Nicolas Winding Refn Quotes

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'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.

I'm quite dyslexic in school.

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

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

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

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

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 have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.

I was a dyslexic kid.

There are so many artists that are dyslexic or learning disabled, it's just phenomenal. There's also an unbelievably high proportion of artists who are left-handed, and a high correlation between left-handedness and learning disabilities.

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.

For the weaknesses I have with spelling and all those other things with being dyslexic, I have a lot of other strengths also.

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

I'm dyslexic.

Both my sons are dyslexic, and so, too, in a much milder form, is one of my daughters.

There was a time when I would sit with my books and immediately put them away. I'm not dyslexic, but I was like that child in 'Taare Zameen Par.' Coincidentally, the character's name was also Ishaan.

When a child knows that he or she is dyslexic, that it's the way their brain is programmed, and it's not their fault, that makes all the difference in the world.

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.

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

I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot's body.

If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.

It was a gradual process, realising I was different. I remember at primary school getting a worksheet with sums printed on it. I thought that they must have run out of the right colour inks and sizes for the numbers, because they were all the same, which isn't how I experienced numbers at all. To me, nine is big and blue.

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.

Reading makes me so sleepy. Honestly, I'm a visual learner.