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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That's not a weakness.
So after about three weeks of hemming and hawing and doing research and kind of skimming around this person's office, I went in and she did a bunch of diagnostics, testing things of nature on me.
And the great thing about this lady, unfortunately, she's passed on, but she knew me from taking a reading remittance course to even be accepted into college to prove that I was college material.
So I already felt safe around her because I had a connection with her about a month before I started college.
I went in and she did all these exams.
And three weeks later, I meet with her and she has a smile on her face like it's Christmas morning.
And she says, I know what's been going on.
And I go, please tell me.
And she says, J.O., you're dyslexic.
And I'm about to start crying because I literally looked at her and I said, I only have one question.
Am I stupid?
And she said, J.O., you may be the most intelligent person I've ever met in my life.
She said, you can become an astronaut if you want to.
The only thing that you do is that you learn differently.
She said, let me tell you how smart you are.
She said, you're so smart that you have innately taught yourself to learn.
You have provided for yourself systems that if you would have been diagnosed earlier, these would have been the same system we would have given you.
And you taught them to yourself.
And then my next question was, is that what Theo had on the Cosby show?
I
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