At My Parents’ Anniversary Party, One Insult—and One Letter—Changed Everything

doesn’t make you dumb,” I said. “Some of the smartest people in history had dyslexia. Albert Einstein. Thomas Edison. Steven Spielberg. They struggled with words on a page, but that didn’t stop them from changing the world.”

She stared out the window for a moment. Then she said quietly, “I got into the MIT program.”

For a second I thought I’d misheard.continue reading …