JoJo Siwa in Los Angeles in September 2023.Photo:Kevin Winter/Getty
Kevin Winter/Getty
JoJo Siwais opening up about living with dyslexia.On Monday, theDance Momsalum, 20, shared about what her day-to-day life is like with the learning disorder in the first-ever episode of her new iHeartMedia podcastJoJo Siwa Now.“Something about me is I’m a little bitdyslexic,” Siwa said as she tried to come up with a fun acronym to talk about her past, present and future selves, but confused the “f” in “future” as a “p” to come up with “triple P.”“Letters that are similar I get a little confused,” she explained. “It’s not bad. I can read, I can write, so it’s nothing that’s hard for me to deal with.“JoJo Siwa in Los Angeles in October 2023.Gilbert Flores/Variety via GettyHowever, the TikTok star gave an example of how dyslexia affects how she writes messages.“Say I’m writing like a handwritten card to somebody and I write ‘Happy birthday,’” Siwa began. “I will either do it all in caps or ‘happy’ would have a capital ‘H’ and then ‘birth’ would have a capital ‘B’ and then ‘day’ in ‘birthday,’ the ‘d’ would also have a capital ‘D.’”“Because my brain doesn’t register which way that ‘d’ or ‘b’ is supposed to go. They just look the same,” she added.The singer and actress has been open about discussing various aspects of her life on social media. She revealed in June that she found it “easier” tocome out as LGBTQonline after finding a supportive community there.“Just getting social media for me, it actually gave me asafe space when I came out,” Siwa toldE! News, adding that she “knew that even if everyone around me didn’t support me that there was gonna be people online that did.““And I knew that I was gonna find those people and I was really excited about that,” she continued. “I always told myself it was gonna be easier to come out online than it was in person. And I do believe that’s very true.“Siwa also shared at the time that she now feels she has found her rightful place online, telling E! News, “It’s been fun to be able to figure out what ways I get to be a part of that. You know what I mean? How I fit into the piece of the puzzle there.”
JoJo Siwais opening up about living with dyslexia.
On Monday, theDance Momsalum, 20, shared about what her day-to-day life is like with the learning disorder in the first-ever episode of her new iHeartMedia podcastJoJo Siwa Now.
“Something about me is I’m a little bitdyslexic,” Siwa said as she tried to come up with a fun acronym to talk about her past, present and future selves, but confused the “f” in “future” as a “p” to come up with “triple P.”
“Letters that are similar I get a little confused,” she explained. “It’s not bad. I can read, I can write, so it’s nothing that’s hard for me to deal with.”
JoJo Siwa in Los Angeles in October 2023.Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty
Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty
However, the TikTok star gave an example of how dyslexia affects how she writes messages.
“Say I’m writing like a handwritten card to somebody and I write ‘Happy birthday,’” Siwa began. “I will either do it all in caps or ‘happy’ would have a capital ‘H’ and then ‘birth’ would have a capital ‘B’ and then ‘day’ in ‘birthday,’ the ‘d’ would also have a capital ‘D.’”
“Because my brain doesn’t register which way that ‘d’ or ‘b’ is supposed to go. They just look the same,” she added.
The singer and actress has been open about discussing various aspects of her life on social media. She revealed in June that she found it “easier” tocome out as LGBTQonline after finding a supportive community there.
“Just getting social media for me, it actually gave me asafe space when I came out,” Siwa toldE! News, adding that she “knew that even if everyone around me didn’t support me that there was gonna be people online that did.”
“And I knew that I was gonna find those people and I was really excited about that,” she continued. “I always told myself it was gonna be easier to come out online than it was in person. And I do believe that’s very true.”
Siwa also shared at the time that she now feels she has found her rightful place online, telling E! News, “It’s been fun to be able to figure out what ways I get to be a part of that. You know what I mean? How I fit into the piece of the puzzle there.”
source: people.com
