Dyslexic Quotes

Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?" "I give." "You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.

Alphabet: a symbolic system used in algebra, with applications that have yet to be discovered by dyslexics and two thirds of college graduates.

Percy, we're going to Polyphemus' island! Polyphemus is an S-i-k...a C-y-k..." She stamped her foot in frustration. As smart as she was, Annabeth was dyslexic, too. We could've been there all night while she tried to spell Cyclops. "You know what I mean!

I've given him more mixed signals than a dyslexic Morse code operator.

Love is blind, there was no doubt about it. In Tara's case it was also deaf, dumb, dyslexic, had a bad hip and the beginnings of Alzheimer's

Frank: "I wish I was ADHD or dyslexic. All I got is lactose intolerance." Percy: "Seriously?" Frank: "And I love ice cream too...

I’m a dyslexic dancer. Instead of leading the women, I follow. Quick, cab driver, follow that woman!

A dyslexic man walks into a bra- T-shirt

When life gives you melons, you might be dyslexic.

He also thought that ‘abbreviation’ was too long for its meaning, that ‘monosyllabic’ should have one syllable, ‘dyslexic’ should be renamed ‘O’ and ‘unspeakable’ should be respelt ‘unsfzpxkable.

Happy wife, happy life.

Dyslexia is the affliction of a frozen genius.

Then Charon looked at me. That cold stare behind his glasses seemed to bore a hole through my chest. "Here now," he said. "You couldn't read my name correctly. Are you dyslexic, lad?" "No," I said. "I'm dead.

James sighed. “Seriously, who thought up silent letters? Why include a letter if it’s silent? Just to fuck with dyslexics?

Damn fool," Mother whispered, and covered her face with her hands. "It's not enough that he spells out Leon on the roof every year in Christmas lights. Now this!" My father was dyslexic but would not admit it.

Accountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future.

The goal of management is to remove obstacles.

Still, one of the few good things about being dyslexic is that when I say I don’t read reviews, I mean I don’t read reviews.

We’ll need you to unlock your desk, sir.” “Sorry,” Dreyfuss said. “Not until I’ve read this form.” “You haven’t…looked at it.” “And I’m a very slow reader. Sometimes I wonder if I’m dyslexic.

When life gives you melons, you might be dyslexic

The word itself—dyslexia—is ironically very hard for dyslexic people to spell correctly

We are the visionaries, inventors, and artists. We think differently, see the world differently, and solve problems differently. It is from this difference that the dyslexic brain derives its brilliance.

Growing up, Richard performed poorly in school, being severely dyslexic, and could barely read by the age of eight. He developed an interest in sports and business from inheriting his mother’s entrepreneurial spirit.

Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic, and a dyslexic.’ ‘I give.’ ‘You get somebody who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there’s a dog.

Make your customers comfortable and they will give you their lives.

Dyslexia, for me, is rather like being a six-fingered typist on LSD!

People who could easily be mistaken as preteens just shouldn’t even try to pull off the look-at-me-I’m-so-serious-and-mysterious-and-sexy look. Especially while driving because, please, you look like you are twelve and a half and driving with a serious look. Most kids who get the opportunity to drive illegally are smiling so big that they look dyslexic and about to piss their pants with excitement because they are in operation of a vehicle that isn’t manufactured by PlayStation.

Here now,’ he said. ‘You couldn’t read my name correctly. Are you dyslexic, lad?’ ‘No,’ I said. ‘I’m dead.

When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human, that pain is to be endured and fades, if it fades, only with time, then God became nothing to me but a dyslexic dog, with neither bark nor bite.

There were a few things she knew about Will Trent. He was tall, at least six-three, with a runner's lean body and the most beautiful legs she had ever seen on a man. His mother had been killed when he was less than a year old. He'd grown up in a children's home and never been adopted. He was a special agent with the GBI. He was one of the smartest men she had ever met, and he was so dyslexic that, as far as she could tell, he read no higher than a second-grade level.

Being dyslexic, I’m lucky if I can recognize English words, but, being a demigod, Ancient Greek is sort of hardwired into my brain. ‘Ke-rau-noh,’ I pronounced. ‘Blast?’ Annabeth gave me a wicked little smile. ‘Closest term I could think of. Literally it means strike with lightning bolts .’ ‘Ooh,’ Sadie said. ‘I love striking things with lightning bolts.

