The President of the United States says dyslexia is a disability that should disbar someone from the highest office in the land.

Just another unhinged rant to ignore?

No. The idiocy of it makes me feckin' cross.

I am dyslexic. It has not held me back. It has propelled me forward. Helped me create successful businesses that had no right to exist. Put me in boardrooms where the only reason I had a seat was an idea that would change the fortunes of that company.

The spectacular irony is: America and the rest of the world face the most complex set of challenges in living memory. And the President's response is to dismiss some of the very thinkers best equipped to help solve them.

Because that is what dyslexia actually is. Not a deficit. But a fundamentally different way of processing the world. The ability to find solutions that a more linear mind simply would not arrive at.

A 2022 Cambridge University study concluded that dyslexia should be redefined not as a disorder but as a set of enhanced abilities: explorative thinking, big-picture vision, and inventive problem-solving. An evolved neurological variation that helped humanity adapt to changing environments. Not a bug. A feature, baked in over millennia.

Dr Helen Taylor, who the New York Times cited in their coverage of the President's comments, put it plainly: people with dyslexia are overrepresented in business leadership roles. The same cognitive trade-offs that make reading or writing harder actively support strengths in navigating complexity and guiding groups toward better outcomes.

One in three entrepreneurs is dyslexic. The World Economic Forum lists the core skills of dyslexic thinking as the most sought-after human capabilities of the coming decade.

This is not opinion.

This is evidence.

There are roughly 40 million dyslexic adults in America.

The most powerful person in the world just told every single one of them they are less.

That is the only thing in this story that resembles a disability.