Understanding dyslexia

Sir Jackie Stewart, three-times world champion racing driver, can clearly remember the morning when, as a nine-year-old, he stood in front of the class in Dumbarton and felt the tears welling in his eyes at the jumble of letters before him. As a way of helping other people with dyslexia, he frequently recounts how "everyone was saying I was dumb, stupid and thick and, in the absence of any other explanation, I started to believe they must be right".