Poor girl sure had a lot of baggage. What I haven't figured out is why she was such a scumbag magnet. Perhaps it's because of her inferiority complex. Predatory males sense vulnerability in women. If I was the ML, I would have taken great pleasure in breaking the nose of the filthy jerk at the party who was bad mouthing her. Even though professionals and the literate part of the general populace know that dyslexia is NOT a sign of lower intelligence and can be worked around with therapy, lots of people (including the wealthy and "educated") still see it as a sign of being lazy or feeble-minded. There are also plenty of people out there, including teachers, for whom ableism and making fun of the disabled is a way of life.
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