I read that people with dyslexia are as smart as other people and that dyslexia is a genetic problem. I just wonder, if people are capable of launching rockets or creating art masterpieces, why can’t dyslexic people learn how to read and write? Isn’t it just like any other thing you can learn e.g. math?
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Dyslexic people can learn to read and write, they just have a higher difficulty of doing so.
Your brain is, to a certain degree, split into different specialized areas – you have your hand motor area, decision making area, visual analysis area etc., of course in reality these aren’t clearly split between one another and significant overlaps between them occur, but let’s just assume that they are for now to simplify the explanation. In your left hemisphere there is an area specific to language processing – understanding what is said, reading, writing, connecting phonemes. Dyslexia is a genetic or environmentally caused abnormality which makes that specific structure in your brain less specialised, kinda trading a big amount of neurons in your reading, writing, phonetic etc. structures of the brain with other structures around, thus making your ability to process language through those specific tasks slower, and as such making your brain less adapted to learning how to read or write on biological level, but not impossible.
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