Sherwood Smith Quotes

What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled to learn the multiplication table, and no matter how hard I tried, I simply couldn't remember 6 times 7 or 7 times 8.

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

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.

The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.

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.

I was a dyslexic kid.

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

Math? Forget about it. If I add four plus eight plus six, I have to count on my fingers. I guess I'm hooked up differently.

I'm dyslexic, although they didn't have a word for it when I was in grade school. The teachers said I had 'word blindness.'

I was very bad at mathematics in school, and I always had the feeling as a kid that when I worked on problems, that I would be wrong.

I probably went all the way to junior high school before a school doctor told me that I was 'dyslexic.'

I studied math, and I was terrible at it.

I've got a funny way of looking at things. It's because I'm dyslexic, and I was diagnosed with ADD when I was younger. And I'm left-handed as well.

I am very bad with numbers.

I like to call myself numerically dyslexic, but officially, I am mathematically thick.

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.

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

I like to crack the jokes now and again, but it's only because I struggle with math.

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

I've always had something a wee bit up with me, but I think it's some kind of learning difficulty. It's always been something.

I'm brilliant at working out numbers up to 180 but if you ask me to split a restaurant bill I'm rubbish.

I have a terrible memory. I never remember names or faces. It's incredibly embarrassing.

I was diagnosed with dyslexia when I was seven, and it was a bit of a struggle to begin with. It was a challenge as I began my school career - spelling and reading was something I couldn't really get my head around.

I have short-term memory loss, though I'd like to think of it as Persidential eligibility.

I don't like pot anymore -- I forget why.