At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school was very very stressful.

I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.

My father would often work all night and sleep during the day, so for us, dinner might be pancakes, and breakfast might be beef stroganoff.

When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.

At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school was very very stressful.

I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible.

I definitely have managed to overcome dyslexia now to become a fully functional human being but things were a lot more difficult when I was younger.