Sloane Crosley Quotes

There are so many artists that are dyslexic or learning disabled, it's just phenomenal. There's also an unbelievably high proportion of artists who are left-handed, and a high correlation between left-handedness and learning disabilities.

I'm dyslexic, I have attention-deficit disorder, and I've got something like a hereditary tremor.

The way my brain processes information is quite odd. I mean, I have Attention Deficit Disorder and another learning disability I can't even spell. I don't even have a high school diploma. I'm smart, but you can't prove it on paper.

Autism is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder that is characterized by social withdrawal, by repetitive behaviors and by some kind of focal attention in its classic form. Basically, it's an inability to relate to others.

My brother is really, really slow.

The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.

I was a dyslexic kid.

I probably went all the way to junior high school before a school doctor told me that I was 'dyslexic.'

I've got a funny way of looking at things. It's because I'm dyslexic, and I was diagnosed with ADD when I was younger. And I'm left-handed as well.

I've always had something a wee bit up with me, but I think it's some kind of learning difficulty. It's always been something.

I'm completely dyslexic - it's the writing part. People read what I've written, and they have no idea what I'm trying to say.

Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.

I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.

There is a tremendous range of children with a PDD label.

I was well into middle age when one of my children, then in the second grade, was found to be dyslexic. I had never known the name for it, but I recognized immediately that the symptoms were also mine.

Autism is an extremely variable disorder.

I was diagnosed as mentally retarded as late as the fourth grade.

Autism is a very serious condition.

I'm quite dyslexic in school.

It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.

The thing about being autistic is that you gradually get less and less autistic, because you keep learning, you keep learning how to behave. It's like being in a play; I'm always in a play.

I'm dyslexic, although they didn't have a word for it when I was in grade school. The teachers said I had 'word blindness.'

People don't realise how dyslexia affects your confidence and how brutal it can be. People think you're dumb, and you know you're not. it's just how your brain works.

I have a very competent case of ADD.

Both my sons are dyslexic, and so, too, in a much milder form, is one of my daughters.