Friends of Quinn

Hi my name is Tori Piskin and I am going to be a feature blog writer for the Friends of Quinn site. It makes perfect sense that this website is called *Friends* of Quinn. In life certain people have an intimate connection, whether it’s due to the same hair, car or shoes.

Call it what you want, learning difference, disabled, LD, when it comes down to it, we all understand each other. Although most of us haven’t meet famous people with LDs like Tom Cruise, Woopie Goldberg or even old Albert Einstein, we can all call them our brothas and sistas.

As long as I have known my name, I have also known I am dyslexic. My mom found out I was dyslexic in pre-school, by going around the class room and asking parents if their kids knew their colors. I imagine my mother coming home and screaming to my dad in her heavy New York Jewish accent, “Jay, Jay, our daughter doesn’t know colors. Something is wrong!”

I am lucky enough to have parents who raised me to be proud of my learning difference. I have inherited my mother’s saying, “I am dyslexic and I am proud of it” (but minus the heavy accent).

Throughout my whole life I have always been known as the girl who doesn’t shut up. I never thought I could transcribe my thoughts onto paper, but miraculously I am doing it!

If I can do it, the girl who was once told at the age of sixteen she had the reading and writing level of a 7th grader, hell anyone can. If I ever saw those teachers, I would say, look at me now bitches. I can write words like "incognito" without even googling it!