Help peter raise money

One of my earliest childhood memories is going to Charlton Hospital with my mom for speech classes. My first langue wasn't English, or even French like my dad, it was my own mix of gibberish and more gibberish. Thankfully after going to this speech therapy program plus others in my schools, up until I was in 8th grade. Now I take a mic once a week and host trivia, saying all sorts of words, and get a sold 90% of them right! It's mostly names that get me now.

However my speech and ability to say words isn't the only thing that I had issues with growing up, and still do today, my biggest thing is my spelling, when I say I'm the world's worst speller, I'm not joking! I was diagnosed with Phonemic Awareness, which is a form of dyslexia, that affects the way I hear syllables, making it harder for me to speak, read, and spell. So sadly I have never been able to say the alphabet backward, in fact, most people with dyslexia can't.

Because of this growing up, I was no stranger to being in special learning programs, whether it be a small class or one-on-one. Programs such as speech therapy, the Wilison Reading Program, IEPs, title 1's, you name it, I've been in it. These programs and mostly these teachers helped me out so much! They taught me different ways to help me learn how to read, spell, and speak. If that didn't work they never gave up, they changed the lesson to help me, until it worked. They taught me tricks to help me, such as contact clues, which now I'm a whizz at! They gave me tools such as spell-checking machines (this was before you can just use Sriri) and so much more. And most of all they gave me support and hope that I can do it, it might be harder, and it might take more time, but it will happen.

Truth be told I love writing and like to think I'm not too bad at it. My day job has a lot of writing in it, from posting on social media platforms to writing blogs. Those tricks, Siri, google, and lots of proofreading help a lot!

That is why I'm sitting on the board for Why Not A Pear, and that is why I'm running to raise money for them! Why Not A Pear raises money for programs for children that learn differently. For the same programs that helped me. So they can give their students the tools, the lessons, the support, and the confidence that they need to live their life. While being involved with the Pear, I've had some great opportunities to help and give back and make it better for kids that need help learning now!

I hope that if you can donate, you do to help our future generations learn, grow, and be confident in who they are no matter what disability they have. All because you have a disability doesn't (always) mean you can't do it, it just means it takes more time, and more practice to do it.

Thank you for your support. You may know I have run the Falmouth Road Race before, and I'm looking forward to running it, again this year! Thank you in advance for donating and supporting my run every year!!