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sentence: As a young boy, I struggled to achieve tasks that came  easily  to most.I had problems writing, reading and especially speaking.I did not talk the way   normal  kids did and did not respond to
  questions or stay alert to my surroundings.My reading was poor  even  with teachers helping
  me, and my speech was hard to  understand  .My writing was not at the  [MASK]  it should have been.Even simple things like knowing my left from my right or being able to snap my fingers were   problems   .My mother  observed  all
  my challenges and, as a professor with a Ph.D., decided to  change  the situation early in my development.She did not want me to  struggle  .After a while,   we  did
  indeed conquer all the problems that had troubled me.She spent hours every day  teaching  me everything I needed to know, determined to help me learn.