Dyslexia 'is just a middle-class way to hide stupidity'

Could it not be the case that some people just can't read very well?

that's an idiotic thing to say. Dyslexics such as Einstein achieved great things, as did many others. My sister for example, is dyslexic, although she's not stupid at all. In fact she's very intelligent.

You can't really deny that a lot of people are simply poorly behaved and use it as a guise for their lack of care.

This makes no sense. You said above that all the dyslexic's at your school seemed to just be thick, so they're using it as a cover for that, but now the other poster has said about their brother being intelligent, but dyslexic, but in your eyes he's just illiterate? So you're saying neither intelligent, nor stupid people can be dyslexic?

Probably for the majority, like ADHD is an excuse for hyperactive brats.

An awful lot of people from my college who were "disslecksic", as they would say, seemed to just be complete dolts.

There was not a single person who claimed to be dyslexic who got even half decent grades. I don't doubt that a great deal of people are simply pretending to have something medically wrong with them in order to cover up their lack of ability and laziness.

In my university Library, dyslexic students don't have to pay any fines because the library system is confusing to them.
As if other students are perfectly capable of using the system and never get confused?
And you're at university, surely at this level if you're fine with organic chemistry or Latin history you should be able to get your head around a library system?

I think there is an overlap. There are people who are genuinely dyslexic, but there are thousands of people who are just a bit poor at spelling and have grabbed the label to suit their needs.
My Dad is quite clearly dyslexic. Left school at 15. Our house is filled with hundreds of history books and a massive passion for British History, he makes fantastic analyses and recalls facts that even astound me as a university student. Yet he asks me how to spell words like 'indicate' or 'genuine'. He's obviously not stupid.

ADHD is more often than not symptomatic of other problems. I knew a child who had "ADHD" - turned out she'd grown up with a mother who barely knew how to parent and a father who physically, emotionally and sexually abused both. More often than not, a child with ADHD has massive problems that are being displayed through "acting up" - it can be a way of getting attention and help (albeit, the wrong kind of attention), for a young child it can be far easier to swear, bully and scream than approach an adult and say "Hey - I'm struggling. and need help."

Children with ADHD behave wrongly but they aren't necessarily "brats".

I have noticed a lot of people on TSR seem to say in their sigs that they are dyslexic. Some people are probably just a bit dim because how can so many people have the same condition. Theses days more people claim to have it but I think they either can't be bothered to read or they just don't like reading so their reading has suffered.

Child=You? Go on, tell me I'm right (I do my homework unlike these dyslexic brats)

are you kidding? That is not fair. How did these people get into university?