Dyslexia Is A Superpower

WBZ's Jordan Rich says this 10-year-old is going to change the world, despite having dyslexia.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Upside with Jordan the dose of good
news because it's a big world out there for many, dyslexia,
which impacts how people read, spell and interpret language as
fostered the stigma that those with dyslexia are unintelligent. Well,
nothing could be further from the truth. So many of
our most impressive celebrities have had dyslexia. John Lennon, Steven Spielberg,
Steve Jobs, Agatha Christi, Selma Hayek, Albert Einstein, and the

(00:23):
list goes on. And now the story of a ten
year old girl in Britain who achieves something rather special
admittance to Mensa, achieving an Intelligent Quotion or IQ score
of one thirty six, putting her in the top one
percent of the British public. And yes, she has dyslexia.
The ten year old girl named Poppy said she's hoping
her achievement will change attitudes about dyslexia, saying it isn't

(00:44):
because you're not smart, it's just you don't think the
same as everyone else, and that's a good thing. She
may end up working in science or the creative arts,
but whatever happens, the world is her Oyster way. To
go poppy and that's the upside With Jordan WBZ, Boston's
news radio