Are You Smart Enough?

[Panzergranate]

It is readable because the brain automatically makes an best guess at what the word is intended to be, despite the concious mind of the reader working through the word phonetically.

Dyslexics cannot do this subconcious trick.

Reading and writing is a human invention, rather like a bicycle in a human invention.

Now if a person cannot ride a bicycle do we make a huge fuss and surround them with "experts" and treat it like a disability?? No we don't.

We do with reading and writing.

With regards to Egyptian Heiroglyphics, we are all dyslexic when it comes to reading those. It is another form of writing that we can't understand yet nobody makes a huge song and dance about that, do they. The shame goes for written Chinese, Thai, Greek, etc.

Being dyslexic simply being unable to master or understand a particular human invented tool.

Folks kind of forget that and treat reading and writing as if it is something natural, like walking and talking, we should all be able to do.

I learnt to read at 3 years old and had read dozens of Enid Blyton books by the time I was 8 years old. The UK education system was better back then.