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allisondraste · 5 years

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Let’s Talk About Cole

Hi! It’s me again with another segment of “Allison Can’t Stop Analyzing Dragon Age Characters.” This time, I am going to be talking about fan favorite Cole. I think it’s relatively universal for people to like Cole and to enjoy his character. People like to draw him, write about him, and just talk about our Fade Friend all the time. It’s great!

However, the nuance of Cole is a little harder to understand, and as with most characters, he often gets reduced down to basic qualities and then those basic qualities are changed ever so slightly that the character starts to not even feel the same anymore. I love Cole, and I have done some research about him in order to write a handful of scenes involving him, so I am just here to share some of the things that helped me out while I was learning about what makes him tick!

Step 1. If you have not read Asunder, I cannot more highly recommend it. It has so much information about Cole’s back story. Also, if you haven’t read Asunder and you don’t want spoilers for Asunder, you should probably go read it and then come back to my post later.

Step 2. The Cole section of this post right here is literally magic. The whole post is magic, but since this is a Cole meta, I’m specifically referring to the Cole piece.

Step 3. Things about Cole that are essential to understanding him:

Cole is Neurodivergent ( and no, it’s not up for debate)

For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term, “Neurodivergent” is simply a word that describes a person whose mind works and processes information in a way that is considered different from an average joe neurotypical person. Often times neurodivergent is used to describe autism, ADHD, and other conditions that affect neurological development.

Because Cole is a spirit, he processes the world around him differently from non-spirit characters in the Dragon Age Universe. He perceives different things and understands things differently from how other characters might. Cole also has some misunderstandings and misperceptions about human social norms and boundaries, that he becomes more acquainted with over time. It is important to note that this development happens *regardless* of the path chosen for him with regard to Varric V. Solas (I am not a fan of this particular part of his character arc, but I am going to go into that later). The fact that Cole is neurodivergent means that someone who is neurotypical is likely going to have a hard time understanding him and may perceive him as “childish,” “naive,” or “helpless.” They might also have difficulty understanding his speech patterns and especially recreating them if they seek to write him!

Neurodiversity is so important, and Cole is excellent representation, so it’s equally important that we strive to do our research and make sure that we are not removing that representation or presenting neurodiversity in a way that its harmful to others. Different is different, not bad, and certainly not less.

Cole is Not a Child

I mentioned above that there is a tendency to interpret Cole’s neurodiversity as childishness or naivete, and even when it is unintentional, it is an ableistic view point that can be harmful to entire communities of people. There is a pattern (not just in DA fandom, but also in DA fandom) whereby neurodiverse folks are often viewed as children. They’re infantilized and treated as if they are helpless and/or cannot make good decisions on their own. Cole suffers from this as does Merrill (sometimes Sera, too).

For Cole, this situation is not helped by the fact that the game portrays him as helpless and in need of a “father” figure to help him choose his path. Hence we see Solas and Varric arguing on whether Cole should increase is affinity for spirtdom or for humanity. I understand that everyone has their own opinion for what the “better” path for Cole is, and I’m not here to argue that; however, I do think that his arc would have had so much more meaning and been so much less invalidating for neurodivergent people if Cole had the autonomy to make his own decisions. In Asunder, we see Cole being very independent and making his own choices, figuring out who and what he is. At the very end, his very last line in the entire book is, “I’m not helpless anymore.” I don’t think that sounds like a character who cannot make his own decisions.

Fun fact: Cole is designed to be approximately 20 years old, which is the exact same age that Alistair was in Dragon Age: Origins. (While Alistair is also the victim of infantilization… it still puts things into perspective a little bit). In order to avoid the “kid”/child dilemma, it is best to conceptualize some of the things in Cole commonly interpreted as childlike or immature as “newness.” In Inquisition, Cole has only been in the mortal realm for a few years, and he has only been cognizant of the fact that he is not a human, but a spirit of Compassion for even less time. Rather than treating him as a “baby” it is best to treat him as someone who is just learning a new culture, a new world.

Cole is a Spirit of Compassion, Not a Spirit of Matchmaking and/or Meddling in your Personal Affairs.

