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Overcoming Dyslexia

克服失读症

My whole life I have had to deal with dyslexia.

我一生都在克服失读症，

Dyslexia is when you look at letters and numbers, and they get all mixed up.

失读症的症状是当你读文字或数字时，它们全部混在一起，

You may read a word thinking it says one thing but,

你可能会以为你读的这个字是这个意思，

in fact, it says something different all together.

但放到句子里却是不同的意思，

Obviously, this made reading and writing very difficult.

这使得读写变得非常困难。

Before someone recognized my problem, I suffered greatly in school.

在别人发现我有这个问题之前，我在学校过了一段苦日子，

Kids would tease me when I read out loud, and teachers would tell me I wasn't trying hard enough.

当我大声朗诵时，其他孩子会嘲笑我，而老师也嫌我不够努力，

I became shy and didn't want to read out loud or even quietly, I hated reading.

我变得很内向，不想大声朗读，甚至小声也不敢，我讨厌阅读。

In grade four, I had a wonderful teacher who realized I had a problem. Right away, I was put into special classes.

四年级时，我遇到了一个很好的老师，他知道我有这方面的问题，马上把我调到特殊班级，

Over time, I learned to like reading. In fact, I came to love it.

在这段期间，我学习喜欢阅读，事实上我渐渐爱上阅读！

Now, at the age of thirty, I am a published author and a public speaker.

现在我已经三十岁，我是个作家并且公开演说，

So, it goes to show that if you put your mind to something, you can overcome anything!

因此这证明如果你决心下工夫，你一定能克服任何困难。

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