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There are myths about this, the main one being that all dyslexic people have
artistic ability. One of my research interviewees told me that when she was
identified as dyslexic at the age of 9, she thought: “Oh good! Now I’m going to
discover my artistic talents” – but she was disappointed. However, there are
linear thinkers and there are three-dimensional thinkers, and in my experience
the majority of dyslexic people prefer non-linear thought processes. The
American Thomas West believes that this gives them a distinct advantage. His
book ‘In the mind’s eye’ (updated edition 1997) is sub-titled: ‘Visual thinkers,
gifted people with dyslexia and other learning difficulties, computer images and
the ironies of creativity’. West is an inspiring dyslexic speaker, who likes to use
video and colourful diagrams to illustrate his points. I once saw him show his
audience a video of a computer-generated model of what happens in a tornado.
It was a complex and beautiful sequence, a moving three-dimensional image
with colour coding to denote areas of different air pressure. Of course, it was
devised by a dyslexic person. West proposes not only that many famous thinkers
of the past (such as Albert Einstein and of course Leonardo da Vinci) were
dyslexic, but also that technological advances mean that visual thinkers are
going to be increasingly needed by society.
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