{"id":6844,"date":"2015-12-15T10:19:35","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T10:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/?p=6844"},"modified":"2026-04-27T06:39:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T06:39:05","slug":"famous-people-with-dyslexia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/famous-people-with-dyslexia\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous People With Dyslexia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/famous.jpg\" style=\"display:none;\"\/><br \/>\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6846\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/collage-3-1024x336.jpg\" alt=\"collage 3\" width=\"740\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/collage-3-1024x336.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/collage-3-300x99.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/collage-3-150x49.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/collage-3.jpg 1550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Sit back\u2026 relax and be inspired by this video, which highlights the struggles and successes of ordinary people with learning difficulties who went on to become world famous.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The only thing that holds struggling learners back when it comes to reaching their goals in life, is <strong>low levels of self-belief<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">School can be tough, but children must endeavour to do their best and get through the system, because outside school is where all the action happens.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the real world, they can play by their own rules, work hard and use their <strong>amazing creative strengths<\/strong> to reach for the stars.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aCt9iUMvUfU?rel=0\" width=\"782\" height=\"440\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<br \/>\nWishing you every success.<br \/>\nLiz Dunoon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sit back\u2026 relax and be inspired by this video, which highlights the struggles and successes of ordinary people with learning difficulties who went on to become world famous. The only thing that holds struggling learners back when it comes to reaching their goals in life, is low levels of self-belief.... <br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/famous-people-with-dyslexia\/\">Continue reading...<\/a>","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":15948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-interest"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=6844"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8298,"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6844\/revisions\/8298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}