Dyslexic’s Being Treated Unfairly: A Common Issue #dyslexia

As a coach for dyslexic adults, I can tell you the unfair treatment many dyslexics face is astonishing. I fully encourage dyslexics to embrace their emotions, including anger, as it is a healthy and natural response to injustice. Standing up for yourself and sharing your story can be powerful steps in empowering yourself.

🙋🏼‍♂️ My name is Arije, and I am a dyslexic with an MA in Education Studies and I coach dyslexic adults. I aim to share all my tips for learning, coping, teaching, and more on my channel. For dyslexics, educators, and parents alike, I want to make videos that inform and inspire you to reframe dyslexia.

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[ArijeAikedeHaas]

My teachers back in the day assumed that I would not be able to go to university. They basically say we believe that you are too stupid for that.
They did not give me a chance to prove myself. In the end, I did, but I had to move to a different country to do so. What about you?

[Alicia-if]

I wasn't diagnosed with dyslexia until earlier this year, and I'm in my late twenties! I was a huge reader and loved books when I was younger, but because of that the possibility of me being dyslexic was dismissed even though I still had struggles. I avoided to read out loud because I knew I would miss read a word or struggle with how it sounded out loud. I also still misspell words quite frequently 😅

[TinaSATX]

I had five different teachers tell me I'm stupid. I had college professors tell me I'm faking my dyslexia. It's really important to document the diagnosis.

[tomsoltess]

I was asked to read out loud and I struggled so bad after the teacher gave the reading to someone else he said "well that was tough." the room laughed.

[jennamedlyn]

Oh my goodness I don't know where to start! One of my earliest memories is being yelled at by my kindergarten teacher for not being able to spell my last name. My first grade teacher told me I would never be successful in life because I couldn't find a box of markers. Both my second and third grade teachers told me I was stupid in front of the whole class. My fourth grade teacher would always get mad when I need to be evaluated or go to the reading specialist. My fifth grade teacher is a whole bag of worms that's really complicated but let's just say it wasn't good. I thought going to middle school would be better but no. The vast majority of my teachers assumed that I couldn't read at all, and they would often ignore the accommodations that I had, even though that's illegal. When I got into high school things were even worse, I would ask for my accommodations and be told no right to my face. When I would go get help for this my teachers would lie and say that I had never asked for my accommodations even though I definitely had. Soon no one believed me that a teacher wasn't using my accommodations and I just had to suffer through on my own. College was so much better. I don't know if it's the university that I went to or if it's just college as a whole. I did have one really awful incident with a professor who openly mocked me for struggling to read and spell, and also refused to comply with my accommodations because I didn't ask "nicely" enough. She also told me that I shouldn't have been in the program I was in and even tried to tell me that I wasn't smart enough to have dyslexia (I have no idea what she meant, that makes no sense). Luckily the disability support at my university was amazing and they talked to her and got things mostly fixed for me. She was really mad at me for doing this and refused to even look at me for the rest of the semester. I couldn't help but smile when I got an A on the final paper and an A in the class.

[faithhopeyascone]

It's been a struggle. I asked for help many times no one would help me so I helped myself. I graduated from college with a GPA over 4.0 but I struggled through everyday. Talk to text doesn't really help me because I don't see the words the same. I fill in the blanks when the right words are not even there. I still see what I said and not what's there

[brotherhoodandbromance]

When i was in special class there a one student who is dyslexic like me and she can’t read or write properly but i can read and write i just can’t spell properly and the teacher was understanding to the girl that can’t read or writes and the teacher gave her a lots of time to write then the teacher say to the other student you all can write normal so you don’t need time and that student also included me find that so unfair oh and im also dyslexic

[nikolugo]

My school wouldn't give me audiobook because they told me it was not reading