Jonathan Oliver
speaker
397 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2019
last heard Jun 2019
Jonathan Oliver’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Nothing inside of you is broken.
And I wanted to just pick him up and put him on my shoulder and just walk out and just feel this
connection with him.
And that's where I am right now.
And then in the process, share that with other people.
They may have those same messages going in and within about themselves, or they know someone, or just to share that with the community or families or corporations as a whole.
So I'd say kind of the bottom line, the whole process, I wasn't diagnosed with dyslexia until I was a junior in college, a pre-med major, and I graduated from high school with honors.
My whole academic career was just a grind.
You know, I've always been a very large kid.
So I tell people sometimes, you know, I'm literally six, three and a half, 225, 230 pounds.
And I was that in high school.
So I love being around my friends and being in the hallways and playing sports and that whole just camaraderie of excitement.
But when I walked into a classroom, I became the quietest person in the class or the most distractive person in the class because I
I did not want to be called upon to read out loud or anything where I was going to have to share some type of reading or connection in that regard.
If it was talking from my heart or giving a synopsis or something, oh, that's in my wheelhouse all day.
So standardized tests, tests in general, spelling, things of that nature, it was just agonizing for me.
But I just grinded, grinded, and worked really hard.
And
When I was in school, you had to pass this standardized test to graduate from high school.
And it was called a TOSS test in Texas at the time.
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