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Dyslexia made Phil Hanley feel stupid. He wants kids today to skip that shame
Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:24:17
Publish Date: 2025-05-12 04:10:00
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The comedian Phil Hanley remembers his school teachers calling him lazy and stupid, when in truth he was struggling with dyslexia. In his new memoir Spellbound: My Life as a Dyslexic Wordsmith, Hanley writes about how his mother defended him in an unsympathetic education system, and why he doesn’t want dyslexic kids today to feel the shame he did.
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