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Reading With Dyslexia

As a child, I was a victim of a 'one size fits all' educational system. I never learned to read in school, but rather found 'work around' systems to camouflage my deficiencies & 'acted out' to take attention away from my inner suffering. Similar to many young dyslexics, I suffered horrific trauma in school that started at the age of 5 when reading began to become the main focus of my school days. I recall frequently being overcome with anxiety when being forced to read out loud in class. As each student took turns reading paragraphs out loud, fear would slowly begin to suffocate me as my turn became closer & closer. I would count the students & correlated paragraphs in order, to find which paragraph I would be doomed to read out loud. While the other students read their paragraphs one by one, I was unable to listen or retain any information from their readings because I was consumed with my necessary preparations which included silently readin

A need for Awareness -> DYSLEXIA

A Need for Awareness -> Dyslexia Understanding Dyslexic Thinking . Test your reading capability as a Dyslexic . Imagine having the ability to see beyond the reality of existence , to naturally possess an intuitive comprehensive understanding to complex challenges, surpassing those around you; providing you with dynamic solutions desperately sought out by those around you. Though, due to others inability to comprehend on such a level, while fixating on your mispronunciations & incomplete sentence structures, compiled with their overall limitation to accept what is beyond their sight; your solutions are regularly dismissed, ignored, or assumed to be wrong. Welcome to the world of individuals with dyslexia . History holds a strong record of ignoring & dismissing the unique powers of vision held by dyslexics, labeling them stupid, crazy, ignorant & frequently regarded as misfits, leaving many experts wondering how many gifted & creative dyslexics have been blo

We NEED to break free from "NORMAL"

Normal. It has long been established through endless experiments on water crystals , plants , and even rice , the unbelievable power words provide us. Many of us have been exposed to inspirational messages gifting words as the fuel to success. Perhaps some of us have read one of the hundreds of books on this specific topic alone, after all Think and Grow Rich has held a solid spot on the ‘must read’ list promoted by many entrepreneurs for decades. The manifestation of words is literally the birth of passage for ideas. These very ideas, we then nurture into concepts that formulate our reality to foster our understanding which transform into our values that drive our very existence. The knowledge that words have power, one could safely say today, seems to fall into the 'common sense' bucket, after all if a young child, Jackson Drew, can explore this very topic and relay his findings per a TED-Ed Student Talks episode , I’d say it’s safe to say we all know it to be am

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