He experienced learning difficulties owing to undiagnosed dyslexia, and due to the condition not being understood or even widely known about at the time, he was regularly berated and humiliated by teachers and peers alike for being "dumb" and "thick".
Experimentou dificultades de aprendizaxe debido a unha dislexia non diagnosticada e debido a este trastorno non entendido ou descoñecido nese momento, foi regularmente reprendido e humillado por mestres e compañeiros por ser "parvo" e "torpe".