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title: 'Video: Teen with dyslexia shares what he wishes people knew about him'
description: Teen with dyslexia Cody Trine shares his success story in this video from the National Center for Learning Disabilities. Find out what he wishes people knew about him, and more.
slug: video-teen-with-dyslexia-shares-what-he-wishes-people-knew-about-him
author: The Understood Team
published: '2019-08-05T16:03:47.058Z'
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source_url: https://www.understood.org/en/articles/video-teen-with-dyslexia-shares-what-he-wishes-people-knew-about-him
lang: en
---

# Video: Teen with dyslexia shares what he wishes people knew about him

Cody Trine won the 2015 Allegra Ford Thomas Scholarship — an award from Understood’s founding partner, the [National Center for Learning Disabilities](https://www.ncld.org/) (NCLD). Cody has dyslexia. In this video from NCLD, he shares what he wants people to know about him. He also talks about his biggest challenge and why he wants to become a police officer.

[![Video](https://cdn-images.understood.org/p0qf7j048i0q/57B4F1BF86D446E4818DC2EDA3506A40/75a8d263c2098630e240600c447ee655/VideoTeenWithDyslexiaTalks_AboutTheImportanceOfAcceptingHelp.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/embed/AJWtGocdrmM)

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