Having dyslexia doesn’t mean you can’t still follow your dreams and find success, but the first step is getting diagnosed. In this video, Shane Lynch, from the popular Irish band Boyzone, talks about the difficulties he had as a child learning to read and write.
Lynch shares the frustration and embarrassment that accompanied his failure to master the basic skills most people take for granted. Having worked in Boyzone for years, he always found himself sitting outside the spotlight in order to hide his secret. Finally, during the filming of TV series My Secret Life, he took a test for Dyslexia — and the results turned out to be one of the most important acts of his life.
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Key takeaways
- Shane Lynch tried to hide his reading difficulties even when he was in the spotlight in Boyzone.
- Undiagnosed dyslexia creates a feeling of shame, embarrassment, and incompetence.
- Shane Lynch found it liberating when he was able to know what was behind with his difficulty.
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