I just want to say that my story of literacy is that I struggled with it extremely. My struggles with reading had a profound impact on me growing up. The story, though, is of overcoming this great difficulty. Through sheer work and perseverance I overcame all my difficulties and reached the point where I could read and understand 1000-page highly technical or philosophical documents. I had achieved a pretty high level of numeracy. I learned computer programming and theoretical computer science from 2012 on, mostly using MOOCs in the beginning, massive open on-line courses. I took courses in many fields of mathematics as well. One day, I couldn't read more than one or two sentences at a time and another day years later, I was reading large abstract works of philosophy and critical theory, other more technical documents, etc., as well as producing a body of literary work spanning thousands of pages. I've written poetry, fiction, mostly novellas and novels and non-fiction, such as philosophical essays, or discourse analysis, content analysis, etc.
The story is of overcoming hardship. Not of bragging. It was really hard, but with grit and determination I was able to go from functional illiteracy to independent scholar over the course of 20+ years. It's meant to inspire and give hope to those who struggle with literacy.
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