Dyslexia
I read David Owen’s recent New Yorker piece on dyslexia with special interest, because I am dyslexic. The New Yorker piece is pretty good, though it’s also dismaying that the Gillingham approach, an experimental reading program that saved my bacon back in the early 60s, is still experimental. It does appear that we know a bit more about the neuroanatomical basis for dyslexia thanks to MRI studies, and there may even be some evolutionary reasons that is makes sense for social hunting animals to keep around neurodivergent strains; we might not be great at reading but, it seems, there are compensations that stem from a differing approach to exploration.