Oct 1, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min · 10 segments
At 10 years old, Bernadette Haigh was made to stand in front of a classroom of children and explain why she was repeating the school year. Her answer? **“I can’t read.”** The shame from that moment…
Jay GiddensHost
I think we're going to have a bit of fun with this because I've got my own thoughts on this.
And it's quite ironic, actually, because the person that I last really talked about on this subject was Australian also.
And I've seen something that you wrote about the whole, hey, dyslexia is a superpower thing.
I want you to tell me whether you think, right, Let's talk about these children that we know are in classrooms right now.
I want you to tell me your thoughts on whether it's good about talking about superpower or are we piling more pressure on them? Is this going to make them feel worse because they're frantically trying to find this so-called superpower? So tell me, I love the way you describe this, so tell the listeners,
I don't think it's a blanket statement because... telling a child that is in the midst of their challenging years in particularly in those primary school years that they have a superpower even though everything is so damn hard is so invalidating you are invalidating their their lived experience so they're like all of a sudden like this feels so hard to me but everyone's telling me it's good what this doesn't make sense I also think that calling dyslexia a superpower is a privilege and comes from privilege.
There are things that I know I can do exceptionally well because of my dyslexia.
I think we're going to have a bit of fun with this because I've got my own thoughts on this.
And it's quite ironic, actually, because the person that I last really talked about on this subject was Australian also.
And I've seen something that you wrote about the whole, hey, dyslexia is a superpower thing.
I want you to tell me whether you think, right, Let's talk about these children that we know are in classrooms right now.
I want you to tell me your thoughts on whether it's good about talking about superpower or are we piling more pressure on them? Is this going to make them feel worse because they're frantically trying to find this so-called superpower? So tell me, I love the way you describe this, so tell the listeners,
I don't think it's a blanket statement because... telling a child that is in the midst of their challenging years in particularly in those primary school years that they have a superpower even though everything is so damn hard is so invalidating you are invalidating their their lived experience so they're like all of a sudden like this feels so hard to me but everyone's telling me it's good what this doesn't make sense I also think that calling dyslexia a superpower is a privilege and comes from privilege.
There are things that I know I can do exceptionally well because of my dyslexia.
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