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Originally Posted by DanaC

No, but unless you are lucky enough to get a diagnosis at an early stage it very much gets you labelled as stupid.

There is still a stigma attached to the condition.

I used to teach adult literacy and many of my students were undiagnosed dyslexics. Many of them self-identified as stupid because they'd been called stupid or thick whilst they were growing up, both by other kids, and by teachers.

My lovely daughter was an undiagnosed dyslexic right up until she went to uni.
She struggled, she had to work harder, we had to help her more. But she still managed to leave school with 11 GSCE, went onto uni got her A levels then on to do her masters.She is now HOD in secondary school.
My daughter never considered herself stupid and we would never have allowed her to. We did pull our hair out at not being able to find out what her problem
was.
Perhaps Dexter did not get the support at home, might not have had as good a school etc, but I will stand by my statement that being dyslexic does not mean you are stupid.