Maya Hawke Quotes

I'm quite dyslexic in school.

In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.

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.

I was a very, very slow learner. I was good at nothing.

From the time I started school, it was clear to everyone that I wasn't learning at the same pace as other kids.

The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem.

I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is.

In retrospect, I think I had some kind of learning disorder. I could kind of charm my way through grade school, but in high school... I could never seem to grasp things.

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

I wasn't very good at school and couldn't get my head round it.

I didn't do plays at school, because I didn't have the confidence. At 14, I was at boarding school in Devon and I suffered from dyslexia quite badly, but they had a very good department there which specialised in it.

I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.

I was allergic to school. I was completely befuddled by school. I was trying so hard, but I couldn't succeed. I took geometry for four years, the same course over and over again, and I did not graduate with my senior class. I finally passed geometry after doing summer school, and eventually, I graduated.

I wasn't that good at science, and I gave up on math long before I should have. I like to think if I were in school today that would be different.

When I was in grade school, my teachers decided I was just about the dumbest thing to come through the door in a long time. Whatever the lesson, whatever the subject, I would sit and listen to them with a lost, glassy-eyed expression on my face.

Growing up with dyslexia and struggling in the classroom because of it, I know how infuriating and frustrating it can be to be treated wrongly as though you're of below par intelligence.

Self-doubt creates the impetus for learning but hinders adept use of previously established skills

As a child, I was called stupid and lazy. On the SAT I got 159 out of 800 in math. My parents had no idea that I had a learning disability.

Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don't think it was necessarily 'cause I'm stupid.

I didn't think I was good at anything, didn't do well in school. And then in the third grade, I was going to a public school. And the teacher was putting math problems on the board. And I said to myself - it's amazing how you can remember certain incidents at any age that made an impression - I asked myself why is she putting those up when the answers are obvious. And then I saw it wasn't obvious to anybody else in the class. So I said, "Hey, I'm good at something."

I do feel that I myself wouldn't have had, in my life looking back, the courage to go out and say, 'I'm a good actress.' So I think I'm one of those people that needed to be seen by someone else to see myself.

Other people started taking me seriously before I took myself seriously.

I was a terrible student.

I think I'm most proud of the fact that I was able to overcome the insecurities that were going to keep me from living my dream, which was just learning to turn off those little voices in your head that tell you you're not capable of doing something.

Believe in what you do and keep working hard and you can't take what people say personally, because if you do it'll eat at you.