Dyslexia Quotes

“Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?"

"I give."

"You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Percy, we're going to Polyphemus' island! Polyphemus is an S-i-k...a C-y-k..." She stamped her foot in frustration. As smart as she was, Annabeth was dyslexic, too. We could've been there all night while she tried to spell Cyclops. "You know what I mean!”
― Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters

“Scrabble was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia.”
― Eddie Izzard

“Julian had heard stories-whispers really-of other Shadowhunter children who thought or felt differently. Who had trouble focusing. Who claimed letters rearranged themselves on the page when they tried to read them. Who fell prey to dark sadnesses that seemed to have no reason, or fits of energy they couldn't control.

Whispers were all there were, though, because the Clave hated to admit that Nephilim like that existed. They were disappeared into the 'dregs' portion of the Academy, trained to stay out of the way of other Shadowhunters. Sent to the far corners of the globe like shameful secrets to be hidden. There were no words to describe Shadowhunters whose minds were shaped differently, no real words to describe differences at all.

Because if there were words, Julian thought, there would have to be acknowledgement. And there were things the Clave refused to acknowledge.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

“I put the sexy in dyslexia.”
― Mariah Gonzales

“Love every child without condition, listen with an open heart, get to know who they are, what they love, and follow more often than you lead.”
― Adele Devine, Flying Starts for Unique Children: Top Tips for Supporting Children with SEN or Autism When They Start School

“to koi chalis - pachas sal ke bacche ko bhi ye yojna kaam ayenge.....ha ha ha”
― Narendra Modi, Exam Warriors

“We now know that groups of neurons create new connections and pathways among themselves every time we acquire a new skill.

Computer scientists use the term "open architecture" to describe a system that is versatile enough to change--or rearrange--to accommodate the varying demands on it.”
― Maryanne Wolf, Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

“Some people blamed his oddities on his dyslexia, which was so severe that one giddy pediatrician called it a gift: While he might never learn how to spell or read better than the average fourth grader, he’d always see things the rest of us couldn’t.”
― Jim Lynch, Border Songs

“Turn your obstacles to your advantage. If you can find a plus out of a negative, then it cannot weigh you down. I like to think I have a superpower called dyslexia. I am creative, intuitive, and empathetic. I am great with problem-solving, and I can think outside the box. Just the other day, I was helping my daughter with a crossword puzzle, and she said, “Dad, how do you find the answers so fast? And I said, “I have dyslexia, and it helps me see things differently. To which she replied, “Aw, I want that.” If we can see our differences or unique qualities as gifts, we can bypass the stigmas that come with them and impress upon ourselves and society we can do anything any other person can do, just differently, and sometimes better.”
― Lorin Morgan-Richards

“I like to think I have a superpower called dyslexia. I am creative, intuitive, and empathetic. I am great with problem-solving, and I can think outside the box.”
― Lorin Morgan-Richards

“If I had known what was the matter with me and why I couldn't read, would everything have been easier just because my difficulties had a name? Yes, it would. Perhaps the need to survive would not have been so strong, perhaps I would not have been so resilient, but it would have been easier, just knowing that I was not mentally retarded, or lazy, or backward, or emotionally disturbed, but that the small part of my brain governing language was not functioning, either through heredity, or contitions at birth, and that the malfunction had a NAME. To know that it was not a disease but a disability, a condition that could be improved, would have made all the difference.”
― Susan Hampshire, Susan's Story: My Struggle With Dyslexia

“But there is yet another prejudice that dyslexics, and those who try to help them, have to combat. This is the deep-rooted idea that all learning, all education, any expression of ideas, must be done through language, through words. The idea that is possible to learn and communicate visually, through colour and shape, seems to be heresy, though it is one that naturally occurs to dyslexics.”
― Susan Hampshire, Susan's Story: My Struggle With Dyslexia

“When Society allows a dyslexic to sink, through ignorance or prejudice, it is not only the dyslexic who loses.”
― Susan Hampshire, Susan's Story: My Struggle With Dyslexia

“Dyslexia narratives map, survival, tactics… to avoid attraction and maintain a low profile. But, ultimately, the combustible moments stand out: name-calling by students; punishments from teachers, who mistake learning difficulties for defiance; and clashes with parents who misinterpret poor grades as evidence of laziness. The threat of violence lies just beneath the surface in these narratives. Despite reputations to the contrary, no one takes reading more seriously than dyslexics do since something as trivial as mispronouncing the word can escalate into delinquency, depression, and even suicide attempts.”
― Matthew Rubery, Reader's Block: A History of Reading Differences

“I am
Mavis Elizabeth Betterly.
I am
used to hard work.
I can
run a household better
than Mrs. Oblinger ever could.
What does it matter,
those things
that
hold me back?

