Jake Posner has revealed the incredible difficulties he has had to overcome before being unveiled as a new ambassador for the British Dyslexia Association. As a child at school, he became a self-confessed 'class clown' as his way of trying to get attention from teachers and deflecting his frustration that he couldn't complete his work.
Jake was diagnosed with dyslexia - a common learning difficulty - at the age of eight and struggled to read and write, and understand numbers. But his condition also impacted his organisational skills. The Mirror reports how his maths teacher once said he was her worst-ever student and, at 16, he was kicked out of school with one GCSE, having no clue where to go next.
Just over a decade later, the 28-year-old, of Radlett, Hertfordshire, has founded his own sustainable fashion brand which embraces his condition and this Dyslexia Awareness Week (October 3-7) has been announced as the new ambassador for the British Dyslexia Association. Jake wants to show others how being labelled shouldn't mean you're destined for failure, as he felt, and argues neurodivergence awareness should be supported further in the UK.
