Josh O'Connor

And I was like, it means you're stupid.

And at the time, the person that ran the test was like, no, no, no, it does not mean you're stupid.

She actually said, it actually means you're intellectually challenged, which, by the way, I think is worse than stupid.

But that's by the by.

But at the time, that was the kind of...

the understanding of it was like, this is a roadblock and it's hard.

Things are going to be harder for you.

Um,

And so that was my kind of notion of what it meant to be dyslexic.

I had this great teacher in my secondary school who once said to me, the gift of dyslexia is someone without dyslexia who needs to get from A to C would go A, B, C. And someone with dyslexia might go A to E to D, back to B and then to C. And it's going to take them longer, but they get to see D and E.

in a way that the person without doesn't and that really unlocked a lot for me in terms of I guess a realization that whilst things might take longer there is a process and often a very artistic process that means that I might it might take me a longer period of time to get to the end goal but I'm

experiencing much more i'm learning much more and i'm seeing much more um i'm making it hard for myself but that's just the way my brain works and um and also learning that so many artists and scientists and brilliant people are i mean einstein was dyslexic so uh you know it doesn't it does definitely doesn't mean you're intellectually challenged um it can be a great superpower and i think um that's what i've learned

I had a really great upbringing in that town.

And my dad was an English teacher at my school.

My mum was a midwife in the NHS, National Health Service.

And I had two brothers who were great and we got on.

I mean, you know, as much as any of us.

And I was the middle child.

And so, yeah, and we had my grandmother around.

It was kind of great.