Callum Dixon finds solace in sport amid dyslexia struggle

Olympic hopeful Callum Dixon is yet to find the dyslexic advantage. The rower, expected to make the Team GB squad for Paris 2024, is one of six million dyslexic people in the UK. Ad Capable of reading 25 words, you won't find Dixon celebrating his hidden superpower.

RowingNew rowing star Henry having to grow up quickly after GB selection37 MINUTES AGO «I don't think I've ever managed to see it as a positive,» said the 23-year-old. «It's not a really great thing, I would rather be able to read.» Dixon, born and raised in Tower Hamlets, first realised there was something different about him aged eight. He remembers lasting three days in mainstream education before his family decided on homeschooling.

«Even the alphabet, they'd write it down and it never came,» he said. «Nothing quite feels like it works. »You see all your friends reading books and reading menus.

It's very frustrating at that point." Dixon has no GCSE or A-Level qualifications but counts a degree in psychology from the Open University as one of his proudest achievements. The struggle is real and it comes in the smallest things that the rest of the world takes for granted. Dixon's heart sinks when he sees a toilet door labelled with the words 'male' and 'female', rather than a symbol.

He might have to ask for help and ignore the weird looks. From the start, sport made sense. It gave him an invaluable and natural outlet — tennis, climbing, swimming, but chiefly sailing, instantly smitten with life on the ocean wave.

He said: «We went to a tiny dock in Canary Wharf and they let us jump in all summer. It was the most fun I ever had, I loved it so much» «Sport has made my life so much simpler,» he continued. «No-one will ask me to read anything at any point.