David Bailey Quotes

I had lots of trouble in school as a child, and I lost confidence. Teachers thought I was stupid. I learned to read very late, when I was 11. Dyslexia wasn't recognized then, and the assumption was you were incapable of thinking.

People don't realise how dyslexia affects your confidence and how brutal it can be. People think you're dumb, and you know you're not. it's just how your brain works.

As a kid, I thought of myself as stupid because I needed remedial help. It was not until much later that I figured out that I was dyslexic and that my trouble with spelling and sounding out words did not mean I was stupid, but early impressions stuck with me and colored my world for a time.

I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful feeling to think of yourself as 'slow' - it's horrible.

Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability.

When I was labeled stupid, that scarred me forever.

As a child, I was called stupid and lazy. On the SAT I got 159 out of 800 in math. My parents had no idea that I had a learning disability.

When I was a kid they didn't call it dyslexia. They called it you know, you were slow, or you were retarded, or whatever. What you can never change is the effect that the words 'dumb' and 'stupid' have on young people. I knew I wasn't stupid, and I knew I wasn't dumb. My mother told me that. If you read to me, I could tell you everything that you read. They didn't know what it was. They knew I wasn't lazy, but what was it?

I wasn't dyslexic, I was just very slow. I passed my time daydreaming.

The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem.

I remember feeling all right with myself until age 13. Then, I was getting off the bus one day and this guy called me Miss Piggy. That was the first time I ever really felt like I wasn't okay.

I hated myself for so many reasons, and I thought so many things were my fault that happened to me growing up.

I was always the black sheep of the family and always told that I was dumb, and I had a low IQ and did badly in school.

Repeating third grade at a new school, after having been asked to leave my old one for hitting kids who made fun of my perceived stupidity, I was placed in the 'dummy class.'

I always thought I was really thick.

I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.

I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school.

When I was growing up, I was told I was stupid and that I would never achieve. I suffered from dyslexia, and in those days it wasn't recognised.

My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the classroom as a failure.

I was definitely teased and bullied in my junior school.

I was a very, very slow learner. I was good at nothing.

School was unbelievably painful. It was five years of being pretty sad.

Being called ugly every day is not easy on the psyche.

Growing up with dyslexia and struggling in the classroom because of it, I know how infuriating and frustrating it can be to be treated wrongly as though you're of below par intelligence.

I've been bullied a few times in school.