When I told my teachers I wanted to be a writer, alot of them encouraged me to lower my expectations and to be more realistic. So I rode away on my magical, winged horse, spraying faerie dust behind me, and laughing manically as I went.

The only good thing about having dyslexia is that dyslexics are usually very creative people, or so I’ve been told. We think in unusual ways. But it’s a very bad stigma to have, not being able to read like normal people can. To this day I wish I’d had a proper education. I think books are great, I do. To be able to lose yourself in a book is f**king phenomenal. Everyone should be able to do it. But I’ve been able to get through an entire book only a few times in my life. Every blue moon this thing in my head will release, and I’ll try to read as many books as I can, because when it closes up it goes straight back to the way it was, and I end up just sitting there, staring at Chinese.

There's no point in bragging in the good times. Your friends don't need to hear it and your enemies won't believe it anyway.

HERNIAS ARE US Wait…sorry. I’m dyslexic. I squinted and decided it probably read: HERMES EXPRESS

Sometimes there is a microcosm and a macrocosm, and if you're dyslexic like me you can't tell the difference.

or logical chains of reasoning. Dyslexic brains store information like murals or stained glass, connect ideas like spiderwebs or hyperlinks, and move from one thought to another like ripples spreading over a pond.

If you are going to dream then dream big, why spend time dreaming small?

[Bill] Gates said he connected with [Eddy] Izzard even though it would appear they have nothing in common — but that might be the point the author is trying to communicate. "I've recently discovered that I have a lot in common with a funny, dyslexic, transgender actor, comedian, escape artist, unicyclist, ultra-marathoner, and pilot from Great Britain. Except all of the above," Gates wrote. "We're all cut from the same cloth. In his words, 'We are all totally different, but we are all exactly the same

LOOK, I’M ONLY IN THIS FOR THE PIZZA. The publisher was like, “Oh, you did such a great job writing about the Greek gods last year! We want you to write another book about the Ancient Greek heroes! It’ll be so cool!” And I was like, “Guys, I’m dyslexic. It’s hard enough for me to read books.” Then they promised me a year’s supply of free pepperoni pizza, plus all the blue jelly beans I could eat. I sold out. I guess it’s cool. If you’re looking to fight monsters yourself, these stories might help you avoid some common mistakes—like staring Medusa in the face, or buying a used mattress from any dude named Crusty. But the best reason to read about the old Greek heroes is to make yourself feel better. No matter how much you think your life sucks, these guys and gals had it worse. They totally got the short end of the Celestial stick. By the way, if you don’t know me, my name is Percy Jackson. I’m a modern-day demigod—the son of Poseidon. I’ve had some bad experiences in my time, but the heroes I’m going to tell you about were the original old-school hard-luck cases. They boldly screwed up where no one had screwed up before. Let’s pick twelve of them. That should be plenty. By the time you finish reading about how miserable their lives were—what with the poisonings, the betrayals, the mutilations, the murders, the psychopathic family members, and the flesh-eating barnyard animals—if that doesn’t make you feel better about your own existence, then I don’t know what will. So get your flaming spear. Put on your lion-skin cape. Polish your shield, and make sure you’ve got arrows in your quiver. We’re going back about four thousand years to decapitate monsters, save some kingdoms, shoot a few gods in the butt, raid the Underworld, and steal loot from evil people. Then, for dessert, we’ll die painful tragic deaths. Ready? Sweet. Let’s do this.

Romeo and Juliet, the dyslexic version.

If I'm not mistaken, Buddha's a family name", Miss Lana said in a voice shaved from ice. It was quasi-true. Bubba is a family name. Buddha's mama is dyslexic.

You asked ... and now I get to ask you questions.” I made an expansive gesture that nearly knocked over my water. “I’m an open book.” “I’m dyslexic.

Take off the glasses too.” Lucy folded her hands. “I…” Fable hesitated. “I’m afraid I can’t see without them. I’m dyslexic, if you don’t mind.

