His teachers said that he was mentally slow, unsociable and adrift in his foolish dreams. He could not talk until the age of four. He did not learn to read until he was nine. His teachers considere d him slow, unsociable and a dreamer. He failed the entrance examinations to college but finally passed the after an additional year of preparation. He lost three teaching positions and then became a paten clerk. Even as an adult Einstein found that searchin for word s was laborious. He found schoo l wor k, es eciall math, Leonardo Da Vinci was also believed to suffer from a number of learning disabilities including dyslexia and attention deficit disorder. Strong evidence in Da Vinci’s manuscripts and letters corroborates the diagnosis of dyslexia. It appears that Leonardo wrote his notes backwards, from right to left, in a mi rror image. This is a trait shared by many left-handed dyslexic people. In addition to the handwriting, the spelling errors in his manuscripts and journals demonstrated dyslexia- Pablo Picasso was a famous, controversial, and trend-setting art icon. He is described as having difficulty reading the orientation of the letters and labeled a dyslexic, and despite the initial difficulties was able to catch up with the curriculum. However, dyslexia made school difficult and he never really benefited from his education.
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“I couldn’t read. I just scraped by. My solution back then was to read classic
comic books because I could figure them out from the context of the pictures.”
Charles Schwab, founder, chairman and CEO of Charles Schwab Corporation,
which has helped millions of “average Joe’s” manage their money through
investments and other banking and financial services. He had extreme difficulty
taking notes in class, flunking English two times, and struggling in foreign
Stephen William Hawking is a British theoretical physicist and Mathematician, whose
world-renowned scientific career spans over 40 years. Stephen Hawking is severelydisabled by motor neuron disease. Symptoms of the disorder first appeared while he
was enrolled at Cambridge; he lost his balance and fell down a flight of stairs, hitting
his head, when Hawking was 21. Hawking gradually lost the use of his arms, legs, and
voice and as of 2009 was almost com letel aral zed.
“I’d try to concentrate on what I was reading, then I’d get to the end of the
page and have very little memory of anything I’d read.”
An actor whose name has become synonymous with all-American
testosterone-driven entertainment, Tom Cruise spent the 1980s as one of
Hollywood's brightest-shining golden boys. Despite being a success in his
chosen field, this entertainer can learn lines only by listening to a tape.
“As a kid I had a hard time reading in school. I was the kid who wouldgo one period a day to the class for kids with learning disabilities.”Comedian actor Vince Vaughn credits his learning disabilities with
making him a film star - because they forced him to work harder thanhis peers. The Dodge ball star suffered chronic dyslexia and attentiondeficit disorder. Some of the movies Vaughn appeared in are: The Lost
“As a child I was called stupid and lazy. On the SAT I got 159 out of 800 in math.”
Henry Winkler having struggled - and suffered - throughout his school years with unidentified dyslexia. He
never attended special-education class. His German-Jewish immigrant parents didn't understand his learning problem. Their nickname for him was the German expression for "dumb dog.”.
Henry Winkler is best known for his role as Fonzie on the 1970s American sitcom Happy Days. In additionto his movie and film credits, Henry is a well accomplished author of the series called “Hank Zipzer, the
World's Greatest Underachiever.
Jay Leno got mainly C’S and D’S in school. His high school guidance counselor
recommended that he drop out of school. When enrolling into Emerson Collegein Boston the admission officer said he wasn’t what they wanted. He sat
outside the admission officers’ office 12 hours a day 5 days a week until he was
accepted into the University. Jay Leno is most well known for his late night
Whoopi Goldberg, is an outstanding American entertainer, having acted in major motion
picture hits like Ghost, Sister Act I and II and Star Trek: Generations. Whoopi had a lot of difficulty in school, but it was not until she was an adult did she learn that she had dyslexia.
When Whoopi was growing up, she remembers being called dumb and stupid because she hada lot of problems reading
16-year-old boy writing
We set out early with Intent to Run round the sd. Land but being taken in a Rain &it Increasing very fast obliged usto return. It clearning about one o'Clock & our time being too Precious to Loose we a second time ventured out &
Worked hard till Night & then returned to pEnningtons we got our Suppoers & was Lighted in to a Room & I not
being so good a Woodsman as the rest of my Company striped my slef very orderly & went in to the Bed as theycall'd it when to my Surprize I found it to be northing but a Little Straw-matted together without Sheets or any thing
else but only on Thread Bear blanket with double its Weight of Vermin such as Lice Feas & c. Had we not have beenvery Tired, Ia, sure we should not have slep'd much that night. I made a Promise not to Sleep so from that time
forward chusing rather to sleep in the open Air before a fire as will Appear hereafter."
It is interesting to note that this is an example from the writing of the first president of
the United States; George Washington who professionals believe was dyslexic.