Tuesday, January 2, 2007

Unbelievably bad portrail of dyslexia

Been watching Inspector Morse on the TV lately

Why - cause it is cheap and vaguely enjoyable

My Mum loves the who do it and as we are putting all $$ into the house at the moment, any free entertainment is good entertainment.

I feel kind of embarrassed to admit watching this "old timers" stuff but I do kind of enjoy the intrigue and trying to figure it out first.

Anyway saw an episode last night that had a dyslexic guy in it. It was a most terrible portrayal of dyslexia !

This guy was thick, more or a retard than a dreamer. He was mothered badly buy his mum. He looked slow, and acted stupid, and of course he was the murder. They did have a one things right - he could draw.

Anyway what an atrocious portrayal of a dyslexic/dreamer. No wonder people think dyslexics are thick! And these were made between 1987-2000, that is when people should know better!

blimey no wonder people have the complete wrong idea!

RANT OVER !

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

He wasn't dyslexic he was autistic; and that was very well portrayed