Category Archives: Personal Stories

He failed his A Levels and can’t spell – but now runs his own company

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Cameron Bell refused to let his struggles through school years hold him back in life. Now, he’s living proof of what you can achieve when you set your mind to it.

Cameron, from Bolton, is dyslexic, and found school a struggle from the earliest age. He scraped through his GCSEs but then failed his A-levels at Eccles College.

But undeterred, he was determined to get to university eventually. By hard graft, he ended up excelling at the prestigious London School of Economics, went on to high flying roles with billion-dollar valued companies and is now the CEO of his own company after receiving the backing of a prestigious entrepreneur scheme.

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Dyslexic thinking made me the scientist I am today

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Progress has always been made by people who think differently. Neurodiversity helps us think outside the box – and when we do, the sky’s the limit

That matters, because dyslexia is still so often described only in terms of what it makes difficult. And yes, some things are difficult. Reading and writing are still a slog, processing information can take more brain power than I would like – and my spelling remains gloriously unreliable. But difficulty is not the whole story. Not even close.

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