Dyslexia and neuro diversity: It's a nature nurture thing.

 

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 hope you are all well.

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.

Our dyslexia unfriendly education system, simply fails to nurture us. As a result can leave many dyslexics with feelings low self esteem, self confident, self worth and even long term mental health issues and trauma. 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. Only a dyslexics can comprehend how liberating the realisation of this can be.  

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. Society disables us, only 19% were assessed as dyslexic while at school. 

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. 

That is was our dyslexics a unfriendly education system that failed me not myself. 

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. 


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 / neuro diverse?

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

Anyways that's 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 I love being dyslexic. I would not have it any other way.

Thats #PeaceLoveGrooveyness from me 

Steve #UniqueDyslexic McCue