A trend I see often is Cole as matchmaker, or Cole as interested in every detail of everyone’s sex life or Cole being a filterless vent for whatever the people near him are thinking. It’s easy to assume that about him, as he does comment on a few relationships (Cullenmance, Solavellan, and Bullmance) in particular; however, there is an interesting tidbit of how Cole’s thought reading works located in his banter with Dorian.

Dorian: That little trick, Cole, when you dip into someone's mind and take a drink?

Dorian: Do you choose what you're looking for, or is it random?

Cole: It has to be hurt, or a way to help the hurt. That's what calls me.

Cole: Rilienus, skin tan like fine whiskey, cheekbones shaded, lips curl when he smiles.

Cole: He would have said yes.

Dorian: I'll... thank you not to do that again, please.

Essentially, Cole can only tap into thoughts that are 1.) Painful or 2.) Can help lessen the pain in some way, shape, or form. So, when he accesses thoughts about an LI or something else very personal, he does so to HELP. It is not random. It is not filterless. It is a very pragmatic way to be compassionate. When I was thinking of ways to explain this, the first thing that came to mind was the work that I do as a mental health professional. We are actual practitioners of compassion. It is our job to listen to our clients and help them to solve the problems that are causing them to suffer. We ask a lot of deep questions and probe about a lot of personal things, but it is very targeted. We do not ask intimate questions just out of curiosity or just for the heck of it. It is geared toward the issue at hand. That is exactly what Cole does.

Unless prodding your OC about the details of their sex life is going to make them feel better, he will not bother.

Cole is Not an Innocent, Precious, Little Cinnamon Roll

First of all, that goes along with the infantilization of his character, so it’s just a really ill-considered choice of language to describe him. Second of all, it is simply not true.

I understand that for people who have not read Asunder or played the Champions of the Just questline (and especially people who have done neither) there is very little information about him to judge his character on, and what we do see is a person whose only mission, his sole purpose, is to help the hurt. That does seem very wholesome.

In Asunder, we see a much different side of him. Believing himself to be Cole, a young mage who died of starvation after being forgotten by Templars, Compassion roams about the White Spire in a confused and lonely daze, unaware that he is actually a very powerful spirit. He is called the Ghost of the White Spire, a legend that is terrifying to those that inhabit the tower. Why? Because he murders mages.

If you are thinking “oh, he probably killed them because he felt them suffering and he thought it was the only way to end their misery,” you are thinking exactly as I did, and you would be wrong. While he did target individuals who were despairing, it was not altruistic. He killed them because it felt good when they died, because that was the only time anyone could see him. The way the book describes it, it was almost an “addiction” or a physiological need for him to kill. He was distressed by his actions, but was not able to stop without Rhys’ help.

Over the course of the book, Cole learns more about his past and figures out what he is. He also, through the help of his relationship with Rhys and Evangeline, comes to understand that he does not have to murder people to be seen and remembered. When he is sent to the Fade using the Litany of Adralla, it all finally clicks and he returns to haunt Lord Seeker Lucius, for all the pain and suffering he caused his friends and loved ones. It is such a brilliant character arc and I so wish that we got to see more of it in the game.

Cole is a Person the Entire Time (Human vs. Spirit/Varric vs. Solas be damned)

Regardless of your opinion of Solas, one thing he gets right is in arguing that Cole is already a whole and complete person when he joins the Inquisition. He actually argues for the personhood of all spirits in general, and I think that any reasonable person can look at the spirits (and demons) with whom we have interacted so far and, putting aside feelings about Solas, draw the same conclusions.

