His next clue was something he noticed while he was demonstrating drawing in a class and trying to give a verbal explanation of the methods he was using. He found that he would often "simply stop speaking right in the middle of a sentence. I would hear my voice stop and think about returning to the sentence, but finding the words seemed like a terrible task - and I didn't really want to anyway. But eventually finally, pulling back, I started talking again - and then I discovered that I had lost contact with the drawing, which suddenly seemed confusing and difficult. I gathered new information: I could talk or draw, but I couldn't do both at the same time."~*~*~*~Part of the answer is that, from childhood, we learned to see things in terms of words: we name things and know facts about them. The dominant verbal left hemisphere does not want too much information about the things it perceives, but only enough to recognize and classify them. The left hemisphere, in this sense, learns to take a quick look and say: "That's right, that's a chair...". Since the brain is overloaded with incoming information most of the time, it seems that one of its functions is to screen out much of the incoming perceptions. This is a necessary process to allow us to focus our thinking and one that works very well most of the time. But drawing requires looking at something for a long time, perceiving many details, recording as much information as possible - ideally, everything.... Symptoms of Dyslexia Dyslexic people are visual, multidimensional thinkers. We are intuitive and highly creative and excel at hands-on learning. It is sometimes difficult for us to understand letters, numbers, symbols and written words because we think in images, but learning to adapt this hidden talent can lead to success, particularly in creative and inventive fields. Reading: · Fluctuating memory problems with letters, words, or numbers, including sequences such as the alphabet. · Skipping or confusing letters, words, and sentences. · Reading is a slow, laborious process, often accompanied by head tilt or by pointing your finger. · Reversal of similar letters (like "b " and "d"), words (like "saw" and "was"), and numbers (like "6" and "9"). · Letters and words yes they confuse, move, double, become confused or are omitted or added.