I got diagnosed with dyslexia at 12, my school thought i wouldn’t go far. At 15 they said i had no hope at passing any gcses; i passed all with b’s and c’s. At 16, after my GCSEs I decided to take english A level (along with 2 others), i passed with a B grade despite teachers pleading me not to even consider taking it as one of my A level subjects. Now im working as a TA in a primary school and im so proud of how far I have come. So what i have to use a dictionary to help me spell or that I cant read out loud to the children. I use my lack of organisation and word jumbling up in my favour, its almost a joke to my family and those who know me well. I want to inspire any of them who may be struggling as I never had a positive role model like that. Don’t let dyslexia stop you!

READING & WRITING MAY BE MY WEAKNESS BUT CREATIVITY IS MY DYSLEXIC STRENGTH

I have dyslexia and I love taking watches apart jus to re-build them again. I also like building stuff without the instructions 😂

Creativity is a gift and imagination is a blessing. I used to see being different as a bad thing but now I know it is a good thing. Always just be you. It is the hardest lesson I have learnt myself as Dyslexic, Dyspraxic and Dyscalulic. Don't let others make you feel bad because you are just being yourself. We are worth it. 🙂💖 Never forget that.

Excellent animation that will help many children, including their parents and teachers. Thank you all for making this happen.

Being dyslexic, I feel so appreciated right now 😁

I am a 35 year old dyslexic that has been contemplating making a KZfaq channel about how I got past HS, collage and now working toward my own business. This video is inspiring and I’m going to start putting out videos bc of it! Thank you

I've been struggling with finding the best book, video, resource, etc. to show to my 9-year-old son when we tell him, "You have dyslexia". There are books out there, but wouldn't it be kind of ironic to introduce your child to their dyslexia using a medium that they find so distressing?! My son seems to love gaining information from video, like famous dyslexic, Ben Foss, wrote about in his book. It's pictures and audio play to their strengths. So I was looking for a video to appeal to kids that would explain not only their weaknesses but also their strengths, much like the information found in the amazing book, The Dyslexic Advantage. There are so many things I love about this video! One amazing subtle aspect is that there is very minimal text so the story is told in pictures. You would think this would be a given, but many videos I've found actually include a lot of text. They describe many of the main difficulties but end on the strengths, which is what dyslexic kids really need to know. (They most likely already know their weaknesses.) They even incorporate a little humor, which is helpful, because, hey, if we can't laugh about dyslexia a little bit, we may just end up crying all the time. I was so excited to find this great resource! Thank you British Dyslexia Association!!!

I am happy someone finally made this.

I think I’ve got dyslexia I was feeling so down I watch this video it lifted me from my depression now I consider myself special I’m in special dyslexic club and I hope to share with the world that I can be a bonus not a tragedy welcome to my world I see it so differently now thank you ever done this video thank you

I have severe dyslexia and this made me very happy thanks

Dyslexia is a superpower not a curse

Too many distraction and stimuli can be even more difficult because we see everything at once and upside down. I felt so alone and like I was inferior, but living with dyslexia has taught me to love myself for who I am. I have my own way, and it's the best way for me. Thank you this video.

I really wish I wasn’t dyslexic, people in school make me feel as if I don’t deserve the exams results I get because I have a scribe and extra time in exams.

I'm diagnosed dyslexic and I think I have dyspraxia, dysgraphia, autism ADHD, ADD and sensory processing disorder, insomnia and schizophrenia ( and possibly anxiety and OCD)

Yes am glad I saw this I have dislexea and I thought I was stupid but I am glad I saw this I feel better about myself

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." Our differences are a strength.

I’m 13, and was diagnosed w dyslexia & ADD, along w other things I can’t spell a couple weeks ago. I’ve spent last few weeks being told what I can’t do anymore, I can’t take a foreign language course, or take tests in the classroom, & I’m being taken out of classes I’ve been in since kindergarten. I have to start taking meds and get therapy and my life has sorta been flipped. But I just wanted to say thank you because it’s videos like this ones that remind me of what I can do :)

