Jonathan Mooney

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829 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2021 last heard Dec 2024

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You know, I like to tell young folks, look, I didn't overcome my dyslexia.

If I overcame anything, I overcame dys teachia, right?

I overcame a a problem in the environment.

And we need to to fight against that, you know.

And you know what?

Like y you have a right to be angry.

You do.

You know, there's a lot of angry young folks out there.

I talk to them every day.

And

Too often they're sort of told, oh, hey, don't be pissed off, whatever, whatever, whatever.

But the reality is they have a right to be angry, not at themselves, but at the fact that they're chilling out with the janitor in the hallway.

The fact that we call reading smart and ignore all the other manifestations of human intelligence.

They have an anger to uh a right to be angry at a system built for the normal, not the different.

And and what you should do with that anger is not uh let it consume you and hey.

I'll tell you, it almost consumed me, as you know from the book.

I struggled with self-harm and substance abuse for a while.

And we have to use the anger to fuel you.

You know, there's a really great advocate out there.

His name is Roberto Rivero.

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