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Keira Knightley is determined to prove that she is not dumb, even though she dropped out of school at the age of 17.
Keira, known for her roles of upper class characters in films like ‘ Pride and Prejudice’ and ‘Atonement’, suffers from dyslexia.
But she is not letting her lack of education and learning disability get her down, and she insists the setbacks only make her eager to prove that she is brainy.
"It (dyslexia) makes me feel I am going to read absolutely everything so I can prove that I am not stupid," Contactmusic quoted her as saying.
The Pirates of the Caribbean star also admits that giving up university in favour of a film career has left her with a "chip on her shoulder" over her lack of education.
"I am completely uneducated. Not going to university did give me an incredible driving force because it leaves you with a slight chip on your shoulder,” she added.
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
From Times of India reprint of another story:
