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Gwen Stefani Expands Her GXVE Beauty Brand To Give Back To Fans: ‘My Dream Has Been Touched And Made A Reality’

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Gwen’s rise to stardom did not come without its obstacles. She goes on to tell me that she does not think many people realize that she struggled so much in school, revealing to me that she has dyslexia and ADHD (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder). She says it was not until she wrote her first song, unaware that she even had it in her to do so, that she felt she had found her calling, saying, “God just put it in me and it just came out.”

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LeVar Burton, ‘The Right to Read’ Director Jenny Mackenzie on the Underbelly of the American Literacy Crisis

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But she originally uncovered the story because she was looking at adults who are dyslexic, and that’s my story. So I was diagnosed with dyslexia when I was 14 years old. Really, I had shame. I was very much in the closet, but I came from a family that had resources and I was able to cover it up. And I was able to learn ways to compensate and to get by. I got super lucky. My parents had the ability to get me tested, get me support, get me the resources. So that really caught me on fire listening to Emily’s podcast and understanding that if all children are taught the way in which we should teach kids who have any kind of learning disability, that is dyslexia focused — which is very explicit, very systematic, step by step — then we would really create big change.

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