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Line 15: {{examples}} == Comic Books == Line 22 ⟶ 21: * On the other side of the pond, Jubilee of the [[X-Men (Comic Book)\|X-Men]] has dyscalculia. * Sara in ''[[Teen Titans Go!\|Teen Titans Go]]'' is dyslexic. == Pro Wrestling ==▼ * In WCW, Dave Sullivan was given a dyslexia-based gimmick. Enter: Evad Sullivan.▼ == Film == Line 40 ⟶ 35: * Averted in Anne Fine's book ''How To Write Really Badly'' - the titular bad writer is dyslexic, but all it means is that he has to use a sheet to spell words and has really abysmal handwriting. * Helen in ''Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You'' has a learning disability that's never specified as dyslexia, though she does seem to have trouble with phonics. While she has some mishaps with "b" and "d" and "p" and "q", she says it's because she can't remember which letter faces which way. * Lucretia in ''[[Bystander (~~Literature~~novel)\|Bystander]]'' was diagnosed with Dyslexia by someone that didn't realize her real problem was that print pages and computer displays weren't made for someone with thermal and electrical vision. She goes along with it as part of her [[Obfuscating Stupidity]] SOP and has never herself bothered to actually research Dyslexia, or at least she pretends she hasn't. She actually reads very well when temperatures aren't fluctuating too much and she has a paper book to read rather than a computer or other electrical device. * Anna from ''Pony Pals'' suffers from dyslexia (and dyscalculia, although the term is never mentioned: her reading and math difficulties are just lumped together as dyslexia, presumably for simplicity's sake). In the beginning of the series, her parents think she just doesn't try hard enough and threaten punishment, until she meets a dyslexic adult who recognizes her symptoms. == Live Action TV == Line 63 ⟶ 57: {{quote\|'''Dr. Kelso''': Maybe next time you should try a lawyer who didn't need 3 tries to pass the bar exam! '''Ted''': I have stress-induced dyslexia and you know that Dr... Oslek. }} * ''[[Degrassi the Next Generation]]:'' Rare dyscalculia example: Liberty van Sandt was dyscalculic, and needed extra help in math from her math teacher. Unfortunately, this led to a rumor being spread that she was being sexually abused by him, due to the extra time they spent together. Joey Jeremiah is diagnosed with dysgraphia in the original series after repeating the eighth grade and not doing terribly well in the ninth. Line 76 ⟶ 70: * Bruce Jenner used to show up on various television series to talk about what dyslexia really is. In the 1985 ''[[Silver Spoons]]'' episode "Trouble With Words", he meets nine-year-old Alfonso, an excellent dancer whose father thinks is simply neglecting schoolwork. Alfonso stays up all night sweating over a book report on ''[[Moby Dick]]'' which compares the conflict between man and whale to "the fight between dab and doog". Jenner pounces on it and gives the father an education. * [[Played for Laughs]] - as are most things - on ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?\|Whose Line Is It Anyway]]'', to excuse Ryan's verbal stumble in the film noir game. "What he didn't was...or know was, or was know, was that...I was dyslexic." == Magazines == Line 89 ⟶ 82: == Music == * The song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgeEr92Ia-g Dyslexics are Teople Poo]{{broken link}} makes use of this trope in a Stephen Lynch way (hilariously offensive and insensitive). ▲== Pro Wrestling == ▲* In WCW, Dave Sullivan was given a dyslexia-based gimmick. Enter: Evad Sullivan. == Radio == * ''[[Adventures in Odyssey]]'' featured an episode ~~were~~where Oscar was revealed to have dyslexia as he had a great deal of trouble reading but was not completely illiterate. * ''[[The Onion]]'' makes fun of this in [https://web.archive.org/web/20100219023005/http://www.theonion.com/content/radio_news/child_so_stupid_she_sees this] radio story. == Stand Up Comedy == Line 105 ⟶ 103: == Webcomics == * ''[[Kevin and Kell]]:'' Rudy has dystracksia, so he has trouble reading tracks—a big problem for a predator (Rudy is a fox/wolf hybrid). According to Kevin's mother Dorothy (a rabbit), this is also a problem for prey. Dorothy also has dystracksia, which forced her to find her own food/water/shelter rather than following tracks left by other rabbits. On the bright side for her, she was never part of a herd that got "thinned" by predators. Line 134 ⟶ 132: * King Carl XIV Gustav of Sweden admitted publicly that he was dyslectic in 1997, something that had been suspected by journalists for many years. He did for example misspell his name when signing his accession document and at one point wrote his name as "Cal Gustf". A common nickname for him in Sweden is "Knugen" after he misspelled Kungen (the king). * [[Tom Cruise]] believes his dyslexia was cured by Scientology. * John de Lancie (you might know him as Q from ''[[Star Trek]]'') was so horribly dyslexic he had trouble reading scripts. ~~that~~That's why he became so brilliant at improvisation and comedy. * There are actually quite a lot of people who suffered dyslexia as children, but managed to overcome it in some form. These people might be able to read and write, but not pros at it, while some people quite enjoy it, but will persist in having difficulty learning new words or new (Latin-based) languages. * There is also a theory that many children were dyslexic because they were left-handed, but forced to write with their ''right'' hand. Line 142 ⟶ 140: [[Category:This Trope Name References Itself]] [[Category:Disability Tropes]] [[Category:~~L Is for Dyslexia~~{{PAGENAME}}]]