First Person
Issue 29: The Unlikely Author | Chanelle Moriah Paid Members Public
Chanelle Moriah reflects on becoming an unexpected best-selling author despite lifelong struggles with reading and learning, sharing how their lived experience of autism, ADHD, and dyslexia shaped a series of affirming, community-informed books that challenge deficit-based narratives.
Issue 29: The Boy They Thought Would Toughen Up | Simon da Roza Paid Members Public
Simon shares how growing up with undiagnosed ADHD and dyslexia in a punitive school system left lasting shame, and how understanding, neuroscience, and lived empathy led him to become the educator he once needed, determined to protect children from being labelled broken for their differences.
Issue 28: From Laughter to Applause: How I Found My Voice | Golden Navarro Paid Members Public
Golden Navarro shares her journey from a childhood marked by dyslexia, trauma, and self-doubt to becoming a confident storyteller and business owner who transforms her struggles into strengths and uses her voice to inspire others to embrace their differences.
Issue 28: Turning My Struggles into Strength: My Journey with Dyslexia and Building UK Country Hats | Emma Chapman Paid Members Public
Emma Chapman shares how she turned her fears into fuel, transforming her dyslexia and self-doubt into the driving force behind UK Country Hats and the UK’s first live Hat Bar.
Issue 27: Be D.Y.S.T.I.N.C.T My Journey with Dyslexia | Ela Jamosmos Paid Members Public
Ela traces her lifelong journey with undiagnosed dyslexia from silent childhood struggles to creative breakthroughs and leadership, ultimately transforming shame into self-acceptance and using her voice, art, and public speaking to empower others to embrace their difference and own their strengths.
Issue 27: Succeeding with a disability | Michelle Steiner Paid Members Public
Michelle recounts her lifelong journey with a learning disability, overcoming stigma, setbacks, and low expectations to achieve academic success, meaningful work, creative fulfilment, and personal growth, using her lived experience to empower others with disabilities to advocate for themselves.
Issue 27: The Beautiful Blur: ADHD and Dyslexia | Alexis Costello Paid Members Public
Alexis Costello shares her journey with ADHD & dyslexia, revealing how embracing her neurodivergence transformed shame into self-acceptance, chaos into creativity, and motherhood into a powerful reclamation of identity, showing that being wired differently is not a flaw.
Issue 26: Empowered by Dyslexia Struggles - My Passion to Help Others Thrive | Hannah Milton | Dyslexia LaunchPad Paid Members Public
Hannah Milton, educator and dyslexia specialist, shares her journey from struggling student to passionate advocate, now supporting parents through Dyslexia Launchpad and her online community to help dyslexic children thrive.
