![]() I completed the book and was picked up by HarperCollins and to my big surprise, my first book, 'Secret Child', became a top ten Sunday Times bestseller. It took a while, but soon I got going and had some help from a teacher and later spelling aides online. In the end, I got a laptop and started very slowly, tapping slowly on the keyboard. ![]() I tried recording my telling of the stories, but that didn't work either. It was hard to start, not able to write the conventional method of the pen to paper as there were just so challenging to string sentences together etc. However, I decided I had to find a way to confront my dyslexia and try to overcome this. It's what you call delegation.įast forward, I have always wanted to write a book, but the weaknesses of spelling and lack of English studies concerned me. I had good ears musically but could not sing nor play a musical instrument, but it did not stop me from working, and producing music films for so artists like, Queen, Bowie, Wham, Pretenders and so on! By the age of twenty, I started my own film production company and employed people around me who could make things happen and do things better than I could. I soon got into making productions, specialising in music. The world was my oyster at London Weekend Television getting to learn all there is to learn about the industry and how things got done. ![]() I wanted to leave school as soon as I can, knowing academia is just not my thing, and I can learn more from work and interacting with people.Īt fifteen I did leave school and got stuck into work and got into television at 16. This attitude made me become a very optimistic, cheerful, positive young person. I was not going to let dyslexia beat me or get in the way of my dreams. I worked out my weaknesses and strengths and got on with life. However, I adapted like most children do and try to work around my learning difficulty. The word dyslexia had not arrived in Ireland at that time. I was seen at that time to be slow as I could not read or spell, and I could not keep my attention in class. Born in Dublin, and lived in a secret community of over a hundred single mothers and children in the 1950s, my education was basic, with no books but lots of religion drummed into us.
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