#dyslexia

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

#dogs #dyslexia #god #humor #insomnia

I was one of those "puzzle children" myself- a dyslexic... And I still have a hard time reading today. Accept the fat that you have a problem. Refust to feel sorry for yourself. You have a challenge; never quit! ↗

— Nelson Rockefeller

#inspirational #inspirational

I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful feeling to think of yourself as 'slow' - it's horrible. ↗

— Robert Benton

#awful #before #called #dyslexia #dyslexic

I put the sexy in dyslexia. ↗

— Mariah Gonzales

#funny #sexy #funny

I want to be a dad. Sorry, I’m dyslexic. I meant to write dad.
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— Jarod Kintz

#dyslexia #family #funny #humor #family

Scrabble was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia. ↗

— Eddie Izzard

#humor #scrabble #humor

What did Ethan care? _He_ had no trouble navigating. This was because he’d lived all his life in one house, was Macon’s theory; while a person who’d been moved around a great deal never acquired a fixed point of reference but wandered forever in a fog — adrift upon the planet, helpless, praying that just by luck he might stumble across his destination. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#geographic-dyslexia #life

I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema. ↗

— Joe Wright

#cinema #development #dyslexia #elsewhere #find

I definitely have managed to overcome dyslexia now to become a fully functional human being but things were a lot more difficult when I was younger. ↗

— Ahmet Zappa

#being #definitely #difficult #dyslexia #fully

I do a lot of work with the Dyslexia Institute because, for people with dyslexia who do not have parental support, it is a huge disadvantage. I was fortunate because my Mum was a teacher and she taught me to work hard. ↗

— Susan Hampshire

#disadvantage #dyslexia #fortunate #hard #huge