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Susan's Story: My Struggle With Dyslexia QUOTES

Susan's Story: My Struggle With Dyslexia QUOTES

1 " 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. "

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2 " 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. "

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3 " When Society allows a dyslexic to sink, through ignorance or prejudice, it is not only the dyslexic who loses. "

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4 " The arrogance of sixteen! If only I had retained it! "

― , Susan's Story: My Struggle With Dyslexia