By Michael Schulder:
(CNN) – Barbara Arrowsmith spent the first 26 years of her life unable to read a clock.
She spent the first 26 years of her life having to read and reread sentences dozens of times before she had a clue what they meant.
Barbara Arrowsmith had so many severe learning disabilities as a child that she would lay her school books neatly on her bed and cry over them until she had no more tears left. Then she would get to work. Barbara did have an excellent memory. That was her survival tool.
[1:49] “I had a verbatim auditory memory, so I could memorize things that I heard. And I had a photographic visual memory. So I really got by on memory and also on tremendous drive.”