In elementary school when I was first diagnosed I was just happy that I didn’t have to take the spelling quizzes but if I think back to it I can still the remember the feeling I got when I still had to do them and I would get it back with a 0 on it. I remember the humiliation I felt while everyone else talked about how easy it was and I sat there feeling like an absolute idiot. After that my mum took a course and then became a tutors, which I get she did to help me but now she tutors other kids as a job and I can’t help but feel a little used. Like my achievements aren’t mine but hers because she tells the people she tutors about how well I’m doing even tho I have dyslexia, and I get and am happy that it gives them hope but As stupid as it may sound it makes me feel like I was given it, not because work hard to get it. I have also told almost no one at my high school that I have dyslexia. I didn’t plan on this when I started high school but then I got scared of that look of pity, god that look kills me, so I told no one other then my closest friends. This year though my teacher casually mentioned that SHE has dyslexia, which I’m so proud of her for telling us but when she said it I heard the whispers. They weren’t mean or anything but they were talking about someone, I didn’t catch the name but they said something along the lines of ‘doesn’t so and so have that’ and I get it they were just talking but that proved to me part of what I was afraid of, if I tell people then Ill be that kid they were talking about when they heard the word dyslexia. I’ll be thought of as a part of my disability and they will think I am less capable and I have not worked my butt off to be that kid with dyslexia who needs extra help. Now I don’t have a problem with getting help when I need it but people assuming I need it makes me feel terrible especially when I’ve worked so hard to get to where I am. But worst of all, worse then people thinking less of me, is that pitying look that you know has good intentions but that makes you feel like something that needs to be saved, something that cant make it on its own and just something that need pity.

I have dyslexia and I thy and hide it from other people but when I seen this is know that I can be whatever I want to be in life and no one can tell me that I can't do I just learn different that's all

I didn't knew much about dyslexia, till now that one of my friend told me about it, well I had really hard time while I was at school, my family used to take me to different schools punish me and so many horrible things happened in my life while I was in school, I once tried to commit suicide when I was in 10th grade, I had difficulty reading three languages which are mostly common in Afghanistan which is Persian, Pashto and English, there's a lot of things for saying, thanks to this KZfaq channel for opening people's mind about people with dyslexia and thanks to auto directory for helping me writing this comment

I 'm dyslexic (diagnosed). I managed to finish my studies at the university. It took me more time, had to work harder then others but that is ok. I can understand how something works or how it is made in seconds and I can fix a lot of things with no instructions. Learned english by myself. I speak 4 languages total, I read really fast adn understand everything I read in 3 of them. I read books with no effort and I really enjoy it. I am able to help my children in studying their homework (6th grade), what if I need to check every single words I need to write and go quite slowly or have to uncover the letters of a word one by one to be sure I tell them to my children in the wright order? I deeply understand maths and science so I can explain it to them better then any teacher they had till now and I did that for my friends children too. Who cares if the way they do maths have changed complitely? My gift of dyslexia helps me understand it. Dyslexia has made my life difficult in many ways and easier in a lot of other ways. An early diagnosis helps a lot :). Good luck to everyone and never forget that our different way of thinking helps us find solutions in problems other people can't, just like they find in things we can't!

For a relatively new video, I believe that the term 'people with dyslexia' is a more appropriate term than saying 'dyslexic people'. From listening to the video, the British Dyslexia Association are putting the disability before the person rather than the person first and the disability second. Nobody should be defined by their disability. We should aim to use more inclusive language such as a 'wheelchair user', 'a person with a visual impairment', 'a girl with a hearing impairment' etc!

I got diagnosed at 6 and now I’m in the top 1% in the world in maths,geography, history and more. I couldn’t read till the 3rd grade, however I used my weakness to a strength and it worked.

Really love this...used it with a pupil recently, and he found it really useful. It enabled him to tell adults about the parts that resonated with him so they were able to understand more about how dyslexia impacted on him. Thank you, BDA for an excellent resource which I shall be recommending to children/young people and their families and professionals too.

Thank you for making this, so when ever someone says "oh your just stupid" I'll whip out this video. Also thanks.

I was diagnosed with dyslexia at the age of 10 and my mum was NOT surprised because i mostly struggled in english . And i thought everyone would judge me and i was wrong. the teachers were so nice and i felt so much better. And yes i used my overlays to write this.

I have dislexia im not good at speling or maths i only no time tables 12345 and 9 but im good at alot of other things so if you do have dislexia you ar still smart you just lern in a difrent way Ps alot of famos people ar dislecic 😗😗😗😗

So glad things like this exist for young people so they can at lest understand a bit better. I have no doubt it’s still a very hard road to travel, but my hope is that it is at least a little less difficult than it has been for me.

