Article by Michael Pietrzak
John was born on Thanksgiving Day in 1954, but for him, life wasn't much to be thankful for. A birth defect caused John to wear painful leg braces, and his first-grade teacher told his parents he would never read, write, or amount to anything in life. (Dyslexia and speech impediments, both of which John had, weren't well understood in the '50s.)
Accepting that he was worthless, John dropped out of school at age 14 and moved …
Source: Recruiter
