[Osx-nutters] Writing Off Reading

[Patrick Coskren]

On Aug 23, 2006, at 4:07 AM, Guy Hammond wrote:

> Jared ''Danger'' Earle wrote:
>> What bugs me is the explosion in the number of dyslexic people  
>> I've met over the last few years, even though dyslexia itself  
>> hasn't increased.
>>
>> YOU ARE NOT DYSLEXIC, YOU ARE JUST LAZY.
>
> To be honest, I am not convinced that dyslexia even exists. It's  
> one of these amazingly convenient modern diseases that lets people  
> basically get on with their lives, yet excuses them from  
> obligations or responsibilities that everyone else just gets one  
> with. Like so-called "yuppie flu" or "anxiety" etc, with no  
> actually medically detectable symptoms. Or people who have "done me  
> back in, guv" yet happily play golf or football, except sometimes  
> they get caught.

<http://healthlink.mcw.edu/article/1031002333.html>

If dyslexia didn't really exist, fMRI ("functional" MRI, which  
provides a rough map of neuron activity within a living brain)  
wouldn't show any difference between people with and people without  
dyslexia.

Which is not to say that plenty of people don't fake the diagnosis  
for one reason or another, but it's a real condition.

-Patrick