Dyscalculia Quotes

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 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 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 was dyslexic and didn't know it until I was 31. Couldn't do math, spell, or tell left from right - left was the elbow that stuck out the window while I drove.

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

Math? Forget about it. If I add four plus eight plus six, I have to count on my fingers. I guess I'm hooked up differently.

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.

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'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 am very bad with numbers.

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

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

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

I like to call myself numerically dyslexic, but officially, I am mathematically thick.

It was a gradual process, realising I was different. I remember at primary school getting a worksheet with sums printed on it. I thought that they must have run out of the right colour inks and sizes for the numbers, because they were all the same, which isn't how I experienced numbers at all. To me, nine is big and blue.

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.

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

I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.

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

I have made number mistakes - I have such bad number dyslexia that I can look at a number and see the wrong one. I can't remember them worth beans.

I was a dyslexic kid.

I'm quite dyslexic in school.