There once was a boy who feared school. He wasn't afraid because he was being bullied. He was afraid of paper. 

He was afraid of all paper. He couldn't stand the sight of paper. He couldn't stand the smell of paper. 

His fear of paper led him to fear books. It led him to fear pencils. He feared anything that required reading or writing. 

He feared these things because he couldn't read  or write and in school if you can't read or write, you're "stupid and lazy."

"Why can't you just stop being lazy and do your work as your teachers tell you to?" his mom would ask him after school each day.

"it's pointless and stupid." the boy always responded. 

He would spend his entire school life in the principles office, which made him live his entire childhood grounded. 

The boy didn't think this was fair because if he were asked do each assignment using his voice, he could pass each one with a good grade. 

Down the street from the boy lived a little girl. She also feared paper, pencils and books. 

She would spend just as much time as the boy had in the principles office because she too didn't want to be labeled as stupid for telling her teachers and parents that she couldn't read or write. 

She would, just like the boy, bury this secret deep down and struggle her entire childhood. 

Two blocks away from the little girl lived another little girl who had the same fear. 

Three blocks away from the second little girl, lived another little boy who was being bullied for not being able to read or write. 

What these boys and girls didn't know, was that within their school, there were 50 other boys and girls silently struggling just like them. 

These boys and girls would be well into their 20s and 30s before they would realize that they weren't the only ones who have struggled and that they weren't stupid, they just learned differently. 

They would find out that the thing they battled with everyday, also made them better than most in many things because their brains were actually bigger than a "normal" persons brain.