Evian Johnson, or Evie, is one of the candidates for Miss Teen South Dakota.

“I’m trying to beat my goals of last year. I’ve spoken to a lot of classrooms all over our state,” said Evian.

The Brookings High School senior is still doing that, where she reads books that have a common theme: dyslexia.

Something she was diagnosed with dyslexia at a young age.

“I couldn’t read. The best my words moved like this in a wave. I could read the really big words. My favorite word to say is gluteus maximus, which is butt. I could read that as a little kid, but I couldn’t read the words at or the. My brain couldn’t comprehend those words, and it made me feel different in a bad way,” said Evian.

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