How Struggles With Dyslexia Made Mayor Eric Adams Stronger!

What did you gain that you use for good that you would not have gained had you not been exposed to the difficulties and the negativity in your earlier life? I think first what I tried to do as mayor is to look at why was I going through some of the negative things in my life and it came down to what I didn't realize I had undiagnosed learning disability dyslexia specifically and being bullied and teased and laughed at in school I didn't feel like I had a safe environment and because of that I did not want to go to school and I spent days spending on the streets. When you go to the origin of what caused our behavior, you have a better understanding. If the opportunities were there and I had a safe environment, I would have never had to find an alternative of some of the troubling things I did as a little boy. Young people are impressionable. They go through emotional trauma. And what I've learned from that, as life would teach you during your evolution, is that don't look down on people based on what actions they may experience. Because a story I always tell about 11-year-old child who was when I was a police lieutenant, the young man was arrested several times for robbery, gunpoint robbery. And as I dug into his story more, all of that anger he had is because his dad was in jail for homicide. His mother was on crack cocaine and selling herself on the streets and he was out of school for months and no one found her. And so if you would have just looked at the robbery he committed and not what caused it, this young man was raising himself at 11 years old. And I didn't look down on him because of the circumstances that created