ALL IS WELL!! Different is good, embrace the difference

Hello, I am Alex, and I have a story to tell…

?“ALL IS WELL!!

?I told this every day to gain my confidence.

Alas! It didn’t do any magic.

It all started in the fourth grade when I began to feel different than my friends in school. Making jokes and showing tricks was the way I would cover up having no confidence in school.

Inside I felt stupid.

One day, when my mom asked me to do some reading and writing, I threw my book and the pencils. My mom was very sad at that moment. I was sad too, but I didn’t know why.

My teacher called my mom one day and asked her to get me tested. I was finally diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia. I was 2-3 years behind in reading.

Once I learned about dyslexia I told my father one day, “Papa, I hope that I have dyslexia as Albert Einstein had it!”

I have a problem with reading but that doesn’t mean I have low intelligence. My brain works differently.

When I read, I don’t understand what I am reading, and I get frustrated. Long words are difficult for me. This makes me feel stupid.

Luckily, my parents put me in a new school, which helps kids like me. Here, I progressed in my reading more than I ever had before. Now, I am still a little below my grade level, but with the right instruction, I expect to catch up with my friends very soon.

The teachers help me understand how my brain works, and that helps me to read.

Now I am in sixth grade but in a small group, and I can get all the help I need, which is helping me to focus and unlock my brain. I don’t have to struggle alone, anymore.

As I look back,

• I wish my mother didn’t have to cry so much.
• I wish I had been tested earlier so that I didn’t struggle alone.
• I wish people are more aware of these disabilities and about the most successful personalities having disabilities.
• I wish the teacher knew that it wasn’t the theories I didn’t know, but it was the way that they were asking me to take the test that didn’t fit well with me.
• I wish for so many things for the kids who struggle to perform.
• I wish I could go to all schools and tell each student who feels stupid because of reading and tell them the truth about dyslexia.
• I wish so much more for kids who are left alone to suffer and for their parents.
• I wish that no child spends another minute feeling low and isolated.”

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Alex is a boy with dyslexia. He doesn’t look different, rather he feels different.

In this 21st-century world full of wisdom, it’s so easy to recognize boys like Alex and label them. But it’s very difficult to accommodate them in our society, where we all belong.

They don’t think like us, so why should they be involved?

Discard them, it’s easy!

Is it that easy? Are we all same? Don’t we think differently? Don’t we struggle in our life? Do people discard you? How do you feel when you are left alone?

Think… think twice, before deciding anything.

Can’t we just be a little more aware of such conditions, which are spreading so fast?

Can’t we focus on their abilities, instead of their disabilities?

Can’t we just listen to their worries by withholding our judgment?

It’s so simple:

A little LOVE is what they want!

Let’s try HEART to HEART!