Dyslexia is evolutionary progress?

Question

me and my friends were talking about evolution (one of the lamest friday nights i have ever been sober enough to remember) and it was mentioned that people with dyslexia are more evolutionary advanced than people without it, i would have said that when things evolve, they do it because the mutation is beneficial, so how can this be true? *x*DaViEs*x*

Answer 1

Some parts of dyslexia are not beneficial, but people with dyslexia tend to have other strengths which are stronger than most people.  This is a benefit to society.  This is helpful:

http://www.schwablearning.org/articles.a...

Answer 2

Dear me, what b/s.

Dyslexia has to be a painful condition, and one I'm glad I don't have.  To struggle to read?  No thanks!  

Was the speaker dyslexic or did he know someone dyslexic?  Sounds like he was trying to defend that person/himself from who knows what.

Answer 3

Are you sure you were sober when you and your friends talked all this rubbish? Dyslexia is a debilitating condition and can cause a lot of upset to someone who suffers from it. As for people who do have it being more evolutionary advanced I have never heard of that before. They tend to be ordinary people who struggle with a condition which affects their every day lives.

Answer 4

Dyslexia is a disability.  Not a mutation.  And just because other strengths are enhanced, that does not mean it's evolutionary progress.  Blind people tend to have sharper hearing than people with normal vision, for instance.  

Even if the disability does not hinder the afflicted (much, if at all) in living a normal life, it's still considered a disability, not progress.  

I think whichever friend of yours said that... he may be biased.  Is he dyslexic?