This poem titled “Dyslexia” was written by a 10-year-old is making everyone emotional on the internet.
As a part of a class assignment, when Jane asked her students to write a poem that could be read forward and backward, hardly she knew she is going to receive something so special and amazing!
The poem called Dyslexia stunned her so much that she couldn’t resist posting it on Twitter. And it went viral immediately.
After you read it once, read it again in the reverse direction, not like a palindrome, but line by line.
I am stupid.
Nobody would ever say
I have a talent for words
I was meant to be great.
That is wrong
I am a failure.
Nobody could ever convince me to think that
I can make it in life.
Cambridge dictionary defines the learning disorder, Dyslexia, as “a condition affecting the brain that makes it difficult for someone to read and write.”
People treat dyslexic kids as unwanted. Because of the stigma attached to this condition, dyslexic children don’t always get the right encouragement and help they need.
Hence, when this teacher posted the heart-touching poem, netizens couldn’t contain their emotions and shared:
Today in Y6 we looked at poems that could be read forwards & backwards. I was stunned by this one written by one of my 10 year olds. Please share – I would love her work to be appreciated further afield. I wonder if it could even find a publisher? pic.twitter.com/tmEQpiRrhq
— Jane Broadis (@Jb5Jane) February 27, 2019
Made this grown man cry. I must have read it over twenty times already.
— James Simporis (@simporis) February 27, 2019
I am dyslexic. I thought I was stupid. I was called names because I couldn’t read like my peers. Eventually, I realized I am not dumb. I am different and I learn a different way. Hard times come but anyone with dyslexia is capable of ANYTHING. Wonderful poem from a strong kid ❣️
— Olivia Chan. (@OliviaChan22) February 28, 2019
As the mom of a teen with severe dyslexia, who was told repeatedly in grade school that he would never succeed, please tell the author this is the most insightful and beautiful poem I’ve ever read on the subject. -proud mom to a dyslexic honor student who proved them all wrong
— Amy Eldridge (@amy_lwb) February 28, 2019
Though Aamir Khan gave us a glimpse of how it feels to be dyslexic in his movie Tare Zameen Par, a lot is yet to be learnt and a lot to be changed in our society as far as dyslexia is concerned!