Daniel Tammet 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 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'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.

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

I'm dyslexic, which means I have trouble reading and writing. So images really speak to me.

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 definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.

Yeah, I associate every sound with a color and vice versa.

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

My first memory - at about four - was of numbers. The doctors who study me think a combination of mild autism and seizures I had when I was three have made me experience numbers the way I do.

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

I was a dyslexic kid.

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

I'm quite dyslexic in school.

I would always be embarrassed to read out loud in class because I would transpose words and letters and things.

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

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.

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

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 wouldn't call myself a synaesthete in the sense that Nabokov was. But I'll talk about a sound as being cold blue or dark brown. For descriptive purposes, yes, I often see colors when I'm listening to music and think, 'Oh, there's not enough sort of yellowy stuff in here, or not enough white.'

An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.

I don't think there's any more synesthetic medium than film.

It would surprise you how many government and business leaders with dyslexia. Some people view it as a weakness, and maybe it is. What dyslexia forces you to do, you don't go A, B, C, D, E... to Z. I can go A, B... Z with speed.