Let’s take a look at all of the Spirits/Demons we have had actual interactions with thus far:

Valor

Justice

Compassion

Command

Wisdom

Choice

Desire

Pride

Sloth

Rage

Fear

Envy

While some of these interactions were minimal, each of these entities show qualities that one would associate with personhood. Qualities such as motivation, goals, higher order thought processes, emotions, etc. When we meet Justice in DA:A, he is a thinking, feeling being who longs to right wrongs and comes to care for mortals a great deal. He comes to this conclusion on his own after interacting with his companions in the events of the game. Choice, or Imshael, who we see in The Masked Empire, and in DAI, has such an identity of his own that he does not like to be referred to as a demon. I could go on. These are not mindless, thoughtless creatures, and so viewing them as people just makes sense. This is part of the reason I do not like the Solas vs. Varric questline (aside from the fact that Cole should be able to choose or not choose as he wishes). Cole is already a person, and Varric’s line of thought is not “making him more human,” it is only serving to make him “less compassionate,” and that’s all. He becomes more selfish which is why he is able to have more of his own personal goals (it’s not because he did not have them before; rather, it is because they were drowned out by everyone else’s).

This is not to say that I think Cole should have to forgive his abuser. He shouldn’t. Not unless he wants to, and that choice should be his to make, not Varric’s, not Solas’, and not the Inquisitor’s. I have an opinion as to which path is better, but I’m not going to discuss that here because it will detract from the actual point which is that the language of “human” versus “not human” is just bad and here’s why.

It implies that forgiveness is not a human quality.

It implies that in order to be considered a person, one has to “think” and “do” as everyone else does.

Because of Cole’s romantic/sexual interest in Maryden when Varric’s path is chosen, it implies that lack of romantic/sexual attraction is not “human,” which is aphobic.

Because of his Maryden interest in the “human” path, and because he has “become more human” in his thought processes, it implies that neurodivergent people cannot or are not interested in relationships, which is ableist.

TL;DR: I’m not a fan of that questline. Your mileage may vary.

Finally, and Probably the Reason You Sat Through the Rest of It: Cole’s Speech Pattern!

Cole’s speech is really difficult to capture in a way that is both enough and not too much. It is not as simple as just seeing how much alliteration can fit into a chapter. Sure, Cole uses a lot of alliteration, and it is incredibly fun to play with while writing him; however, his communication is not as simple as that. If you check out the link I shared in Step 2, it will take you to a Character Files reference where there is some information about Cole’s speech pattern that is much more in depth than I am going to go so definitely check it out. When I am writing Cole, I categorize his speech into three different types:

Synesthesia

- the alliteration, the purpley flowery descriptions, the metaphors, the in the moment, no regard for grammar, run on sentence speech he is known for. This comprises most of his dialogue.

Direct thought reading

- when he is actually quoting characters’ thoughts or stating their feelings out right. He might speak as them or he might speak as himself observing them.

Cole’s own thoughts

- Yes, he has them, and he has a lot of them. Many of these show up as his interpretations of and suggestions for others regarding their hurt. However, he also shows a lot of agency of thought. He wants to know if Dorian thinks he’s handsome, he talks about wanting there to be more rabbits in stories because Bunny was Cole’s sister’s name and it reminds him of her. Cole expresses a lot of his own thoughts and feelings if you just take time to listen.

Writing Cole effectively involves a good balance of all three types and I recommend just playing around with it!

To Sum It All Up

Cole is amazing, but he’s also often misunderstood and mischaracterized, and Allison has a lot of feelings about it that you could spare yourself from reading if you do Steps 1 and 2 and skip the middleman. The end!

#dragon age #dragon age inquisition #cole meta #understanding cole #writing reference #my ramblings

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hellogoodbye741 · 5 years

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Finally tracking my book challenges for the first time this year can ignore

I was supposed to be doing this on the reg, but I was being lazy. Whooooppss

BAD BOYS OF ROMANCE CHALLENGE:

15 romance novels about bad boys, MC, mobsters, etc:

Royally Bad

Filthy English

Bad Stepbrother

SEAL Stepbrother

Bad teacher

Kenzie and the guy next door

Savage

Engaging the Billionaire

My Wicked Prince

Bad Guy

Alpha’s Danger

The Geek and his Bad Boys

His Miracle Baby

DIVERSIFY YOUR READING:

