Dyselixic Pilots

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If the dyslexia is marked enough to be classified as dyspraxia, a flying career is not advisable.

Dyspraxic people have balance and co-ordination problems. They will show several of the symptoms below:

Shows up as "clumsiness" caused by motor difficulties caused by perceptual problems, especially visual-motor and kinesthetic-motor difficulties.

• Prone to accidents, may fall a lot, bump into furniture
• Poor hand-eye, foot-eye coordination
• Slow and poor at dressing, unable to tie shoelaces, do up buttons etc
• Speech and language difficulties
• Difficulty in holding a pen properly
• Poor writing and drawing abilities
• Reading and spelling difficulties
• Walk awkwardly
• Confused about which hand to use
• Difficulties throwing or catching a ball
• Poor short term memory, they often forget tasks learned the previous
• day
• Reading and writing difficulties
• Cannot hold a pen or pencil properly
• Cannot hop, skip or ride a bike
• Cannot answer simple questions even though they know the answers
• Speech problems, slow to learn to speak or speech may be incoherent

If however your dyslexia does not effect your motor skills, you can turn as directed left or right instantly, and is only manifested by spelling difficulties, blithely adopt the motto DYSLEXICS OF THE WORLD UNTIE and concentrate on becoming proficient in your field.