If we cannot 'read' effectively we are in an inhibitory state in which we can't trust our own experience of what's going on.
 
This page introduces Diane McGuiness's Why Children Can't Read 

and the possibility that there is no such thing as dyslexia 
 
and the affect it can have on the lives of those labelled dyslexic 
 
 When we can't see what's staring us in the  
 face we can ask friends who won't laugh to  
 tell us straightly what they understand.
 This is Wittgensteins puzzle to which there is no right answer
 
 
.Diane's book blew my mind. Babysitting with George aged 4 and going 
 through his picture books I spoke each phoneme clearly and he heard; 
 his pronunciation improved and our relationship blossomed with our  
 greater confidence. I took him seriously and he reciprocated; maybe  
 the child responds to, and learns to negotiate with an adult who knows  
 what he is about since such confidence is infectious. 
 
To George I was an ad hoc tutor critic translator cum interpreter, and utterly confident in myself in that situation; and it worked. We all need such friends when we're not confident, else we get worried, and stressed. 
 
 We need to read and understand and 
 reflect on our experience, what we can 
 see and feel for ourselves, and not put 
 up with what we're told.
 
 
Diane McGuiness describes some of the tricks we play to get off  
the hook of not reading the consequences of our behaviour. So we  pretend not to notice our predicament and perpetuate our wasted potential; which is stupid.
 
We read and recognise an idea that makes sense and we understand something we couldn't make sense of before. Yet our understanding can threaten those whose Luddite tendency keeps them inhibited. 
 
Understanding marks on paper is one thing; understanding we can be affectionate, participate responsibly and economically in and reflect on what's happening is something else
 
Understanding this may seem difficult  
but who is stupid (without sense) enough to want life to be easy? 
 
 
 Reading a book is one thing but imagine how our confidence  
 would develop if we learned to read the significance of what's  
 happening in problematic situations.
 
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