A new genre every month

January - Memoir, and Autobiography: Reading Lolita in Tehran

February - Romance: The Prince’s Omega Nanny

March - Science, and Technology: Post Mordem

April - Graphic Novels, and Comics: Calamity Jack

May - History, and Biography: 1776

June - Middle Grade, and Children’s: Winnie the Pooh

July - Humor: Noir

August - Science Fiction: Errant Prince

September - Nonfiction: Diary of Anne Frank

October - YA:

November - Poetry:

December - Fantasy:

A - Z:

Read a book that’s title starts with every letter of the alphabet

A: Al Capone Throws Me a Curve

B: Black Leopard, Red Wolf

C: Crazy Rich Asians

D: Da Vinci Code

E: Eragon

F: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

G: Grumpy Monkey

H: Hidden Figures

I: In Another Time

J: Juno Valentine and the Magical Shoes

K: Knights vs Monsters

L: Library of Ever

M: Mr. Popper’s Penguins

N: Noir

O: Other Words from Home

P: Post Mordem

R: Reading Lolita in Tehran

S: Seizure

T: Terminal

U: Uni the Unicorn

V: Virals

W: Winnie the Pooh

Y: Yertle the Turtle

Z: Zombie

Ragdoll:

A Funny Book: Noir

A Family Member’s Favorite Book: Da Vinci Code

A Book with a real city in the title: Reading Lolita in Tehran

A Book with No Romance: Whipping Romance

A Book you wouldn’t normally read: Fire and Fury

A ‘free’ book: Bride in Disguise

A Book you’ve been meaning to read: Hidden Figures

A ‘classic book’:

A book or author with an alliterative name: Crazy Rich Asians

A translated book: The Little Prince

A Book with a terrible cover: The Geek and his bad boys

A ‘random number’ book: 77 Shadow Street

A book whose author shares your initials:

A book over 500 pages: 1776

A book with a strong female lead: Civil War pt 2

A book that takes place at sea:

A book set in the past:

A book everyone seems to love: Crazy Rich Asians

A spooky book: 77 Shadow Street

A book by a POC or LGBTQIA+ author: Number One Chinese Restaurant

A book you’ve never heard of: the house that Lou built

A ‘Top of 2019’ book: Black Leopard, Red Wolf

A book set in another country/culture: Crazy Rich Asians

A memorable book: Whipping Boy

Read Les Miserables

Another book by a P.O.C or LGBTQIA+ author: Crazy Rich Asians

Color-Coded/Read it Again Sam:

Books with color on the cover or in the title/re-reading books (17) you’ve read in the past

A book with ‘blue; or any shade of blue in title/on the cover: True Blue

A book with red/any shade in title or color: Black Leopard, Red Wolf

Yellow: Yellow Wallpaper

Green: Prodigal Summer

Black: Black Leopard, Red Wolf

White:

Any other color: Color Purple

A book with a word that implies color in title or on color (polka dot, rainbow, plaid, etc): rainbow fish

Re-read: Da Vinci Code

Re-read: Rainbow Fish

Re-read: House on Mango Street

Re-read: Whipping Boy

Re-read: Red Scarf Girl

Re-read: Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson

Re-read: Eragon

Re-read: Winnie the Pooh

Re-read:

Women Reading:

Books written by women/about women

Mystery/thriller by a WOC:

Woman with a mental illness: Yellow Wallpaper

Author from Nigeria or New Zealand

About or set in Appalachia: Prodigal Summer

Children’s book: the house that lou built

Multi-gen family saga

Featuring women in science: Hidden Figures

A play: Raisin in the Sun

A novella: House on Mango Street

About a woman athlete: Who are Venus and Serena williams

A book featuring a religion other than your own: Reading Lolita in Tehran

Lambda literary award winner:

A myth retelling: Song of Achilles

A translated book published before 1945: Little Prince

Written by a South Asian Author: The Lowlands

By an Indigenous woman:

From 2018 Reading Women Award Shortlist:A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza

Romance or love story: Second chance thing - lennox

About nature: How to be a good creature

Historical fiction book: In another Time

Book bought/borrowed 2019: Second Chance Thing - Elizabeth Lennox

Book you got because of the cover: the house that lou built

YA book by a W.O.C.: Children of Blood and Bone

Book by Jesmyn Ward: Sing, unburied, sing

Book by Jhumpa Lahiri: The Lowlands

Modern Ms. Darcy:

