L Is for Dyslexia: Difference between revisions

 

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== Comic Books ==

 

* 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.

 

== Film ==

* Lucretia in ''[[Bystander (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 ==

* 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 ==

 

* 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).

 

== Radio ==

 

* ''[[Adventures in Odyssey]]'' featured an episode where Oscar was revealed to have dyslexia as he had a great deal of trouble reading but was not completely illiterate.

 

== Stand Up Comedy ==