The study of dyslexia has been formed out of my personal experiences and theory of the study of The Human Mind, based on my experiences and interaction with a large cross section of society. These are my personal assessments of what I think we mean by what is dyslexia.
During the study of the human mind for over five decades now, I have observed that a large number of diseases are particularly those connected with the human mind or better still the brain, which are generally manifested and also aggravated by ourselves. These kinds of diseases and complexities are ingrained by over optimistic, egoistic parents and also perhaps teachers as they over step their own expectations from their children and students to perhaps being better samples of dyslexic patients them selves .There is a distinct mixture of cultures in USA and Canada as opposed to Asiatic countries, where we have an admixture of genes in the initial stages and also the norms of assessing life vary as opposed to the countries which exhibit some sort of stability of the genes. One is prone to find that in western type of free society where one has no inhibition one has a tendency to be levelled, if not branded as a dyslexic. The disease is a be-habitual pattern of a disease from the stiff neck tie and starch color pattern of western society.
Who is dyslexic?
The best example of a dyslexic person cannot be anyone other than me. Since I was born a last thirteenth and unwanted child as there was not much attention paid towards use of condoms in those times, I was however welcomed to this world. I was the cause of poverty in my family which was otherwise prosperous. As times changed and I could not be afforded a good education I was placed in a spiritual class where mental activity was even accepted by the mentally retarded. I was not a mentally retarded child but in my own assessment a highly intellectual one kids of my age. I was disgusted in studying scriptures though I was adept at it. I wanted to switch over to mathematics even though I was a weakling. My highly educated sister was so fed up with me and as she was highly mathematically oriented she made no bones to address me as a dunce. What you perhaps will understand as a moron. One can imagine the impact of such a classification on the mind of a young kid. Unmindful as she perhaps was she in later years landed as a final adult dyslexic and passed away to eternity prematurely.
My concept of life and a higher order of understanding, befitting my young years, gave me the impetus to expel myself out from the environs, which perhaps would have seen me waste out as a cleric level, at the very least. Owing to failing monetary levels and no help at hand, I barely was a subject of attention for the school principal who exempted me from many additional school charges, but I had to pay the basic fees. I managed some how, and in later years, by help of a better tutor and proper attention, overcame my complex and insecurity and did well in additional Moths, my sisters grading me an as dunce, not withstanding.
In later years as I braved the storm and realized my teachers simply said I was racy and had a rambling style and went off the mark, they indicated neither reason nor any remedy. To this day I am dyslexic, despite the achievements in my life.
What then is dyslexia? , But a simple under estimate of ones ability, owing to ones own inability of understanding. Had I been given proper training, guidance and the right approach, perhaps my rambling style and going off the mark, as I do even today, may have sustained and made me perhaps a better child in their eyes. But then how do I know that you are not more dyslexic than I. Einstein was slow in class work, not because he was dyslexic, but his teachers were not able to understand him as Einstein%u2019s is, and as we know today, was well above par as compared to his peers and teachers also.
Perhaps it was they who should have been earmarked and branded as suffering from this man made malady, rather than being culprit and falling prey to the machinations of those in power. Was Pablo dyslexic? He was the greatest painter of his time, suffering from this malady we blow out of proportion. I dare say no.
At times my mind runs at speeds, much faster than my fingers keep pace. My typing is not as good as a clerks%u2019, I type seeing the keyboard. Is it any assessment of my ability of memory? My memory far surpasses the content of many people, who grade themselves as intellectuals. But their memory about the mind of man and its capabilities as well as limitations is miniscule. Am I a dyslexic? No not at all. My mind is rife.
We must assess a child, as per his actual capabilities and help him achieve normal standards, as obtaining as per his level, of the minds of other children. We must help him find ways and means of improving in standards as expected of children of his /her age. We ought not to ridicule the child of the awareness of his ability and we must help him more with love and parental attention, to improve upon his failings and weaknesses, if any, to an expected level of understanding. Of children his age. We must leave out all comparison with those who may appear to be of a supposedly higher grade or order of intelligence,
Avoid going to counsellors, love the child, guide him, help him, tutor him and also make him aware that he is an individual entity, and need not be compared with anyone else. Then you will see how your child develops, to be a full-grown intellectual and able man. One of logical reason and understanding. Do not grade him as being dyslexic, if at all you don%u2019t still understand, it is you, who perhaps needs to take mental therapy. You need more of meditation, to enable you to understand yourself first, before you dare to get an evaluation from a practitioner, of whether or not your child is dyslexic, which in all profanity he /she is not.
To come to a logical conclusion, if a child is physically fit, his coordination of mind and his physical limbs, are as per permissible standards, as judged by a Qualified Medical Practitioner, then all you, as parents need to do is, to sacrifice your personal comfort, lower your egos, and devote more time and attention towards the finer development of your child, to become a whole being.
I have purposely excluded the so called symptoms of dyslexia, as we all by now know that they encompass physical and mental disorientation, in the eyes of a generalist doctor, and not a psychiatrist.
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