05/08/2026
Remember these…💕👇
No one can really see what a dyslexic child goes through everyday at school because the majority of what they go through is invisible. It’s hidden.
The mental toll.
The feelings of overwhelm.
The extreme tiredness.
The feelings of frustration and self-doubt.
The having to work much harder all the time.
The anxiety and low confidence.
We can see the obvious dyslexic traits in our dyslexic children pretty clearly: the spelling errors, the slowness to get a piece of written work down on paper and the obvious reading difficulties BUT the other bits they battle with day to day - the mental battle they face everyday - is hidden.
So many things they go through are simply not seen because they’re expert maskers! I know this because, take our son for example, so many times his teachers have assumed he’s absolutely fine.
But underneath it all he’s not been at times. He’s an anxious little boy that gets very very tired.
The school day makes him feel exhausted. He gets very tired from trying to keep up and cope in class. He doesn’t want to be found out as struggling. He knows he gets things muddled and mixed up but he doesn’t want his peers to know. He’s constantly having to squash this fear in class.
Yes you can see that he’s dyslexic but most of the time the hardest bit about being dyslexic is the unseen things. Do you know what I mean?
Do you get this too? Is your dyslexic child an expert masker? Do you get a different version of your child at home than at school?
Let me know in the comments!👇
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