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Brain Disorders and Therapeutics
Mental Heal th and Psychology
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Journal of Brain and Neurology| Volume: 2
November 05-06, 2018 | Edinburgh, Scotland
The Dyslexic Operating System: A story of Resiliency and Macs and Windows
Iliana Titone
Dyslexilli, USA
I
magine living in a world where you’re constantly being told
that you’re wrong, that you’re too slow, that you’ll never
understand. It’s a world where the rules of the game to win
are rigged against your favour, but noone seems tonotice that
you’ve been set up for failure before the game even started.
You know that you’re just as capable as the other players of
the game, but the rules always seem to favour them while
you keep falling behind. This world is a reality for the more
than one in ten people who cope with dyslexia every day.
Growing up with dyslexia, you are branded as “DISABLED”
from the moment you are tested as if to make sure that
everyone knows there is something wrong with you. To cope,
you develop mechanisms to preserve your quality of life and
protect your spirit and heart. Some withdraw and just try to
fly under the radar. Others become the class clown because
it’s better to be sent to the office than to have to read out
loud or go to the blackboard to do a math problem. Most
get bullied because you get sent to the class with the slow
kids. What if instead of testing children on some sort of pass/
fail scale, we started testing children to understand their
unique strengths instead of highlighting their weaknesses?
What if we taught children to recognize how each of their
brains works differently than one another and to leverage
those differences as unique strengths? This discussion will
use an anecdotal approach to explore these questions and
more to discover how we can all change our perspectives
to enable children everywhere to win at a losing game.
e:
iliana@ilianatitone.com