A book you’ve been meaning to read:Hidden Figures

A book in the backlist of your favorite author: Noir

A book recommended by someone with great taste: Sweet Surrender

Three books by the same author: Virals

Three books by same author: Seizure

Three books by same author: Chaos

A book you chose for the cover: Hunting Prince Dracula

A book by an author who is new to you: Number One Chinese Restaurant

A book in translation: Little Prince

A book outside your (genre) comfort zone: Fire and Fury

A book published before you were born: Little Prince

Pop Sugar Challenge:

A book becoming a movie in 2019: Sun is not a Star

A book that makes you nostalgic: Whipping Boy

A book written by a musician: Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

A book that you think should be made into a movie: Virals

A book at least with 1 million ratings on Goodreads:

A book with a plant in the title or cover: How to be a good Creature

A reread of a favorite book: Da Vinci Code

A book about a hobby: the house that lou built

A book you meant to read in 2018: Crazy Rich Asians

A book with “pop” “sugar” or “challenge” in the title: Hop on Pop A book with “pop” “sugar” or “challenge” in the title: Hop on Pop

A book with a item of clothing or accessory in title or cover: Red Scarf Girl

A book inspired by mythology, legend, or folklore: Song of Achilles

A book published posthumously: The girl who played with fire

A book set in space: Little Prince

A book by two female authors:

A book that contains “salty” “sweet” “bitter” or “spicy”: Sweet Surrender

A book set in Scandinavia: Girl who played with fire

A book that takes place in a single day: Sun is also a star

A debut novel: The Help

A book published in 2019: elizabeth lennox

Book featuring an extinct or imaginary creature: Claimed by a Dragon

A book recommended by a celebrity that you admire: A place for us (jennifer garner)

A book with “love” in the title:

A book featuring an amateur detective: Hope Never Dies

A book about a family:

A book by an author from Asia, Africa, or South America: House on Mango Street

A book with a zodiac sign or astrology term in the title: The Birth of Venus

A book you see someone reading on tv or in a movie: Wuthering Heights

A retelling of a classic:

A book with a question in the title:

A book set on a college or university campus: Royal Academy

A book about someone with a superpower: Civil War

A book with multiple POV: Crazy Rich Asians

A book that includes a wedding: Crazy Rich Asians

A book from an author with alliteration: Crazy Rich Asians

A ghost story:

A book with a two-word title: Hidden Figures

A novel based on a true story: Hidden Figures

A book revolving around a puzzle or game: Code

Your favorite prompt from a past popsugar challenge: The Color Purple

A ‘climate fiction’ book:

A “choose your own adventure” book:

An “own voices” book: Children of Blood and Bone

Read a book during the season it is set in:

A LitRPG book:

A book with no chapters, unusual chapter headings, or unconventionally numbered chapters: The Errant Prince

Two books that share the same title: From Here to Eternity - Caitlin DOughty

Two books that share the same title:

A book that has inspired a common phrase or idiom:

A book set in an abbey, cloister, monastery, vicarage, or convent: Da Vinci Code

Read Harder Challenge:

A Epistolary Novel: Color Purple

An Alternate History Novel: Stalking Jack the Ripper

A Book by a woman/AOC that won a literary award in 2018: Hunger: A Memoir of (my) body

A Humor Book: Noir

A book by a journalist or about journalism: The Girl who played with fire

A book by an AOC set in or about space: Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

An #ownvoices book set in Mexico or Central America:Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

An #ownvoices book set in Oceania:

A book published before Jan. 1st, 2019 that has less than 100 reviews on Goodreads:

A translated book written/a book translated by a woman:

A book on Manga:

A book in which an animal or inanimate object is a POV character: Fox 8 by George Saunders

A book by or about someone that ID’s a neurodiverse:

A cozy mystery:

A book of mythology or lore: Song of Achilles

A historical romance written by a AOC:

