Overcoming Adversity: A Dyslexic Learner's Journey to Success | When Learning is Trauma #shorts

29 Apr 2024 · 1 min

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A dyslexic learner credits family support and positive reinforcement for persisting through school when peers gave up. They describe how a nurturing home environment helped them avoid shutting down despite the emotional toll of learning differences.

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I think you used the term bloody-minded, which I'm from America, I've never heard that, but I like how you described it. How is it that you were able to say to yourself, hey, I can do this, and you went and you really dug in and you tried to make it known that you could do these when so many kids go the other way and shut down and say, you know what, I'm done with this, and they don't? How did you— what was it in you that said, no, they're wrong, I can do this?
Yeah, and this is a word I used recently in this conversation. It's the environment as much as anything else. I was lucky I had an environment which was nurturing. My family life was very positive in many, many respects, and so I was told that I