I've got one of the worst kinds of dyslexia anyone can have: it's actually total. It's very unusual and I've only ever met one other guy who's as dyslexic as I am - that's one other person in over forty years. There are so many different levels of dyslexia and they're not all the same. There are similarities but everyone is slightly different, so what works for one person doesn't work for another, and that's what makes it so difficult for the experts to be able to teach everyone to read and write. That can knock a dyslexic person's confidence to the floor and you're frozen with fear, with no competence to be able to do much about it. Some dyslexics work out a muddled system of their own that works for them because we have to create our own way of dealing with the world that is completely different to normal people.
When I was a kid, other dyslexics could either read or write but struggled with both. With mine, from the time I can remember, I struggled with everything, including getting my words out. I didn't start talking until I was three and then I had a speech impediment, which they had to work on until I was eight or nine to get me talking properly. No one knew about dyslexia then and they kept on saying that I got behind in my schooling because I had to work so hard on my speech. I wasn't diagnosed with dyslexia until I was fourteen.

Somebody once called me 'the dyslexic entrepreneur' and I quite like that; it's a nice title. I love the concept of 'entrepreneur'. I suppose that's what was always pushing me from deep down. I'm excited by the very word, and I really feel that's what I am but in a completely different way to most go-getters. I have to be different because of my brain working in a completely different way. However much I would try to do it the normal way, I can't because my brain won't let me; I have to go round the houses.
The word 'entrepreneur' means freedom to me. I know I can go as far as I want to in business, in my life, in anything I want to do, and the worst thing is you have to keep on coming completely out of your safety net to do it. Sometimes you're so far out it's like walking the plank; you're so far out on that plank, yet you're thinking you just have to do it. And then, after a while, you're back in your safety zone because you've pushed out the parameters so far that you have a bigger safety zone. Then you have to do it all over again. It is bloody scary! It's scary for people who can read and write. It can be petrifying if you can't.
Since I found my self-esteem and I've been positive, my life has turned around. I'm making more money now than I ever thought I could. I'm making more in a week than people make in a month because it's what I wanted, and I've made it mine. I don't want to struggle for money and none of us needs to. We can have it all and save the world and make people happy. We can; we just choose not to. One person can make a difference............