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The results from a recent study on dyslexia explain the relationship between reading and intelligence in non-dyslectics and in dyslectics.
I thought the results and conclusion are interesting.
I thought it might be interesting for some people here, since there are also people here with dyslexia.

Here's the link to the article:
Dyslexia: Some very smart accomplished people cannot read well

Thanks for posting this! Good stuff. I have always suspected myself as dyslexic, and have never been good at reading or being quick with my lefts and rights, but I have a high IQ. I always thought I was so stupid for not being able to do what most people could do. Haha.

If you transpose words and letters a lot, read "backwards" etc., you may be mildly dyslexic. I know several dyslexics who went undiagnosed. You might say their cries for pleh went unheeded.

Humans are genetically wired to talk and listen, not to read. Reading was only invented less than 7000 years ago. Humans have been around for 250,000 years and they evolved from homonids which have been around for several million years. Our species is not (yet) genetically wired to read, and probably will never be, since being able to read is not a major prerequisite for reproductive success.

Most of the world is illiterate and yet such folk breed aplenty.

ruveyn

That's a very good article. I have a feeling that I might have Dyslexia. The thing that blew me away, is that I took an "accurate" online IQ test and scored an IQ of 136. Thinking about it now, that doesn't suprise me. It suprised me, two months ago, when I took that test.

I don't think I have dyslexia, but I may have dyspraxia, a related condition where organisation and writing etc. is messed up. My hero has dyslexia and look how far he's come~