Passive aggressive dyslexics
What he said:
"It's because I'm dyslexic"
What I heard:
"I'm dyslexic, therefore I do not have to make any effort to correct my poorly-spelled and grammatically inaccurate work, despite it having been written on a computer using a word processor. I am a martyr. In fact you should worship me merely for surviving this long in the medical profession without killing someone and being struck off"
( Peapod Has returned to the fold on, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 0:58, 5 replies)

STOP BULLYING GONZO

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 7:04, closed)

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, closed)

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)

I am dispraxic.
When having to tell my current boss about this is looked at me and put his hand on my shoulder and said, "I think you mean dyslexic." Dick.
(Document Pocket, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 13:00, closed)