a post by Cory Doctorow for the Boing Boing blog
Fidget spinners are wonderful.
Hear me out.
Accessibility advocates have always said that disability is a spectrum and the line that separates an abled person from a person with a disability is arbitrary. I am not legally visually impaired, but I can't read low-contrast text at all, and I use browser plugins designed for people who have formal visual impairments to read much of the web by increasing the contrast and size of the type on my screen.
In the same way, there are lots of "auditory learners" who don't have a formal diagnosis of a reading disability or ADHD, but who find audiobooks allow them to process text in a way that they never could before, overcoming struggles that they had assumed were just a fact of life – and the fact that there are now so many instructors and book-clubs who look for titles with readily available audio editions means that these people benefit, too.
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