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Recruit me, I have dyslexia😂

By inheritance? Are there any exceptions? There were no dyslexics in my family; everyone studied well and graduated from universities with honors. But I have dyslexia with ADHD, in such a form that I sometimes write my own name with a mistake, my brain constantly tricks me

"God put mee on this earth to accompish a certain number of thingsbut im so far behind i Never gonna die" Radio ORANGE

We chose our daughter’s name after a character she played in one of our favorite movies. Our beautiful daughter has a very similar school story, minus the acting. We are so fortunate to have had great teachers and support to help get to her best. ❤

Wow! Round of applause Beatrice, thank you. Love, "there is nothing wrong, there is just everything that is so right". A true Princess, Diana would be proud! My Mum is 77 and Dyslexic. Today she finally felt free and acknowledged after watching this. So did I. Thank you truly Thank you. 💝

Microsoft and Made by Dyslexia. I Thank you both. I am dyslexic and proud of it, what a gift it has been though out my life. Painful but beautiful. My Mother is also dyslexic and fort hard against the school system of South Africa in the 90's, to allow me more time. She succeeded, they only gave an extra 5 min. Anyway, I scrapped through my Matric. 35% F. I held that piece of freedom (Matic Certificate) so tightly with the biggest smile you have ever seen, jumping up and down, while others were in tears about not getting 60% for Math's, let alone the ones trembling with fear because they didn't get an A., I was beaming with my 35% F. My Mother was so proud of me that day! She brought me a tiny silver cup as a prize for passing. I still have it today. So I say thank you again and again for this awareness program may it blossom and grow 💫❤

Wow! Thank you!!!

I cried while watch you cry! Thank you so much! I finally found someone like me .

But the other person don't look very convinced. It is really difficult for us dyslexic, we deserve respect.

I am a dyslexic

Our processing power is supported by our sensory input by such a degree that when we come across words on a page, there is no sound, taste, feel, that is unique to each word. Think of a computer that has a fantastic graphics card and all the top gear, but all the programs are written to use CPU exclusively. We get bogged down because we are then processing one bit at a time. From parallel to serial data. Reading makes me tired. I will fall asleep. It takes so much effort to process information with 10% of available RAM.

I was 13 before i could spell my middle name. Still have to think about. Im 37. But i can read from pictures of text im my mind.

Thanks for sharing this Kate and as ever it highlights the importance of not just understanding neurodivergent people, but really embracing our way of thinking as a critical skill. Let's keep shifting the narrative from challenges and weaknesses to strengths and opportunities 🧡

I’m so sorry to hear that. I was born in 67 and I too went through the hell of the public school system, and a never ending stream of teachers (and my parents) telling me that I was lazy, and that if I would just apply myself… but once I got out of high school, I launched myself into the stratosphere! My dyslexia has turned out to EASILY be my greatest asset, and I wouldn’t trade it for ANYTHING! In my opinion, the price I paid when I was young was CHEAP for what I ended up with! When friends or relatives tell me that one of their kids is dyslexic, I literally get excited for them because time and again, dyslexia has proven to be a valuable asset to the world at large.

There should be like a dyslexia mentorship program. As you read through a lot of these comments you essentially see two groups of people: those that are young and are struggling through the educational system, and those who are older and have learned that their dyslexia ultimately turned out to be a huge advantage! It gets VASTLY better as you get older, and at some point you ARE going to begin to see people without dyslexia as those who are truly disadvantaged.

I think I have dyslexia too. I was diagnosed with autism and ADHD. Dyslexia Sounds like similar thinking to that of AuDHD. What's the difference?

Michael provost is one of my favourite actors who is so underated

Brilliant interview, very inspiring!

Mark Twain: 'I don't give a damn for a (person) that can only spell a word one way.' i kan relate two that

Sounds great, but in reality dyslexic people are still subject to indirect discrimination in job interviews with very little that can be done to stop it

Am 26 with dyslexic

Beautifully👍

This really shows how Britain is so far ahead in treating neurdivergents as people who can be just as productive as neurotypicals given the right circumstances. I often think about trying to move there for this reason. Here in the US we're treated like broken toys who need to be fixed and we're completely useless garbage until we are fixed. If you aren't drugged up to imitate normalcy, then you need to be put in a home where others do everything for you because you're incapable of doing it on your own. This video shows that we are very capable, if not better than neurotypicals. I really hope this video gets far more views and helps typicals understand that, if we're treated with respect, like them, then we have a chance of success.

I can only relate to the maths part.

I’m dyslexic myself I only found out when was in let 30s its hard. I used to wonder why is this happening how is this happening to me on the day I was diagnosed with dyslexia I come to understand. It’s not easy

Whoopi is dyslexic!

I re.em er he had 2 sons? & his wife said that 1 of the boys was terribly afraid something would happen his Dad & on race day got physically ill!

Am a mother to a 13yrs boy with dyslexia and its been a difficult journey. Not having much resources for a special school is my main challenge.

