Tom Cruise bullied dyslexia height. He may have bagged himself a beautiful bride and is one of the biggest film stars on the planet, but that doesn't change the fact that Tom had a tough childhood. The actor was bullied at 15 different schools for being dyslexic... we bet Tom can now easily spell out a word to his bullies: revenge.Tom Cruise cites the childhood stigma of his dyslexia diagnosis as a contributing factor to his conversion to Scientology.