5. Having dyslexia doesn’t mean you aren’t smart
Dyslexia has absolutely nothing at all to do with a person’s IQ, and this should be something that is reinforced and reminded time and time again for the benefit of people with dyslexia and the information of people without dyslexia.
Before dyslexia was ever really diagnosed or talked about in a wider sense, it is true to say that people with dyslexia were probably labeled dumb or stupid in their school environments and at home.
Historically, it is probably also true that dyslexic people had many life chances limited and affected unfairly due to the fact that they had dyslexia. Back then, the fact that there was simply nothing these people could do about their difficulty meant that every mistake they meant was probably misconstrued as a lack of intelligence.
Fortunately things have moved on considerably, and a wider understanding of the issue has helped to begin to quash this myth.