Finding Your Talent: Marcos Allen and His Love of Art
Many kids with learning and attention issues build self esteem through their strengths and talents. For some, that's sports. For others, it's music. For Marcos Allen, the National Center...
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Why I started getting into art and why it became my safe haven. When I was back in middle school, and even when I was younger, me and my friends we used to draw. We created our own little monsters and we named, I don't even, I think we named them snuffs or something. And then we learned that was a cigarette brand and then we stopped calling them that. But that was always something when I went to middle school, and I felt crappy because of all, how I've been feeling because of my LD, in school, that was always something that I would, that people would be able to say "oh, nice job," or like, "that looks really good." That was always something that I got, and having someone say nice job, I never got that at school, except for when I was...
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Why I started getting into art and why it became my safe haven. When I was back in middle school, and even when I was younger, me and my friends we used to draw. We created our own little monsters and we named, I don't even, I think we named them snuffs or something. And then we learned that was a cigarette brand and then we stopped calling them that. But that was always something when I went to middle school, and I felt crappy because of all, how I've been feeling because of my LD, in school, that was always something that I would, that people would be able to say "oh, nice job," or like, "that looks really good." That was always something that I got, and having someone say nice job, I never got that at school, except for when I was...
