If you are dyslexic you may have been made to feel stupid for not being able to read quickly, write neatly, spell perfectly or process information and remember facts as easily as your peers. As a child you may have been accused of being lazy and told off for daydreaming. Turning daydreams into a reality however, is the dyslexics special skill. Some of the most inspired, gifted and successful people in the world and throughout history struggled through school as daydreamers with the gift of dyslexia, being told that they would never be good at anything. The following list includes just a few of them but there are many more.

Richard Branson, Bill Gates, Jamie Oliver, Anita Roddick, Alan Suger, Ingvar Kamprad, Theo Paphitis, Jo Malone, Thommy Hilfiger, John Lennon, Steven Spielberg, Walt Disney, Quentin Tarantino, Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Pierre Curie, Louis Pasteur, Issac Newton, Steve Jobs, William Hewlett, Scott Adams, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Vincent Van Gogh, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Agatha Christie, Lewis Carroll, Hans Christian Anderson, Roald Dahl, Esther Freud, Benjamin Zephaniah, David Baily, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Nigel Kenedy, Jerry Hall, Elizabeth Jagger, Ruby Wax, Michael Heseltine, Winston Churchill, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Susan Hampshire, Whoopi Goldberg, Anthony Hopkins, Dustin Hoffman, Fred Astaire, Darcey Bussell, Orlando Bloom, River Phoenix, Cher, Jack Nicholson, Steve Redgrave, Jackie Stewart, Muhammad Ali, Magic Johnson, Duncan Goodhew, Lynda La Plante, Anne Bancroft, Lord Richard Rogers and neurosurgeon Harvey Cushing.

STUDYING WITH DYSLEXIA