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The world is not set up to make life easy for people with dyslexia. Reading quickly and accurately is a necessary skill in most professions (as well as on the roads and in the grocery stores), and difficulty processing symbols makes reading a challenge for most people with the condition.

Dyslexia is considered a learning disability, but (as with so many conditions) “disability” might be a word choice that says more about societal structure than about the person in question. As Annie Murphy Paul wrote in “The Upside of Dyslexia” for the Sunday Review, people with dyslexia actually learn more quickly than others under some circumstances. Readers with dyslexia identified letters briefly flashed at the periphery of their vision better than typical readers did, and research subjects with the condition are quicker to grasp information from a whole scene or a blurred picture, called “absorbing the visual gist.”

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