Steadfast Sanity

Where broken becomes beautiful

childhood

  • Learning Disabled: My Special School Part Two Culture Shock The special school only went through eighth grade. That was always the plan—intensive intervention designed to rewire your brain, then release you back into the wild. I had tools now. Strategies. A Blue Book full of sound patterns burned into my memory. Three and a half Read more

  • Learning Disabled: My Special School Part One Author’s Note: What follows is a story recalled from childhood memories. I am telling it now as a thirty-something adult, which means the lens has changed. A child experiences things one way; an adult understands them differently. That doesn’t make the childhood memories less valid—it just means I’m Read more