{"id":5981,"date":"2015-06-05T06:25:11","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T06:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/?page_id=5981"},"modified":"2016-04-20T03:07:12","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T03:07:12","slug":"george-clooney-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/george-clooney-2\/","title":{"rendered":"George Clooney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/George_Clooney-4_The_Men_Who_Stare_at_Goats_TIFF09_crop.jpg\" alt=\"george clooney\" \/><br \/>\nThere are many positive words to describe <strong>George Clooney<\/strong> &#8211; handsome, charming, successful and good-looking, to name a few. You might think it hard to associate him with the words &#8211; bullied, idiot or nerdy\u00a0but the truth of the fact is, <strong>People&#8217;s Magazine&#8217;s Sexiest Man Alive<\/strong>, was all that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/George_Clooney_66\u00e8me_Festival_de_Venise_Mostra_3Alt1.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"223\" height=\"260\" \/>At 8 years of age, young George was diagnosed with <strong>dyslexia<\/strong>. He also had poor vision and had to wear\u00a0glasses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI would go to one school and I was the idiot,\u201d remarks Clooney.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If that wasn&#8217;t enough to attract bullying or constant ridicule from other kids; at age 13, on his first year\u00a0of high school, he developed <strong>Bells Palsy<\/strong> that caused paralysis to half of his face that lasted for a year. It\u00a0could not have come at a worse time for a young teenager.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Clooney, however learned to shrug off all of the constant teasing and ridicule and chose to move\u00a0forward and learned how to quickly make jokes about himself first to combat the negative remarks. This\u00a0way he could obliterate the opportunity for other kids to make fun of him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/menshairstyles.net_.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"156\" height=\"208\" \/>Not long after this, classmates would remember Clooney as &#8220;outgoing, committed to having fun, and possessing a skill for defusing a tension-filled situation with charm and humour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite his dyslexia, Clooney did well in school with some <strong>A&#8217;s<\/strong> and <strong>B&#8217;s<\/strong> on his report cards. He also\u00a0excelled in baseball.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It doesn&#8217;t take a genius to see that with the right attitude and outlook on life, a\u00a0dyslexic person\u00a0would not\u00a0be defined by his weaknesses but instead\u00a0his strengths.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many positive words to describe George Clooney &#8211; handsome, charming, successful and good-looking, to name a few. You might think it hard to associate him with the words &#8211; bullied, idiot or nerdy\u00a0but the truth of the fact is, People&#8217;s Magazine&#8217;s Sexiest Man Alive, was all that. At... <br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/george-clooney-2\/\">Continue reading...<\/a>","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5981","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5981"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5984,"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5981\/revisions\/5984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}