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DYSLEXIA

AND MENTAL

HEALTH

PHYLLIS MUNYI

Dyslexia is a specific learning pressure does not stop. The
difficulty which makes it difficult for teachers and parents push
a student to learn how to read and even harder. Sometimes the
write in the conventional classroom learners reach the breaking
environment. Many of the learners point.
with dyslexia are unable to master
the basic alphabets or even write Their sunshine of
their names. This is contrary to the happiness stop shining.
expectations of the society. Teachers They become sad,
and parents exert pressure on the anxious,irritated. They
student hoping that this will remedy feel guilty and empty.
the problem, but, oftentimes, the They loose interest
pressure only worsens the situation. in their hobbies, and
lack the ability to
The learner is pushed to do concentrate.
something that they don’t have
the capacity to do. Researchers Another direct
have pointed out that even with consequences of
poor performance, the brain of pushing the learners,
people with dyslexia work five time against a wall that
more than that of people without they cannot break
dyslexia. To make the matters through, is extreme
worse, the person who pushes behaviors. According
them is an authority which they to the American Society
trust. There is always this question of Suicodology, people
in these young brains--why cant I do with dyslexia are four
what everybody can do? This kind of times more likely to have
thoughts drain the self confidence. suicidal thoughts than people
The learners feel abnormal, inferior, without dyslexia. The University
alienated and misunderstood, and of Toronto found that people of committing suicide than people
to make the matter worse, the with dyslexia have a 46% chance without dyslexia.

Another common trait in the
I truly believe the only way we can young learners who cannot read
create global peace is through not only is inferiority complexes. When you
cannot do what every other person
educating our minds, but our hearts can do and you are rebuked by every
grownup around you, you must feel
and our souls - Malala Yousafzai inferior to other people who can do
what you cannot do. This inferiority
manifests in how these students act
among other people. Their initiative
is broken and they learn to imitate

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