What ideals do we want a dyslexic community to be based on?

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We need a coherent and globally united dyslexia community so we can fight for positive change for all of us. It seems to me we are all still stuck in a medical \ discrepancy model time warp. We are falling over ourselves trying to prove that dyslexia is a disability. That dyslexia is about discrepancy, deficits and disorder, the 3D model.

That is why I and my social enterprise support and promote the social model of dyslexia. Its a model created by dyslexics for dyslexics. It tells us dyslexia is about #diversity and difference, the 2D model. 

We have been trying to solve the issues we face on a daily basis all through our lives using terminology and ideas that are embedded in medical modal thinking that in my view do not fit for purpose or work for us. The idea that dyslexia is a disability is imposed upon us by non dyslexic thinking dyslexia unfriendly society.

We have to stop thinking in terms of deficits, disorder and discrepancy and focus on the idea that dyslexia is about diversity and difference. 

If we are ever going to build a a coherent dyslexic community do we want one based on a medical model vision or social model of dyslexia vision?

What do you think?

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#PeaceLoveGroovyness to you all 

Steve McCue