University of Illinois - Chicago

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by Anonymous - August 16, 2003

Describe a challenge you have faced in your life and how you turned it into something positive.

Hyperlexia. This is a term that very few people have heard of, but it is a term that I have become intimately acquainted with. Though it is shrouded in mystery, I have grown to know it frighteningly well, better than anything on this earth. I know it as I know every part of myself - because hyperlexia is a part of myself.

Hyperlexia, by definition…

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