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“I had to train myself to focus my attention. I became very visual and learned how to create mental images in order to comprehend what I read.”

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Author:Tom Cruise

“Creativity is the key for any child with dyslexia, or for anyone for that matter. Then you can think outside of the box. Teach them anything is attainable. Let them run with what you see is whatever they need to run with.”

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Author:Orlando Bloom

“In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.”

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Author:Fannie Flagg

“When I had dyslexia, they didn't diagnose it as that. It was frustrating and embarrassing. I could tell you a lot of horror stories about what you feel like on the inside.”

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Author:Nolan Ryan

“Perhaps my early problems with dyslexia made me more intuitive: when someone sends me a written proposal, rather than dwelling on detailed facts and figures I find that my imagination grasps and expands on what I read.”

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

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Author:Eddie Izzard

“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.”

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Author:Ahmet Zappa

“I think everybody should have dyslexia and ADD.”

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Author:Paul Orfalea

“The Mandolin is the bottom four strings of the guitar, backwards...so a person with dyslexia has no problem learning to play the Mandolin.”

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Author:Steve Goodman

“The illuminated ones can take any form -- a man, a woman, a child, an elder, or even a dog. It is not inconsequential that the English language allows for the dyslexia of the spelling of the word dog: God spelled backward.”

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Author:Jean Houston

“Scrabble was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia. This is true, they proved this one. The word dyslexia was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia.”

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Author:Eddie Izzard

“My coping mechanism with my dyslexia is to use wit and humor.”

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Author:Max Brooks

“I was on the whole considerably discouraged by my school days... It is not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and left behind at the very beginning of the race.”

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Author:Winston Churchill

“The looks, the stares, the giggles . . . I wanted to show everybody that I could do better and also that I could read.”

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Author:Magic Johnson

“Dyslexia is not due to a lack of intelligence, it's a lack of access. It's like, if you're dyslexic, you have all the information you need, but find it harder to process.”

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Author:Orlando Bloom

“My father is Cuban. Spanish was my first language, but I don't speak it that much anymore because I had dyslexia, and in school they work with you only in English. But I'm proud to be Latina, and most people don't know I am.”

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Author:Bella Thorne

“My family was absolutely supportive. I did have a fear of cold reads because of my dyslexia, but my family's support and reading classes really helped me overcome my fear!”

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Author:Bella Thorne

“I know that some girls look up to me for certain things, like dyslexia, and that way I know that they like me for me, so it adds no pressure.”

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Author:Bella Thorne

“I'd like to help other kids with dyslexia, because I'm dyslexic. It was very hard, and I know that what I went through, other kids are going through.”

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Author:Bella Thorne

“Since I was the stupidest kid in my class, it never occurred to me to try and be perfect, so I've always been happy as a writer just to entertain myself. That's an easier place to start.”

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Author:Stephen J. Cannell

“Dyslexia is a neurological issue, not a character flaw.”

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Author:James Redford

“I was not good in school. I could never read very fast or very well. I got tested for learning disabilities, for dyslexia. Then I got put on Ritalin and Dexedrine. I took those starting in the eighth grade. As soon as they pumped that drug into me, it would focus me right in.”

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Author:Channing Tatum

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