Princess Beatrice of York Quotes

I've had such a hard time with dyslexia my whole life. When I was a child, I didn't learn to read until I was a lot older, and I was behind in my classes; it was such a challenge.

I'm quite dyslexic in school.

I'm a bit dyslexic so I found learning to read hard. I muddled up the letters but learnt to power through.

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 was diagnosed with dyslexia in third grade and had gone to a special school for it and then left the school. I'd learned to read and write, but it was still a real struggle for me, as it is to this day.

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

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.

Letter scrambling and trouble reading is just a small part of dyslexia. It is also an auditory processing problem.

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

I do a lot of work with the Dyslexia Institute because, for people with dyslexia who do not have parental support, it is a huge disadvantage. I was fortunate because my Mum was a teacher and she taught me to work hard.

I never read. I've never read one book... I just can't do it. Something's wrong with me. I have what they call now is 'ADD,' like I'll read and all of a sudden I'll be thinking about shopping or... I'm not there. I drift off. I get crazy, so I don't even bother.

The one advantage of being dyslexic is that you are never tempted to look back and idealise your childhood.

I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.

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

I just can't read, the way other people can, these tediously elaborated books.

I want people to know that you can have dyslexia and still reach your goals.

Technology can be an enormous enabler. I'll give you one example. I have never really talked about this before, but I am dyslexic and I didn't find that out at school.

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.

When I was younger, I was diagnosed with dyslexia, which meant, for me, sitting in front of a book was really hard - until I discovered Harry Potter, and this character, this 11-year-old boy, who suddenly gets off to school for the first time, captured my imagination, and suddenly reading was fun. Reading was inspiring, and I was motivated.

I'm dyslexic.

It's an individual waste and it's an economic waste for Australia not to recognise dyslexia.

[Kid] never learned to read in kindergarten, first, and second, so in third grade he begins to be placed in the EMH or the learning-disabled rooms.

I used to love reading when I was little, and then it became difficult and I didn't understand why. I thought, what a bummer, my passion all drained out of me. So when I found out I had dyslexia, it was like, oh, that's what it was.

I don't want anyone to feel they can't achieve their ambitions if they are dyslexic.

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