I can totally relate to this as I don't have the 'common dyslexic problems' I get the blurry effect on some days. When I write I write in a fist grip to help my writing be neater. I get head aches while working. I have a love and hate relationship with reading. It gives me like sea sickness but then I enjoy knowledge. But I have low concentration. If I am not kept busy I will start doodling tapping with my fingers. Daydreaming etc. I struggle to hear what someone says with loads of background noises. I can hear the word oreo and think they said lollie. I still can't so the alphabet, vowels or tie my shoes laces right. I ain't good at catching unless it's a big ball or most team sports. It took till I was 6 for me to finally get reading. I still struggle with spelling I couldn't spell simple words until I was 7. I still can't do all my time tables but I do try hard. I still can't do left or rights without visualising my hand being held in an l shape and even then it took a while for me to see the l shape. I write with a fist grip and without looking most of the time as it causes me to get a headache. I am seen as a tpee (nerd) as I try really hard and seem really smart. But I fail in maths because of times tables and I see numbers and words that are not there. If I get something I can zoom through something really fast. But if I don't I lose concentration and start doodling, talking or daydreaming.

Brilliant video. I watched with my 8 yr old son as his first introduction to Dyslexia. We are saving to him diagnosed. Its brilliant, well explained. Thankyou.

Hi, I am a medical doctor and a dyslexic. I was never been properly diagnosed with dyslexia until i learnt about it in medical school. Growing up, i was always slower compared to my siblings and friends academically. I only able to start reading at 8 years old after my school teacher personally give me extra classes to teach me how to read and I'm really grateful that i have such a supportive teacher. Now, I still struggle to read (i take at least double the amount of time of normal people to read), write, typing, memorising sequence and easily confuse between right/left. But that doesn't mean that i can be a great doctor or person. Being a dyslexic doesn't mean we are lesser than the other. We are just built differently and can be successful just like other people. Don't let dyslexia stop you!

Dyslexia is the ability to move BEYOND Lexis ( words in Greek) and experience 3D Life through a Multileveled, Cosmic Perspective. It moves the human race thinking forward and what is more, is that the dyslexic brain has a HEART of 'WE' that guides its genius. I LOVE DYSLEXIA!

I was diagnosed at 7 and was one of two in my year with it, the school kept taking us out of classes to make us do extra english but I hated this because it made me feel diffrent and not as good as everyone else I went on to qute will in my GCSEs but did bad in my A levels and went to a poor univercity through clearing but left after a year I then got a job in IT and managed to get several profetional qualifications and I am now studing at a top 20 UK uni so don't give up and I didn't check my spelling so it was real

Thank you for this. I've been wondering how to tell my daughter in a positive way why it is she's struggling with the things she struggles with. I don't want her to think she's broken, less than, or give her a reason not to keep working as hard as she is. I will sit with her and watch this. She is such a lovely girl, she will change the piece of world around her.

too many important information in very atractive simple way..thanks a lot🙏👏👍🌷

Great video that shows differences that adults and children can understand. My child has dyslexia and struggles with her spelling as she often writes her letters and numbers backwards. She has worked very hard at this through repetition and has improved drastically great video to raise awareness as a parent I definitely appreciate this.

This is the best video that I have seen on dyslexia! Love the animation!

Nice wording in this video! Really helps me understand dyslexia!

Very nicely done. Thanks for sharing this with us.

I have dyslexia since birth but there a lot of side effects that others don’t know about much.But creativity is my strength as a dyslexic.

This made me feel so good and know that other people have to same struggles and strength I almost cried

Thanks for this amazing video. Made me feel positive about my 5 years old son, he is very creative, polite, diligent, but he cant memorize letters and numbers.

Thanks, I needed this video. Im kind of getting through a hard time being dyslexic and I was depressed. Im not able to do things the way others are doing, so the only person who steps behind is me. I really hate working in groups or studying too much.

Sir Winston Churchill was a dyslexic I had letters from him when I was a child when I heard he also had difficulties learning.

I used to score 0 and now I am one of the top graded students in my class.. This makes my parents think that I overcame my dyslexia. But that isn't true. I forget the spelling all the very time, I forget the sums my brother made me understand just 10 mins ago, it takes me a at least 2 days to understand just one lesson. But for others it's quick and easy. Yes I am into drawing

