‘Dyslexia is the actor's disease.’
I had just started at drama school when I heard this for the first time. I had just finished studying at a particularly academic university and was thrown into a room where the majority of people had a learning difficulty of some kind. It was new not to be the odd one out.
But actually, that statement is wrong. Dyslexia (and other Specific Learning Difficulties) is actually the gift of the actor, the director, the DOP, the editor, the author, the entrepreneur and the designer. It's been proven over and over that people with neurodiversity are more creatively talented. Research at Central St Martin's College of Art, for example, revealed that almost three-quarters of the student body had some form of dyslexia.
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