46-year-old Hollywood actor, Tom Cruise revealed that the teachings of Church of Scientology helped him beat dyslexia.
Tom Cruise stated that at the age of seven he was diagnosed as having the language-based learning disability that can include problems in reading, spelling, writing and pronouncing words.
"I asked myself if I was normal or an idiot. I would try to concentrate but I felt anxiety, frustration, boredom. When I graduated from high school in 1980 I was functionally illiterate," he told XL Semanal, the weekly magazine supplement of daily Spanish newspaper ABC.
"Nobody gave me a solution and I wanted to know why the system had failed. Finally, as an adult I learned to read perfectly through the method of [Scientology's late founder] L. Ron Hubbard," he added.
Other world renowned celebrities who suffered from dyslexia are Richard Branson (entrepreneur ), John Chambers (Cisco CEO), Keira Knightley ( actress), Jay Leno ( talk show host and comedian ), Guy Ritchie (film director), Orlando Bloom (actor), Abhishek Bachchan (Bollywood actor ) and many more.
Tom Cruise stated that at the age of seven he was diagnosed as having the language-based learning disability that can include problems in reading, spelling, writing and pronouncing words.
"I asked myself if I was normal or an idiot. I would try to concentrate but I felt anxiety, frustration, boredom. When I graduated from high school in 1980 I was functionally illiterate," he told XL Semanal, the weekly magazine supplement of daily Spanish newspaper ABC.
"Nobody gave me a solution and I wanted to know why the system had failed. Finally, as an adult I learned to read perfectly through the method of [Scientology's late founder] L. Ron Hubbard," he added.
Other world renowned celebrities who suffered from dyslexia are Richard Branson (entrepreneur ), John Chambers (Cisco CEO), Keira Knightley ( actress), Jay Leno ( talk show host and comedian ), Guy Ritchie (film director), Orlando Bloom (actor), Abhishek Bachchan (Bollywood actor ) and many more.
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