I really wish more people understood dyslexia for what it was. I've always been confused with my lefts and rights, always held a pencil a slightly strange way, my favourite activity as a kid was playing with lego. I could visualise sets and how to make them. I loved taking things apart like walkmans, record players, furniture and toys to see if I could learn how they fitted together and rebuild them. I was a fine student who loved reading until I started secondary school, with the number of subjects and work I crumpled, became more and more disorganised and frustrated. At the start, I thought I was smart, at age 10 I'd read every book in the children's and teen section of my small local library. Every famous five book, every Percy Jackson, every Anthony Horowitz. I loved classics like Great expectations and Sherlock Holmes. But by the time I finished secondary school I had read 5 books total in a year (all for classes). I was constantly frustrated at my ability in school. Everything I did seemed to take me longer. In those seven years, I skipped the majority of all my homework, only doing the really crucial ones I needed. And every homework was late. I blamed myself, though I was lazy, and I grew depressed and angry. My sister was never a reader, and my parents decided to get her screened for dyslexia. I thought there was something wrong with me. I asked to be screened too. My dad told me there was no chance I was. But I knew I struggling and something was wrong, and besides Percy Jackson had dyslexia, and I always found that character very relatable, he seemed to share some of my traits and frustration. I told my dad that I should be screened too, and he eventually agreed. The funniest part was that my dad was a trained specialist in special educational needs. I'd always shown signs looking back, but they were never recognised because if I was a decent reader I couldn't possibly be dyslexic. But my gut was right. The screener showed indicators. I was finally diagnosed at 19 with dyslexia. I've got so much help and support on my course now. It's still frustrating sometimes, and I'm still quite disorganised, but compared to the feelings of inadequacy among my peers for years, it's a massive relief knowing. I'm always very open about it, on one hand, I've had close friends who haven't understood and asked why I'm still studying if I'm struggling, but I also have friends who have listened when I explained some of the smaller lesser-known parts of dyslexia. I'm usually the driver and struggle when someone tells me to turn left or right, always hesitating. My friends understand this and have helped by putting a hand out to show me the direction or tapping different sides in front of them. It's all small things but I love them so much for trying to help me when I explain what I'm finding difficult.

This made me feel better about having dislexa I sometimes feel alone and upset about having dislexa but I'll remember dislexic people have changed the world

I actually love this video. It will help so many children that have dyslexia like me a 16-year-old boy. Thank you British Dyslexia Association. My only question who invented the word dyslexia and why did they make it so hard to spell. It's for people that have a harder time spelling.

Some times I get sad when I have it but then I watch this and I’m happy

I got dinosaur with dyslexia when I was nine I’m 12 now and teachers they find amazing ways to teach me

Sometimes when people talk to me everything they say goes straight over my head and when they’re finished talking, I have no idea what they were just talking about. Also when I read books/ articles etc... I have to reread each phrase more than 4 times to just try and understand what it means. It makes like really difficult sometimes! It’s weird because I was in all academic classes at school! Now I’m 21 and I’m seriously wondering if I have dyslexia?? What do I do?? It’s extremely frustrating not being able to read properly especially because I want to study to become a Paramedic. Also the other day I was in the car with my family and it took me a solid half an hour to send a text message that was about half as long as this message! It took me so long because I had to keep reading through it and every time my family would talk I’d have to start again because I got distracted so easily and I find it really hard to concentrate. Do I have dyslexia?

Great summary of what dyslexia is.

Idk if you still remember this video but idk if I have dyslexia. I’m 17 but I feel like I have it but I was not diagnosed. When I read passages, I tend to lose where I am. Like I skip a line or reread the line on accident, so I have to use my finger to help me. I also read words that I have heard before but I can’t really say it until a teacher helps me. I also have terrible grammar. My friends always tell me this, but like when I’m typing or writing the word down I say it in my head thinking I wrote it down but I never did. Another thing is I can’t describe anything. My parents or teachers ask me how I did something and I can’t desrcibe it. I try to but it doesn’t come out the way I want it to. My English grade is terrible. Suppose to be in B track but I overwrited it and when into A track (normal English)

Respect dyslexic kids Because they're secretly trained kids who were descended from gods and live in a summer camp with different creatures and monsters....

I just found out that I am Dyslexic After going through Life filling dumb, Inadequate, Abandoned. Divorced from 10 years of marriage with two boys, I am now fighting to get on my feet, a place of my own for 50/50 Custody over my boys. It is killing me to not be able to hold my boy, to talk to my boys, and wake up in the morning from them jumping on my bed. I am writing a Manga comic about my life, wrapped in fiction to help me vent my frustration. I have graduated high school bin to college. I am a Whole life fashion designer of 20 years, graphic artist for 15 years & animator for 2 years. Is there anyone out there that can help Me organize my life? o yea and i am ADD

So pleased to have found this fab video to show to my recently diagnosed 8yr old, thank you :-D

Very beautiful minds

Hi every one who have dyslexia, i'm dyslexic too...nice to see this video...gummmaaaa

love this so much so cute and most informational video for dyslexia ive ever seen and very helpful for me too thank you

I was never "diagnosed" or was told I have dyslexia. I recently found out when a friend of mine told me after I told her that I sometimes mix up the letters b and d, o and a, j and g, and others too, but for some reason, I can mix up numbers too. Like 1 and 9, or sometimes, I mix up a 2 for another number. Are the numbers part normal for a person with dyslexia?

