JoJo Siwa opens up about living with dyslexia.
On Monday, Dance moms alum, 20, shared what her day-to-day life is like with a learning disorder in the first episode of her new iHeartMedia podcast JoJo Siwa now.
“Something about me is that I’m a bit dyslexic,” Siwa said as she tried to come up with a fun acronym to talk about her past, present and future, but replaced the “f” in “future” with a “p” to get “triple P.”
“I’m a little confused by the letters that are similar,” she explained. “It’s not bad. I can read, I can write, so it’s no problem for me to deal with.”
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JoJo Siwa in Los Angeles in October 2023.
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But the TikTok star gave an example of how dyslexia affects her texting.
“Let’s say I’m writing to someone as a handwritten greeting and I write ‘Happy Birthday,'” Siwa began. “I’ll either capitalize it all or ‘happy’ would have a capital ‘H’ and then ‘birth’ would have a capital ‘B’ and then the ‘day’ in ‘birthday’, the ‘d’ would also have a capital ‘D.’ ‘”
“Because my brain doesn’t register which way that ‘d’ or ‘b’ should go. They just look the same,” she added.
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The singer and actress openly discussed various aspects of her life on social networks. In June, she revealed that she found it “easier” to come out as LGBTQ online after finding a supportive community there.
“Just getting social media, it actually gave me a safe space when I came out,” Siwa told E! News, adding that she “knew that even if everyone around me didn’t support me, there would be people on the Internet who did.”
“And I knew I was going to find those people and I was really excited about that,” she continued. “I always told myself that it would be easier to go online than in person. And I believe that is very true.”
Siwa also stated at the time that she now feels she has found her true place online, telling E! News, “It was fun to figure out how I could be a part of it. You know what I mean? How I fit into a piece of the puzzle.”
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