Gavin Newsom is lieutenant governor of the state of California. He also has dyslexia. Watch as Ryan, a 13-year-old who also has dyslexia, asks Newsom questions about growing up with a reading...
========== Hi! It's nice to meet you. How you doing,
man? What should I call you? Something profound, I don't know. Gavin, for sure. But
don't call me a jerk! I don't like being called a jerk. When you were diagnosed
with dyslexia, how did it feel? Well, I, you know, it's interesting. I was
diagnosed, but my mother never told me, so for years and years and years she hid it
from me. And I actually, it's interesting, it was an interesting way of finding out
at least. Is, she worked two jobs, so she was, she was a single mom so she wasn't
around a lot. And so I remember going upstairs, and it's a way of saying only
this, that I went upstairs to her room, and on her desk there was a bunch
of papers, and my name was on the paper, and I reme...