My Dyslexia Book Report

My Dyslexia, an autobiography by Philip Schultz, offers a window into an individual’s world of struggle and hardship. Against his achievements and proposed abilities, Schultz continued to pursue his love of poetry and in that path he had faced the demons that continue to try to hold him back from succeeding.. Seeing dyslexia in new light, through Schultz, has offered a view into a success from a disorder that shouldn’t carry this stigma. Not being formally diagnosed, or even clued in until almost sixty years old, Schultz begins to decipher his past for the signs, which now make sense as to why he had to fight as he did; feeding the determination to be drawn towards what demanded his greatest efforts- reading and writing. This has been, in generations past, a crippling ribbon in my mother’s family. My mother and her brothers all suffer from varying degrees of the disability, along with her father before, my grandfather. I wanted to know more. My reason for choosing this book was in lieu of my ongoing research for my family, more specifically my daughter. My family had defined it as a sentence; not to thwart succession but to stifle it for sure. As he quotes Emerson “’For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure.’ And

In my craft room I’ll come up with a nifty gift , especially in reusing an item, recycling. Someone will offer me a compliment and think I’m just humble, but often I would wonder, was it luck, why can’t they see what I see? It makes sense to me! In designing his writing school, Schultz says to him it just made sense to teach his students to use ‘I’ in reference to a character and not to themselves. (Location No. 802) He comments on this stroke of an ingenious idea, blaming his dyslexia for “compensating [in a] roundabout byzantine manner, the way of a dyslexic mind.” (Location No.