Barbara Corcoran Quotes

I didn't learn how to read until I was at the end of fifth grade and 11 years old and held back.

I was very active but I was dyslexic and had a really hard time at school.

I had learning problems when I was in elementary school, and didn't really start to read well until high school. I never read any of the middle grade classics that were popular when I was young - 'Harriet the Spy', 'Charlotte's Web', 'The Witch of Blackbird Pond', 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'.

It took me nine years to get through the fourth grade. When I got into television commercials, I had to take a crash course in reading. I was 32 years old, and I couldn't read the cue cards.

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

From the time I started school, it was clear to everyone that I wasn't learning at the same pace as other kids.

I remember failing reading in school at a young age, and you just kinda get left behind and I felt helpless.

I didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating.

I had a lot of reading problems growing up.

I was a terrible reader as a kid. I mean terrible. Super slow and very unfocused. It took me forever to read a book, and I remember being well into high school and still needing my mom to sit down and read aloud to me so I could pass my English tests and such.

I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.

I know what not being able to read can do to a child's confidence.

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.

I, myself, was always recognized . . . as the “slow one” in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was . . . an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this day.

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

I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare because I would mispronounce words or reconstruct things that weren't even there. That's when one of my teachers discovered I had a learning disability called dyslexia. Once I got help, I read very well!

I didn't learn the alphabet until I was 11.

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.

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

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.

I found many ways around my dyslexia, but I still have trouble transforming words into sounds. I have to memorize and rehearse before reading anything aloud to avoid embarrassing myself by mispronouncing words.

I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.

I was put in remedial everything.

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

I was allergic to school. I was completely befuddled by school. I was trying so hard, but I couldn't succeed. I took geometry for four years, the same course over and over again, and I did not graduate with my senior class. I finally passed geometry after doing summer school, and eventually, I graduated.