Imagine a little girl, with high hopes of academics, friendships, dreams, and life. Picture her walking with her head held high and her spirits bright. A light in her that is shown through her smile and her devotion to school and others. Imagine that light slowly losing its spark because of those around her who demoralize her dreams of accomplishments. Teachers, peers, and strangers. Nothing but negative stereotypes and judgments from a simple yet harsh label. Now that light is gone and the flame has dimmed into nothing but black smoke. She could have gone on to cure cancer. This girl could have ended world hunger. But now, she has lost her dreams. All because she has dyslexia. For a long time now, children have been stripped of their potential
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Throughout my life I have noticed certain phrases that my peers or others will say when involved with someone who has a learning disability. The most popular one is “wow they can’t spell that word? Are they stupid or something?”. These phrases “may come to negatively define the individual by focusing on the specific problem and downplaying many positive person characteristics” (Antczak). People neglect the information and leave it be, which can and does often make or a break an individual with dyslexia’s confidence level. When I read a blog by Alex Myles, I was intrigued by what she had to say about dyslexia. Myles, as well as myself and many others, struggle with this type of learning disability, or abbreviated LD, and what the negative judgments of this label brings. Myles states that “the trouble exists in judgment” (Myles). This can be anything from name calling, academic shaming, along with equating the LD label to who the person is; people always tend to “see the diagnosis, not the person” (Antczak). Myles further explains how the judgments are found in the unknown categories of what this society does not know about dyslexia. The judgments are because our brains “operate a little differently” (Myles). Myles talks of how she was picked on to a great extent, negatively impacting her life emotionally, and socially. The prevailed judgments not only affect how we think of ourselves, but it also how others think of
Throughout my life I have noticed certain phrases that my peers or others will say when involved with someone who has a learning disability. The most popular one is “wow they can’t spell that word? Are they stupid or something?”. These phrases “may come to negatively define the individual by focusing on the specific problem and downplaying many positive person characteristics” (Antczak). People neglect the information and leave it be, which can and does often make or a break an individual with dyslexia’s confidence level. When I read a blog by Alex Myles, I was intrigued by what she had to say about dyslexia. Myles, as well as myself and many others, struggle with this type of learning disability, or abbreviated LD, and what the negative judgments of this label brings. Myles states that “the trouble exists in judgment” (Myles). This can be anything from name calling, academic shaming, along with equating the LD label to who the person is; people always tend to “see the diagnosis, not the person” (Antczak). Myles further explains how the judgments are found in the unknown categories of what this society does not know about dyslexia. The judgments are because our brains “operate a little differently” (Myles). Myles talks of how she was picked on to a great extent, negatively impacting her life emotionally, and socially. The prevailed judgments not only affect how we think of ourselves, but it also how others think of