T i m wrote:

Hence in many cases relying on memory

rather than writing stuff down.


Well I have to write some stuff down .. shopping lists for example ..
and if I don't I will normally forset *something* ;-(

Same here... probably a case of motivation as well though- remembering
shopping just aint so much fun ;-)

Dyslexics tend to make very good architects, quite often they are able
to maintain many aspects of three dimensional problems in the head all
at once...


Angain sorta .. but seem to think best 'serially'. What I mean by that
is when I was running a IT support Help Desk I could fault find a
complex international data-link and could sort of 'picture' each step
/ link as I was talking the customer / engineer through it. However, I
don't like (can't cope with) parallel stuff .. like chess for example?

The serial / parallel thing tends to be a male/female brain wiring
limitation rather then a dyslexic one. Most men (80%) are poor at
multitasking down to the way we have highly compartmentalised brains
that have areas dedicated to particular tasks, where women tend to use
multiple parts of the brain to work on the same problems. (hence why men
have a harder time recovering from stokes).

I had a quick web search and found this:

http://www.bda-dyslexia.org.uk/extra328.html

I'm printing it as I type .. I tried to count the 'yesses' as I read
it but repeatly lost count?

Hmmm, another pointer!

I remember seeing an interview with the director of an architectural
firm in the US that was notable for having a policy of only recruiting
dyslexic architects. He explained why he preferred them (reasons
mentioned previously)... but then as an after thought mentioned that he
did not trust them to add up columns of figures though!

There are also strong hereditary links, while not passing directly from
one generation to the next, it is not uncommon to find several instances
of it dotted about a family. It affects ten times as many boys as girls.

Should also add, a disproportionate amount are left handed as well.


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Cheers,

John.

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