Rocky Graziano Quotes

I was reading at a third-grade level until the age of 30 before I made the decision that I was going to learn how to read.

I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.

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 had once been told my ability to read would only reach that of a ten-year-old, but I was determined to achieve more.

A child who can't read isn't going to get better because you told him he was bad.

If you have kids who are struggling with dyslexia, the greatest gift you can give them is the sense that nothing is unattainable. With dyslexia comes a very great gift, which is the way that your mind can think creatively.

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

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

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

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 worked with Mrs. Davis for four years, and then she realized, as the material started getting harder, that I had never learned to read. I was just listening as she'd play the song, and I'd play it back. When that happened, she got very upset and stopped being my teacher.

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.

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

I was born in North London in 1947. I didn't learn to read until I was almost 8-partly bad schooling, and partly I suspect slight dyslexic problems. My father, driven mad by this, taught me to read. At 9 I began writing.

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

As a young girl, I was very proud at overcoming a reading handicap whilst other girls of my age read abundantly.

I was dyslexic as a child and it took me years to get passed that. I read a lot but it was hard and that didn't go away until my early-to-mid-twenties. So really what I was looking at were the photographs and the illustrations in magazines.

Johnny can get down and Johnny can throw up, but Johnny can't read.

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

It caused more problems as a young kid, because the simple process of perceiving words on a piece of paper was hard for me. Many people think dyslexic people see things backwards. They don't see things backwards.

I had a lot of reading problems growing up.

I was a dyslexic kid.