Jun 17, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min · 12 segments
In this spotlight episode, Danielle Cudjoe-Michalski sheds light on dyslexia and entrepreneurship, sharing her personal and professional journey as a neurodivergent woman with dyslexia and ADHD. With…
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And when you mentioned your dyslexia diagnosis, you said that the person that diagnosed you said something like, "I don't know how you got through school without realizing." What was it like at school for you?
So I, I don't know if any other, anybody else feels this way, um, and I always say this 'cause I feel like I might be the weird ND'er, but I had two thought patterns.
All of those same self-talk that you get, and a lot of neurodivergent people will sit there going, "Yes." Particularly when you're undiagnosed, particularly in schooling, you know, it's really difficult.
You're trying to figure out who you are at all ages, and you're still developing.
But my second prong, or second thought that I have, and I've kind of always had that, and it might be because I was a speaker, and I was always chatting from when I was, like, two, three years old.
Like, I understand, and it, I, and I, and I describe it now like, a bit like you're talking to someone in a foreign language.
So shout out for anybody who's probably outside of the UK who knows English, 'cause they probably relate to this.
So you know English, and you know your s- your native tongue really, really well.
And then the other person only knows their native tongue, and so you're trying to talk to them, and you're trying to explain, and they're just not getting it.
And you're like, "But I understand what you're saying, and I understand what I'm saying.
But when I translate it, you're just not getting it." And that's, that's the confusion.
That's what I found was really difficult, but that also gave me this slight, slightly inner confidence that I wasn't silly.
And it's mainly because I may do things and, and say things, and then someone else, you know, the typical thing where someone else might mention it, or the teacher might give you the answer, and I'd be like, "Yeah, I got it right." So I'm not stupid because logically, and my brain is very logical, if I did this, and this is the, and I, this is the result, and that's the outcome, then surely that shows that I did know it.
And when you mentioned your dyslexia diagnosis, you said that the person that diagnosed you said something like, "I don't know how you got through school without realizing." What was it like at school for you?
So I, I don't know if any other, anybody else feels this way, um, and I always say this 'cause I feel like I might be the weird ND'er, but I had two thought patterns.
All of those same self-talk that you get, and a lot of neurodivergent people will sit there going, "Yes." Particularly when you're undiagnosed, particularly in schooling, you know, it's really difficult.
You're trying to figure out who you are at all ages, and you're still developing.
But my second prong, or second thought that I have, and I've kind of always had that, and it might be because I was a speaker, and I was always chatting from when I was, like, two, three years old.
Like, I understand, and it, I, and I, and I describe it now like, a bit like you're talking to someone in a foreign language.
So shout out for anybody who's probably outside of the UK who knows English, 'cause they probably relate to this.
So you know English, and you know your s- your native tongue really, really well.
And then the other person only knows their native tongue, and so you're trying to talk to them, and you're trying to explain, and they're just not getting it.
And you're like, "But I understand what you're saying, and I understand what I'm saying.
But when I translate it, you're just not getting it." And that's, that's the confusion.
That's what I found was really difficult, but that also gave me this slight, slightly inner confidence that I wasn't silly.
And it's mainly because I may do things and, and say things, and then someone else, you know, the typical thing where someone else might mention it, or the teacher might give you the answer, and I'd be like, "Yeah, I got it right." So I'm not stupid because logically, and my brain is very logical, if I did this, and this is the, and I, this is the result, and that's the outcome, then surely that shows that I did know it.
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