Keira Knightley OBE - Made By Dyslexia Interview

Memorizing books is even more impressive, a great asset for remember dialogue.

I’m really glad she had a school that could support her properly. There are some schools that are overcrowded and teachers don’t have enough time to work with those who are behind

If u tell a child that he sucks at some subjects for minor mistakes, eventually he sucks at the whole subject. That's how childrens mentality works. So it's important to only keep positive atmosphere arround children

still impressed that she read Anna Karenina at least twice ... that's a 1000 page novel lieing aroung in my shelve without having been touched once ... and I'm not even dyslexic.

This just made me sob - I'm not dyslexic and I'm not a child (I'm 30), but I had a car accident 5 years ago and it completely altered how I read, write and spell. It's deteriorated so badly that I might have to quit my job because I'm slow, I struggle and make stupid mistakes. Hearing "you're not stupid. Your brain simply works different to other people and you can find different ways around it and be good at other things" just broke me. On some level I just needed to hear that and I think this is going to be so good for many different people who stumble across it

What an excellent an insightful interview. Kiera Knightley's story is an inspiration to children with dyslexia.

Looking back, I remember I had several classmates from primary school who were probably dyslexic but our teachers were completely ignorant of that. They were constantly berated by all the teachers for their spelling and made to feel stupid and lazy. It must have done irreparable damage to their self-esteem and identity.

She is a living prove that having bad grades at school doesn't mean you are less intelligent. I love her.

I adored her for a long time now. Great actress, great human. I would also like to point out how I adore her wrinkles at her forehead. no dumb botox and fake looks.

I was exactly the same. I remember when I was 11 - by then my dyslexia was much better but I was still feeling pretty vulnerable about it - and I saw a poster in my English class with famous people with disabilities. Keira was up there as someone with dyslexia and I was so thrilled. I looked up at that poster at the beginning of every lesson and felt so much braver. Now I'm doing an English Literature and Creative Writing degree so clearly it doesn't have to hold anyone back ☺️💖

When I was in the first grade, my teacher made fun of me because I misspelled something, I couldn’t differentiate lowercase B and D. It was embarrassing, I still remember it 19 years later.

She's such an inspiration to me

That moment when you realize that the actor you admired because of the characters they played is actually an even cooler person irl...

As someone with dyslexia this was so inspirational and encouraging

As someone who has unmedicated ADHD, University has been a massive struggle for me but I’m proud of myself for not giving up despite my setbacks and for having the strength to make it through, I’m now in my final year!!

Makes the whole flashcard declaration to her at the end of Love actually hilarious. 🤣

I love the teachers for saying that they need to dangle a carrot in front of her. Together with the parents. Not just "Parents do this".

I’m dyslexic and dyscalculic and I’ve being diagnosed when I was 11, now I’m 20. Teachers didn’t get what was the problem but my mum had an ah-ah moment, and here we are. Here in Italy we struggle a lot with this kind of problems bc teachers don’t really care about us, I hope it’ll get better.

I don't know what school she went to, but everyone who was involved in her education need to train other teachers! The way they handled her struggle is exactly how it should be handled! She's clearly very intelligent if she could memorize every book ever read to her when she was only 5 (also, good for her mom, being so involved in her education and reading to her all the time!), And I'm so glad they realized that and praised her for what she did well and didn't shame her for struggling. I can't even express how happy I am to know there are children having this type of experience in some schools or how heartbroken I am for the children who are made to feel stupid for their struggles the way I was. It makes it that much more difficult to accept it when you're finally told by a professional that you actually are intelligent and there's no need to continue holding yourself back because you've been convinced you'll never be able to accomplish anything anyway!

Kudos to Keira for sharing her story. As an autistic and slow reader, this really is a huge topic for educators and institutions to get right!