'It’s absolutely petrifying' Matt Baker's learning disorder that jeopardises TV jobs

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One Show presenter candidly spoke out on the “petrifying” effect some of his work activities have on him.He explained how he finds reading out loud scary as he revealed the technique he uses to be able to read the autocue.Matt told The Yorkshire Post: “The scariest thing someone can do to me is hand me an email on live television and ask me to read it out.“It does something to me.

It’s absolutely petrifying.“Whatever I read, I learn. I block it all out in ways which means I can recognise sentences.“We [people with dyslexia] recognise words but we don’t read them as such.

It’s like flash cards all the time.”But Matt found ways to help overcome the issues his dyslexia presented when trying to do his job.Some autocue tricks, like a specific font and spaced out words, help him manage the difficulties.Matt explained: “With autocue, I found a font called Dyslexie, which stops the words from jumping on the line and we got it put on the autocue.“I always get my autocue spaced out, so that I can see the phrase and I say what I think it says.“It’s as hard for the autocue operator as it is for me.”Matt had previously talked about his dyslexia while discussing his book A Year on Our Farm: How the Countryside Made Me.In an interview with Mariella Frostrup on Times Radio, Matt explained last year that his dyslexia helped him get used to working “in very high pressure” from a young age.Curious to find out more, Mariella asked: “Matt Baker, how did you ever, not because you weren’t good at it obviously, but how did you end up on television?“You talk about how you live in a practical world, I know as a presenter you have to sit and read autocue when you’re sitting doing The One Show, it’s a live programme.“So first of all, as a severe.