Whoopi Goldberg's Journey With Dyslexia

Whoopi Goldberg’s Journey with Dyslexia “That’s why they hired me, honey,”said Goldberg (Blue 15) at the sixty-sixth annual Academy Awards in 1996. The crowd was amazed to see her up on the stage because she was the first women to be hosting in the show’s history. The crowd did not know one thing though; she had dyslexia. Dyslexia is a serious learning disease. Many people do not realize they actually have it.
Caryn Elaine Johnson was born on November 13, 1955 in New York City (Blue 19). She was born with dyslexia. Dyslexia is a disease where it causes problems with reading, writing, math, and speaking (Moragne 18). When people have dyslexia, it is usually hard to identify printed words (Landau 17). Also, it is easy to confuse or transpose
Dyslexia sort of got her where she is today in life. Some people just do not realize what she has gone through. It is hard to know whether or not people have dyslexia. In school Golberg needed a lot of extra help she was really struggling. She struggled the most with reading school had gotten really hard for her to understand. Whoopi’s teachers thought she was mentally challenged. No one really knew that it was actually dyslexia, they just thought it was some mental disorder. Her classmates thought she was just really stupid and did not know what she was doing (Lobb 83). Whoopi could not even read anything or remember anything that someone had read to her. Everything in school got frustrating it was not easy at
Today she is co-hosting the daytime talk show “The View.” She has been on it from 2007-present (A&E). Whoopi Goldberg was the first women and African American to ever host the Oscars, she hosted in 1996 (Blue 11) She is also the second African American to win an Oscar. Whoopi has been in eighty films and television shows (A&E). Also in her one woman show she had seventeen characters just for her (Lobb 84). Whoopi’s real name is Caryn Elaine Johnson. She was sitting with a bunch of friends at a table and they were talking about names. Her name was just sort of like a dare and after that it just stuck as Whoopi Goldberg (Blue 15). In Hollywood there is the stars on the Walk of Fame in 2001 Whoopi Goldberg’s was added (Lobb 87). Comic relief is a fundraiser for the homeless. She had raised forty million dollars just for that project. Whoopi never stops thinking about others