School was a daily struggle for the standup. Now that she can write on her own terms, doing so serves as a release from lifeAt school, I feared English. My teacher, Mr Griffiths, was great, but my essays and coursework never lived up to much. I am not a natural scholar and I have dyslexia, so school was a daily struggle. I didn't want the other children to know how hard I found everything, so I became the class clown…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AM on January 2, 2019