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I didn't learn how to read until I was at the end of fifth grade and 11 years old and held back.

My reading as a child was lazy and cowardly, and it is yet. I was afraid of encountering, in a book, something I didn't want to know.

I didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating.

I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.

I was a terrible reader as a kid. I mean terrible. Super slow and very unfocused. It took me forever to read a book, and I remember being well into high school and still needing my mom to sit down and read aloud to me so I could pass my English tests and such.

I had lots of trouble in school as a child, and I lost confidence. Teachers thought I was stupid. I learned to read very late, when I was 11. Dyslexia wasn't recognized then, and the assumption was you were incapable of thinking.

I had a lot of reading problems growing up.

I kind of go in waves with reading. Sometimes I read all the time, and sometimes I can't get settled enough to focus.

I wasn't really comfortable reading until I was 12.

I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare because I would mispronounce words or reconstruct things that weren't even there. That's when one of my teachers discovered I had a learning disability called dyslexia. Once I got help, I read very well!