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Discussion on: How does dyslexia make it hard to be a developer?

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Ian Turton

I have worked in several teams over my career and in almost all of them the majority of the devs have been dyslexic so I'm not convinced it is a problem (except in may be the most severe cases).

I use eclipse and vim and both have a spell checker and tab completion of variable names to help out. I still struggle with row/column operations in 2d arrays but I just go more slowly over those parts and comment clearly so I can check it later.

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Grace Taylor

Thanks for sharing! I don't think it's a problem to have dyslexia. But I think that most tools aren't optimized for a neurodiverse skillset simply because there are so many viewpoints out there.