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38% of those with dyslexia stated they were physically abused as a child (see article below), this is as opposed to just 7% in general. More details here:

www.psychcentral.com/news/2014/07/04/relationship-between-childhood-abuse-and-dyslexia/72071.html

Is this linked to the BPD gene ? Let have a quick non scientific poll and sort it all out, before going to the pub.

Interesting.

My NPD/BPD husband also has dyslexia.   One of the reasons he was beaten was because of his LD.  His father and mother also told his teachers to beat him. Great parents, eh?

One of my BPD’s nags was “you’ll never get a job until you can spell”. To this day she recons dyslexia is “all in the head” unless we’re in company.

Also I suspect my English teacher was NPD, he would humiliate me regularly and yet my teenage class mates never did. Neither did any other teacher.

I have very mild dyslexia. It manifests as terrible hand writing and not mixed up spelling or difficulty reading. I was constantly reprimanded by teachers until an expert assessed me and diagnosed me.

I do not feel that dyslexia is brought on by punishment I just think it is an abnormality from birth.

I can however see how dyslexia would lead to being told off and punished. It can be seen as being idle.

I may have misunderstood the article but I thought it was indicating that children with dyslexia are often subjected to physical abuse because of the people who punish them for not being able to learn like the others in the one size fits all family or classroom.

The public school system is the worst place for children who have special learning needs.  I'm not just talking about learning disabled... .even the ones who are exceptionally gifted have special needs too.  Many dyslexic children are exceptionally talented, very creative and intelligent as well.  I've always advocated the " Mastery Learning' model for schools and classrooms.  Thank goodness you were diagnosed early on.  Dyslexia was unheard of when I was in school.

Dyslexia is something that I know a little bit about  having had a dear friend who had it and I studied LDs when I was in college. My friend who had dyslexia had wonderful parents who were extremely attentive and supportive and helped him to achieve.  That's the key. They didn't know about dyslexia but they did whatever they could to help him while he was in school and prepare him with skills to become self reliant.  This was not the case for my husband.   My husband went his entire life without a diagnosis until he met me. I only suspected it because of the more obvious symptoms ( reading and comprehension problems, senses like smell were very distorted, motor skills and balance were abnormal and he literally did everything backward)  and I suggested he go to a doctor/therapist and he did get the diagnosis.  Much of his BPD/NPD and Passive Aggression stems from him struggling in our ' normal' world and being punished by his parents for not performing up to their standards. He survived by creating destructive coping behaviors.  My husband is a very angry man- not on the surface- very much so underneath his facade.  He targets me with his repressed anger that he has for his parents and all the people in his life who neglected his needs.

There is a physician in Kentucky or Tennessee that created a wonderful program for dyslexics in the state school system.  I wish I could remember his name.  Anyway, he is dyslexic and is a surgeon!  He made the point that it's absolutely critical for children with LDs to have supportive parents like he did and not parents and teachers who shame and bully and beat them.  Parents with dyslexic children need special training as well so that they can help their children. 

I can't imagine being a parent that would bully my own child for not learning something yet it happens all the time. I think some parents are so insecure about themselves that when their children have special needs, these self absorbed parents are too preoccupied with their own issues and  don't have the patience or emotional capacity to help anyone else. What a horrible lonely,fearful home and world for a child with special needs.

Happy,

I hate hearing stories about how teachers bully kids.  So sorry that you endured that.  I had one of those teachers too and it was horrible.  You're teacher should not have been a teacher!  A lot of teachers are like self absorbed parents who rely on their children or students to make them shine.  Now that we have a school system where teachers are being rated based on their students performance, this type of teacher bullying is even worse! 

Hi leaving

its probably me that misunderstood the article.

Im not a teacher but have had to give several lessons and instruct different things. One thing that stuck is that there is no such thing as a bad student only a bad teacher.

I read it a different way again, but then I'm dyslexic so  lol  "Hi leaving" bit of a contradiction ?

We've named our dog "Sit". "Come here Sit !"

Hahahahha!  Hilarious!