An NHL player who has won a Stanley Cup remembers a time when he was called dumb and lazy and stupid. The name-calling was due to the fact that he had dyslexia and struggled a lot with reading. Dyslexia is a condition that makes it hard to read and write and spell words. Fifteen to twenty percent of the population of the world has some form of it. It is hard to see your friends succeed at reading and you struggle behind.