This study claims that any reading encouragement program without a dyslexia screening agenda is a malicious and ableist pathway to frustration and neglect. While the city of Rio de Janeiro was just granted the title of World Book Capital by UNESCO, this special title may lead to an unfair crossroad. Either the students find their way into good reading or they will struggle not conforming to this graphocentric mode based on neurotypicality. Curiously enough, the city of Rio de Janeiro was the first one nationwide to provide for a law (Number 6881/ year 2021) which determines that (public and private) schools must guarantee the care and protection of students with dyslexia. In factual terms, however, there has been no provision for a multidisciplinary team for this support in the first years of literacy, which are the most crucial ones for this Learning Disorder identification. And what is still more aggravating, most Brazilian educational institutions still focus on the reading and writing assessment framework as the only way to evaluate intelligence itself. This ableist stance, therefore, not only leads individuals with dyslexia to frustration, but also to emotional and social issues; unfortunately, it also leads to the false and hazardous idea that successful reading and writing skills are the only actual proof of intelligence one may have. Therefore, we suggest that this law enforcement is more than urgent and we also suggest that a very important title missing in Brazilian educational system is one devoted to dyslexia assessment and neurodiversity empowerment. Only by taking this path will we start to acknowledge other routes for a fair and reasonable education.

Keywords: Brazilian Educational System, Graphocentrism, Dyslexia.