Posted in Personal Stories on Nov 13th, 2004 2 Comments »
© 2002 Jim Ring successjr11@aol.com “But mom you just don’t understand” I said for the 1,352nd time in my life. “Why can’t everyone just let me be. I know what I’m doing. I know what it takes to be a success” frustration found in every syllable. The problem is that the frustration that arises from [...]
Posted in Personal Stories on Nov 13th, 2004 2 Comments »
© Yishay Garbasz pyp96yg@sheffield.ac.uk My name is Yishay Garbasz and I can write. I was never accused of being a writer before, yet today I accuse myself. In this paper I am going to talk about my writing. I constantly improve my writing. Hopefully I will improve and grow some more from the process of [...]
Posted in Personal Stories on Nov 12th, 2004 No Comments »
© Yishay Garbasz pyp96yg@sheffield.ac.uk I was not doing so well in high school. Well, I did not do well in any form of school, so it just sort of continued to high school. I knew I had learning disabilities and my school knew that I had learning disabilities but the natural order of things did [...]
Posted in Personal Stories on Nov 12th, 2004 No Comments »
© Jim Slater jimslater@nextstep.net Shortly after an automobile accident in 1977 left me with a mild case of paralysis (I retained limited motion in my arms) I realized my career as a busy commercial photographer was in jeopardy. It’s difficult to take an acceptable photo without a grip on the camera. Higher education was the [...]
Posted in Personal Stories on Nov 5th, 2004 No Comments »
© 1999 Leah S. Whittle lswhittle@nf.sympatico.ca I see a child struggling with written word Not understanding what those words were suppose to be. Hearing that she was lazy and that she could be all that she wanted to be. “Apply yourself” she was told is the only key. The child struggled all the way through [...]
Posted in Personal Stories on Nov 5th, 2004 No Comments »
Editor’s Note: I have no idea who wrote this but I love it. It was sent to me by an old student who I’ve stayed in touch with. She had a lot of wisdom back then and obviously she still has a lot of Wisdom. Thank you Janice. Jerry was the kind of guy you [...]
Posted in Personal Stories on Nov 5th, 2004 1 Comment »
© 2001 Dee Dee Garnes www.home.earthlink.net/~rgarnes/ I fell in love with her the first time I watched her as she pulled away from her foster mother and ran like the wind in the opposite direction. The woman was furious because I was a much younger woman and did not offer to catch the child. What [...]
Posted in Personal Stories on Jul 7th, 2004 4 Comments »
© 1996 Chuck Haynes As I was growing up I felt I was outside of life, watching what was going on. I saw myself as several different people in one body, able to function as the situations required but not really being there. It was more like guiding this other entity to achieve some agenda [...]
Posted in Personal Stories on Jul 5th, 2004 6 Comments »
© 2000 Richard Wanderman I’m 48 years old, married, live in a nice house, have a successful career as an educational consultant, and I have a learning disability, dyslexia. My life was not always so great. I was a premature breech birth, had meningitis, polio, and every childhood illness. I was tested for everything including [...]
Posted in Personal Stories on Nov 29th, 2003 4 Comments »
© 1982-2003 Dale Susan Brown This is the story of how I graduated from college despite serious learning disabilities. Not only did I graduate, but I learned from my classes and made friends. Fortunately, my ability to think clearly and efficiently was not impaired by my handicaps although they made academic achievement a challenge. My [...]
Posted in Personal Stories on Nov 29th, 2003 8 Comments »
© 1983-2003 Dale Susan Brown My first memory of school is sitting on a hard seat, holding my muscles rigid, trying to concentrate on the teacher’s words. “Is this all school is,” I think, “just sitting?” I raise my hand. The teacher calls on me and I stand up. “I’m tired of just sitting here,” [...]
Posted in Personal Stories on Nov 29th, 2003 8 Comments »
© Dale Susan Brown I was a learning-disabled child. My perceptual problems involved all of my senses. I saw double until second grade, when I had surgery. After the operation, my eyes still did not work well as a team, causing figure-ground and depth perception problems. My eyes tracked improperly, and it took me a [...]