A business book: Chocolate Wars: The 150-Year Rivalry Between the World’s Greatest Chocolate Makers by Deborah Cadbury

A novel by a trans or nonbinary author:

A book of nonviolent true crime: The Spy Who Couldn’t Spell:

A book written in prison:

A children’s or middle grade book (not YA) that has won a diversity award since 2009:

A comic by an LGBTQIA creator: Through the Woods by Emily Carroll

A self-published book:

A collection of poetry published since 2014:

Current number of books read: 631/900

#reading challenges 2019 #a to z #modern miss darcy #color coded #read it again sam #pop sugar 2019 #bad boys of romance #diversify your reading #ragdoll challenge 2019 #women reading challenge 2019 #read harder challenge 2019 #hawkybarton

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adroitzzofficial · 2 years

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The Advantages of Dyslexia

Dyslexics often struggle to comprehend, spell and comprehend words. Research has revealed the brain's connectivity is different between typical and dyslexic children, which provides a neurological reason to explain why dyslexics struggle with their reading. Dyslexics do not just use various brain regions when they read or work in language. However, also functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has revealed that dyslexics exhibit underactivity in specific areas of the brain and excessive activity in other. Incredibly, this diversity of brains is found to be a very resistant gene that is found at 10% in the world population.

Recent years have seen scientists have been examining the evolution that the dyslexic brain has and have carried out a range of studies that have revealed the areas of focus in which people with dyslexia are most likely succeed. Being aware of these strengths as well as neurodiverse capabilities can help parents and educators discover untapped talents and maximize the benefits that dyslexia offers. Here's a list of five strengths commonly observed in people with dyslexia: Increased self-confidence and self-understanding, enhanced communication skills, and improved cognition With creative arts.

1. Wonderfully Imaginative

Although there is no solid evidence to suggest that people with dyslexia are more inventive than others There are many top-quality authors, musicians and actors, as well as artists and entrepreneurs who would suggest some correlation. UK research suggests that 35 percent of US entrepreneurs and 20 percent of UK entrepreneurs are dyslexic. In the Everatt's (1999) research also revealed that dyslexic individuals displayed signs of increased creative thinking, and more creative problem-solving skills.

As a child The focus is usually on the visual. However, dyslexics make great usage of the imagination in a method of processing and interpreting information. This triggers brain regions the brain that people are not likely to use. It is reported by the Yale Centre for Dyslexia as well as Creativity states that high levels of creativity in individuals and children with dyslexia. This is simply a result of the commitment and time that people with dyslexia spend investigating new ways of Academic Learning. These people seek new and inventive ways to resolve and overcome challenges. Andrew Pike, the Director of International Communications at the Prime Minister's (UK) Office and Cabinet Office Communications says"that "dyslexia is hugely beneficial -- thinking differently and finding unconventional ways to problem solve comes naturally. This is important for decision making and has allowed me to deliver an impact to my role".

A few well-known creative dyslexics include Leonardo Da Vinci, Agatha Christie, John Lennon, Steven Spielberg, Tom Cruise, Robin Williams, Keira Knightly, Whoopi goldberg, businessman Richard Branson, supermodel Jerry Hall and celebrity Chef Jamie Oliver. If these names show something, it's that dyslexia doesn't limit one's creative potential. According to Dr. Soren Petersen, design researcher, says the following "many of the super creative designers I have worked with seemed to have one thing in common; they suffered from dyslexia".

2. Strong Visual Memory

A study carried out by the Enhanced Memory Research Institute ... for Children with Development Dyslexia(2013) evaluated the performance of an 11-year-old group of dyslexic children against children who were not dyslexic in terms of how well they remembered line drawings after 10 minutes and 24 hours after having been presented with the images. The results were evident, the dyslexic children were capable of recalling whether they'd seen a drawing prior to seeing it, and performing at higher rate than children who were not dyslexic.

Another study in Harvard University compared the abilities of college students who have and without dyslexia in memorizing blurry-looking images that resemble xrays. In the same study, dyslexic students had an advantage over non-dyslexic students. This was especially beneficial to those working in fields like medicine or science.

