Dyslexic Brian’s Principles 2

Don’t adopt symptoms from the theories you read or hear about

Whilst you are exploring the subject area of dyslexia you might find that, if you’re not careful you start adopting some of the symptoms that you read or hear about from others. For example, you might read or hear from someone about the theory that dyslexia has something to do with short term memory problems. Then, whilst exploring your own dyslexia you take this theory to be ‘true’ as it helps you explain and understand some of the difficulties you might be experiencing whilst trying to remember things. You then start to believe that you can’t remember anything if you don’t write it down or chant it to yourself for an hour and a half till it works its way into your long term memory. This will most probably limit your learning opportunists as you believe that theirs no point trying to remember things that you have heard as you will only forget them.

This then has a knock-on effect, as you have to spend time and effort in the future to make sense of this when you are exploring your own dyslexia at a higher level. So keep in mind the point made earlier, that there are lots of theories out there and that they haven’t been proven to be ‘absolutely’ true!