Dyslexic Strengths

Steven Spielberg discusses his life with dyslexia:

Although their unique brain architecture and “unusual wiring” make reading, writing, and spelling difficult, most people with dyslexia have gifts in areas controlled by the right hemisphere of the brain. The right side controls:

Artistic skill
Athletic ability
Musical ability
Mechanical ability
People skills
3-D visual-spatial skills
Vivid imagination
Intuition
Creative, global thinking
Curiosity

Some Famous Dyslexics

If I wasn’t dyslexic, I probably wouldn’t have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily… and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work. – Bruce Jenner

I was one of the ‘puzzle children’ myself — a dyslexic… And I still have a hard time reading today. Accept the fact that you have a problem. Refuse to feel sorry for yourself. You have a challenge; never quit! – Nelson Rockefeller

As a child, I was called stupid and lazy. On the SAT I got 159 out of 800 in math. My parents had no idea that I had a learning disability. – Henry Winkler, actor