I’ve had this conversation a dozen times with friends. Chances are so have you. It starts when someone asks if there’s such a thing as dyslexia in the Mandarin-speaking world. After all, if dyslexia means mixing up letters, and there are no letters, then there must be no dyslexia, right?

This came across my Twitter radar earlier today. It was a quick conversation between Matthew Stinson and Kane Gao, the latter having provided fodder for posts in the past. Today it was about why there seems to be few (if any) known cases (in the mass-consumer English speaking world) of dyslexia among Chinese speakers.

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