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Dyslexic Thinking Mindset

Does your school talk about Dyslexic Thinking? 

I have always been a curious cuss. A big picture thinker. A question asker. A connector.

Details? Execution? Logistics? Those things often feel like the annoying fine print in a contract I never wanted to sign. But vision? I can dream up ideas faster than I can write them down (which is saying something, considering how many notebooks I hoard).

For most of my life I was the kid who had to work twice as hard to learn math facts, the one who could never quite follow along in school. Learning disabled and a pain in the ass, I'm sure. The student who felt like she had to game the system just to survive it. But as it turns out, my brain wasn’t broken. It wasn’t slow. It wasn’t lacking. It was just wired differently. I was the wrong kind of smart...for the time.

Dyslexic Thinking is often mistaken for a problem that needs fixing. But what if, instead, it can be developed, like a superpower—a way of seeing the world that fuels creativity, problem-solving, and adaptability? People with dyslexia and ADHD tend to thrive in abstract thinking, pattern recognition, and intuitive reasoning—the very skills that make great innovators, entrepreneurs, and problem-solvers. They are the architects of possibility, the storytellers of the future.

The problem isn’t that kids like me struggle with learning; it’s that schools struggle to teach us.

Some of the most groundbreaking innovators—Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs, and Agatha Christie—were thought to have had dyslexic minds. Their impact didn’t come from fitting into a rigid educational mold but from thinking differently


Dyslexic Thinking is not a limitation but a mindset—one that thrives on creativity, problem-solving, and innovation/iteration; it's time we stop trying to fit these students into traditional molds and start teaching in ways that honor how their minds truly work.


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