{"id":9147,"date":"2017-06-25T10:18:38","date_gmt":"2017-06-25T10:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/?p=9147"},"modified":"2026-03-30T08:00:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T08:00:34","slug":"soki-london-dyslexic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/soki-london-dyslexic\/","title":{"rendered":"Soki\u00a0London on being dyslexic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/sophie-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 130%; color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Roboto;\">Soki (Sophie) London is\u00a0lifestyle blogger based in the UK. With degrees from Warwick and Durham Universities.\u00a0She currently works as a Management Consultant and\u00a0a part-time model. She\u00a0writes\u00a0about fashion, restaurants and perfume.<\/span><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 130%; color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Roboto;\">But Soki is also dyslexic. Here she talks about how &#8216;dyslexia&#8217; has impacted\u00a0her life.\u00a0Diagnosed at\u00a0the age of 11, Soki had trouble\u00a0with spelling tests\u00a0and absolutely dreaded being called up to read\u00a0or write\u00a0on the board. She still does to this day. Reading maps continues to be\u00a0a challenge for Soki, whilst\u00a0getting her right and left directions\u00a0on her driving test correct was a\u00a0nightmare.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><span style=\"font-size: 130%; color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Roboto;\"><strong>Watch her video to find out more.<\/strong><\/span><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ABnpq_NK_Qg?rel=0\" width=\"550\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soki (Sophie) London is\u00a0lifestyle blogger based in the UK. With degrees from Warwick and Durham Universities.\u00a0She currently works as a Management Consultant and\u00a0a part-time model. She\u00a0writes\u00a0about fashion, restaurants and perfume. \u00a0 But Soki is also dyslexic. Here she talks about how &#8216;dyslexia&#8217; has impacted\u00a0her life.\u00a0Diagnosed at\u00a0the age of 11, Soki... <br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/soki-london-dyslexic\/\">Continue reading...<\/a>","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":15567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-interest"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9147","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=9147"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10353,"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9147\/revisions\/10353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}