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• 1. Megan  |  March 13th, 2008 at 8:14 pm

  Hi my name is megan i am 10 years old, i think i might have dyslexia i recenty found out though. I thaught that it was something to do with your brain but aparently it is to do with your eyes, my dad had noticed it in me, he always goes over my homework and i mean always! And then he told me to copy the number that was on his sheet and that number was 34 but i had copeyd 43 and my dad researched it on the internet and found some tests to give me and it turnes out that it is a 95 % of the chance that i have dyslexia. some people call it the gift and i thaught that it was not that special so i searched it on the internet and now i think that it is THE GIFT. Thank you for reading about ME!

  Megan

• 2. nicholas crawford  |  March 20th, 2008 at 10:58 pm

  hi Megan I am 9 years old i have dyslexia same is you I have difficulties like you.by

• 3. Lionel  |  July 9th, 2008 at 3:05 am

  Hi, my name is Lionel, I know that I am dyslexic because I was assessed just a few weeks ago. My results: I scored below average to average on all the tests except one, I was assessed on my problem solving techniques and to my amazement, although in my heart I was not surprised at all I got 98%, and yet still I knew that I could have done better. Next step: finding an appropriate job that best suits my abilities… ??

• 4. sandra  |  December 12th, 2008 at 9:43 am

  I am the parent of a dyslexic daughter, who is now 17 years old. Like you all she had trouble being diagnosed and has had to put up with her fair share of discrimination and igrance (i am dyslexic as well pleae forgive my spelling). I would like to give you all hope.
  My girl has just finished her Dipolma in Childrens Services and has been nominated for Student of the Year which includes all TAFE students in our state not just her course. As a result of these good results she has a few good job offers, with firms offereing her salaries the same as 21 year olds.
  REMEMBER you kids are special, you see the world in a better light than most, have more ditermination than most and are better at what you choose to do than most. Keep on working away – the results are worth it. DON’T LET ANYONE TELL YOU THAT YOU CAN NOT DO WHAT YOU WANT. My girl is of to Uni next year – off campus course, while she works full time to study pyscology. GOOD LUCK TO YOU ALL

• 5. Dawn Matthews  |  December 18th, 2008 at 11:55 am

  Hi Sandra
  Thanks. Well done. congratulate her for me. and Good luck.
  cheers
  dawn

• 6. James C  |  January 15th, 2009 at 8:22 pm

  Several people on that list are known NOT to have been dyslexic and you should remove them. I don’t know where/how/why such myths start but this (pro-dyslexia) site will clear it up for you:

  http://dyslexia.learninginfo.org/famous-people.htm
  http://dyslexia.learninginfo.org/famous-people2.htm

• 7. Dawn Matthews  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:01 am

  Hi James
  All the people mentioned in this article had problems with mainstream school. It is impossible to be absolutely accurate about them having dyslexia or not as they are no longer alive, but Winston Churchill himself said the he was dyslexic, in his biography, and i would rather take his opinion on the matter than some other persons. I have also looked very carefully into the other mentioned names and studied their exact learning patterns and concluded myself that they were dyslexic in nature.

  It is a myth to consider that dyslexics cannot read, clealy this is disproved every day. I myself am definitely dyslexic and i have written several books and read paged of emails etc every day. We can learn to read but we cannot learn to scan read. The person who wrote this article does not seem to understand what dyslexia actually is. Does he know how to assess for it? I doubt that. I, on the other hand, assess dyslexic kids and adults every day.

  Nowadays dyslexia is considered to be a label attached to anyone who thinks and learns differently to the mainstream, and all of these people did. It is not just the difficulties that define a dyslexic, when assessing a child for dyslexia I also look for specific gifts. Dyslexic is a learning difference which results in specific difficulties and specific strengths in the persons abilities. All of these people displayed the typical learning problems at school and also the specific strengths after leaving school. This is why one of the sayings we intend to use in the opening of our new Dyslexic Centre Australia is ” Dyslexics, full of potential, have to leave school to find it?”
  Cheers

  dawn matthews

• 8. Dawn Matthews  |  March 26th, 2009 at 9:06 am

  I have a new famous dyslexic to add to the list. Prince Harry, third in line to the throne on England, has talked about being dyslexic.

  Its great that he feels able to tell the world. I have long thought that his mother Princes Dianna was also dyslexic but it would be very hard to find out now. I do remember that she was slammed quite a lot by the press for not being as clever as her husband, that she was an excellent artist, had wonderful people skills, was a good public speaker and spent a lot of time doing good in the world.. These are all things I have come to see as dyslexic traits.
  Dawn

• 9. Paul  |  April 30th, 2009 at 9:53 pm

  Autobiographers and historians disagree that Einstein was dyslexic. How are dead scientists assessed on whether or not they have dyslexia?

