I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot's body.
I like learning. I've been studying Japanese for years now, but it's really hard.
School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.
[Kid] never learned to read in kindergarten, first, and second, so in third grade he begins to be placed in the EMH or the learning-disabled rooms.
I used to love reading when I was little, and then it became difficult and I didn't understand why. I thought, what a bummer, my passion all drained out of me. So when I found out I had dyslexia, it was like, oh, that's what it was.
My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory.
How d’you spell ‘belligerent’?” said Ron, shaking his quill very hard while staring at his parchment. “It can’t be B — U — M —” “No, it isn’t,” said Hermione. “And ‘augury’ doesn’t begin O — R — G either.
I struggled academically throughout elementary school
I have been challenged with the fictional languages I have to learn. I wasn't terrible at languages at school - I got an A in French, so I did well enough - but I didn't enjoy them. I'm not even sure if that plays into how well you learn a fictional language!
I am dumb when it comes to learning dance steps.
I'm terrible at languages. I'm trying to learn Spanish. I tried to learn French as a kid.
We don't know how to actually code, but I wish that I did. It's so much harder than anyone could possibly imagine - it's like learning German.
I was fine with everything except Maths. I was terrible at Maths.
I've never learned to speak a foreign language with ease.
I'm a bit dyslexic so I found learning to read hard. I muddled up the letters but learnt to power through.
The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep.
I was diagnosed with dyslexia when I was seven, and it was a bit of a struggle to begin with. It was a challenge as I began my school career - spelling and reading was something I couldn't really get my head around.
I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.
I tried without much success to learn a little of the humanities and the arts, but even passing the courses in art history and music history was a challenge.
I'm dyslexic.
I have a very short attention span, so sitting down with a book is very difficult for me.
It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.
I'm studying Finnish, and it's one of the five most difficult languages in the world. And the more I learn, the more I realize that's definitely true.
Though conscious of the difficulty of learning without a teacher, I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read.
Math - it's not my best subject.
