He is illiterate, but he amazed everyone when he entered the University with honors

The protagonist of this story is Oliver Chadwick, is 18 years old and suffers from severe dyslexia. However, this condition has never been a limitation in her life.

So much so that he managed to pass the very tough exams to enter the university. and i got the better grades.

With this, the young man managed not only to surprise and amaze the whole world. Is that it is not for less, since this I disturb of neurodevelopment it is estimated that it affects one in ten children resulting in school failure.

In this particular case, Chadwick read like a six year old and is practically unable to write. But, thanks to his willpower, he managed to get into the bristol universityGreat Britain, with excellent grades.

“My dyslexia affects me a lot, but surprisingly little if you think about it,” said the young man somersetlive.

And he explained: “When people hear that you can’t read or write, they think you can’t do anything, but in reality It just affects me day by day when I can’t read things like signs.”

“I couldn’t read the menu”

“When school started, it was a running joke at the dinner table every night that we would ask Oliver what he had for lunch that day because he always said ‘potatoes and beans’recalls Sophie, Chadwick’s mother.

In this sense he clarified: “We thought it was just because he really liked it, but in reality it was because i could not read the menu and it was something I knew they had every day. To this day he can’t read menus, but he’s gotten a lot better at guessing what signs are about.”

However, Sophie didn’t think anything was wrong at the time. Suspicions of her only began when the boy began to have learning problems in school.

Faced with this, at school, at that moment they told him not to worry, he recalled in dialogue with the media.

“I knew something wasn’t normal, but they spent a lot of time telling me boys were often a little slower to learn than girlsthe 54-year-old woman added.

Regarding this situation, his mother said that: ‘He was lagging behind the other children. While other children might take an hour to do his homework, Oliver might take 20 times more“.

Diagnosis, challenges and decision

When the baby was finally discovered with the dyslexiahis mother changed his life help your child in your learning.

“He was going to classes with the Dyslexia Association for two hours a week to practice reading and writing, and I had to work part-time to help him around the house,” she said.

But things have not improved. “After a while, they said there was no benefit if he continued with the lessons because I wasn’t progressing.”

“Since then, I’ve spoken to two experts who have been doing their job for a long time and they told me it was most profoundly dyslexic person they had ever seen”indicated on the situation of his son.

“So when he went to high school, I decided we were going to stop trying to teach him,” she said, almost resigned. ‘Okay, we won’t waste any more time on this’“.

against all odds

In spite of everything, Oliver never let his disability limit him and against all odds, he did not lag behind his peers in his learning. Unable to read and write, young people I just passed by listening to the lectures in class and take the exams orally.

“It wasn’t until sixth grade that I started to notice a difference between me and my peers, but I’ve never felt stupid. I just knew that reading was something I couldn’t do and that there was no point in getting angry.”

“The hardest part of school was when people were making plans in social networks and had no idea what was going on. Like, I didn’t even have anyone’s number until 2011.”

When Oliver finally finished high school, neither the teachers nor his mother, nor anyone but him, believed that he could pass the tough exams to get into college. The fearsome A-Levels.

But what was said, the boy surprised everyone, got the best possible grades and obtained admission to the University.

“At A level, I studied mathematics and chemistry. I chose math because it’s something I can mostly do on my own and it makes me feel more independent,” she said.

And he explained that although he watched physics tutorial videos on YouTube in his spare time, he chose chemistry to A Level because it “dealt with less abstract concepts that required a lot of writing”.

“There’s no point in stressing. I always feel pretty calm because there can always be something you’ve forgotten, but you have to accept it and move on“, closed are surprising wisdom.