I remember when Blue Peter was raising awareness about dyslexia
They'd get some dribbling mental on who'd spazz at the camera for a bit and then say "Ahh'm bnot thtoopidh, Aahh'm dith-lekth-ik."

I'm sorry, I didn't realise that one precluded the other. Is it not possible to be stupid *and* dyslexic? Because with one honourable exception (a phd in neuroscience) all the dyslexics I've ever met have been thick as absolute fuck.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 10:11, 2 replies)

Oh god yes.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 11:10, closed)

That's because most people statemented as dyslexic, ADHD, ASD etc.
are the thick kids of wealthy/middle class parents who couldn't possibly accept that little Timmy is thick as pigshit/a tearaway little shit.

Instead, they simply have to to have extra help in the classroom and medical help/prescriptions, otherwise their poor little darling has no hope of getting into Oxbridge like Mummy and Daddy want them to.

And even then, only a tiny minority of people who say "I'm a bit dyslexic" in the kind of passive-aggressive way Peapod mentioned have ever been formally diagnosed, let alone statmented. More likely they read one of those half-arsed questionnaires you get in Sunday supplements and women's magazines and, because they answered "mostly Bs", they think they're dyslexic (or whatever). Which, almost by definition, makes them thickies
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 11:16, closed)