Meg Mathews

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I hated school and felt really held back by my dyslexia. Xtraordinary People's campaign to provide a specialist teacher in every school is fantastic ”

Sir Richard Branson

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Being dyslexic can actually help in the outside world. I see some things clearer than other people do because I have to simplify things to help me and that has helped others. ”

(Hans Albert Einstein, on his father) Albert Einstein

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His teachers reported that he was mentally slow, unsociable, and adrift forever in his foolish dreams ”

Tom Cruise

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Being dyslexic, 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 ”