The nature nurture of being dyslexic or neuro diverse

 

my initial design for the Unique Dyslexic logo, I wanted the U to intertwine with the D to show uniqueness and dyslexia go hand in hand

Hi blog readers and social media followers

As a dyslexic I have been thinking more about dyslexia as a life experience. 

I experience and make sense of and understand the world through my dyslexic prism. Being dyslexic through eyes, thought processes, decision making and dyslexics senses. There is not a blob in my head that is dyslexic and the rest isn't, it is much more complicated than that.

All of us have different lives have different life experiences as children and adults which can impact on how we manage our lives as a dyslexic.

It's a nature nurture thing. I was born dyslexic no getting away from that thank gawd that's the nature side of dyslexia. 

Then there is the nurture side. Our experience with family, school, friends etc. The nurture side is ongoing and shapes us and who we are through our lives.

Out dyslexia unfriendly education system can leave many dyslexics with feelings low self esteem, self confident, self worth and even long term mental health issues. But we can all overcome these issues. For me personally relationships with friends, reading sci fi comics and books, becoming a musician and computer game player etc all helped me to overcome theses issues. 

But most importantly I had a dyslexia assessment at age 35. This assessment enabled me to make sense of my inability to succeed at school. It enabled me to realise I was not as thick as a brick at school. That is was our dyslexics a unfriendly education system that failed me no myself. Only a dyslexics can comprehend how liberating the realisation of this can be. 

But the effects of experiences at school can still come to the surface. I can still experience periods of low self esteem and depression etc. I can still scold and berate myself for being an idiot. I can say things about my self to myself that would never say about anyone else. 

My own research showed the vast majority of assessed dyslexics, 71%, leave school without being assessed. But so many dyslexics never receive an dyslexia assessment. Nobody really knows how many un-assessed dyslexic adults are out there. But I think this number is very high. 

It's no wonder that so many of us hate being dyslexic, can feel ashamed of being dyslexic. Many will never know the answers to why they feel how they feel. To why that have struggled all through their lives. 

Question to you all:

How do you feel about being dyslexic?

Please leave your thoughts in the comments section of this blog.

Anyways thats enough for this blog

Peace love and groovyness to you all

Remember dyslexia is about diversity and difference, its what makes us unique. Humanity and nature have thrived because of diversity and difference.

I know it seems nuts to many dyslexics because of their negative experiences at school but love being dyslexic. 

#PeaceLoveGrooveyness from me

Steve #UniqueDyslexic McCue

Dyslexics can and do succeed but many do so in spite of their education not because of it.

 Dyslexics can and do succeed but many do so in spite of their education not because of it. 

photo above: we must enable dyslexic kids to fly and learn together with their disabled, neuro diverse and non dyslexic peers

We must change how we think about what it means to be dyslexic in a society that disables. We must change how we think and talk about dyslexia.

We have to challenge the current medical discrepancy of dyslexia. It is a model that has nothing positive to say about dyslexia or to dyslexics. It is a model that has only served to trap us behind a narrow one dimensional negative stereotype definition of dyslexia. A definition that totally ignores and stifles our potential and strengths.

That is why I support the social model of dyslexia. It talks about dyslexia in terms of diversity and difference and it recognises that it is society that disables us.

#dyslexia is a difference that reflects #diversity. We need to unleash and nurture that potential not remediate or stifle it.

What are your thoughts on this? please comment

Anyway that's enough from me apart to say my #dyslexia blog has had over 375.000 reads. Ta to all who read and contribute to my blog including guest bloggers. Hope you enjoy and share my latest one.

many thanks for reading and your support

#PeaceLoveGroovyness to all my blog followers and readers

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Being dyslexic can be?

 

Me sitting in our old studio over 40 years ago.

Hello every one, hope all is well with you all,

Anyone who knows me understands that I am very positive about being dyslexic. However, there are times,even for me, that my dyslexic life can become overwhelming and isolating.

There are times when I would gladly stick a couple of knitting needles up my nose to give myself a full frontal lobotomy. Just to shut my dyslexic brain up and walk away from my dyslexia work altogether. If I had any real sense that's what I should do lol.

Anyway, that's my wee moan over with.

Thanks for reading and a big hi five to all my followers of my dyslexia social media.

#PeaceLoveGrooveyness from me

Steve #UniqueDyslexic McCue

I see and make sense of the world through my unique dyslexic prism.

 

#iamdyslexic😀 and that's #fab 

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Hello all, hope you are all well

#iamdyslexic😎I.I see and make sense of the world through my unique dyslexic prism. 

Nature and humanity thrives because of diversity. Just think of all the fab accomplishments of dyslexics throughout history. #dyslexia is a difference that reflects #diversity and thats fab.

What would be lost if there were such a thing as a cure for dyslexia or diversity? It would not be a cure it would be an amputation. 

If I were a stick of rock I would have the word dyslexic written all through me.

#PeaceLoveGroovyness to you all

from me 

Steve #UniqueDyslexic McCue

There are millions of dyslexic geniuses out there, but?

Dyslexic strengths in the workplace

Good afternoon from me here in Glenrothes, Scotland

Here is a link to a new dyslexia / neuro diversity blog from me

There are millions of dyslexic geniuses out there, but?

Please click on the link below.

https://sdyslexia.blogspot.com/2021/12/there-are-many-dyslexic-geniuses-out.html?spref=tw

Thanks for reading.

#PeaceLoveGrooveyness from me

Steve #UniqueDyslexic McCue

 

Why a dyslexia assessment is crucial for our dyslexic well being

Hi everyone, hope you are all well out there. Below is a link to one of my Unique Dyslexic Podcasts on You Tube.

Hope you enjoy it. Feed back and questions are invited and welcomed.

#PeaceLoveGrooveyness from me

Steve #UniqueDyslexic McCue

Develop our creative dyslexic scenius,

 

One of my Unique Dyslexic Eye t shirt designs

 

Good day to you all, hope you are all well

Hi blog readers and followers, hope you have had an enjoyable holiday

Scenius is: ‘a group of creative individuals who make up an ‘ecology of talent’. 

There are many dyslexic geniuses out there but because our education system fails us many never realize that genius. But it is out there because we know 35% of dyslexics are entrepreneurs. 

Dyslexic geniuses that do succeed do so in spite of there experiences in education and not because of it.

If we are ever going to change how society sees dyslexia we must come together and develop our creative dyslexic scenius to do it.  

We need to challenge societies medical model of dyslexia that tell dyslexics that dyslexia is about deficits, discrepancy and disorder. This medical model has nothing positive to say to dyslexics or about dyslexia.

This is why I developed the social model of dyslexia together with social enterprise. The social model of dyslexia tells us dyslexia is about diversity and difference and the social enterprise part basically means we can support ourselves to solve the issues we face in a dyslexic unfriendly society. 

The social model of dyslexia is our model its provides dyslexics with positive and inclusive vision. It tells it like it is, we struggle at school because our education system is dyslexia unfriendly. It is also neuro diverse and disability unfriendly.

Dyslexics have unique minds, we need to come together to create and untilise our dyslexic scenius to benefit the dyslexic community.

#PeaceLoveGroovyness to you all.......please leave a like or join our community and or share my podcasts.

Below is a link to my Unique Dyslexic Eye blog on dyslexic scenius:

Dyslexic scenius podcast

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#PeaceLoveGroovyness from me 

Steve #UniqueDyslexic McCue, founder of Unique Dyslexic Eye and Dyslexia Pathways