10 Things We Learned From Diamond Dallas Page On The Steve Austin Show

2. Overcoming Illiteracy

Steve reveals that DDP was illiterate until his thirties due to having dyslexia, and asks how you make it that far in life without being able to read. He says that he had severe attention deficit disorder as a kid, but no one had diagnosed it. Stone Cold inquires how he made it through school and he responds that he cheated. He admits that he was always active in class and participated verbally but whenever there would be instances when the class would be called on to read aloud he would pull another student's hair or slap them in order to get sent to the office. At the age of 31 DDP set a goal for himself to read an entire book cover-to-cover, and he would read one page per day. He would leave notes all over his house to remind himself to get in his one page, and it took him a year to do so. Around that time Kimberly had came into his life and Page was working on reading aloud, and she asked him to read to her, When she heard him struggling she thought he was goofing around, and after he told her she wasn't she told him that he was dyslexic, which he had never heard of. Dallas continued to practice until he eventually enrolled in a center to help children and adults overcome learning disabilities, and that was when he truly learned how to deal with dyslexia.