Personal Narrative: My Personal Experience With Learning Disabilities

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The most significant challenges I have faced is my learning disabilities. I am diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia,I had this two thing since before I could remember. My dyslexia has been a constant thorn in my side scenes I first started read I would always feel embarrassed when reading whether by myself or out loud for two main reasons, one, I would constantly mix two words together, skip words, read words out of order ,and two, I was a terribly slow reader I was the last one or even didn't even finish book when we read them in class. This lead to a huge hit to my self-esteem so I stop reading and writing on my own and did it when I had to and even then I rarely turn my papers in. in the fifth grade, I had one of the best teachers that I ever

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