I once held a seminar at my school to educate the teachers there on dyslexia and dyscalculia and tried to implement as much depressing statistics as possible. Usually it’s that people only manage to feel empathy if you convey a certain amount of pain or struggle. And if you point out how many dyslexic people are without a job, have mental illnesses and struggle to get by, simply because of how dyslexic people are being treated by society and ableist narratives, all the teachers were so shocked. And when I did simulation exercises of how dyslexia works and what it might look like to be dyslexic, the teachers would always confess how ashamed they felt for treating dyslexic students so harshly. And since shame can be a good indicator to do better and change behaviour, I hope those bullying teachers learnt their lesson and their impact on those students.
My common advice is always: overcompensate for those students with dyslexia. Be extra kind, be extra patient etc., because their life is tough enough as it is and one person not adding more to the pile of struggles will be a blessing.