What is the most important thing for teachers to learn about dyslexia? That your dyslexic students are truly trying to understand and they truly want to learn.” —Piper—

When Society allows a dyslexic to sink, through ignorance or prejudice, it is not only the dyslexic who loses.

Some thought him dyslexic; certainly his comprehension was limited.

No matter which end of a hotdog you take your first bite from, I’ll tell you you’re eating it backwards. I’m serious, I think you may be dyslexic.

Love is blind, there was no doubt about it. In Tara’s case it was also deaf, dumb, dyslexic, had a bad hip and the beginnings of Alzheimer’s.

He appeared to believe that because the university owed him his salary, it would ipso facto pay his salary, in a confusion of should and will that bordered on dyslexic.

You never know if he’s being ironic or dyslexic.

A blanket could be used to distribute ice cream to dyslexics. Blankets are cold and ice cream needs to be kept warm, right?


It seems every time I try to add a quote, some word comes out wrong. No, I am not dyslexic, I just have fat fingers. "Live hand in hand..." is how the Moody Blues quote should read.

Trump didn’t read. He didn’t really even skim. If it was print, it might as well not exist. Some believed that for all practical purposes he was no more than semiliterate. (There was some argument about this, because he could read headlines and articles about himself, or at least headlines on articles about himself, and the gossip squibs on the New York Post’s Page Six.) Some thought him dyslexic; certainly his comprehension was limited. Others concluded that he didn’t read because he just didn’t have to, and that in fact this was one of his key attributes as a populist. He was postliterate—total television.

learning to read rewires the brain. Reading teaches us to block out the world, and in the process certain kinds of visual processing skills get lost. That may be why some dyslexics exhibit exceptional visual talents,

Write down your fucking statement here or in a jail cell. Doesn’t matter to me either way,” he snarled as he reared back and thrust the pad forward once more and turned to go. “I can’t you asshole. I’m dyslexic.”   ***

Choral reading meets this need. Choral reading allows the use of interesting material written at a higher level, so dyslexic students aren’t forced to read only at their independent reading level, which can be extremely boring.

I now sell Duck Soup in three bowl sizes: Medium, Large, and Extra Large. Sure, the Medium has been made the Small, in theory, because it has the least quantity per serving, a simple labeling issue, but my nametag says Bob, which is the ideal name for dyslexics to read.

My upbringing allowed me to be comfortable with failure," he said. "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. Because we're so accustomed to to downside. It doesn't faze us.

If you are dyslexic, then any of your siblings has a 50 percent chance of also suffering from dyslexia, thus pointing to the strong genetic determinism of this developmental disorder. At least four genes have now been implicated in dyslexia—and interestingly, most of these genes affect the ability of neurons to migrate to their final locations in the cortex during pregnancy.

But there is yet another prejudice that dyslexics, and those who try to help them, have to combat. This is the deep-rooted idea that all learning, all education, any expression of ideas, must be done through language, through words. The idea that is possible to learn and communicate visually, through colour and shape, seems to be heresy, though it is one that naturally occurs to dyslexics.

As we’ll describe throughout this book, dyslexic processing also predisposes individuals to important abilities in many mental functions, including: • three-dimensional spatial reasoning and mechanical ability • the ability to perceive relationships like analogies, metaphors, paradoxes, similarities, differences, implications, gaps, and imbalances • the ability to remember important personal experiences

For example, in the Connecticut study, each child was administered a test of intelligence and a reading test individually. Using this methodology, we found that about 20 percent of children are dyslexic. Contrast this with the approximately 4 percent of children currently diagnosed as dyslexic and it is obvious that schools are failing to diagnose the great majority of dyslexic students, children who could be helped.

Choral reading opens up the possibility of using newspapers, magazines, all manner of high interest books, comic books, and personal letters…it makes reading accessible to adults and students who are completely unmotivated by the simplistic fare at their tested reading level. While participating in choral reading, the student repeatedly sees words in context. Repetition in context is a key to dyslexic reading. Practicing

People always said to me, “You must have been dyslexic.” I wasn’t. Why is it that when a white kid can’t read people say he’s dyslexic but when a black kid can’t read people say he “fell through the cracks.” This is a racist thought. I was as white as they come, and I fell through the cracks known as my parents and the Los Angeles school system. That said, Dyslexia would make a great black name. Sounds like a good wide out for the Steelers.

