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In that connection I am constrained to express my skepticism about the accuracy and wisdom of diagnosing everyone who has difficulty learning to read and write as being afflicted with dyslexia: learning is sometimes difficult--I had terrible trouble with history when I was a student--and it is wrong to attribute a large percentage of failures and difficulties to some disorder rather than to the (possible) failings of a teacher or, more often, to a simple lack of interest and motivation in the student.
In recent decades an ilk epidemic has afflicted journalists and broadcasters and ordinary people who like to fancy-up their language a bit.
afflicted" with "manic-depressive illness," as evidenced by his having bitten off part of Evander Holyfield's ear.
The review promptly lists seven psychological problems that plagued Diana, all of which are common in those afflicted with borderline personality disorder.
There is little discerning power evident in Weisberg's relativist judging of the moral failings of Democratic campaigns against the most afflicted Republican examples.