I have struggled with dyslexia my whole life.

I spent almost my entire childhood at a

school specifically built for teaching children with learning disabilities. They taught us in small
four person classrooms so that teachers could cater to each student individually. The focus of
the teaching was to follow the common Colorado curriculum but bend and shape it to follow
the needs of each student. The teacher’s new ways to reframe explanations and thought
processes to better fulfill each child’s needs. On top of the varied teaching everyone was able to
perform at their own level with the sole goal of getting up to par or getting ahead even farther.
This environment helped me a lot with my learning, allowing me to be behind in reading and
writing but not left behind. At the end of my time at the school I had come to be somewhat
proficient and decently confident, which was a great leap from my almost illiterate second to
third grade self.

Learning German at the same time as English didn’t help me.