What does it matter
when I make mistakes?
They don't
make me
who
I
am.”
― Caroline Starr Rose, May B.

“For reasons we've explored, children struggling to read aren't going to be helped by the one-size-fits-all approach that is typical in so many schools. Rather, we need teachers who are trained to use a toolbox of principals that they can apply to different types of children.”
― Maryanne Wolf

“Arden was always the person I loved and trusted the most.
"She would read to me. That's all we ever did. She'd read, and I'd listen, and it was magic. When we were together, it didn't matter what was happening with my parents, at school, or with anything else. I didn't matter. I didn't exist. Arden's words were so much better than the numbers in my head. They could take me places better than anything I'd ever dreamed of. I wanted to read all those books so bad, and I couldn't do it. I tried and tried and tried, and I couldn't do it. But it was okay, because Arden could, and she always took me with her.”
― Kate Scott, Counting to D

“I'm sometimes afraid to admit that I was never a voracious reader. I didn't absorb books by the shelf full. At times, I was a very attentive and careful reader, but never at the level of my peers. For me, getting through a paragraph was like swimming through razorwire. I started writing as a way to save face.”
― Connor de Bruler, Fresh Anthology

“When you hear one with dyslexia read in public, it’s like listening to an angry stutterer curse loudly.”
― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“Do you know what I see when I look at that screen? I see the white space between the letters and words. I search for patterns that aren’t there. I see a lot of the little marks that tend to blur together. I see an uphill battle. And I’m exhausted just by looking at it.”
― Laura C. Reden, Phantom Reality

“I will no doubt tell that story of great-granddad to my children, maybe they will pass it down further - and essentially that's how all myths were invented. That's why Homer was not one man but many, many storytellers, and why writing isn't about spelling and grammar and pen licences.”
― Kaiya Stone, Everything Is Going to Be K.O.: An illustrated memoir of living with specific learning difficulties

“We have tied our self-worth to their statements and at some point, we must begin the slow and arduous process of breaking free and seeing that we are more than they said we were.”
― Kaiya Stone, Everything Is Going to Be K.O.: An illustrated memoir of living with specific learning difficulties

“Trust me when I say there are many different types of intelligence and education. Nobody has them all. Maybe you're a social charmer who can read any room with no formal education or perhaps you're a physics professor who has to wear Velcro shoes and can't read an analogue clock - there really shouldn't be a hierarchy of these skills. One is not cleverer than the others.”
― Kaiya Stone, Everything Is Going to Be K.O.: An illustrated memoir of living with specific learning difficulties

“Letters will never be able to hold the cacophony that bubbles within me.”
― Kaiya Stone, Everything Is Going to Be K.O.: An illustrated memoir of living with specific learning difficulties

“Thinking differently has given me the tools to face chaos and failure.”
― Kaiya Stone, Everything Is Going to Be K.O.: An illustrated memoir of living with specific learning difficulties

“I am giving myself 4 stars as the pressure on myself to write this book was almost unbearable. The reviewer who said "It needed a good copy editor", was wrong I wanted it to read in a dyslexic manner so people understood how it is to be in my mind that was the whole point of the book.”
― Annette Dolan, Santa Aqua and Pig Bladud

“They have to make it into a story about five brown rabbits and three white rabbits having a rabbit cotillion. That’s where I get lost. Cotillion looks like licit loon to me.”
― Gordon Korman, The Unteachables

“Writers are archaeologists of their own souls. We dig until we hit bottom, only to find there is another bottom underneath, and another after that.”
― Philip Schultz, My Dyslexia

“I knew a psychic in Hollywood who suffered from dyslexia. She could only predict the past, but she was very accurate.”
― Mark Steven Porro, A Cup of Tea on the Commode: My Multi-Tasking Adventures of Caring for Mom. And How I Survived to Tell the Tale