Now 54 with four young children, Newsom said he’s seeing dyslexia from a new parental perspective and that it has given him a deeper appreciation for his mother, Tessa Newsom. The discovery taught him to overcompensate for his flaws – something he says he still does. His mother, who was single and worked multiple jobs to support him and his sister, had kept the diagnosis from him in an effort to protect him.īut Newsom said learning that he had the disability was a relief because he realized why he had been struggling in school and that it had nothing to do with his intelligence.
Newsom didn’t learn he had dyslexia until he was 10, when he discovered some medical evaluations about him in his mother’s room. But in that caution, perhaps, is the biggest mistake in politics and why people can’t stand (politicians) anymore,” Newsom said.īut Newsom said people with dyslexia are “experts in mistakes.” And that’s hard, right? And that’s why we’re cautious. “The problem is, we’re in a racket, where anytime I make a mistake, man it’s all over the AP. He said he often pretended to be sick to get out of reading in class. Newsom said his dyslexia caused him to make a lot of mistakes in school that isolated him and made him feel anxious about reading. He has pledged to donate all proceeds from the book to the International Dyslexia Association. Newsom, a Democrat, left California on Monday to kick off a book tour in New York with interviews at national media outlets. And others that don’t (give up) start to discover that this is the greatest gift in their life and they can’t imagine a life without it. “So many folks (with dyslexia) do give up, and that has tragic consequences. I’m dealing with this every day,” Newsom said in an interview with The Associated Press. But beyond that, it’s a semi-autobiographical account of Newsom’s childhood that offers a glimpse of what shaped his personality and his politics. The book is presented as a bridge to help some children with dyslexia understand why it’s harder for them to read.
The book tells the story of a young boy named Ben who uses baseball to cope with his dyslexia, along with the help from a caring teacher and a friend. “Ben & Emma’s Big Hit,” published by Philomel books, came out Tuesday. But he was surprised when he did not find many. That prompted him to search for picture books about dyslexia to use with his kids. He’s had dyslexia most of his life, but it came into sharper focus for him recently after watching some of his own children fall behind in reading. Newsom accepts these challenges as part of his dyslexia – a common learning disability that makes it harder for him to read and do many things related to reading. That’s why his speeches are long, mostly from memory and sprinkled with some awkward moments when his words bump into each other. Gavin Newsom still can’t spell the word “dress.” He can’t read aloud from a piece of paper in public.
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