Dyslexia: Into adulthood

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Stella Sabin, who has dyslexia herself, looks at the impact of the condition in adult life, and asks what difference does it make to know the name of what you are experiencing? Dyslexic people are disproportionally represented in low paying jobs and in the US and the UK 50% of the prison population are dyslexic. She visits the intelligence and security organisation GCHQ who are positively recruiting dyslexic thinkers, who are able to find unusual and imaginative solutions to complex problems…like cracking codes.

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0:00.0	Some podcasts are about the news,
0:04.0	some podcasts are about politics and science and history,
0:09.0	but my new podcast for the BBC World Service is about losing man I loved. It's called
0:18.1	Goodbye to All This and you can find it by searching for goodbye to all this wherever you get your podcasts.
0:26.0	Everybody is telling me, I have to learn to read in order to make it in life. You have to learn to read and I knew I'm like I can't read so I can't make it.
0:37.0	It was a total relief to find out that I was this lexic. It was an extremely empowering piece of self-knowledge.
0:44.0	Nobody knew anything about dyslexia.
0:48.0	You were made to feel like you were lazy, you were stupid.
0:52.0	I'm able to look at the big picture.
0:54.0	I'm able to simplify things.
0:56.0	And that's all, I think, dyslexic thinking.
0:59.0	Dyslexia literally means difficulty with words.
1:05.0	It's a condition that affects one in five of us worldwide.
1:09.0	Words are at the core of communication.
1:15.0	They are used as a measure of intelligence. Every test, every entrance exam, every job application relies on them.
1:21.0	And we dyslexics can easily fail.
1:25.0	So what happens when people with dyslexia move out of education and into the adult world.
1:34.8	What difference does it make if you can put a name to what you are experiencing?
1:39.8	This is dyslexia on the BBC World Service, a two-part series told and produced by people
1:46.2	with dyslexia.
1:48.1	I'm Stella Sabin.
1:52.3	At the age of seven I began to fall behind at school. I would do anything I could to avoid having to spell or read aloud in class.
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