Let me first tell you a little bit about who I am and why I wrote You're Amazing And I'll Prove It! for you.
A number of years ago I took an aptitude test by Johnson O’Connor which revealed I have the aptitudes of an inventor. Since then I have acquired a patent on a basketball shooting accuracy trainer and worked on other patent pending inventions.
Inventors are extremely inquisitive and will ask questions about the most obscure things. I have had this trait all of my life of asking questions no-one else asks. For this reason, since I was an extremely young child people have told me that I am crazy for asking such unusual questions. So that is where the name The Crazy Inventor came from.
The next thing I would like you to know about me is that I’m extremely passionate about people.
I love bringing out the best in others. The reason I’m so passionate about helping you is because of some of the hardships I went through as a child. As I share my story with you, I do not want you to feel sorry for me. It’s not what I went through that matters, what matters is what I learned from these hardships and the incredibly simple techniques that were used to get me past all my baggage so that you can benefit from.
Now to tell you the part of MY STORY that will matter to you...
I was born essentially blind and was misdiagnosed as being mentally slow. I had five older siblings.
All of them straight A students.
However when I, little Neal, came along it was a different story.
To my parents and siblings I was mentally slow, and I was most definitely very clumsy.
When it was time for me to read I couldn’t do it. Heck, I couldn’t even catch a ball.
My parents took me to see a doctor.
They diagnosed (little Neal) as, and I’ll use this term once and only once, but it was the word that was used on me daily for my entire youth.
They diagnosed me as RETARDED. From this point on my parents, siblings, some teachers, and the kids at school called me the “little ______”. Can you imagine the mental baggage that would accumulate from years and years of a child being treated this way by the people he trusted the most?
Nowadays we would say I was mentally challenged. However, this kind way of saying it was sadly not my experience.