The unfair advantage of having dyslexia

Isaac Lim People with dyslexia process words on the written page differently. 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. Already a subscriber? Log in Get exclusive reports and insights with more than 500 subscriber-only articles every month $9.



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