Famous people who are dyslexic

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Trying to discuss this with DS who flatly refuses to believe he is dyslexic. I have looked online to see if anyone famous is dyslexic and while there are a few they are all my generation. No one beyond Holly Whilloighby that my son will know. Does anyone know anyone an10 year old might have heard of? Thanks.

Redforshort, it's under the Accessibility section in Settings.

10 days isn’t long, he may well still be processing it.

Jodie Kidd is dyslexic.

Kindle paperwhites also have a dyslexia friendly font. DH uses it.

The Made by Dyslexia videos are excellent . My year 7 students like the MI5 agent

Eddie Izzard, Benjamin Zephaniah, Keira Knightley, Keanu Reeves, Channing Tatum.

He may well feel he is reading and writing OK compared with his peers now and he could be right. DS passed entrance exam to a selective school and got to Y13 before being diagnosed ( although there were signs in retrospect especially about organisation and slow writing.If only I had realised good verbally but poor written work did not just mean a bright but lazy boy. ) Had a reading age 3years above his chronological age, but his ability to plan and organise an essay and some recall is poor but he has a very high IQ. He has a good degree in History and is doing a post grad degree.
Can I add Ben Fogle, Paloma Faith and Noel Gallegher ( and Walt Disney) to your list?

Holly Willoughby

Daniel Radcliff

He has dyspraxia, not dyslexia doesn't he?

That was worded awkwardly, I sounded like Yoda.

David Bailey is dyslexic

Let him get there in his own time.

For me being dyslexic/dyspraxic is about me learning to do things in a different way to everyone else, not about not being able to do things. I can do them, I just leaned how differently. I went on dyslexia holiday camps as a kid and loved them(Lyn Lewis) don't think they are a thing now but the people I met and strategies I learned have never left me. Was great being with people who all just understood.

Hope your son gets there with this, as posted by others some amazing famous and non famous people have achieved amazing things, I’m a nurse. It was what I always wanted to do. Teachers said no chance I’d never get the grades. It took me a little longer to get there but qualified 14 years this year and love it (mostly)

My sons dyslexia is more than difficulty with reading spelling etc. it is also short term memory problems (and moving information into long term memory),it is also coordination, learning to ride a bike for example, and lots of dyslexics don't crawl, they go from shuffling on their bum straight to walking because coordinating just two limbs is easier than four.
But they also have advantages, they automatically think outside the box and device better ways of doing things (many very successful computer programmers are dyslexic because they can problem solve inevitably).
So try to explain to your son that being dyslexic can be a GOOD thing.

devise not device (i'm dyslexic too)

Redrobins that pretty much describes my dd. She is a deep thinker and astounds me with her logic. Ask her the nsme of the poem shes studying with her dyslexia tutor the minute she comes out of the lesson? Can't remember.

I recently found out that George Washington, George W Bush and John F Kennedy were rumoured to be dyslexic... but your son may not have heard of them (yet).

I'm dyslexic but was only diagnosed aged 21 after pushing back every time they tried to assess me at school. I was a top student but did well through intricate and exhausting coping methods which left me with crippling anxiety. It turns out, with the right tools, I could have achieved more at less detriment to my mental health.

In my adult life, dyslexia has been more of a blessing than a curse. Being dyslexic is an asset, you just need to learn how to harness it.