Caitlyn Jenner Quotes

I've got dyslexia. When I was in school, it wasn't really recognized as much as it is today; I'm really glad that people are a lot more aware of it now.

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

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.

I hated school . . . . One of the reasons was a learning disability, dyslexia, which no one understood at the time. I still can't spell . . .

I struggled academically throughout elementary school

I was a classic attention deficit disorder kid, always bored and mouthing off at school.

I can get motivated seeing a kid at my son's school overcome a learning disability.

I was dyslexic, so math and formulas were not necessarily my strong suit.

In retrospect, I think I had some kind of learning disorder. I could kind of charm my way through grade school, but in high school... I could never seem to grasp things.

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

So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.

I was very disruptive. I was horrible. I didn't learn like all the other kids. I had to sometimes take my tests out in the hallways because I couldn't focus. But, my teachers would come see me in the plays and were like 'I don't understand how you can focus and be in the moment in a play and you go into math class and you can't focus.'

I was terrible at school.

I wasn't very good at school and couldn't get my head round it.

I'm not good at normal things. I can't drive a car. I couldn't read till I was 10.

I was a dyslexic kid.

I left school with basically nothing, I was a special needs kid. I did feel as though my school had let me down.

In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.

I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school.

The way my brain processes information is quite odd. I mean, I have Attention Deficit Disorder and another learning disability I can't even spell. I don't even have a high school diploma. I'm smart, but you can't prove it on paper.

Being asked to memorise a script in one day when you have dyslexia is the same as having a broken foot and being asked to dance. You have to make exceptions for it.

When I was in primary school I was in a special needs group, which is the polite way of saying the dopey kids.

It's a terrible thing to say, but I hated school. I'm very ADD, and my report card always said, 'If only she performed to her potential.'