a few people, a few more might ask but the majority will totally misunderstand, totally misconceive that which they think they know is there. It is a continuous challenge for all of us I think…

Words might be the same, the syntax might be wrong or right, it doesn’t matter. Even in the perfect syntax, wording and analysis, misconception is still the most likely possibility. That which we see will always be a fraction of the whole that remains invisible and we don’t realize.

Second Vision

A dyslexic has a second vision, a second point of reference, second sight.
But only those who are willing to remember, to acknowledge and to learn all over again, will be able to use and appreciate this gift.

When we drop the label, we will be able to know the truth that we have been hiding from ourselves (and others).

Then we will know that we all possess the gift, we can all use that which remains idle within us. Then, we will change all that we thought we knew.

Changing the scenery of dyslexia

If you are dyslexic then there is a whole lot of left-brain functions that you need to learn, in order to function properly in a physical, linear, senses-based society/world. But it is how you learn them and not if you can learn them.

You first need to learn all the qualities, advantages and strengths concerning being right-brained. That is how you’ll build the necessary basis of self-confidence on which you will depend on, to move on to learning whatever it is that you wish to learn.

Through this process, you will discover and realize all the myths that you have been told about dyslexia.

I keep using the word dyslexia, although it has no reference to what it really is, until a new word is found, which will replace our former myths and limiting perception.

What dyslexia is and isn’t

I guess as long as I am reading this stuff on the internet – I have stopped buying books on the subject ages ago – I will continue to write about the subject of dyslexia.


Let’s start with what dyslexia is not!

Dyslexia is not a neurological condition.

Dyslexia is not a learning disability.

We don’t “overcome” dyslexia.

Dyslexia is not a “condition”.

Dyslexia is not a medical term.

Dyslexia is not a problem unless we make it one.

We don’t get rid of a label that we mean, even though we are not using the word “dyslexia”.

Dyslexia Today

"Embracing Dyslexia (documentary film)"

A film long overdue… Now we can really being to study the subject, in a more objective way than what we have been doing up till now.

I used to try and spot out the mistakes, the misconceptions, the myths and the lies. That’s what the system of the society we live in always did and taught me, while I was growing up as a dyslexic. Now I know better. Embracing, understanding, looking at both or all sides to a story and synthesizing the various parts of it is harder work but immensely more rewarding and mind-opening. It takes self-confidence, the willingness to shift and the passion to be of service than to remain a critic. It takes the heart's desire to make the leap into wisdom verses replacing it with opinion. Yet, this won't be an easy read...

To doubt, means to be willing to see all possible sides of a matter. But it cannot be an intellectual, theoretical process. It needs to be heart-felt, practical and courageously accepted, where security and previous knowledge seize to provide concrete answers.

Shedding new light on Dyslexia

Dyslexia is not a learning disability although all fingers point to education. Naming something and then continuing our focus based on what we have named is easy and comfortable. Yet symptoms are sometimes misleading and in this case, they are.

Sure there are difficulties but we need to leave those aside for a while to see the bigger picture or we are stuck in one very limited perception, which ultimately has no answers and no “cures”.

Dyslexics have a completely different perception of reality that non-dyslexics cannot grasp. Why? Again, I’ll use terms for lack of better ones, although they too have been over-used…

Right-brained

Most of the time, right-brained people do not exist in linear time in a conscious, focused way that left-brained people do.

It’s like they are on automatic pilot – having established a linear routine order that they follow and which they know works for them.

They feel safe in it and centered. Their subconscious takes over, something which they are very aware of thus they are grateful and permit the shift. They only "come back" to being focused in the linear here and now, if and when there is a need; a peculiar sound out of the ordinary, a hunch which calls them "back", a sudden thought needing their attention etc.

Do's and don't s of Dyslexia

Children with Dyslexia fall into a vast category of right-brained children, which includes children with Aspeger syndrome, AD(H)D and other "syndromes". Although each group has its own unique characteristics, as each individual also has, this vast category of right-brain dominant individuals have a totally different way of thinking, processing, perceiving that is not yet understood or appreciated, in our left-brain society.

This article gives a small insight to parents of these different, unique children. Its purpose is to provide a new outlook, a totally different perspective on dyslexia, our unique children and ourselves.

These are not things you will often come across, for a whole profit-based empire benefits from our ignorance, fear and guilt-based agreement to "fixing" our children. After decades of research, experience, teaching and learning, all I can honestly advise you, while reading this article, is to open your mind and trust your inner knowing for truth.