Dyslexia
They were talking to Charlie Boorman on the radio this afternoon and dyslexia came up.
I was brought up in a letterpress print works, where of course all the letters are backwards.
An expert once told me that playing with these letters could have made me dyslexic.
It didn’t and even after a bad stroke, it all works reasonably well. I’ve met others, who have had a similar upbringing to me and it has enhanced rather than hindered the brain. For instance, I have a very powerful image mirroring ability.
The brain is a strange wonderful thing. Where would be without it?
The Anonymous Widower 
The brain works in many strange ways when processing images. The image falling on the retina is upside down, and we have no problem with that. However some years ago an experiment was done with a group of students. They were provided with glasses containing prisms that inverted the image to each eye. At first they had great difficulty, but after a couple of weeks they were back to normal with the world looking the right way up. Removing the galsses put them back to seeing an inverted world which returned agin to normal after a period. Perhaps we should all wear rose coloured spectacles!
Comment by john wright | January 3, 2013 |