RJ Wright - Dyslexia
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Being dyslexic is getting called on in English class when your hand isn’t raised to talk about the paragraph you didn’t have enough time to finish reading. Rather that or the teacher asks for volunteers to read aloud and your heart sinks down in your chest already counting the stutterers you’ve yet to say but know you will.
The second i saw dyslexia i clicked!!!! Anyone else with Dyslexia👋🏿. Tell me about somethings you experience with people or anything!.🤗🙂
Yes. It was terrible. Always having to justify your own intellect. I blame the way people treated me for being dyslexic for why I'm so anxious nowadays. They really screwed me over. I couldn't acctually read fluently until 8th grade. But tye way I look at it is our minds are wired diffrently. Just becuase we can't do the regular so well doesn't mean there isn't abnormal, amazing corks that allow us dyslexic people to think in ways that most non-dyslexic people have trouble with. Dyslexic people can switch orientation with ease. Whether that be physical, emotional, or situational orientation. Basically we find it very easy to so the whole picture. We are phenomenal problem solvers and architects, even though we read slow and our writen words arw sloppy. So there are dyslexic benefits.
No teacher ever noticed for me. Not only was I working twice as hard to get to where my peers were, but I was working twice as hard for no one to notice because I was ashamed that the spellings didn't make sense or that I couldn't read aloud or that I couldn't remember what we had just learnt last lesson. With people now knowing and me understanding there is nothing to be ashamed of I have more time to appreciate the effort and hard work that I know I am capable of from all those years of hiding (and rubbish schools) and put it to some good use with my super power that is dyslexia.
Forget dyslexia, I have AIDS bro 🙂
julian amedmariam yes that is quite annoying. Although spelling is very difficult for me i still love reading and writing books. People would never believe me when i told them that i had dyslexia. Because i have A’s and B’s and because i love books. They’d also question me when i told them that i wanted to be a veterinary ophthalmologist.
Regardless if it was words or numbers I always seem to flub it up and still have to explain to people to the when I look at a number and I reversed it somehow that it happens because of my dyslexia and they think you grow out of it but you don’t you just learn to adjust the best you can. God bless you all and be safe.
The moment I saw dyslexia I couldn’t click fast enough! A helpful reminder to all the fellow dyslexics Leonardo da Vinci, Bill Gates, Muhammad Ali, Albert Einstein are/were dyslexic! Thrive in your own way!
My husband has severe dyslexia and this poem reminds me of how much he was ridiculed and bullied by teachers in school.
I am a proud dyslexic apricot...
Who's with me? ❤️
I don't have dyslexia but I am sure as hell going to punch any mf if they bully a differently abled person. Just because you have something doesn't give you the right to brag about it .
I just want all of you guys to remember that your imperfections makes you unique and beautiful. You are loved and if anyone says otherwise punch them in the throat for me.
This poem reminds me so much of how I felt in elementary school all the way through till high school. It was so isolating to think I was the only one going through this at the time.
People need to be educated about dyslexia , we need to also be more considerate. I felt this poem and it made me really sad. “Boy regardless it’s yours so speak life into it”
There are so many genius people who battle with dyslexia. This is so dope!!!
"Regardless of what it is, it's yours. So speak life into it"
This man is Brilliant!
We definitely agree! We hope to get more work from RJ soon!
I remember when I was working at this after school program and I had a class full of 5th graders. I had this one student who was reading at the 2nd grade level... In the 5th grade, and I had him two years, because he got held back... I would dedicate a good amount of time to him because I didn't want to leave him to figure it out on his own.... It didn't take me long to realize that he may have had a mild to moderate case of dyslexia.... It hurt me to realize because he was so sweet, and everyone just treated him like he was dumb... He was a class clown and if not for the fact that I saw past it into the fact that he was using his comic ways as a way to divert from his intellectual struggles, it would have been annoying. The fact that he was reading at a second grade level told me that his teachers had just kept passing him over the years because they would rather send him out to fail than just deal with his 'jest' personality long enough to help him... And his dad... Only cared about football. It amazed me that the people he had been around for yearrs (parents, teachers, etc) hadn't even realized that he was dyslexic... And I realized in my first few weeks of knowing him.... Within the first couple of months, I had him moving up in his reading ability because I took the time to help him.... I miss that kid
How beautiful!!! I have this blessing too!!! This is a heart hitting video!!!
WOW is all I can say. WOW.
wow... stunning job.
Thank you very much!
If you can correct me you knew what I meant no correction needed.
Well said!
I love reading usually in school I would always have my phone or a book in my hands reading in whatever book of stories that interested me but I hate how because of my dyslexia I can’t read out loud because every sentence is broken and takes me multiple times people understand but they always laugh when I’m talking and I’m stuttering because can’t say the words or just say I’m stupid people just don’t get what dyslexia really is and how much it actually affects someone’s life. It fricking sucks
most people think dyslexia is just words moving. but for me, the words blur and flash, my eyes ache and my head spins trying to read those few sentences the teacher told me to read. the ideas come to me like a tisnami but when i need to write them down they disapear as fast as they came. flooding my mind as my paper stays blank.
my stomach churns, i look at the class of confused faces as i shake and tremble trying to spit the words out, what are they thinking?
i must be dumb, i must not be trying i must want attention i must be dramatic. but this is all something i cant avoid.
every morning my alarm goes off i know that today wont be as good as yesterday, feeling the deeper i go into the week the farther i fall into despair.
i know that no matter what i cant avoid the fact i will have to speak infront of the class so maybe i should just read my paragraph to myself. again and again and again. because god forbid i mispronouce a word in front of some selfish teenagers, just finding something to laugh at.
what. is. wrong with me? I forget to spell the simplest of words but i cant ask for help? they wont understand! i dont even understand. so why would they?
Maybe something is wrong with me, but no matter what i ask for help with, making fun of me isnt the answer.. because deep down, know one really knows whats going on in your head, except you.
I was diagnosed dyslexic superrrr late at 14, but was a total grammar nazi as a kid. Think I did it as to not feel 'stupid' myself, constantly correcting and checking myself kept me on my toes and stopped me from making as many mistakes. Now I say fuck it, correct spelling and grammar is for when it matters ie school and work.
This though 💜
Relatable
Lovely poem.
Glad you think so!
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thats not rude at all
WOAH NOICExd!!!
Waoh!
Feels like reading an earthquake.
Punch right in the teacher feels.
Im actually early but anyway this is so good i wish i had this talent -v-
It breaks my heart that you were treated so cruelly by your teachers and your peers. If we could just teach that having a brain that processes information differently does not make a person any less worthy or deserving of less.
I'm a writer and I still get tripped up on grammar.
wow drop the mic!
I am to
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