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this whole incident has left stormy pretty insecure about his intellect and abilities. He usually hides this behind a smile.



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involving difficulty in reading and interpreting words and letters) and growing up, it deeply affected his performance in school, especially once he hit his teens. Stormy was failing in school for a long time before his parents figured out what was wrong....Rainbow agonizes a lot over not catching her son's disability sooner, and blames herself.After this, Stormy received specialized instruction from both Princess Twilight and Missus Cheerilee, and it works a bit, but it's too little too late. Stormy drops out of school as a teenager, and Dash maybe feels too guilty to really stop him. Stormy's little sister, Ember, is also dyslexic, but the family catches it earlier and Dash is pretty aggressive about her younger two daughters staying in school.this whole incident has left stormy pretty insecure about his intellect and abilities. He usually hides this behind a smile.related:(

Stormy leaned forward hesitantly, squinting at the words. He began to read, slowly, and with enormous effort.Rainbow Dash blinked at him-she'd never once encounteredsentence, not in all her years devouring theseries. She glanced at the page, checking for herself.Stormy continued reading.Dash checked the page again, flabbergasted.Rainbow felt her insides gripped with ice. "Stormy..." She said, horrified, "You can'tStormy hid his face, ashamed. "I...Iread, Mom. Honest. It's just...the words don't always make sense. The letters get all mixed up and move around and I can't figure out what they say." He scuffed the ground with his hoof. "...I told you I wasn't very smart."Slowly, everything began to make sense to Rainbow Dash. Her son's anxiety and hesitance in school, his years of disastrous report cards....She glanced from the book to her son, and felt a strange, sudden urge to cry. Looking at her son, and the shame on his face, Rainbow Dash knew that something was very wrong.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~cleaned up another work doodleStormy has pretty intense dyslexia (in his case, a disorder