The Georgian footballer Guram Kashia, who this Sunday will face Georgia against Spain in Cologne in the round of 16 match of the Euro Cup, spoke about his childhood problems within the framework of the ‘Away Meeting’ project. I had dyslexia and I didn’t know it.
“I’m dyslexic. All my childhood I thought I was strange and uneducated. All the teachers told me that. I couldn’t read aloud, the letters were confused. I read something, I think this but I leave things.. All my childhood I grew up with the idea that I was not good at reading. If the teacher asked me to read something, So, he told me: ‘Sit down, stupid, uneducated.
“I had a brutal complex throughout my childhood. Until I went to Holland and started studying English. The teacher there told me to take a dyslexia test. I didn’t even know what that word meant. I went and passed the tests”. Kashia said that “14% of the population of Georgia suffers from dyslexia” and believes that “if I had not become a professional athlete, I would not have known that I was dyslexic for the rest of my life.”
Source: La Verdad
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