Dyslexia in fiction

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This is a list of dyslexia in fiction. The works are arranged in chronological order.

Contents 1 Comic books 2 Film 3 Literature 4 Televison 5 External links

[edit] Comic books

• The mutant character from Marvel Comics, Taki Matsuya (1988-present) is dyslexic.
• The character Moose Mason in Archie Comics is dyslexic.

[edit] Film

• The character Ishaan (Darsheel Safary) in Aamir Khan's award-winning 2007 Hindi film , Taare Zameen Par is dyslexic.
• The character John in the 2007 film Bad is dyslexic. [1]
• The character Sophie in the 2005 film A Mind of Her Own is dyslexic. [2]
• The character Maggie (Cameron Diaz) in the 2005 American drama film, In Her Shoes is dyslexic.
• The character Captain Rafe McCawley (Ben Affleck) in the 2001 film, Pearl Harbor is dyslexic.

[edit] Literature

• The character Hank Zipzer in the eponymous children's series by Henry Winkler is dyslexic.
• In Rick Riordan's series of novels, Percy Jackson & The Olympians, a large number of the central characters, including the title character, have both dyslexia and ADHD. This is because the half-mortal children of Greek gods, in the series, have difficulty reading/decoding English because their brains are hard-wired to read Ancient Greek.

[edit] Televison

• The telepathic character Matt Parkman in the show Heroes (2006 - present) is dyslexic.
• The character Charlie Kelly in the series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005 - present) is dyslexic.
• The character Max in the show George Lopez (TV series) (2002-7) is dyslexic.
• Mike (Kirk Douglas) and his grandson Jesse in the Showtime special, The Secret (1992) are both dyslexic. [3]
• The character Donna Martin in the series, Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990-2000) is dyslexic.
• The character Theodore Aloysius "Theo" Huxtable in The Cosby Show (1984-92) is dyslexic.
• The character Brian (River Phoenix) in the television special, Backwards: The Riddle of Dyslexia (1984) is dyslexic. [4]
• The character Joanna in the television film, The Princess and the Cabbie (1981) is dyslexic. [5]

[edit] External links

• Children with Dyslexia in Fiction