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    Toyah Willcox I REMEMBER…

    Jul 20, 2021 5 minutes
    As told to Sean Egan

    MY CHILDHOOD WAS DEFINITELY PRIVILEGED. We always had hot water, heating, food, we had our own home, and I went to a private school.

    HAVING A LIMP, DYSLEXIA AND ALSO A LISP. I wasn’t even aware of it. I was having a perfectly happy childhood until people pointed out that I had a physical difference to everyone else in the room. Then, when I was sitting my 11-plus exam, people realised that I was not on the same page as everyone else because of my dyslexia. Alan Sugar, Richard Branson—you could name a thousand people who have exactly the same experience as me and we’re doing perfectly well. I have such a wonderful life and I have overcome so much.

    I wouldn’t say that that

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