In an publication called Falkirk (Scotland, UK) Today, there is an anonymous story entitled “Getting to grips with dyslexia: Local help for sufferers” that echoes the important fact that Learning Disabilities such as dyslexia are not the result of low intelligence. Here’s a snippet:
OF all the myths surrounding dyslexia, perhaps the most common is that those affected by it are somehow lacking in intelligence.
However, a quick glance at some famous names who have achieved success despite having dyslexia proves just how wrong that is.
Richard Branson, Albert Einstein, Walt Disney, and Jackie Stewart are some of those who have overcome the problems associated with the condition.
It’s good to have the press bust the myth that individuals with dyslexia are unintelligent. It’s too bad that this story indicates that Einstein had dyslexia. As Gerald Coles notes in his book, The learning mystique: A critical look at “learning disabilities,” (1987, Pantheon Books), Einstein reportedly read serious philosophy books as a young child; that makes the idea of him having dyslexia pretty untenable.
Link to the article quoted here.
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I just don’t have much to say these days, but so it goes. Today was a total loss. I guess it doesn’t bother me.