Personal Narrative: The Wave That Changed My Life

Nearing the end of the tube I can almost see the shore, It feels as if I've been riding this wave for days. This wave is my hurdle in the ocean that is life, choppy at the beginning but slowly passing by. The ocean has many waves, one for each surfer to ride, my specialty wave happened to be dyslexia. It was in the second grade that my teacher first realized I was different from the other students, because I had yet to read my first book. My parents had found this odd as well, and took me to see a neurologist, who diagnosed me as having dyslexia. I did not quite know what this meant at the time, I only knew that it was the reason I could not comprehend the topics as easily as my classmates. This was very frustrating, for both myself and my teacher, because at the time I was in a school for early and rapid learners. My second grade teacher had tried to convince my parents to remove me from the school because I did not “belong” there, but I knew I did. After all I had passed the test, just as every other student, and was awarded acceptance into the school. To this day I am still very thankful that my parents did not remove me from the school, because it helped me grow into the person that I am now. Being in a very competitive environment, academically speaking was very
This experience has taught me that it is beneficial to have endured challenges in life, whether it be an intellectual challenge or not. Facing adversity enables us to grow, because it allows us to learn from our mistakes and makes us more resilient. Resilience as well as patience are two very important life lessons that I have learned from overcoming my dyslexia. Even though this deficiency has hindered me from performing well in school in the past, I learned with time that I will eventually improve and be able to conquer other hurdles life sends my