Gavin Newsom: How I found strength in my dyslexia diagnosis

Editor’s note: Gavin Newsom is the lieutenant governor of California. 

My day of reckoning arrived during Mr. Morris’s class in middle school. I strategically sat in the last desk in the last row of every one of my classes, my eyes cast down, listening as the clock ticked one notch closer to the time the bell would ring and dispel my anxiety.

But that day, the gig was up. Mr. Morris asked me to read aloud, and I stood at my desk shaking as I gripped the book in my sweaty hands and painfully stumbled through the paragraph, tripping over the words. My cheeks burned red with embarrassment. I slumped back into my chair, my classmates’ taunting laughter still ringing in my ears. Read more…

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