ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the personal cost, and some of the difficulties, that many with information processing differences undoubtedly have to cope with on a daily basis, and examines the powerful emotions, both positive and negative, of what it feels like to be dyslexic. Understanding the need to build determination and resilience will feature in the chapter along with an examination of why some manage to do this, and build their lives successfully, and some do not. It is important to return to the issue of identification and labelling from the perspective of how the label can make the individual with dyslexia feel. One of the difficulties when researching the social and emotional consequences of dyslexia is defining the terms social and emotional difficulties, and even the word dyslexia itself. A non-dyslexic world is clearly one which has an expectation that everyone over the age of five years of age is literate.
