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Dyslexia

It's dyslexia awareness month and I want to share a message of hope for the future. More than ever, the world really needs dyslexic thinking.

 

My life path would be completely different if I were not dyslexic. In the real world, dyslexia can be a great asset. Many people with dyslexia have great imagination, creativity, and problem-solving skills. In fact, many of the world's greatest entrepreneurs and inventors are dyslexic.

 

With our two children who are also dyslexic, Sofia gets stressed, anguished and distressed when she helps them do their homework, when she explains it one way and they understand it another way, I don't get worried, I also went through the same process and I know that it's all a matter of perspective and different thinking, seeing and thinking in another perspective than normal, it's questioning the "status quo" always, pushing the limits because we don't see them as insurmountable barriers and of course this also affects reading and writing.

 

If you are struggling with dyslexia: Don't be discouraged. Dyslexia is just a different way of seeing the world, a different way of processing information, and a different way of coming up with great ideas

 

It is time for schools and businesses to start appreciating the enormous benefits that dyslexia can bring

 

An education for all needs to value heterogeneity, because diversity makes groups more dynamic, enriches relationships and interactions, leading to awakening in students and collaborators the desire to commit themselves and learn. In this way, school and work become privileged places of encounter with the other, for all and for each one, where there is respect for different people.

 

It is in school that dyslexia appear. There are dyslexics who reveal their difficulties in other environments and situations, but none of them can compare with school, where reading and writing are permanently used and, above all, valued.

 

However, the school as we know it is not made for dyslexics. Objectives, content, methodologies, organization, functioning, and evaluation have nothing to do with dyslexia. It is no accident that many dyslexics do not survive school and are overtaken by it. And those who do manage to resist it and graduate, do so cunningly and courageously, using tricks to get around the time, models, bureaucratic demands, teachers' impositions, humiliations and, above all, grades.

 

 

New research from ManpowerGroup Talent Solutions and Made By Dyslexia has found that by 2025, 50 percent of all jobs will be done by machines and the skills that humans need to excel and compete in this new hybrid workforce of the future are dyslexic thinking skills.

 

If we want to solve the big problems of our time: we need innovators, storytellers, and entrepreneurs more than a world without spelling mistakes.

 

So, whether dyslexic or not, it is time to value dyslexic thinking and the vital role it can play in all our futures.

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