Caitlyn Jenner Quotes

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 was a dyslexic kid.

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.

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.

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

I think the truth is, we are all racist, really, when it comes down to it. I think all of us have to check ourselves from time to time, and say, 'Look, that sort of attitude isn't good enough.' It takes discipline to keep our prejudices out.

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

I'm quite dyslexic in school.

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 dyslexic - was, still am - 'cause I would see words that weren't there. And people just started laughing, and I thought, well, this is a good way to make a living. I'll just go downtown to read and have people laugh, you know?

Thing is, I don't really like free time. People are always warning me that I'm going to burn out. But the truth is, the only thing that tires me out is hearing people tell me that.

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.

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.

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.

Being very dyslexic I couldn't even tie my own shoe laces until the age of 21 and I struggled at school.

The truth is, my life was made infinitely more difficult because I didn't read any books. But I didn't read any books. That's my story. That's my truth.

Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.

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 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'm often accused of being ahead of my time, but it's simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.

Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability.