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There are a number of blog posts I need to write about the last Mozilla Festival in the UK but I wanted to start with this one about my art piece in the all new neurodiversity space.
I started a physical mindmap on Saturday morning in the neurosiversity space and hung up information from the dyslexic advantage book, something I have written a lot about. I then invited the public to read and write on postage tags what they thought the advantages of dyslexia look like. These were hung up for others to read and explore.
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Here is the document I wrote if you want to read the MIND strengths in more detail.
I left it over the weekend and let people just add more and more. I also had some great conversations with different people about the advantages. One lady didn’t know there were advantages and lived with dyslexia all her life. As a whole lots people were correctly diagnosed at University and College, which is the norm as the book says. I think I met about 4 people who were diagnosed in School.
I have some great photos and when Mozfest finished I took them with me. Reading them in full it was quite amazing to read.
Here’s the almost complete list (I couldn’t read some of them and I removed the duplicates)…
- Right maths, wrong numbers!
- Creative
- Sequencing
- Non-reading information sensitivity
- Interconnected thinking
- Spatial thinking
- Network of thoughts
- Advantages?
- Telling stories
- Attention to details
- Improvising & Creativity
- Pattern recognition / Recognition pattern
- Ability to tell stories
- Link themes
- Empathy to others
- Empathy
- Lateral thinking
- Concept formation
- Storytelling
- Crasy?
- Mapping strengths
- Roles can lead to success
- Future prediction
- Understanding
Glad I did it and the conversations were amazing, shame I couldn’t be around in the ND space all weekend. Massive thanks to the Spacewranglers of neurodiversity for accepting my session and helping out.