First Person
Issue 32: On Being Yourself | Karina Kerr Paid Members Public
Karina Kerr reflects on growing up with unrecognised learning difficulties and childhood trauma, finding her way into university and learning to challenge shame, ask for support and recognise the strengths that had been there all along.
Issue 31: My Journey with Dyslexia: How lived experience shaped my work as an Occupational Therapist | Stephanie Paid Members Public
Occupational Therapist Stephanie shares her journey with dyslexia and how it shaped the therapist she is today.
Issue 30: My Past Empowered my Future | Alexie Better Paid Members Public
Alexie Better shares how her experience with undiagnosed dyslexia shaped her journey from struggling learner to founder of Better Multisensory Learning, a centre providing tailored, multisensory support that helps neurodiverse students build confidence, resilience, and academic success.
Issue 30: I Don’t Have a Maths GCSE | Mia Borthwick Paid Members Public
Mia Borthwick shares her journey growing up with dyscalculia, highlighting the challenges, misunderstandings, and stigma she faced, and how discovering her strengths in the performing arts helped her build confidence, find her voice, and transform her experiences into creative advocacy.
Issue 30: Wired Differently: The Dyslexic Scientist. Reflections on Support, Learning, and Leadership | Dr Douglas B. Sims Paid Members Public
Dr Douglas B. Sims shares his story of growing up with dyslexia and how he went on to achieve success, proving that thinking differently can become your greatest strength.
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.
