Charlotte McKinney Quotes

I was diagnosed with dyslexia when I was seven, and it was a bit of a struggle to begin with. It was a challenge as I began my school career - spelling and reading was something I couldn't really get my head around.

I was very active but I was dyslexic and had a really hard time at school.

I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time 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 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.

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

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

I am an educator and neuroscientist who studies how the brain learns to read and what happens when a young brain can't learn to read easily, as in the childhood learning challenge, developmental dyslexia.

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

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

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.

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

I was a dyslexic kid.

I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful feeling to think of yourself as 'slow' - it's horrible.

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 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.

From the beginning of puberty, I did really badly in school. I was super dyslexic; I was in special ed. I had a hard time reading and writing, so I thought that my self worth was in my looks, how I presented myself, and how other people perceived me.

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

I was never good at sports. I was never good at exams, because they didn't understand dyslexia.

Suddenly, everyone wanted to talk to me, it seemed. And not about my poetry: it was my dyslexia they were most interested in.