Dyslexia is NOT a disability!

It is also not something to be laughed at, in the wrong way.

It is purely another way for the brain to work, which is not worse than any other way.

What is offensive, and a 'joke' is the fact there are STILL in the 21st century, thick people out there who are totally unaware of what dyslexia actually is, or how to go about understanding it!

Yeesh!!

And what is even worse, is that many of those people are TEACHERS!

Yup, those who regard themselves as somewhat superior in the intelligence department, but in reality, all to often are thick as pig's whatsit, and deem it their 'right' to belittle, humiliate, wound and scar deeply sensitive, creative children, for no other reason than the 'lights' in their brain are brightest in the 'creativity' section.

I am the mother of dyslexic children, the sister of a dyslexic brother and the daughter of a dyslexic father...and I'm well on that circle myself too.

I have been made a 'joke' of by some folk on here, for the way I write...even read that I'm easy to 'track' because of the way I write, and that was said by someone who apparently is a teacher of dyslexic adults (Holy Jumping Catfish!)

At 7, my son was already being belittled by his 'teacher' for his spelling, despite her knowing he was on 'the circle'....My brother was told, throughout his school life that he was 'lazy and stupid'....I even had him held up as an example in my French class as someone who had 'the ability' but was too darn lazy to use it..and my French teacher then told the class that I was 'just like my brother'..

Non-Holy Jumping Catfish!!!

Of course, 'they' didn't know about dyslexia back then, just thought it was their right to judge.

The hurt, the humiliation, the anger caused by those who think dyslexia is a joke often lasts a lifetime....It wounds, it scars...and it runs deep!

My brother grew up angry. He eventually found a way to make a living....from rubbish dumps...amongst other people who were deemed 'illeterate' and as 'rubbishy' as the 'dumps' they worked on!

Ted was a prime example. He couldn't write his name, signed always with a X....but that man built his own house! Not only that, but he designed it too! AND...not only THAT, but he built it on The Somerset Levels, boring deep into the ground to make it stable....

Over and again, you'll find some of the most creative people, the best songwriters, the best musicians, the most fantastic artists, the best dancers, athlete's, etc...are dyslexic. They have the ability to 'see' inside...They have the ability to know how an instrument plays, before they've even picked it up...

The artist who is able to peel back, visually, each layers of paint on the Great Masters paintings, so they can 'see' how they put the painting together, thus recreating it, as my daughter can, thinking that everyone does this when they look at a painting...The dancer who 'sees' themselves from above, the songwriter who 'is ' the song....

Churchill, the man who fought so hard to gain control of language, and through that language that he went so deep into, came the inspiration for an entire nation, held together by HIS words......words that once he was ridiculed for not understanding how to spell..how to put together, held back in Harrow, belittled, humiliated over it...but all his life through he practised his speeches over and again, shutting himself away to write them, learn them, word perfect...

So often, those who've had the most terrible, unimaginably rotten time at school, are the most intelligent of all the pupils there, but they give up, turn their face to the wall, create havoc, through their misery.....

Why?

Because those who deem themselves 'intelligent' CANNOT and WILL NOT see the child within!

Geez, it makes me so effing mad!

Even to this day, it happens..with all the wonderful information around it STILL happens...and why? Because no-one has any flaming time! And when you force a dyslexic child to learn in YOUR world, they need so MUCH time.

But tell me, do we dyslexic people for YOU to learn in our world? Do we state that you are thick, stupid, idiotic, purely because you are boring ol' farts who pick over facts that so often we cannot even recall??

Nope.

we just get on with our muddled up, imaginative, anything goes, colourful lives...where rainbows light up our minds, rather than blackboards and chalk....

Dyslexia jokes...?

Well, I recall listening to Les Barker telling a few way back and laughing until I cried....mainly because he was laughing 'with' and not 'at'......

But no, WE are not Jokes! We are simply US, the same as you, are YOU. No better, no worse....Equal in every way....just with very different skills to you, the way that Mother Nature intended....