I was diagnosed with dyslexia when I was like 3 and I only learned to read when I was in first grade and now I also have A.D.D so it’s getting worse and I’m goin 7th grade soon ;-; I can even do meh sports day and it’s tmr cause of my asthma I also get made fun off in school cause I can’t pronounce simplest words correct or say the wrong word and when I’m learning different languages I suffer like crazy not knowing the simplest words like how are you or so

I think in every country in the world should have assisted technology for adult people with dyslexia help read and write mandatory. In school, All kind of libraries, courthouses, State House, government buildings, trade schools, organizations that help you find jobs, Banks, credit union colleges. I believe we got far in with helping dyslexia people but not enough for the adults that's dealing with it everyday

imagine you're fighting the world for 31 long years just to be normal and accomplish a dream . and find out you have dyslexia and it is the obvious reason you are not able to accomplish it and that you are not like other people in a good way damn... this vid probably changed my life long time im traying to learn lot of stuff with no results ive always been vary good with mechanics electronics and diy stuff it drove me crazy how im so damn good with this stuff and worst then 5yo in other things

This is a wonderfully affirming video. Thank you very much for posting it.

didn't know i have dyslexic traits untill i've watched this video. i'm undiagnosed.

Well done video! It was a eye-opener for me.

I have dyslexia and I can hold a pencil just fine tank you very much.

I have ADHD and dyslexia and it’s really hard I’m taking medicine for my adhd for the first time tomorrow and am nervis 😣

I haven’t told anyone at my high school that I have dyslexia, it’s not that they wouldn’t understand or bully me, it’s just that I can’t stand the look I know their going to give me. Their going to give me a look of shock then pity and I hate that look of pity so much, it’s because of that look that I will be constantly afraid of them thinking less of me or giving me less work. But the thing I hate the most is that I can use it as an excuse, if I get a bad test I can say “I have dyslexia so...” and people will just nod like yeah that makes sense and that sickens me. At the beginning of this year my teacher mentioned she had dyslexia and when ever she writes she says bare with me I have dyslexia and it makes me want to scream. I get that’s it’s supposed to be an explanation not an excuse but to me it always sounds like what I try so hard to avoid doing.

i didnt find out i had dyslexia until i was 20 years old i struggled threw school as a child but no one picked up on it until i was in further education and on a college course where the tutor had someone come in and screen us for dyslexia ever since i have used pink paper to write on and 2 different coloered overlays to help me read and i have to write in blue ink only and the font on the paper needs to be size 18 i still get embaressed tho because im the only one in my class who uses overlays and pink paper

Learnt alot in a few minutes

YAAAYYY TYSM FOR TELLING ME :) I FEEL SO MUCH LESS INSECURE ABOUT BEING DYSLEXIC:D

I know it may be true but I hate it when people say well that means you’re really creative, because for me that’s wrong and it always makes me feel terrible that I’m not when that’s what I’m supposed to be good at

That scream at 1:18 = me

damn i have a dislexia and im trying to read books every day,im getting tricky while reading the big mistakes are in my paragraphs english isnt my main language anyway when i tried to write a paragraph about somthing i do alot of mistakes in a moment im bored about this issue my country cant be helpful to me my parents are getting sad when i got bad marks in my school

I'm dysgraphic but designer, dyslexia is really special 😂

Very nice....

Thank you, soo much.

I’m 29 and I have dyslexia... I thought I’m the only person in the world who have it 🥺 but I’m not alone.... I’m not alone

Thanks for sharing its really help us alot

Thanks guys so much

Don't think dyslexia is your weakness It is also your strength.

Love this video Thank

Most of these things are exactly me

Great video!

Top animation! do you have it in french to share it? thanks

THANK YOU FOR THIS. THIS IS ENLIGHTENING!!

This makes me feel so happy

I can't tell which is my right and left and I often lay get confused

Wow I no longer feel so alone :)

I’m dyslexic and In schol they give no help at all for us becase they think it’s just were bad at spelling and other stuff like that and when we do speling tests they give us about 2 days to practice the spelings so I don’t acctualy learn anything schols need to stop this from happening becase they will give people with weelchairs help but not us?

Tyy

Wish I new what I was good at and finding my purpose even at 39 I still dont no what I'm good at

I have dyslexia and ADD, I know my creative strength.

great video

I have dyslexia and now i have a BS in computer sense and work as a developer.

The more videos I watch, the more I think "oh that's me", but never actually diagnosed.

Anyone else here that can spell and write ok but has brain fog and sees letters jumping off the page looks like Chinese i do have to always say left or right before i commit to my hand when overthinking or asked everything is overthought ?

I don’t know if I have dyslexia yet but my family has it they only picked it up in year six my life yearned up side down 😕