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Have I grown out of my dyslexia?

5 April 2025

3:55 PM

5 April 2025

3:55 PM

I am 11 years old and in an English class. My teacher asks who wants to read out a passage from Iqbal by Francesco D’Adamo. No one volunteers. She scans the classroom and her gaze lands on me. Wrong kid, miss: I can’t read from left to right. For me, words refuse to stay still; sentences wiggle and oscillate in size, letters disappear, or crop up where they shouldn’t.

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