the-ford-twin:

Okay but Stanley Pines having (undiagnosed) dyslexia would make so many other things fall into place.

People will often assume that students with dyslexia “aren’t trying hard enough” (especially in the era Stanley grew up in, when people heard “learning disability” and went to extreme places to say the very least) and assumed that people with dyslexia just weren’t smart enough to succeed. 

Stanley was always copying off Ford and either a) never getting caught, thus rendering Filbrick’s “…riding off your brother’s coattails” line useless cause he would have never known, b) always getting caught but somehow the school board never thought to separate them to prevent it or c) Copying off Ford and getting decent grades but never having the exact same answers as Ford did because he cannot read Ford’s handwriting properly. Thus people like Filbrick could deduce that Stanley was copying Ford but the school board wouldn’t be any the wiser and thus, would not bring this up at, say, a parent teacher conference.

It would make the infamous “Grammar, Stanley” line even more painful because grammar is notoriously difficult to master for people with dyslexia, and definitely a sore spot for Stanley.

Dyslexia can make it difficult for people to express themselves clearly. (Remember the swingset scene, where Stanley just would not admit that he was scared of Ford leaving? Yeah.)

Stanley asks Stanford to write their names on the cave wall, and it’s Stanford who writes “Stan O’ War” on the side of the boat  they find. Stanford’s handwriting is usually in cursive, and is relatively neat, while Stanley’s is all caps and never in a straight line.

People with dyslexia are often very creative (Stanley is only bested by Mabel in this department, he is almost always seen with some hairbrained scheme or attraction in the works)

Dyslexia can make it difficult to learn new languages and understand nonliteral language such as jokes or sarcasm (Remember Jorge and Rico?).

It would make figuring out all Ford’s codes and ciphers hell, that’s for sure.

Stanley Pines is every bit as smart and clever as his brother, but a failing school system in an era where a successful diagnosis of dyslexia wouldn’t have changed much in terms of his education and probably would have made things worse (it was the sixties/early seventies, not a fun time for people with learning differences), combined with the fact that he never wore his glasses until later in life and the fact that (thanks to his asswipe principal) he was missing more class time than he should have (because faculty members would call both twins when they only needed one) prevented him from succeeding academically.

the-ford-twin:

Okay but Stanley Pines having (undiagnosed) dyslexia would make so many other things fall into place.

People will often assume that students with dyslexia “aren’t trying hard enough” (especially in the era Stanley grew up in, when people heard “learning disability” and went to extreme places to say the very least) and assumed that people with dyslexia just weren’t smart enough to succeed. 

Stanley was always copying off Ford and either a) never getting caught, thus rendering Filbrick’s “…riding off your brother’s coattails” line useless cause he would have never known, b) always getting caught but somehow the school board never thought to separate them to prevent it or c) Copying off Ford and getting decent grades but never having the exact same answers as Ford did because he cannot read Ford’s handwriting properly. Thus people like Filbrick could deduce that Stanley was copying Ford but the school board wouldn’t be any the wiser and thus, would not bring this up at, say, a parent teacher conference.

It would make the infamous “Grammar, Stanley” line even more painful because grammar is notoriously difficult to master for people with dyslexia, and definitely a sore spot for Stanley.

Dyslexia can make it difficult for people to express themselves clearly. (Remember the swingset scene, where Stanley just would not admit that he was scared of Ford leaving? Yeah.)

Stanley asks Stanford to write their names on the cave wall, and it’s Stanford who writes “Stan O’ War” on the side of the boat  they find. Stanford’s handwriting is usually in cursive, and is relatively neat, while Stanley’s is all caps and never in a straight line.

People with dyslexia are often very creative (Stanley is only bested by Mabel in this department, he is almost always seen with some hairbrained scheme or attraction in the works)

Dyslexia can make it difficult to learn new languages and understand nonliteral language such as jokes or sarcasm (Remember Jorge and Rico?).

It would make figuring out all Ford’s codes and ciphers hell, that’s for sure.

Stanley Pines is every bit as smart and clever as his brother, but a failing school system in an era where a successful diagnosis of dyslexia wouldn’t have changed much in terms of his education and probably would have made things worse (it was the sixties/early seventies, not a fun time for people with learning differences), combined with the fact that he never wore his glasses until later in life and the fact that (thanks to his asswipe principal) he was missing more class time than he should have (because faculty members would call both twins when they only needed one) prevented him from succeeding academically.