Sweden's Prince Carl Philip has told a hearing on dyslexia about his own struggle with this disability. “It took years before I dared to be open about this", in an sometimes emotional speech. "I have decided to use my role," said the prince who does not want others – youth especially – to experience what he experienced as late as two years ago. At that time the prince was ridiculed when he mixed up numbers during a tv sports awards show.
“Nothing makes me sadder than when people are called stupid because of their dyslexia. I know how it feels. It makes you insecure, and exacerbates the dyslexia and you get into a negative spiral. We have to put an end to this”, he said. “Together we can break the negative spiral ", he added. Bullying and exclusion of students with dyslexia also must be halted. “We have zero tolerance for bullying. "
Carl Philip was co-organiser of the hearing. His father, King Carl Gustaf and sister Crown Princess Victoria are also dyslexic. To him it is about “the students who struggle daily with the characters and numbers in their textbooks. They are ridiculed if they get it wrong and they have work much harder than their classmates to get the same results at school", Carl Philip said. “I know how it is. I was one of them. " © RB
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