Let me tell you a little bit about me and why I wrote The Doorway – To A Lifetime Of Freedom. I guess we should cover my name first. Years ago I took an aptitude test and I do have the aptitudes of an inventor. Since then I have acquired a patent on a basketball shooting accuracy trainer and have had patents pending on other inventions.
This is where the inventor in my name comes from and the doctors most definitely have decided that I am crazy. I believe in running at my problems. You can’t deal with any problem unless you turn and face it. So if I’m crazy, I’ll deal with it.
The next thing I would like you to know about me is that I’m extremely passionate about people. I love bringing out the best in you. The
reason I’m so passionate is because of some of the hardships I went through as a child. I will tell you my story, but I do not want you to feel sorry for me. It’s not what I went through that matters, what matters is what I learned from these hardships and the incredibly simple techniques that were used to get me past all my baggage.
Now to tell you MY STORY...
I was born essentially blind and was misdiagnosed as being mentally slow. I had five older siblings.
All of them straight A students.
However when I, little Neal, came along it was a different story.
To my parents and siblings I was mentally slow, and I was most definitely very clumsy.
When it was time for me to read I couldn’t do it.
My parents took me to see a doctor.
They diagnosed (little Neal) as, and I’ll use this term once and only once, but it was the word that was used on me daily for my entire youth.
They diagnosed me as retarded. From this point on my parents, siblings, some teachers, and the kids at school called me the little ret..d. Can you imagine the baggage that would accumulate from years and years of a child being treated this way by the people he trusted the most?
Nowadays we would say I was mentally challenged. However, this kind way of saying it now was sadly not my experience.