My Story of Resistance: What Happened to a Human Being? part 1. I was a dyslexic child of the 1970’s. In Primary school I was considered a slow learner, Dr Gavin (2013) in her report states that dyslexia is a learning disability that makes it hard to learn to read and understand written language. Heresay tells that the local council ignored childhood dyslexia in the 1970’s because of cost implications, this is upheld by a more recent document stating that the city council does not, even now, employ any dyslexia support staff for school children (Moor, 2012). I was in my own dream world, in my imagination. I had no idea what teachers were talking about most of the time, there was an incomprehensible element to each days tasks which seemed to make perfect sense to the other children, I was amazed at their abilities to so readily comprehend when I found it so baffling. The other children seemed to 'get it', to intuitively know what was ...