• 10. Nick  |  September 5th, 2009 at 8:11 pm

  lol you put keanu reeves as an actress
  and i always though he was a man…

• 11. admin  |  September 7th, 2009 at 11:10 am

  Thanks Nick for pointing out the typo – LOL.

• 12. driving school  |  October 10th, 2009 at 4:16 pm

  great to see that being dyslexic isn’t any reason why people cannot succeed in life!

  regards,
  rachael
  driving school
  driving school

• 13. Vignesh  |  October 27th, 2009 at 4:48 am

  Hello my name is Vignesh i am from India Bangalore my age is 17. i was Diagnosed as a Dyslexic when i was 4 and i know what you went thought. Do not worry you R not dumb and stupid.we have a gift where nobody has it is like our super power and we R Famous we R the Dyslexics. REMEMBER THAT

• 14. harry bower  |  November 25th, 2009 at 4:03 am

  hi i’m harry bower (worlds youngest cricket umpire) and buding engeneer i’m dyslexic and i’m amazed with the amount of people i have heard of hear who are dyslexic and how dyslexics have afected the world

• 15. » Jessica Watson&hellip  |  May 13th, 2010 at 11:13 am

  [...] See other famous dyslexics  at  http://www.dyslexia-testing.com.au/wordpress/2008/01/here-is-a-definitive-list-of-famous-dyslexics/ [...]

• 16. Robin  |  February 3rd, 2011 at 3:54 am

  I am dyslexic and have very serve dysgraphia,I have been professionally diagnosed several times over the years .By doctors as well as consulars and two schools that had programs for dyslexics .I need to disagree with a comment above that claims dyslexics do not scan read.

  Scan reading is very commonly done by people who are severely dyslexic We often learn to do it in school so we appear as if you know what’s going on. We look for the words we can quickly recognize and skip the ones we do not .This doesn’t however work when you have to read out loud.Then all bets are off.

• 17. Ren  |  March 20th, 2011 at 4:05 pm

  I have dyslexia I was diagnosed when I was only 7 years old.
  I have a friend and I think she wants to have dyslexia becouse I showed her your list and now she is saying she finds it hard to read and spell and all that but she is a strate A student i do not understand I never knew someone would wont dyslexia ?

• 18. Sam  |  September 17th, 2011 at 9:43 pm

  Hi, I’m dyslectic, I’m 48 years old. I can imagine people wanting dyslexia because if we have confidance and don’t feel bad about being dyslexic we can do amazing things, seeing life through a quirky mode.Dyslexia wasn’t recognised as existing way back when. My first clue was an english teacher in year 8 (age 12) my english teacher often read out my work and never marked me down for spelling and one day whilst passing out graded assignments she bent down to my ear and said “shakespear could never even spell his own name the same way twice.” My life then began to change. FYI I have the best job, have done quite well for myself overall and yes there some famous and some very happy, sucsessful, dyslexics amoung us. Yay spell check

• 19. AmeliaPondRox  |  October 23rd, 2011 at 2:50 pm

  You forgot about Steve Jobs. He was dyslexic and look where he got!

  btw I think my little sister is dyslexic. she can’t read very easily, though she is doing better, and she always throughs a fit when she doesn’t understand something. I know that throwing fits isn’t a sign of dyslexia, but I thought I should mention how frustrating it is for her- especially when my parents don’t have the heart to tell her. I don’t want to tell her for fear that my parents will get mad at me, but she really deserves to know. It makes me sad to see her when she is so frustrated like that, but my parents and I are really trying to make it easier for her. Wish us luck!

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• 21. Rosalind  |  January 22nd, 2012 at 3:42 am

  Hi I’m dyslexic to and I agree its a gift,most of my family on my dads side has the gift I was lucky they test early on.I think that you shouldn’t be ashamed to admit you have it,aperatly 1/3 people born have onaveradge.

  lots of love Rosalind age11 (nearly 12!)

• 22. Rosalind  |  January 22nd, 2012 at 3:44 am

  sorry for spellings and spaces on my comment!

• 23. amanda  |  February 3rd, 2012 at 2:24 pm

  hi im amanda im 14 and i have been dyslexic all my life. its been hard for example i couldnt read till the 3rd grade. but what ive learned is if u work hard u can learn to deal with it. its possible to get good grades also u just have to study 2X harder than anyone.

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