Filmmaker Shekhar Kapur shares he is 'completely dyslexic'; What is dyslexia? | Explained

Filmmaker Shekhar Kapur is dyslexic. Taking to Twitter, talking about his condition, the man behind hit films like Mr India, Masoom, Bandit Queen and others said that life has taught him a lot and how he suffers from complete dyslexia and had trouble keeping up with mathematics in school. His tweet read, “Lessons of Life: I’m completely dyslexic. And finding more and more artists, poets, and musicians suffer from dyslexia too. Are you? With #AI I’ve developed a love for visual mathematics, but in school developed a hatred for Maths…of course! With #dyslexia, numbers made little sense.”

Shekhar Kapur recalls ‘hating’ mathematics in school due to dyslexia, reveals how AI has helped him ‘love visual maths’. Shekhar Kapur has opened up about having attention deficit disorder and dyslexia in 2018. Recently, he shared how he has started loving numbers because of AI. It takes a lot of courage to open up.

His post soon became viral and netizens praised him for talking about his condition and using it to be more creative than others. One wrote, “Kudos for awareness and converting into Unfathomable creativity with rare sensitivity!” Another user wrote, “I’m not dyslexic but Jamie is. But I have a developmental language disability so it affects me in a lot of things. I’m not sure what all AI is but I definitely had some support at school.”

Shekhar Kapur on dyslexic

Shekhar had first spoken about his struggle with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) in 2018. The condition is common for people with dyslexia. In his post, he thanked God that there were no special schools for kids like me when I was growing up. In the post, he wrote, “Lessons of Life: I am completely dyslexic and have intense ADD. I don’t know what else! Thank God there were no special schools for kids like me when I was growing up. They would have beaten out all the rebellion in me. Certainly would not have made any films. Or been creative.”

Now, what is Dyslexia?

Dyslexia is a learning disorder that affects your ability to read, spell, write, and speak. Kids who have it are often smart and hardworking, but they have trouble connecting the letters they see to the sounds those letters make. Symptoms of dyslexia includes slow reading, trouble spelling, or mixing up words. Adults can have this learning disorder, as well. Some people are diagnosed early in life. Others don’t realize they have dyslexia until they get older.

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