What is it like to have Dyslexia (One of many Learning Disabilities)?

What is it like to have Dyslexia? Have you ever paused to wondered how it feels to be Dyslexic? Maybe you are and could never find the words. Maybe your child or student is and they simply can't articulate to you how it feels to be Dyslexic. Jeremiah, a client of Cindy, The LD Coach, shares exactly how it feels to live life as a Dyslexic student and how individuals with learning disabilities like Dyslexia are often misunderstood in school.

[CindyTheLDCoach]

Speaking from someone who knows, in many ways this is how it feels. Thanks for sharing. I know it wasn't easy. I am so proud of you.

[kayyteee]

Thank you so much for sharing this! Great video

[Heelsandholster]

I'm a professor of health but study disability and had a career as a social worker supporting people with various different disabilities. Thank you for sharing this. I'm a new subscriber and fellow mama vlogger

[Ms.Francis]

This is so insightful both for us as teacher as well as other students. Great video

[rhyannecarrington]

So as a kid I thought my dream of becoming a teacher was over because of my dyslexia. I wanted to be a teacher since I was 7 years old and because of an amazing special education teacher who knew my dream and would not let me give up, she helped learn how I learn best and by the time I got to high school I made it in mainstream and then honors classes. In 2013 I became a teacher and have now been teaching for 7 years. The first day of school every the first thing I do with my students is having a class discussion about Learning Disabilities and how we all learn differently I tell my class about my dyslexia and how I have still been successful and they can to no matter I am here to help them do their best. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO LOVE IT!

[SocialStudiess]

As a person who is studying to be a teacher. I know what he means. I am a immigrant before I am a black American. We came from Eritrea, Africa. The way in which a lot of African Americans parents here in the states have a short temperament with their children’s intellectual disabilities.

Parents of first generation American kids are the same. I’m practically a U.S history teacher (but going into Social Studies due to the multi cultural backgrounds I’ve grown up with in the Bay Area and Portland, Oregon).


From segregation to the Regan administration. African Americans and proper educational upbringings have its effects on said culture when the children become the parents.

As an adult I recognize African American parents with an education only up to high school or not even that when it comes to raising their children with school is mirror to how immigrant parents are with their children in America.

Both parents are so involved if not more in their children’s education up until the sixth grade or seventh grade. The subjects and level of education required to monitor and check the kids homework is beyond a lot of immigrant parents and African parents.

When it comes to writing esssays, citing things, grammar to an extent where things have to be properly administered to literature in the reading rewuiremts of novels and what not. Trading habits as a whole.

The mathematical subjects changing past fractions, division, multiplication and decimals. To going into the pre algebra, algebra and even statistics. The same with the sciences.

As my parents did and a lot of the African American parents of the kids I grew up with did. The divided began. The parents defense mechanism is to scold the child because they can not actually check the work and see what’s right or wrong, due to not knowing the material.

I won’t go all Dr.Phil here. I just happened to go to school with a lot of black kids in middle school, while having cultural differences yet our parents handlers us the same before seventh grade and after.

After the seventh grade and eighth. I happened to go to high school I’m Portland where the kids bud the parents were different. What I learned after high school and saw why my peers were a little better off there was.

The educational background of my peers parents often went to college or at the very least took courses from middle school and high school that allowed them to go to college.

I’m high school I learned a trick my city did was to let people fail classes in middle school. When they got to high school. Have them take those same kind of subjects, just call it 9th grade or tenth grade this.

It allowed them to graduate high school, but it disabled them from being eligible to apply for the state’s universities. You had to have taken x level English or pre algebra and above. The same with science and government. I was lucky and my teachers caught on.

They brought this to my parent’s attention in the ninth grade and I was taken out of those classes. Had it not been for the communication between those teachers reaching out to my parents. I might be in the same boat now. I suppose it worked. After all, I am studying to be a teacher myself 🤷🏾‍♂️


P.S
Sorry for the grammatical and sometimes incoherent word choice earlier on. I typed this from my iPhone. Editing after I write is and clearly always will be my Achilles heel😢

[HelloFatima]

Great vlog very informative, I am Psychology degree holder that’s why I understand all this. Thanks for sharinf

[francineestrada]

Wow I'm so proud of you for sharing this awesome video new friend here

[HippiieLoveOfficial]

I Would Definitely Want to Learn More about This ! Hope You Stay Strong always ! 😌👌👍