Top 50 Dyslexic Quotes

I’ve got one grandson gone to MIT. Another grandson had been in the American school here. Because he was dyslexic, and we then didn’t have the teachers to teach him how to overcome or cope with his dyslexia, so he was given exemption to go to the American school. He speaks like an American. He’s going to Wharton.

An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That’s one of the little-known facts.

That said, being dyslexic, I wasn’t a great reader when I was kid.

In my early teens, I was working in a Wimpy Bar and delivering cab company cards to make cash. I also ran a tuck shop at school. I struggled academically because of being dyslexic. When I saw other families and what they had, it inspired me. I thought, ‘I can get that, too, if I work hard.’

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I – if I’m not interested in something, I don’t grasp it.

I’m a human being, I’m not a machine. I’m 72. I’m dyslexic.

Whenever people talk about dyslexia, it’s important to know that some of the smartest people in the world, major owners of companies, are dyslexic. We just see things differently, so that’s an advantage. I just learn a different way; there’s nothing bad about it.

I feel like every person has a disability in some way. Whether you’re dyslexic or Republican or whatever.

Being very dyslexic I couldn’t even tie my own shoe laces until the age of 21 and I struggled at school.

There’s nothing that special about me. I’m just a hard-working guy, I’m dyslexic, I had to overcome a lot of things like that.

I’m dyslexic, which means I have trouble reading and writing. So images really speak to me.

I think that maybe growing up and being dyslexic early on, the visual quality of cookbooks specifically was something very enticing to me.

I didn’t think anything I wrote was going to get published. I’m a dyslexic kid who had tutors through college. But I had a very strong impulse to write.

It caused more problems as a young kid, because the simple process of perceiving words on a piece of paper was hard for me. Many people think dyslexic people see things backwards. They don’t see things backwards.

From the beginning of puberty, I did really badly in school. I was super dyslexic; I was in special ed. I had a hard time reading and writing, so I thought that my self worth was in my looks, how I presented myself, and how other people perceived me.

If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.

Often dyslexic kids will excel in being a little bit mischievous or tying to find attention in other ways because they’re not getting it in class.

Being dyslexic, creativity was my way of expressing myself.

At school I was really heavily dyslexic, so I really struggled academically with reading and writing.

If you’re dyslexic I think it’s very important to know that you can do anything you want and it’s not simply because you’re dyslexic that you should be shoved on the side.

My sister is dyslexic, and she’s so smart, so intelligent in all of the ways that matter.

I’m very grateful to being dyslexic and I owe my career to being dyslexic.

I’m dyslexic, I have attention-deficit disorder, and I’ve got something like a hereditary tremor.

I was incredibly shy and insecure as a child. I was bullied. I was dyslexic. I had an immigrant single parent. I was the opposite of that kind of ideal, cool girl thing.

I was diagnosed dyslexic, but I should point out I don’t think it majorly impacted on me. I don’t feel that I overcame great odds. If anything it just pushed me in a certain direction that wasn’t academia or maths or science.

So my dyslexia has got me into trouble, but I feel I can talk about it because I want to say to everyone who is dyslexic that the technology exists to help. The most important thing was being diagnosed.

I’m a bit dyslexic so I found learning to read hard. I muddled up the letters but learnt to power through.

I love the English language, but I’m crap at it, so I might as well do what I’m good at. The same goes for my kids, who are also dyslexic. I won’t pressure them to do anything. They’ve each got a trust and a mortgage-free property, which is a lot more than I had, so I know they will always be fine.

Now, where does my comedy come from, like, as a human being? Yeah, when I was a kid I was dyslexic and had to go to special-ed every day and felt stupid about that and got very witty to defend myself.

I’m kind of emotionally dyslexic, and when I feel vulnerable or nervous, I laugh.

I have to work extra hard because I am dyslexic. People said that I couldn’t be an actress, but I’m proving them wrong. Acting has helped me overcome the challenge.

I struggle with reading a bit. I’m slightly dyslexic, so reading takes me quite a while, and in general, I’m not a big book reader at all. And something like ‘Game of Thrones’ seems very daunting to me!

I cringe when I watch myself on camera. I’m not articulate, and I’m dyslexic, but somehow it works.

Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.

The one trait in a lot of dyslexic people I know is that by the time we got out of college, our ability to deal with failure was very highly developed. And so we look at most situations and see much more of the upside than the downside.

The one advantage of being dyslexic is that you are never tempted to look back and idealise your childhood.

I was painfully shy as a child; I was dyslexic. I had a single mother who’s an immigrant. I just didn’t believe acting was something that people like me could do on a professional level.

I loved ‘Harry Potter’ growing up. I’m dyslexic and a slow reader, but I could get through the thick ones in days!

I’m completely dyslexic, so academia was never really my path.

I think for me I was in kindergarten, so I was very young and my teacher acknowledged that I was very dyslexic when it came to reading and writing and processing that information.

My greatest gift in life was being dyslexic. It made me special. It made me different. If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn’t have needed sports.

I’m completely dyslexic – it’s the writing part. People read what I’ve written, and they have no idea what I’m trying to say.

I was dyslexic and didn’t know it until I was 31. Couldn’t do math, spell, or tell left from right – left was the elbow that stuck out the window while I drove.

I’d like to help other kids with dyslexia, because I’m dyslexic. It was very hard, and I know that what I went through, other kids are going through.

I’m dyslexic.

When I was at school you never heard the word ‘ADHD.’ We didn’t even hear ‘dyslexic’ at school. There was really nothing on offer. It wasn’t on the planet as far as we were concerned.

I don’t want anyone to feel they can’t achieve their ambitions if they are dyslexic.

I’m quite dyslexic in school. My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own. My parents never really lecture me.

There are so many artists that are dyslexic or learning disabled, it’s just phenomenal. There’s also an unbelievably high proportion of artists who are left-handed, and a high correlation between left-handedness and learning disabilities.

I was well into middle age when one of my children, then in the second grade, was found to be dyslexic. I had never known the name for it, but I recognized immediately that the symptoms were also mine.