Steven Spielberg learns he's dyslexic at 60
Dyslexia— I didn’t have a name for it. I just knew that I dreaded going to school. If I was called on And told to stand in the front of the class And read from the book in the third grade, That day would be another long day, In a long series of the worst days of my life. We’re talking about the 1950s. There was nothing. There was not a program. There were not books being written. There was nothing about dyslexia. All they could do was assume— That I wasn’t studying hard enough, That I wasn’t reading, That I was perhaps, Lazy. But I never felt like a victim. That was the important thing. I never felt like a victim. Movies helped me. Saved me from shame, From guilt, From putting it on myself When it wasn’t really my burden. It wasn’t my burden. My first movies made no statements, Just imitations of movies I’d seen. (Before I became a director) In light of feeling like an outsider, Movies made me feel inside My own skillset.
(Source: Friends of Quinn Interview | 2007)