Comments on: Seven dyslexic superpowers

By: Michael Lowe

Michael Lowe — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 23:06:04 +0000

I found out I had my form of dyslexia by chance as I had developed work arounds through life that I thought were just “normal” I could read fine but as an example, to take a verbal or written description of how to tie a specific rope knot was mental torture and like a tornado inside my head. In driving my car with navigation directions, I would hear the direction to make a right or left turn direction and then “hear” again it to do the opposite direction. I could both excel and fail all within the same project. I ran a successful company with over 100 people and the broad strokes and plans were easy as can be with success, but to detail the daily tasks or goals for my subordinates would leave me feeling in a total state of confusion. Finding out about the condition was relief in itself and by chance, I encountered a treatment called LENS (Low Energy Neurofeedback System ) at my medical doctor’s office that I chose to do after reading up on it for multiple reasons (concussions and nothing to do with Dyslexia ). Not suggesting it as as a cure, but I got a lot of relief in various ways including diminishing the anxiety and PTSD related to the dyslexic difficulties I had experienced in life. So now I have some of those abilities related to dyslexia minus the anxiety factor and if the anxiety manifests, I know what it is now. Pretty cool.

By: Debbie

Debbie — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 21:39:40 +0000

In reply to Gary mize. Absolutely! I have a masters degree in nursing but am realizing why I had to work much harder than others and was also made fun of for my poor reading abilities in grade school during the 1960s

By: Maria Gallegos

Maria Gallegos — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 13:36:27 +0000

I was putting special ed class but I land up taking care of the other students until 6th grade when the Iowa test came out I was discovered to be more far advanced than the average student. I became a nurse and I was always the last one finished charting and getting out but I was a superior nurse able to identify my patient’s problems to the point where other nurses came to me to collaborate. I still couldn’t progress well in the regular class I dropped out of high school but went to libraries and museums and was able to take the GED with the first try and enter college with college entrance test. that was discovered to be dyslexic around 9th grade and Visually Impaired legally blind in one eye I always had problems reading but I was so nearsighted reading was not a problem if I held the book a certain way I learned to compensate on a lot of things memorized what letters I had trouble with and then when computers came out that solved a lot of problems for me being dyslexic meant I had to learn how to compensate which I think learning to compensate in a lot of areas helped me taught myself how to learn without realizing that I was doing that until later on in . I discovered my daughter was dyslexic when she was in second grade. verbally she would get a hundred in spelling test but would come home failing the test. I discovered she was writing her P’s and b and d’s . Backwards or upside down and couldn’t get into reading easily.

By: D

Thu, 14 Sep 2023 10:47:58 +0000

In reply to Gary mize. Your story is very similar to mine. I'm glad you found your way through. Some of those scars never leave, though, do they?

By: Andrew Krasne

Andrew Krasne — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 19:38:42 +0000

I thank I have it

By: Gary mize

Gary mize — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 04:45:32 +0000

I never knew what was wrong with me until I was grown. I was placed in the slow learners class in the 1960s. I failed in school and my parents and friends never understood me nor did I myself!
I was bullied and abused by other children. Thus also developed post traumatic stress disorder.
I educated myself after I was grown by taking continuing education class to get access to the library at the community college.
I wound up working in research and development projects most of my life in aerospace, chemistry, electronics, and science.
I wish people knew back in 1955 about dyslexia my life may have been much different!!

By: Fairon cottrell

Fairon cottrell — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 04:33:30 +0000

I’m very dislexic and my mind is exploding with scientific artistic mechanical psychology just to say the few that I excel dramatically in and I have no outlet or a misunderstood by most people my parents doesn’t fit though I believe type so I’m not taking serious by most but I’m highly intelligent intelligent looking for an outlet