Personal Narrative: Dyslexia In High School

It has always been hard for me to make friends and commit to things. You see, I was diagnosed with dyslexia in the third grade. This was accompanied with mild social problems, nothing big. Although, it was big enough to make life challenging, especially in a school setting. Freshmen year was the hardest of my high school career. First of all, I did not make the swim team. I was devastated when I found out. My usual self would have up and quit due to the failure, as I did with numerous other things. However, there was something different about this time. I remembered what coach had said after the tryouts: If you really love swimming and you don't make the team, keep swimming and try out again next year. I don't fully know what it was about what he said, but I think it gave me the hope and strength to continue on. While it was well worth it to keep swimming after not making the team, it was very difficult mentally. I would constantly hear swimmers exclaim with excitement what happened at practice or how well they did at a meet. I wanted to join in on the conversation, I mean I was a swimmer too. I knew what they were talking about. However, that’s where my second problem comes in. I mentally could not join in, it seemed as if …show more content…
This is true not only in being a team, but having a healthy family, or even a healthy life. The RRHS swim team has given me a great group of people that I am now allowed to call friends. It use to be unheard of for me to have more than one friend at any given time, now the opposite is true. I do not take these friendships for granted and that is why I am keen on accepting everyone and making them feel like they have a safe place to be themselves, as the world isn’t always so kind. Even if I have only truly affected one person, I consider that the team, without that one person, everything would be different. We are interconnected and one person's life can change