Feeblemindedness,” in 1924, came in three distinct flavors: idiot, moron, and imbecile. Of these, an idiot was the easiest to classify—the US Bureau of the Census defined the term as a “mentally defective person with a mental age of not more than 35 months”—but imbecile and moron were more porous categories. On paper, the terms referred to less severe forms of cognitive disability, but in practice, the words were revolving semantic doors that swung inward all too easily to admit a diverse group of men and women, some with no mental illness at all—prostitutes, orphans, depressives, vagrants, petty criminals, schizophrenics, dyslexics, feminists, rebellious adolescents—anyone, in short, whose behavior, desires, choices, or appearance fell outside the accepted norm. Feebleminded women were sent to the Virginia State Colony for confinement to ensure that they would not continue breeding and thereby contaminate the population with further morons or idiots.

it is the principal’s turn to laugh at our horrified faces. “You are fifth graders, so that shouldn’t be a problem. I want to see a personal story, and I will be able to tell if you have someone else write it for you. You have two weeks. If it is not

Ironically, the student who is dyslexic is often working two or three times harder just to keep up with her peers. The double whammy is that the child arrives home exhausted from the day at school and has zero reserves left to do homework or participate in family activities. As a result, the child can be seen as lazy because she comes home and doesn’t want to do anything. If you can provide your child with the accommodations and supports she needs in school, she’ll have the energy to participate like any other kid.

My upbringing allowed me to be comfortable with failure,” he said. “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. Because we’re so accustomed to the downside. It doesn’t faze us. I’ve thought about it many times, I really have, because it defined who I am. I wouldn’t be where I am today without my dyslexia. I never would have taken that first chance.

How did you get hired?” “I checked the box on the application that said “descendant” by mistake. I’m dyslexic and I thought it said something else.” “Okay,” I said, thinking that was the worst employment application mistake ever. “And they all believe him to be the true ruler of Fallen?” “All the Mei-Bettys do. They’re, like, obsessed with it. It’s a little like restaurant-of-the-body-snatchers, you know?” “Then why do you work there?” I asked. “Clearly, you figured out something was wrong with them.” “Duh, but it pays well and they provide room and board. I sorta needed the job and a place to stay. It’s got free wifi,” she said, as if that explained everything.

11. Never give up on yourself Everyone may give up on you but never give up on yourself, because if you do, it will also become the end. Believe that anything can be achieved with effort. Most important of all, we must understand that dyslexia is not just a hindrance to learning; it may also be considered a gift. Multiple studies have proven that dyslexic people are highly creative and intuitive. Not to mention the long list of dyslexic people who have succeeded in their chosen fields; Known scientist and the inventor of telephone, Alexander Graham Bell; The inventor of telescope, Galileo Galilei; Painter and polymath, Leonardo da Vinci; Mathematician and writer Lewis Carroll; American journalist, Anderson Cooper; Famous actor, Tom Cruise; Director of our all time favorites Indiana Jones and Jurassic Park, Steven Spielberg; Musician Paul Frappier; Entrepreneur and Apple founder, Steve Jobs; and maybe the person who is reading this book right now. We must always remember, everything can be learned and anyone can learn how to read!  

A sudden streak of light made me blink, as if someone had flashed a mirror in my face. I looked around and I saw a brown delivery truck parked in the middle of the Great Lawn where no cars were allowed. Lettered on the side were the words: HERNIAS ARE US Wait…sorry. I’m dyslexic. I squinted and decided it probably read: HERMES EXPRESS “Oh, good,” I muttered. “We’ve got mail.” “What?” Annabeth asked. I pointed at the truck. The driver was climbing out. He wore a brown uniform shirt and knee-length shorts along with stylish black socks and cleats. His curly salt-and-pepper hair stuck out around the edges of his brown cap. He looked like a guy in his mid-thirties, but I knew from experience he was actually in his mid-five-thousands. Hermes. Messenger of the gods. Personal friend, dispenser of heroic quests, and frequent cause of migraine headaches. He looked upset. He kept patting his pockets and wringing his hands. Either he’d lost something important or he’d had too many espressos at the Mount Olympus Starbucks. Finally he spotted me and beckoned, Get over here! That could’ve meant several things. If he was delivering a message in person from the gods, it was bad news. If he wanted something from me, it was also bad news. But seeing as he’d just saved me from explaining myself to Annabeth, I was too relieved to care. “Bummer.” I tried to sound regretful, as if my rump hadn’t just been pulled from the barbecue. “We’d better see what he wants.

dyslexic man walks into a bra... 2. “I went to the zoo the other day. There was only one dog in it. It was a shitzu.

