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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, my son sounds like yours. He is a beautiful boy, smart and funny and athletic and popular...and dyslexic. And when he was really struggling with reading (in first grade when he was diagnosed) none of that mattered. All he could see and feel was that he couldn't read and his friends could and he was just humiliated. Little things hurt - he couldn't find page numbers, so when the teacher said "turn to page 56 in your math book" a friend had to help him find the page. Or reading the morning message, when he couldn't. No one tried to make him feel badly, and he is at a very nurturing and kind school. But a smart kid who can't do what he THINKS his brain should be able to do...its hard.

I've always thought my kid can be a bit lazy, and when he was resistant to the tutoring I thought he didn't want to work. But once he bought into it, man did he start to work. Once he saw that it did work, that it enabled him to learn, he put all that humiliation and hurt into effort. His tutor tells me he works really, really hard. It is really touching, actually. And he has learned to meaning of hard work, not because of anything we did as parents, but because that is what life handed him.[/quote]

+1.  Our child too could see the difference by second grade -- everyone around him could do certain things with ease.  Even if no one says anything or makes you feel bad, you still feel bad.   And the truth is that people may not say anything, but their body language and non-verbal expression betray what they're really feeling -- our child used to talk about how his teacher said nice things but had his "mad face" on when our DC couldn't do certain things.[/quote]

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