Mental Health Self Care
Dyslexia: From Limiting Beliefs to Empowering Success
November writing prompt: Limiting Beliefs
When I was a child, learning was challenging. The letters on a page look like symbols. They would move and dance around each other. Sometimes, they look like they form words, and at other times, they look like nothing. Even with numbers, they were the toughest for me. Adding, subtracting, multiplication, you name it, was a struggle.
Forget asking me if the color red is the color red because back then, the color red to me would be, well, maybe it’s orange, maybe it’s pink; I would see the shades, but could I actually say red? No.
It wasn’t until the age of 4 years old, after much testing, that they diagnosed me with dyslexia. I had to have tutoring 5 days a week, and on the weekends, my mother would help me learn. I remember hearing the different learning specialists saying, “Try to get Daphne into art. Maybe she can be successful there.”
So, it was very early on that my limited beliefs developed and shaped my life. I remember being with my peers, even in lower school, and saying, “Sorry, I can’t go to your house because I’m dyslexic,” “I need extra tutoring,” or “I can’t get a 70 on a grade because I’m dyslexic.”