When speaking to groups, I explain that being dyslexic is like running a 100-meter track race. In my lane I have hurdles, but no one else does. I have this feeling that it's unfair that I’m the only one with hurdles but don’t know how to explain it. Soon the feeling leaves me as the starting gun shoots and I take off running. I try running like the other classmates, because we have all had the same education on how to run. But then I hit the first hurdle and fall flat on my face. My parents and teachers are yelling at me from the sidelines “ try harder, the other kids are making it down the track ok, you must be lazy or slow”. Pulling myself up I try running faster and fall even harder after hitting the next hurdle. Then someone takes the time to show me how to run hurdles and like an Olympic hurdler, I outrun the other classmates. The key, though, is that I have to do it differently, the way that works best for me. Learning is like a tailored suit; it takes a while and is unique to everyone.

Satan would love for you to believe that because you can’t speak well, because you have a disease, or because you are dyslexic or have some other imperfection, you can’t be used by God.

Q: Did you hear about the dyslexic lawyer? A: He studied all year for the bra exam.

Dyslexics use right brain skills more heavily than non-dyslexics. They see forests, not trees. They see patterns not lines. They see context, not text.

...anyone who willingly turns their life upside down by becoming a cook is totally insane to begin with. So many chefs that I have met are dyslexic and totally not school people or intellectuals. That could be symbolic of the kind of lifestyle that they choose to live. They all drink a lot, do a lot of drugs, drink a shitload of coffee and espresso. They don’t sleep much, and obviously don’t have much of a life outside the kitchen. A cook’s friend is a cook, there isn’t much time for a non-cook friend or girlfriend. And time really isn’t the issue so much as it’s a lifestyle and a culture that is very hard to understand or identify with unless you are on the inside. Cooks hang out with cooks because there is nobody else awake, hungry and totally wired at 2am on a Tuesday.

Exactly like earlier, he slept sitting up, like a dyslexic bat. Slits of flirtatious moonlight eased between the miniblinds from the window behind him and traced admiring lines across his shoulders. Rhythmic inhales and exhales raised his chest. He slept, the first evidence of his humanity. I reached out to touch one moonbeam on his face. There’s no reasonable explanation for why I did this. Because I wasn’t myself. I wasn’t completely awake. I was a slave to my curiosity. Or because he was there. If a Porsche is running with the keys inside and the door open, you climb in and take it for a drive. Because it’s there. Before I could find out what that moonlight felt like, calloused hands gripped my arm and yanked me down on top of him. So I screamed. “What is wrong with you, woman?

Many children do not realize that they have a problem, much less that they need to seek help. One youngster commented that he thought all people saw words ‘running off the page but that they were all quick enough to catch them’. He was not.

In becoming published we exposed ourselves, and our ideas. In breaking the ‘rules’ of writing, the value of our perspective was put into question. As such, our paper reveals an ambivalence towards ourselves us ‘as authors’, which derives from a history of being advised away from a career in writing, academia, and therefore the possibility of being an authority on dyslexia. It draws attention to our desire to write, and speak about the experience of being dyslexic, at the sometime as bringing our author-ity into focus. While ‘dyslexic writing’ was a way into thinking about the problem of negative cultural perspectives towards dyslexia, the sentiment was difficult to access.

