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Has anyone ever told you that you couldn’t do something? And when they do, what’s the first the thing you want to do? That very thing they said you couldn’t do. As it was with Angie Pierson, our most recent spotlight on “In Your Own Backyard: Stories of Struggling Readers.”
For Angie Pierson reading started presenting challenges when she was in elementary school. She found out she had dyslexia and went through elementary, junior high, and high school frustrated that she didn’t learn like everyone else. Being the only person in her family that struggled with reading, her siblings had a hard time understanding why she couldn’t just read.
Her senior year of high school she met with one of the counselors at her school to discuss what was next for her. She told the counselor that she wanted to become a nurse and the counselor told her that because of her dyslexia it would probably be better if she picked a different career path.
Remember that statement at the beginning about being told you can’t do something and then it’s the only thing you want to do. When Angie Pierson was told she couldn't become a nurse, that was when she knew that was exact thing she was going to do. She went to college, graduated ,and is now working two different jobs as a nurse. Take that dyslexia!
Listen to her story:
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