The difference in memory for visual images could be due to more brain connections towards the visual cortex as well as the parahippocampal area in children who are dyslexic. These brain regions are linked to memory as well as recall of visual information which is transmitted from the retina, as well as images of the natural environment (i.e. images of the environment) and non-dyslexic children were more connected to the areas of the brain that deal with language which includes those in the Visual Word Form Area. This is why dyslexic children often retain more images and not words.

3. Excellent Puzzle-Solving Skills

Most of the time dyslexics aren't sequential thinkers who move chronologically from one thought to the next. Rather, they excel in a multi-faceted thinking environment in which ideas are linked via a variety of pathways. When they see things in a more holistic way they are able to quickly spot missing pieces to solve the larger puzzles. The Dr. Matthew Schneps, Harvard's Director of the Laboratory for Visual Learning, says"that "it's as if people with dyslexia tend to use a wide-angle lens to take in the world, while others tend to use a telephoto, each is best at revealing different kinds of detail".

The Winner (2000) research further strengthens the idea of this trait, concluding that dyslexics are adept at identification of difficult figures. The dyslexic researcher Christopher Tonkin described his unusual ability to detect "things out of place" in interpreting huge volumes of visual data. The ability to solve puzzles is linked to the ability of dyslexics to recognize and remember intricate images. In one study an experiment was conducted on professionals astrophysicists who had and without dyslexia to test their ability to detect the simulated graphical signature within the spectrum of a black-hole. The results indicated that dyslexic scientists were more adept at separating the black holes in the background noise, which proved to be a benefit in their career.

4. Brilliant Visual Spatial Reasoning

Researchers from The University of East London found that dyslexics possess better capabilities in manipulating 3D objects, as well as remembering virtual environments, as compared to those who are not dyslexics. Although this research isn't conclusive in the current research, with research as recent as concluding that there's "little evidence to support spatial advantages" However, it is clear that dyslexics are more likely to be successful in fields like engineering, graphic and industrial design and architecture and construction.

It is imperative to conduct more research to investigate this supposed dyslexia benefit. Research that supports this feature are littered with contradictory evidence that suggests there aren't any differences between people who are dyslexic and those who are not. A study which suggests that dyslexic children possess a unique strength in spatial thinking is Mirela Duranovic's study of 40 children with dyslexia aged 9-11 and 40 non-dyslexic children who were age-matched. Both groups took part in an Paper Folding Test, which involved looking at a representation that showed how the piece paper is folded and then where holes are punched into it, then determining which illustration accurately depicted how the paper would appear after being unfolded. The test results revealed that children with dyslexia outperformed ones who were not, and were in completing challenging and complicated mental rotating tasks.

5. Excellent at connecting with others

Dyslexics are able to perceive, understand and react (emotionally and in a practical way) to the way people feel. This is due to the fact that they are naturally visual-spatial learners , and are not able to rely entirely on auditions and text to get information. This is why they are prone to develop extraordinary ability to see and feel which include the ability to read facial expressions and body language.

Researchers from MIT have also discovered that people with dyslexia tend to spread their attention more widely than other people, which can increase their perception that they are socially aware. The researchers discovered that people who have dyslexia could not only recognize letters flashed at the same time in the middle and on the peripheral areas for spacings that were more distant and also discern the phrases spoken in voices distributed within an area. The ability to concentrate on the larger picture allows people to look beyond their immediate worries and social interactions, and observe those around them who may require help or help.

Summary

The majority of people think that dyslexia is the inability of spelling and read, leaving out the important advantages the "re-wiring of the brain" could also bring. As it is evident, dyslexics have numerous abilities which can be used in the workforce. They comprise a large portion of the world's successful doctors, scientists, entrepreneurs, and creative professionals. Here at the Junior Learning we aim to help children with dyslexia reach their maximum potential by giving them many opportunities to utilize their imagination, visualize and investigate concepts with multi-sensory approaches to communicate and interact with other people through games, and apply new knowledge to solve problems creatively.

Here's a diagram that can illustrate the thinking process and general abilities that people with dyslexia typically have:

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