" Just a middle class way to hide stupidity." According this Durham University psychologist:

Dailymail.co.uk

Dyslexia is a social fig leaf used by middle-class parents who fear their children will be labelled as low achievers, a professor has claimed.

Julian Elliott, a leading educational psychologist at Durham University, says he has found no evidence to identify dyslexia as a medical condition after more than 30 years of research.

"There is a huge stigma attached to low intelligence," he said.

"After years of working with parents, I have seen how they don't want their child to be considered lazy, thick or stupid.

"If they get called this medically diagnosed term, dyslexic, then it is a signal to all that it's not to do with intelligence."

He added: "There are all sorts of reasons why people don't read well but we can't determine why that is. Dyslexia, as a term, is becoming meaningless."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=458160&in_page_id=1766&ito=1490

Oh, I get it. My seventh grade science teacher was just disguising his moronic nature with his condition, then.

Is this supposed to be like Asperger's being used to excuse awkward social situations? Or ADHD to explain parents' uncontrollable kids?

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Susan 

     
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