Key Points
But as a dyslexic academic who has spent much of my life wrangling with academic norms, Ive realised that dyslexia isnt just a barrier..
Dyslexic thinkers are notably strong in creativity, visual-spatial reasoning (skills such as visualising objects and understanding spatial relationships) and holistic processing (recognising a whole, such as a face or word, better than individual aspects)..
Dyslexic people frequently come up with innovative ideas, forging connections between seemingly unrelated concepts, and tackling problems from unconventional angles...
For dyslexic academics, the problem isnt the way we think, but academias refusal to adapt to diverse ways of processing information...
Isnt research supposed to be about the unique problem-solving approaches and out-of-the-box thinking that dyslexics offer?..
