Personal Narrative: My Struggle With Dyslexia

Every single day of my life I struggle with Dyslexia, and every single day is different than the one before. As I face each day's new challenges, I am forced to figure out what methods work best for me personally. Dyslexia will always try to put obstacles in my path, but it will never hold me back from my true potential. Being diagnosed with a learning disability is a rough process, but through perseverance, determination, and self-analysis, every day I overcome the struggles of Dyslexia. While exiting elementary and entering junior high, I experienced extreme problems with learning and reading skills. There were suspensions that I may have needed to be put into special-education classrooms because my reading levels trailed my classmates, but the request was abruptly dismissed since I was also admitted into the Gifted Program at a young age. Public Schools in our nation do not understand that a child can both be brilliant and lack …show more content…
When I was first growing up reading was my toughest obstacle. I remember one of the most embarrassing bits of news I had ever received was that I was two years behind my reading level. I was in third grade and was told that I was currently on a first grader's level of reading. One of the ways I overcame this challenge was by standing in the pantry and reading every cereal box, soup can, and wrapper I could find. Imagine holding a soup can in your small hand and trying to understand your mom telling you that it is 'Cambell's soup' not 'Camp Bell's soup'. I also had to read every road sign that passed by on the highway in the amount of time that we passed. I remember never being about to understand why Moblie, Alabama was pronounced "Moe-Bill". I still struggle with this problem, but now I have purchased a computer that will easily read passages to me aloud. This processor helps me to learn to read faster and pronounce difficult words