Chuck Close Quotes

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.

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.

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.

The way my brain processes information is quite odd. I mean, I have Attention Deficit Disorder and another learning disability I can't even spell. I don't even have a high school diploma. I'm smart, but you can't prove it on paper.

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

I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema.

People don't realise how dyslexia affects your confidence and how brutal it can be. People think you're dumb, and you know you're not. it's just how your brain works.

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

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.

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

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 have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.

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 always love it when I hear back from kids who say they discovered Percy Jackson and now wear their learning difference as a badge of honour.

I wanted to be a writer and an artist. Learning to type as quickly as I could think was a needed skill and part of my long self-directed apprenticeship.

I'm not good at normal things. I can't drive a car. I couldn't read till I was 10.

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

I was a dyslexic kid.