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Student Voice: I have a dream, wait, what was it?
Another Student Voice: If you have to tell me one thousand times and I still don't learn it. Who's the slow learner? (applause)
Another Student Voice: My mom cried when she found out that I had dyslexia and she never thought I'd make it through high school. And she was told that maybe I couldn't even learn to drive because I wouldn't be able to read the road signs.
Three years ago I was admitted to one of the most academically rigorous schools in California I am the only LD student who has done that and now I have a chance to go to a great college.
Another Student Voice: Dyslexia is a powerful thing. It can bring you down kick you around and drag you around.
But, most important thing is that it has brought us together, it has brought us here. So let's EdRev it up and let's rock this house. (applause)
Another Student Voice: Being an LD person I have been called stupid I have been told that I can succeed and I have been told that I will never master concepts.
Now what I have done is that I have taken all those insults,all of those put downs and I have used those as fuel to get me further then all who told me those things ever thought was possible.
So I think that anybody who has ever put you down, you should use that to fuel yourself just to prove them wrong.To show them that you can be so much more then anybody ever thought possible.
Another Student Voice: Normal doesn't exist in my vocabulary because normal isn't what succeeds in this world.
Another Student Voice: Make the learning environment fit to you, not you fit to it.
Instructor Voice: Put that phone away. Student Voice: My memory's not that good. Another Instructors Voice: Accommodation, Accommodation
First Instructor: Keep the phone (laughter)
Student: Having a learning disability is the best thing that has ever happened to me. Without the daily struggle the daily fight we will never grow to our full potential.
Having this challenge shapes us, defines us, and makes us the amazing people that we are. We are LD and proud to be.
Another Student Voice: Embrace your learning difference and it will never pull you down.
Another student voice: I have a quote from Albert Einstein, Everybody is a genius, but if you test a fish on it's ability to climb a tree it will live it's whole life believing it is stupid. (Applause)
Another Student Voice: I have a learning difference and just because I have a learning difference doesn't mean that I am not capable of greatness. I can learn and will learn and must learn.
Another Student Voice: So I look around this room and I was at the first SAFE meeting and there were probably fifteen people there.
And I don't think that I have heard anyone talk as eloquently as you guys have today. I am so so proud to be here, to part of this group, to see how it has grown.(applause)
Another student voice: Teachers might have called students with LD stupid. But now students with LD are the teachers. (applause)