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The unfair advantage of having dyslexia
An educator reflects on his experiences with this learning difficulty and how he learnt to work with incomplete information and draw inferences.
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People with dyslexia process words on the written page differently.
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Isaac Lim
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I was sacked from my school’s prefect council in Primary 3.
My form teacher asked me to walk to the front of the class and instructed me to remove my prefect tie. As I undid it, she told the class she would consider making me a prefect again if I changed my ways. Although this episode happened nearly 40 years ago, the humiliation still feels fresh.
