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By: Another chance to see… Day Four at All that comes with it

Another chance to see… Day Four at All that comes with it — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:01:24 +0000

[...] Originally posted July 3rd, 2007 [...]

By: Cafe Leone » Blog Archive » Thinking Blogger Award

Cafe Leone » Blog Archive » Thinking Blogger Award — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:15:15 +0000

[...] All That Comes With It - Of the Way We Were - I have re-read this post 3 or 4 times. Here, the ONE AND ONLY DAN reflects on how he felt when he was diagnosed with dyslexia as a child and how this did and did not affect his life. [...]

By: (un)relaxeddad

(un)relaxeddad — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 10:10:30 +0000

Beautifully written. I also had to do a lot of tests when I was little but not for such a traumatic reasons. You were very lucky with your parents!

By: Neil

Neil — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 04:36:33 +0000

Found it quite moving and as ever, very well written! Quite eerily “Either Way” by The Twang came on the radio as I was reading it and made my neck hairs stand on end. 8)

By: Darren

Darren — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 02:51:08 +0000

Great post. I like the looks back to your own childhood that you’re doing.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:40:26 +0000

I’m with them… great post!

I love that ZX Spectrum video game idea where a man got crushed if you got a word wrong. At least I hope it was a video game.

By: whit

whit — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:17:18 +0000

Very nice. Great post and touching story. Bully for your parents!

By: Holmes

Holmes — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 20:50:14 +0000

This is definitely inspiring. Sounds like your folks handled the whole thing fantastically.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 18:25:39 +0000

And that’s why I do the job I do…

By: Pa

Pa — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:12:38 +0000

You got there - we never stopped being proud of you and your achievements. Perhaps you were lucky in that both your parents were involved in education and understood the problem more than most would have.