To be shocked by people's disbelief to dyslexia?

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My dc are bright, intelligent, articulate people. They are however also severely dyslexic.

I have seeked assistance for them as their written work was not matching any of their other skills. I obtained educational pyschologist's report that showed their difficulties. Interestingly they have different dyslexia issues, not the same. One has a photographic memory and can learn 'pictures' to draw words but cannot process audio instructions. The other can process audio instructions but cannot follow images.

Having shown their teachers the reports to get them help I have had the following the responses:

Headteacher - everyone's dyslexic we all have trouble with some words, no help is required

SENCO!!! teacher - there is no such thing as dyslexia they just can't spell.

"Friends" - aren't they just being lazy, they could write properly if they tried, you can't be good at everything...

AIBU to feel so frustrated in trying to get some help for my dc over dyslexia, I thought we had moved on in the last 20 years and that it was now recognised, oh how wrong I am!

God knows what they teach in teacher training as many teachers still seem to see it as a 'reading/writing' problem and no nothing about the theories surrounding working memory/phonological loop etc. I learned to read fluently and easily and was always near the top of my class, but yet frustrated my English teacher who thought my poor spelling was due to laziness/wilfulness, I managed to cover up my inability at mental arithmetic and it wasn't until I ended up in a psychology department doing a post-grad (after a Bsc and a Msc) that anyone noticed there might just be a tiny bit of a disparity between the rest of my academic abilities and the fact that I couldn't take lecture notes that were readable.......

Doesn't exist my arse...... my IQ score looks like ECG readout and funnily enough the peaks correspond to everything that doesn't test working memory and the troughs to all the dimensions of the IQ test that relate to working memory.