This leads her to take up the work of Michel Foucault and his theorization of authorship which she uses to unpick the notion of the individual. She argues that dyslexics writers, rather than being failed writers, are writers who have been failed by contemporary ways of thinking about language and authorship. Watson’s

In this perspective, spelling mistakes are not indicative of a pathology. Rather they are regarded as inappropriate to some, but not all, circumstance. They do not tell us anything about the quality of information that is given by the writing. They are the skin or surface of the information. It is the way in which they are interpreted by the reader, as either a hindrance, or sign of laziness, incompetence, and so on an so forth, which poses the difficulty for dyslexics. What

Those who are good at spelling might regard it as the very corner stone to good prose, whereas a dyslexic might view spelling as subsidary to the point they want to get across. Nevertheless the dyslexic will always be faced with the dominant subjective position which subjugates them, and it is this negative appraisal of dyslexics which leads the dyslexic to become excluded from society’s rigid systems of what is acceptable.

Benedict Phillips also expresses his belief in the importance of dyslexic people representing other dyslexic people.

Folb suggests that the difference in how dyslexic people articulate themselves is not important; rather, what they have to say is the crucial part.

Many of these writers are concerned with the gaps between the words, the aporia, with language as, in some ways, an inadequate system but the one that we are stuck with”, to postulate that the writer who is dyslexic is not a failed writer but rather it is the language that fails the writer. (cited in Folb, 2012:128). This

However, I have also begun questioning  whether by labeling myself as a dyslexic artist  I am reinforcing negative perceptions. By describing myself as a dyslexic artist and making performance about being so, am I advocating the potential of dyslexics? Or, am I conforming with society’s perceptions by depicting my work as ‘The Other’ to other artists? Folb provides an interesting insight to this discussion: Dyslexic

Training in rapid acoustic discrimination can apparently induce the left prefrontal cortex, which is normally attuned to fast-changing acoustic stimuli but is disrupted in dyslexics, to do its job. The region, even in adults, remains "plastic enough...to develop such differential sensitivity after intensive training," the scientists concluded.

Newer research reveals that in dyslexics, the pathway from sound to symbol (phonemic awareness) is not available or is so difficult to use that comprehension shuts down. Dyslexics become fluent readers only by getting meaning straight from the visual symbol without mouthing it or silently saying the sounds in their heads. (Summarized from Karp, 1943)

About 10% of the population is dyslexic. About 10% of dyslexics (1% of the population) are resistant dyslexics, meaning they don’t respond to standard programs emphasizing phonemic awareness and direct instruction in phonics-based reading. (Summarized from Everatt, 2007)

Resistant (hard to teach with traditional methods) dyslexics tend to be imaginative and highly intelligent, and learn to read extremely well when taught using right brain techniques instead of left brain techniques. (summarized from Davis, 1994)

There are hundreds of programs that claim to teach dyslexics to read. Most of them work for some students. None of them work for all students. Results of research on various methods is collected and presented on the US Dept. of Education website. (summarized from “What works clearinghouse:,” 2007)

The school gave me a test. I scored very high on some parts and very low on others. They said that made me Dyslexic and it couldn’t be fixed. That was in 8th grade. I was already devastated emotionally because I was being molested by a “priest. I just gave up.” —

Hemisphere-Alluding Stimulation In this method, we ‘allude’ (originated from a Latin word which means ‘refer to’) the text that is read to either the right or the left hemisphere of the brain. Alluding to the right hemisphere can be done by printing the reading materials in a very complicated or unusual fashion- for example, using different typefaces and bold fonts, which makes it more difficult to process the symbols.

Hemisphere- Specific Stimulations (HSS) HSS can be done using a person’s visual, auditory or tactile channel. In order to stimulate the right hemisphere of the brain using tactile stimulation, several reading materials, like letters or shapes are presented on the right hand. Using the same method on the left hand will stimulate the left hemisphere.

Directional Dyslexia Directional dyslexia is characterized by easy confusion of left-right and a tendency to become disoriented or lost.

Attentional dyslexia In attentional dyslexia, a person may blend the elements of two words into one due to letter crowding or migration. Letters in word are jumbled and sometimes the symbol of the alphabets are written in reverse, for example, letter “b” can be written as “d”. Directional

Neglect Dyslexia This is associated with lesions in the right parietal lobe of the brain. People with neglect dyslexia can easily misread or most of the times, skip some letters

(most commonly those at the beginning or on the left side of the words) during reading. Attentional