I was in elementary school (many moons ago) and an excellent speller, started off in kindegarten in the library club...the annual spelling bee was coming up and I had it won, only had to be there! Kids were dropping out right and left, easy and hard words, they stumbled on the spelling by the third letter...my turn...
I get up in the middle of the stage of the Multi-purpose Room, all lights on me, parents, teachers and townsfolk sitting below in chairs, ALL EYES ON ME...
My word was exceptionally easy for me, not others, I smiled, my mind telling me I had it in the bag, it was my ribbon, I'd be in the local newspaper
A big breath, my mouth open, my mind seeing the word, and being dyslexic, I was seeing it properly...but my mouth would NOT listen to my screaming mind! My mouth was blathering idiot language! I was citing the alphabet in no particular order! My mind was screaming: "Close your mouth, shut up! STOP!!!" and the mouth kept going...and the blush was grand! My (a minute before, proud) confused teacher had to walk on stage from the wings and lead me off the stage and the mouth kept going the entire time!
Never again, I kept my spelling talent to paper and tried to say as little as possible most of my life, the entire room was laughing at me! My mom was laughing at me! I couldn't figure it out for days...