Leland Vittert
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96 appearances
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 5 Nov
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And she said, generally not.
not.
And my dad, with that, said that he felt as though that I, in my current form at that point, would not really have an opportunity for a happy or productive normal life.
And he said, so at that point, he decided, I am going to adapt Lucky, which was my nickname, to the world rather than the world to Lucky.
And Born Lucky is the story of him
adapting me up for the world and teaching me the social and emotional fabric that comes so naturally to most people, trying to find a way to give a kid who wasn't going to be good at school and wasn't going to have friends' self-esteem.
That's the born lucky story.
Yeah, look, starting when I was about five or six years old, he figured he needed to teach me self-esteem.
Self-esteem to him is earned, not given.
So it started with push-ups, 200 push-ups a day, five days a week for three or four months.
And then you got some kind of reward.
And the idea was to teach me that hard work would yield results.
Character.
He said there's two things you can control, your character and your hard work.
And then he would start taking me out with his friends.
He said that he knew I wasn't going to have any friends.
You know, he never told anybody about my diagnosis or anything.
No teachers, no counselors, none of his friends.
He and my mom suffered silently as it was.
But he would take me out to a lunch with his friends.
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