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My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own.

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.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily... thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn't always follow what was going on.

I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school.

I'm quite dyslexic in school.

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

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it.

I was a dyslexic kid.

Talking with other parents really gave me some lessons that I try to hold on to now, as a parent of two boys.

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.