this story that you are about to read is really special to me, not because this is the first story i wrote, cause it's not, nor is it the last story i will write. but because this is who i am, this story comes form the hart. i know that sounds lame, but what you are about to read is true, people like Bella did exists in the world. i am going to give you a fact every chapter. i bet you are wounding what you are going to read. you will be reading about a girl named Bella, who has dyslexia, and see life though her eyes. DONT JUGE.
FACT: 1 out of 5 people are dyslexic
Chapter 1
introducing Bella
If you were to ask a stranger they were say I look normal, I act
normal, and most people they would say I am normal. Thats not the truth;
I have a disability. Now, if you don't know what a disability is, then here it
is. Dis meaning NOT and ability meaning can do, so I had something I con't
do. So now you are thinking, well i cant do stuff either, well that is true, but
I cant read. I have trouble reading, and am in 6th grade. People in my class
make fun of me because I can't read, so I am tantalized, laughed at, and
judged, all because of how my brain works. I want you to think right now,
what would you do, would you laugh at me too, or would you help me? Be
honest with yourself, because lying to yourself is much worse then lying to
a friend. Back to the story. I didn't know what to do.
I have long goodish hair, and blue eyes.
"YOUR STUPID BELLA!"
"YOU CANT READ!"
" BELLA A FRSIT GRADER CAN READ BETTER THEN YOU!" These are
just some of the things I was told about myself. I believe every world they
said, I know I am dyslexic, I know they were right, I know i am stupid. I
knew i can't read, and I believe every single word that they said. My
parents didn't know how to help me, they weren't dyslexic, they didn't
know what I needed, and I would never talk, I was afraid to talk. Afraid I
would be judged if i said my own opinion
On one nice warm Monday during history I dazed off into a flash back,
a flash back that changed how I thought of myself.
"why are you so stupid" a boy named Jo asked. she turned around
and answered him.
"Because i'm dyslexic, but I'm not stupid i just lean differently" I said
sounding proudly. Jo's face got worried like he forgot to study for his
history final.
"are- are they going to cure you" I looked at him confused.
"it's in the brain, you cant cure it", I said for once sounding smart. He
started to back away.
"Don't give it to me, you're contagious, you're an ALIEN" he
screamed. The whole playground at school turned to look at me.
"SHE HAS DYSLEXIA " he screamed. All the kids backed away at lest
10 feet. I just stood there in shock. was i that different? I thought to
myself. My only friend, Mary back away to. Mary wanted to fit in with
everybody. I started to cry when I saw that my friend has abandoned me
on my own little island.
"Bella, earth to Bella" I hard my teacher say. I looked up and saw that
the whole class was staring at me. "it's your turn to read out loud!" I froze,
I didn't move, I couldn't read out loud, but I had to. so I stared, "th-the Bo-
s-ton m-ma-mas-ac"
"massacre" the teacher told me whenever someone corrected me I
felt stupid, like I couldn't do anything by myself.
"was a hor-horibul thing" my hart was pounding so fast, my blood was
rushing to my face, I heard the sound of my heart beat in my ear. I was
sweating, I saw that a big word was coming up. "it was the start of the A-
americ-an" oh crap I thought to myself. "Rev-Rev-Revelation" the boys
and girls stared to laugh at me. the wold was revolution but I pronounced it
revelation.
"class settle down, settle down, Bella can I talk to you outside
please?" then Mr.Glad glared at me. I got up and walked outside. "what the
hell was that? you knew that word! Are you trying to make a scene" he
quietly yells at me. I shakes her head no.
"then why didn't you read the word, and what was all that stuttering?
you don't have a stutter, so what if you are dyslexic, that does not give you
the right to stop my class!" he said with the same tone of voice only a little
stricter and commanding. I looked at my shoes; I got so mad. I tried, I
really did, but I couldn't read it out loud. I didn't know how to describe it.
Mr. Glad walked me back in the classroom and I was forced to read the rest
of the page, witch took the whole class. Mr. Glad was so frustrated he could
kill me.
"Can i talk to you again" he said making the again known. "STOP
TRYING TO MAKE A SCENE! Just try and work hard, and you could do so
well" his voice sounded like a bunch of wolves growling at their prey, and I,
was the prey. I nodded.
the next class I had was math, I failed math, all the numbers got
mixed up all in my head, and the 9 looked like a 6 and I read 91 when it
was really 19. I walked in and I was with all 36 kids again, the same that
laughed at me for reading.
"Thanks for reading so slow, i took grate notes, i let you barrow then
but i bet you couldn't read it" Jo made fun of her everyday.
"Bella, glad you could make it, can you tell me what 6 x 8 is". I sat
there frozen. "21" I said.
everyone including ms.joyful laughed at my face. Jo, who sat next to
me laughed the loudest.
"Jo, can you please help her" he nodded, but whispered to me.
"no one can help you dyslexic". I put her head on the table, it was
only 8:30 and I I already wanted this to end. "6 x 8 is 48" he said out loud.
everyone gave him a high-5 just to make me feel like a compleat idiot.
What was suppose to be 30 minutes felt like 2 hours. The clock belly
moved. Next class I had was recess. I walked in the bathroom and just
looked at myself. "Why must I have this stupid disorder, why cant I be
normal like everyone else, why cant I learn, I cant even do proper
multiplication, I am such a looser, idiot, stupid little pathetic worthless, cant
read, cant spell, cant do math, cant read out loud, cant do anything right
little person. I am a person trapped inside another person, wanting to get
out" I yell at myself though the mirror. I became to cry when words start to
hit her again. "hey that was, oh never mind, the person who said that must
have left, stupid over her is the only one in there" it was Marry, she the the
it girl once she ditched stupid. that went on for the rest of the day.
Teachers yelling at me to try harder, students who made me shy to raise
her hand to respond to a question for the rest of the day and so on.