Can someone explain how dyslexia showed up in humans? Was it something that developed when we created written languages? If it existed before written languages how would one know if they had it?
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It’s always been around, it’s just the environment and task we’ve dinner in the past didn’t really draw attention to it much.
As mentioned by others dyslexia is an assortment of challenges to our pattern recognition in our brain.
Ability to see small differences, distinguish orientation similarities like p b d q quickly and with ease.
If you had one of these problems in the past it might show in a number of ways.
You dislike and struggle with tasks requiring fine lines, like weaving, tapestries, embroidery, etc so you avoid it. Or it takes a bit longer. Or you get a headache after a bit.
Or you use more vibrant colors with bolder lines, your taste and style adapting to this little peculiarity in how you see things.
Why this is? It’s hard to pin down for any one person back then. As there was such a variety of subtle ways it manifested.
And it’s not necessarily a hindrence either. My uncle is dislexic, with the orientation pattern challenge. He struggles to automatically tell p b q d apart for example. Especially typed. Which makes sense. They are functionally the same shape, just mirrored or rotated.
But he believes that for the exact same reasoning, he is able to spot a four leaf clover in a whole bed of clover at glance. It’s actually bewildering seeing him do it. They just…stand out, plain as day he says, regardless of the angle he views them at.
He notices similar things when he’s sorting small components, he can pick out all of a type rapidly, even if they’re rotated or flipped.
It only becomes a problem with the specific task of reading. Otherwise it’s just a knack/quirk/preference.
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