I want people to understand that dyslexia is not something you grow out of it is always there. I hope people will share the information they have learn from this book and that it helps them to see the true nature of dyslexia and give them a way to visually understand what it feels like. 

I wanted to do something that would portraying how a dyslexic person lived and how their eyes see the world and I thought these gif posters were a perfect example but then I came across two other sources on how to show dyslexia.

The first source was a podcast entitled Dyslexia Made Henry Winkler Feel 'Stupid' for Years in this podcast he talked about how he never knew he was dyslexic but since he found out it is starting to make more sense why he struggled so much in school. The other source that changed my view was Dyslexia Is My Superpower by Margaret Rooke which is a collection of interviews with children from all ages talking about what their experiences of living with dyslexia is like. Both these sources made me start thinking how many people don’t know they have a learning disability and how there is not many visual resources to help people truly understand what a learning disability is and what it means outside of the classroom.  

 I started with pencil sketches. I sketched settings in everyday life that would be different as a dyslexic person. I thought it would be interesting to do an animation to portray all the different scenarios. 

I started concept sketching for an animation that would show what it would be like to cope with a learning disabilities. As I started to sketch I illustrated real life situations that could actually happen. For example, typing the wrong number into your phone and actually calling the wrong person. Checking your bank account and thinking you have more money than you do. Reading a stop sign wrong, reading street signs wrong, and how awful texting is.

Up until this point I was trying to capture everyone with dyslexia's point of view and then my classmate pointed out why don't I make it from my own perspective. This made me question the fact that my illustrations may not be realistic enough for the point I was trying to make. Then I changed my perspective my design choices from then on were based on scenarios that actually happen to me. I started using photography to make the situations seem as real as possible.

After I got the content down I started searching for a name for my project so I could start making the cover. I started to think about how different people have different experiences and how those experiences shape their lives. I thought of what the reality for a dyslexic person was and I came up with the name A Different Normal. I first started sketching using letter all mixed together and made it feel like alphabet soup. Then I realized that lines of text were harder to read and would be more intriguing. I thought that using a default typeface would get my point across but it was not working. This is because it looked to much like a default and it did not have enough character or the look I was going for.

My final content page results ended up being full bleed images showing what it would be like in a dyslexic person’s shoes. Some examples of these situations are reading a stop sign as pots, reading a book where all the words are jumbled up and don’t make sense making reading difficult, How the street numbers on a street sign flip around and you get lost, And how difficult texting can be. All of the full spread images are followed by orange spread with blue writing that have an exclamation that I would say on a everyday basis like "ugh" or “no firkin way”.