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Artemis Simon Is Done Pushing Past Her Limits

That’s when it really got shined on me that I didn’t talk. I wasn’t able to write, and I dealt with horrific dyslexia.

Every day after school I would ride the bus home with one of my friends. We would always see their mom out running. And I would just be inquisitive about it like, “What’s your mom doing? Why is she running?” I was so curious.

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William Butler Yeats: Dyslexic?

Abstract
Examined evidence from the letters, prose, poetry, and biographies of W. B. Yeats to determine posthumously whether Yeats had some form of dyslexia. Topics addressed include memory difficulties, school difficulties, vision problems, revisions, visual imagery, and self-concept. It is concluded that the evidence is substantial enough to support this diagnosis. Results illustrate that it is possible for those with dyslexia to go far beyond basic literacy. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

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Harry Belafonte has died

Belafonte was born in 1927 in working-class Harlem, New York, and spent eight years of his childhood in his impoverished parents’ native Jamaica. He returned to New York for high school but struggled with dyslexia and dropped out in his early teens.

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Ana Bárbara on Her Career as a Female Composer: ‘I Believe It All Now’

It has to be in the context of a woman doing what I think I’m doing, something that empowers my life story. It means that now, suddenly, with all my insecurities, my dyslexia, the notes fall apart in the guitar — but I don’t care and I put myself out there. And it empowers me to say, “I have my insecurities, but I overcome them and I empower myself with the self-esteem of a woman and I go out there and feel brave.” I removed my insecurities.

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