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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
Robert Benton
Born: Sep 29, 1932

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Dyslexic, Yourself, Slow, Feeling, Before, Think, Horrible, Knew, Anybody, Dyslexia, Awful

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As a kid, I thought of myself as stupid because I needed remedial help. It was not until much later that I figured out that I was dyslexic and that my trouble with spelling and sounding out words did not mean I was stupid, but early impressions stuck with me and colored my world for a time. Carol W. Greider
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Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time. David Bailey
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Now, where does my comedy come from, like, as a human being? Yeah, when I was a kid I was dyslexic and had to go to special-ed every day and felt stupid about that and got very witty to defend myself. Dax Shepard
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I like to call myself numerically dyslexic, but officially, I am mathematically thick. Dominic Holland
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