High School Dropout to Harvard: My Life With Dyslexia

A sweet, funny and heartfelt memoir

Ever since he was young, John D Rodrigues longed to be good at something, but by the time he was a teenager, his inability to sit still, the lack of volume control in his voice, and his unusual ability to break almost every drinking glass his parents owned—had earned him the label “social misfit.”

It was not until he was thirty and diagnosed with a learning disability (Dyslexia and ADHD), that he understood why he did things in such an unusual and creative way. That understanding transformed the way he saw himself—and the world. A great storyteller, Rodrigues has written a moving, darkly funny memoir about a life that has taken him from creating elaborate sculptures out of ice to building a family of his own. It’s an unexpected, sly, indelible account—sometimes peculiar yet always deeply human.