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* 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 (
* 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.
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{{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.
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== 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.
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* [[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'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.
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