A disability of any kind forces you to compensate—if you’re blind, you develop a better sense of smell, that sort of thing. In my case, reading was always difficult for me. I struggled in school—not because I wasn’t smart, but because I took in information in a different way, at a different speed. After a while, I figured out all these ways to compensate, different ways to learn. I had to work harder, smarter, more efficiently, more
