I was diagnosed as mentally retarded as late as the fourth grade.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I had lots of trouble in school as a child, and I lost confidence. Teachers thought I was stupid. I learned to read very late, when I was 11. Dyslexia wasn't recognized then, and the assumption was you were incapable of thinking.
I probably went all the way to junior high school before a school doctor told me that I was 'dyslexic.'
I was not developmentally disabled, but didn't mature at the same rate other kids did.
When I was growing up, I was told I was stupid and that I would never achieve. I suffered from dyslexia, and in those days it wasn't recognised.
I was diagnosed with everything from schizophrenia to multiple personality disorder.
I was thought to be retarded as a child, and all the evidence indicates that I was.
Though my parents assured me over and over again that I wasn't stupid or slow, I sensed that my dyslexia was now a stigma on all of us.
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 a dyslexic kid.
I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.