Time & Perspective Quote by Bruce Jenner

Jenner reaches for the most ordinary kind of mistake - flipping two digits on a phone number - and uses it as a cultural bridge to a condition that’s often treated as exotic, suspicious, or shorthand for “not smart.” It’s an athlete’s move: start with something everyone in the room has done, then widen the frame. The intent isn’t clinical precision; it’s permission. If you’ve ever misread a number, you already understand the basic mechanism. From there, dyslexia becomes less a mysterious diagnosis and more an intensified version of a familiar human glitch.

That “everybody does it” refrain matters. It’s a rhetorical equalizer, a way to defang stigma by refusing the category of “them.” The subtext is defensive and compassionate at once: if errors are universal, then shame is optional. Jenner also leans on a kind of locker-room commonsense logic - not a textbook definition, but a practical analogy that says, don’t overcomplicate this, don’t fear it, don’t weaponize it.

Contextually, coming from a celebrity athlete, the quote pushes against an old stereotype that learning differences are incompatible with high achievement. It’s not trying to be the final word on dyslexia; it’s trying to keep dyslexia from being a verdict. The trade-off is that the simplification can flatten the complexity of the condition. Still, as cultural messaging, it’s effective: it swaps diagnosis-as-label for diagnosis-as-spectrum of everyday cognition, and it invites empathy by starting where most people actually live - in small, forgivable mistakes.