What is Life Like for Someone Living with a Learning Disability

If some of the adults of today who are just now discovering they are learning disabled when they didn’t learn about it as a child don’t despair because it’s not the end of the world. This is where education comes in to help people further their understanding about the true meaning of a learning disability. We don’t know what causes learning disabilities we think it’s from the food we eat to the air we breathe or other environmental reasons. Some learning disabilities can come from brain damage when a mother drinks or abuses drugs since babies that are born crack and heroin addicted are likely to be developmentally delayed and diagnosed with some kind of learning disability later on when they begin school.

It’s going to take a lot of research to fully understand it’s diagnosis and how it can be tracked in DNA of parents to see if their child carries the trait of developing a learning disability later on down the line. But parents who want to learn more have an even bigger role as activists and supporters and helping other parents deal with this because it’s a comfort for the parents who are new to this to know they’re not alone and there is support for what they’re dealing with.

I don’t regret the obstacles I faced over the years, but I gained a new respect for myself and I hope that those who are like me will benefit from the resources out there to help them achieve success and to allow them to be who they want to be. My life has not been no different than the other person next to me with the exception I do learn things differently, but I am still special anyway and that goes for others like me as well.

See below for a list of famous faces that are learning disabled:

• Tracey Gold, actress
• Whoopi Goldberg, actress and comedienne
• Fantasia Barrino, singer American Idol 3rd season winner
• Bruce Jenner, Olympic athlete and sports commentator
• Greg Louganis, Olympic athlete, and sports commentator
• Charles Schwab, Financier and founder of Schwab Investments, Inc.
• Woodrow Wilson,23rd President of the United States
• Henry “The Fonz” Winkler, actor, producer, and director
• Pablo Picasso, Artist
• Tom Cruise, actor
• Richard Branson, CEO and founder of Virgin Records and Airways
• Leonardo DaVinci, Scientist, artist, Astronomer, and Philosopher
• Thomas Edison, inventor and scientist
• Jay Leno, comedian and late night talk show host
• Cher, singer and Oscar winning actress
• Albert Enstein, Physicist
• Steve McQueen, actor
• General George Patton, soldier
• Henry Ford, CEO and founder of Ford Motor Corporation
• F.Scott Fitzgerald, author
• Wilbur and Orville Wright,aviators
• Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of Great Britain
• Ludvig Van Beethoven, Composer and musician
• Sylvester Stallone, actor, writer, director, and CEO of Sly magazine
• Walt Disney, cartoonist
• Lindsay Wagner, actress
• Jules Verne, author
• Harry Belafonte, actor, singer, and social activist
• John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States
• Robert F. Kennedy, 65th U.S. Attorney General and New York State Senator
• Earvin “Magic” Johnson, pro basketball player, entrepreneur, and AIDS activist
• Carl Lewis, Olympic athlete and sports commentator
• John Lennon, singer and social activist
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer and musician
• Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, President of the United States
• Robin Williams, comedian and actor
• Louis Pasteur, biologist
• Danny Glover, actor and social activist
• Alexander Graham Bell, inventor
• Nelson Rockefeller, financier
• Eddie Rickenbacker,Indy Race car driver
• General William Westmoreland, Vietnam war veteran
• George Bernard Shaw, author and poet
• Werner Van Braun, scientist
• Galileo, Astronomer
• Suzanne Somers, actress and author
• Tom Smothers, singer and one half of the Smothers Brothers
• Hans Christian Andersen, author
• William Wrigley, Jr, chewing gum magnate and businessman