Well snap. Years of feeling less than adequate, just to realize it is a super power 😊 thank you for sharing!

Thank you! You just explained to my son why his recently confirmed dyslexia is a ‘learning difference, not a learning difficulty’, that it does not destroy his life but rather is a beautiful added value. With 12 years he already saw his life as a failure after so many years of struggling. Now he has hope. I cannot thank you enough for your words! 💖

@philmasters5646

10 ай бұрын

let me give you some more hope, up until 3 years ago our daughter could hardly write the CAT SAT on the MAT. Today she is writing complexed and amazing poetry and at 13 she is already an accomplished singer songwriter and last month she told me that she was writing a book. Miracles do happen but you need to be your own expert.

@daveburgess1791

6 ай бұрын

By the way your son does not "have dyslexia" he is a dyslexic. I'm not correcting you because you didn't exactly say it that way but I would bet that it was presented to you that way by educators. When being labeled with the affliction of "having dyslexia" it becomes the moment that they (we) begin to feel like a burden or a failure. We have to educate the educators on how to educate dyslexics in order to cultivate their super power. It took me over 15 years to find, explore, and finally utilize mine on my own. I had a 50/50 chance of having a dyslexic child and that exactly happened. He is now a brilliant college student because I told his tester/teacher not to tell him that he "had" anything "wrong" with him. I asked her to say that he was a 1 out of 5 person with some unique challenges ahead, and to ask him if he felt that he was up to the challenge? The 5 year old stood proud and said YES!

Kablammy!!! :)Thank you, Richard! Our son was just diagnosed with dyslexia. Your talk is very inspiring and encouraging!!! Thank you for sharing!!

Thank you for this message and this amazing work, I got diagnosed with dyslexia in second grade and grew up always knowing I thought differently than everyone else. This made me smile so much today because I just graduated from college and have been on the job hunt specifically for that creative space where my thoughts can be understood and used to make a change, and after watching this video I know that not only does space exists for me, but it's growing! To anyone else who thinks like me, who happens to find this random comment, just know with the right amount of perseverance, perspective, and creative thinking we can change the world bit by bit❤

Same happened to me, primary school said I "will never do anything where reading or writing is concerned" went to high school and got instant help. I've learnt to deal with my dyslexia and I now write safety documents for a living 😂 I wouldn't change it for anything.

Thank you so much Richard Coope. It’s a blessing to watch this. Your life story is very similar to mine but instead it’s my dad. I have recently found out I have dyslexia I’m 20 , but I will forever take on the world w the words I’m more than the words I find difficult to spell. ❤️

I spent 27 years on this planet and I can relate to so much of this. I had a hard time in school and I found these videos on KZread the really inspiring not that I’m not successful now it’s just I always was self-conscious because of my spelling and grammar was not very good at my work ethic was very good. Time but I’ve always been afraid to look it up. For some reason I didn’t want to learn about it. I’m glad I just randomly started to look into it because it makes a lot of sense on why my brain works. The way it dose

Teared up a few times watching this growing up being told you're lesser or broken so many times you actually start to believe it.

Thats me!!! The incredible ideas i have you have brought to my attention - omg i love this talk i thank you!!

Gosh, what a brilliant & beautiful story! Here for my children… definitely see it as a beautiful blessing & super power!

You are inspiring ❤ I heavily rely on digital support as spell checking or calculation. School was a true challenge with teachers always trying to put me down in front of other students, yet I had stronger links with different parties. I always felt we are different and my strength helped me in other areas of life and work, where “high IQ and MBA” colleagues couldn’t connect dots, be empathetic or understanding. I trust we all deserve the same respect and our differences only compliment each other. No one should be considered less. The world is more beautiful with differences we have and we should support and uplift each other.

Thank you for the explanation. I’m 53 and just learned 8 years ago that I have DD. I was. I was doing a study to identify DD in student. When you were explaining your learning in grade school just like me, we were put into a special learning class!! Of corse these special teachers didn’t know that we had DD and certainly did not know how to help us learn!

I try my best to not look at this as a bad thing it's kind of hard not to because all the bad memories I had grown up keep coming back

Many thanks

This is amazing I am going to share this on my Uni padlet and THANK YOU

Thank you! 🙏

Awesome, thank you Sir.

I like the way he has to read his cards. True dyslectic

@ewoods7753

10 ай бұрын

Love you spell dyslexic wrong and just don’t care ( autocorrect fixed my spelling for dyslexic)😊

Great talk. Very honest and loved the neuro-science. Maybe in future, similar talks, some of us female dyslexics could appear on the screen of 'amazing dyslexics'? You might include - Cher, Whoopi Goldberg, Agatha Chrtie, Octavia Spencer, Ann Bancroft..to name a few.

I met this man once at a lecture and approached him after the talk, offering my hand out and to have a casual chat. I believed him to be a nice, helpful and approachable man. However, his facade changed after I did so; he came across as rude and dismissive and quickly moved me away to another person and began controlling me what to say to the other person, before briskly leaving. It ended up being an awkward and forced chat with someone else that I hadn't anticipated and I felt kind of rubbish from how I was spoken to by Mr Coope.

dyslexic is the root of all troubles i face in life

I can attest to it! I’m dislexic and I came up with BananzaBooglieBob!

Dyslexics are not one of a kind, it is not a uniform experience, nor are they of similar IQ to my knowledge, I am a dyslexic and it has been a pain in the Ar.. right from the start. Many dyslexics become tenacious and stick at it, many do not. My advise is try to influence your dyslexic child’s ability to persist, find what they are good at and go with that. If I was young I couldn’t partake of the world this man describes because I cannot use computers, I should have been a craftsman, but boys of my class, old fashioned but relevant point, didn’t do that. I was born in 1961. I fought my way into and through the university system and constantly find people are bemused by my uneven ability, I think they think I am mucking about.

"SUPERCALIFRAGIEXPIALDOSUSH" I swear that was the word I came up with. And Grammerly accepted it? 😀

The volume is low even when on max. Who is this man? I want to know a bit more about Ted speakers for all I know he is not worth listening to.

Odd to watch this after having seen, essentially, the SAME program from NINE years ago. WTF?

WOWZA! I HAVE ALWAYS LOOKED AT HAVING.ADDHAD AS A GIFT. I AM NEVER BORED. COWABUNGA!!! HOLY CRAPPOLA!!! GEEZO GEESO!!BOYZA!. I LOVE EXGLAMTORY WORDS AND INTERSECTIONS .

His delivery is irritatingly dyslexic

This is amazing I am going to share this on my Uni padlet and THANK YOU

Odd to watch this after having seen, essentially, the SAME program from NINE years ago. WTF?

This is amazing I am going to share this on my Uni padlet and THANK YOU