Revolutionary Rants

Apparently dyslexia is just a middle-class excuse for stupidness. The fact that I cannot learn phonically is, in fact, because I am a thicko, not because I have a brain which doesn’t seem to learn that way but instead has to recall words visually. That explains a lot, really. The sheer panic of not being able to read when I should have been able to, staring at pictures and guessing at words is explained. I was just not very bright. My parents must have wished to cover this up, after all I was home educated and therefore my thickness would reflect even more heavily on them…

Luckily for me I wasn’t in the school system and had time for my poor weak little brain to sort itself out and learn to read and write. Once that huge mass of stupidity was mastered I managed to scrape together Junior Certificates, A Levels and a First Class degree. Oh, and an MA.

Perhaps at some point those who need ’scientific’ proof of dyslexia will come to consider that people with whatever level of “learning difficulties” don’t necessarily have anything wrong with them, they just have trouble with the only way they are given to learn. People are not uniform, but the school system is.  But, of course, it is easier - and cheaper - to blame it on middle-class failure phobia. Definitely cheaper…