SUSAN Garside is as pleased as punch today.

And so she should be, having experienced the joy of seeing one of her poems published.

Teachers didn’t treat her well at school – knocking her confidence after failing to recognise she was doing poorly because of dyslexia.

Sadly, it is still very much the case that many people refuse to believe the condition exists at all.

Yet there has been a long and honourable list of people with dyslexia – including Albert Einstein, Tom Cruise, Pablo Picasso, clothes designer Tommy Hillfiger and Richard Branson.

To the six million people dyslexia affects in the UK, it is very real.

It is frustrating that the focus should be on whether dyslexia exists or not and claims that it does not is very upsetting to the one in 10 people that it affects.