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yep, its advantages are higher than the disadvantages. I got dyslexia but I learned and learned I am now ahead in my grade is almost every subject (even English). I am given this gift from God and evolution. The world needs creativity and people who connect, dyslexics can do both those things very well. I am now beyond just English, on to French, German, and Latin I may go.

That isnt gonna happen if that it’s what your aim for you’re going to Diminish dyslexia meaning, the one thing that makes us unique to everybody else the one thing dyslexic people have you want to take it away from us

Thank you! I am a fellow dyslexic thinker and appreciate everything that Made by Dyslexia has done. In addition, my wife Pam and I have a private practice teaching dyslexic students.

Thank you, Kate, for the excellent episode with an interesting interlocutor. I don’t understand English, so I watch with subtitles in my language, and I write a comment through a translator. But this does not prevent me from feeling the positive energy and the message that Stephanie conveys. Not giving up is a good and correct call, Stephanie, I promise you, I will not give up. When I was diagnosed with dyslexia with ADHD at the age of 48, it became clear why I write with mistakes, why I don’t see words, why despite all the efforts and efforts, I still could not learn a single foreign language during my life, etc. This made me very angry. I pushed aside standard learning methods and decided to learn English by developing my own methodology. Now it is my mission to find a method of studying a foreign language for adults with difficulties in learning a foreign language due to dyslexia and ADHD. If everything works out for me, I plan to organize help for people with the same difficulties. I post video reports on my CZcams channel, documenting the entire path from the very beginning. I consider this fair, as English-speaking people will be able to track progress through these video reports. So far, everything is going very hard, I feel like a fish trying to climb a tree. But I won’t give up, I promise)

The "WHY?" Is the most relatable thing. I constantly needed to comprehend information from the inside out.

I got called stupid from a teacher by the time I was 9. Changed my self-esteem in school forever.

Dyslexia is so interesting, yet so misunderstood. This should not still be such a mystery in 2024! Thanks so much for this video, we love seeing how many articulate, intelligent and talented individuals are dyslexic. Dyslexia is something we're keen to raise awareness of and improve support for. We've worked with thousands of families of dyslexic children to ensure that schools here in the UK are following the law and following an EHCP. We've got a webinar planned on the 13th of June and would definitely encourage folks to book on, or join our academy to access some fantastic expert resources.

Soft skills are definitely valuable but without the basics, apart from the very highest I.Q. students, the E.Q. skills will not be valuable. Teach to dyslexic needs from day 1 (4 year olds). Screen for dyslexia at age 7 in all schools. Prevent the over representation of addiction issues, school exclusions and over representation of convicts with dyslexia. The cost -benefit would be huge. From a dyslexic senior Uni lecturer in 'inclusion', U.K.

I'm 64 years old and struggled my whole life with dyslexia. I spent my young life "gaming the system" This series means so much to me. How can I get more involved? I went trough a lot of Psych. testing as a young child, and have paper documents from that time. I may be an interesting case study for someone :) It's caused difficulties in my life because I've tried to explain to people that I had to teach my self not to cheat and lie to hide my "Strange literacy".

There are moments that a message hits home. Hearing this story is to me like a coaching session. It resonates at every level. Thank you for sharing.

100% agree with this!

don't worry you have a [insert any congenital disability here] because einstein had it - this is a special case of survivorship bias. we STRUGGLE in academics

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If these people are called dyslexic , well I am schizophrenic , without any job except in translation and nearly homeless, what shall I do I don't know , I am trying to struggle with the illness years and years ago until today , I don't know which direction shall I pick , what shall I do with my whole life dyslexia is way better than being schizophrenic .

Thank you for the great story and excellent narrative. Yes, I agree about unconventional solutions from dyslexics; I have had quite a few such cases in my life. I remember once we had a complicated three-way deal for the sale of a property, and at the moment of the deal, circumstances arose that seemed insurmountable for closing it. It seemed like there was no solution, and the agent suggested postponing the deal for a week. Then I proposed an unconventional solution that satisfied all three parties. Yes, we spent another two hours resolving all the issues, but we closed the deal that same day. There were specialists much more experienced than me, but the solution came to me, and I immediately knew what each of the three parties needed to do for everything to work out. In such cases, the found solution is more inspiring than the profit from the deal itself. By the way, the watch idea is cool. When do you plan to start selling them? I'm interested.

I used to get in trouble with my resource teacher, because I wouldn't stop writing all my numbers 1-100 all backwards. And at home my parents never accepted me for being dyslexic. Life has been very hard for me. I always thought I was in resource classes for being stupid. But I'm finally finding myself in my 30s.

❤ thank you 😊

I had problems with my b's and d's, p's and q's as a kid, but by concentrating, I got it right. Numbers though! Numbers seem to jump on the page, making it hard to work out sums. The moment I could, I dropped Maths as a subject at school. Accountancy too. After my army service- straight out of school, my first job was 3 years of credit control, handling numbers and accountancy!

While I agree that diagnosis is very valuable, I disagree about teachers suddenly becoming accommodating. In my experience a lot of older German Teachers have no training regarding dyslexia. They don't know how to handle the learning differences. Some will do their best to ignore "the problem", others will lash out at the dyslexic child.

Yep, so true.