À 33 ans, il a décidé d'apprendre à lire

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"J'ai compris que ma vie ne changerait pas tant que je ne lirais pas."  Parce qu'il n'est jamais trop tard, à 33 ans, Oliver a décidé d'apprendre à lire. Il raconte.  (via Brut America)

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00:00 "What's up ? I can't read, but that's alright.

00:02 Because if you've been following along,

00:03 you know we're on a journey to fix that."

00:04 Voici Oliver James.

00:06 À 33 ans, il a décidé d'affronter une très vieille peur

00:09 et d'apprendre à lire.

00:10 Il raconte sa progression sur TikTok.

00:12 "Up to now, I always thought bickering was just something

00:16 children did and that they outgrew it.

00:19 I've read this about five times already

00:22 and I'm still having trouble with it.

00:24 But hey, that's what it is."

00:26 Oliver, comme 21% des adultes aux États-Unis,

00:29 est en situation d'illettrisme,

00:31 c'est-à-dire qu'il ne lit pas assez bien

00:32 pour accomplir certaines tâches quotidiennes ou professionnelles.

00:35 "I felt like I was only being able to go so far.

00:39 And I could see people with so many gifts and talents

00:41 and doing things.

00:42 And I'm like, I could do that.

00:44 But then I would always find myself being scared

00:46 because I couldn't read.

00:48 You didn't learn in high school, you're done.

00:49 You can't learn anymore.

00:50 You didn't go to college, you're done.

00:52 You're not going to get a good job.

00:53 That's kind of how the world kind of showed me.

00:55 But at 30, I was like, I can't keep doing this.

00:58 And that's when I started to realize,

00:59 like, if I don't start reading,

01:00 I won't be able to function as a 60-year-old."

01:03 "Where do you think I had to go?

01:04 The library!"

01:06 "So I'm reading the diary of Anne Frank.

01:08 Right now we're on page 30.

01:09 Dearest Kitty,

01:11 I've deserted you for an entire month,

01:14 but so little has happened."

01:16 À l'école primaire,

01:18 Oliver souffrait de difficultés d'apprentissage

01:20 et il était souvent exclu de la classe.

01:22 "I was a kid who didn't know how to sit still.

01:24 They didn't know how to teach me.

01:27 They kind of treated me like,

01:28 as if I could not cooperate

01:30 like any other kid in the class.

01:32 It was like, you got to go.

01:33 And I remember I used to have to go straight

01:34 to the principal's office.

01:36 That was my schooling.

01:37 I would walk straight into the principal's office

01:39 and I would sit at a desk that would face a wall.

01:41 And I was probably first or second grade around then."

01:43 Il a finalement été placé dans une classe spéciale

01:45 pour les enfants atteints de troubles du comportement.

01:47 Il raconte que les enseignants faisaient passer la discipline

01:49 avant l'éducation

01:51 et pratiquaient les châtiments corporels.

01:53 "It was really hard for me to, you know,

01:55 think about school, reading,

01:57 anything that had to do with school."

01:58 "I couldn't understand it fully,

02:00 but I knew it was different

02:01 because everybody in this class was similar to me.

02:03 They had these similar behaviors.

02:05 The teaching went from talking to me

02:07 and telling me, 'Don't do that.

02:08 Oliver, sit down.'

02:09 It went from that to slams and chokes.

02:12 It was a normal school with a special class.

02:13 I didn't know that.

02:14 I knew it after they started putting hands on me.

02:16 Then I knew I was like, 'This is different.'

02:18 They didn't do this at the last school

02:19 when I didn't pay attention."

02:21 À 20 ans, Oliver s'est retrouvé en prison.

02:23 Selon le département de la justice américain,

02:26 au moins un quart des détenus adultes

02:28 ont effectué une grande partie de leur scolarité

02:30 dans des classes d'enseignement spécialisées.

02:32 "I thought for a long time, I believed myself

02:34 when I went to prison,

02:35 but I realized my life was set up to go to prison.

02:37 I got out of prison, I went back to doing the same things.

02:40 I felt my life leading right back to going to prison.

02:43 I was just like, 'Ah!'

02:44 And I'm not a prisoner, I'm not a criminal.

02:47 I didn't want to be that."

02:48 "I realized that my life will not change

02:51 unless I go read.

02:53 So at 34 years old, I'm reading books like 'The Giving Tree'."

02:55 Même s'il connaissait les bases de la lecture,

02:57 Oliver n'était pas capable d'effectuer certaines tâches

02:59 de la vie courante,

03:00 comme remplir des formulaires

03:02 ou répondre à des messages écrits.

03:03 "I used to get a lot of anxiety going out to eat

03:06 because I didn't know how to read menus.

03:07 I would just get familiar foods if I have to."

03:10 "I knew I had to always make these lies up my whole life.

03:15 Everything I had to do, it had to be like a lie.

03:17 I had to figure out how to get over

03:18 so I can be right there with somebody.

03:21 As long as I'm there, then everything would work out.

03:23 So I did that with everything.

03:25 Everything that you can name in my life,

03:26 like filling out forms, like anything I had to do,

03:29 I would always have somebody that would,

03:31 you know, take a liking to me.

03:33 Then I'm like, they're willing to give it to me,

03:35 I'm going to take it."

03:35 Aujourd'hui, Oliver partage son expérience

03:38 avec ses milliers de followers sur TikTok.

03:40 "And I sat in my bed,

03:42 I turned the camera on and I said,

03:43 'What's up? I can't read.'

03:45 I even felt like sweating when I was saying it

03:47 and then I posted it.

03:48 Boom.

03:49 And then the response was immediate."

03:50 "The world told me I was stupid.

03:59 You know, when I was in school,

04:00 the world told me I wasn't going to amount to nothing.

04:02 The world told me that,

04:03 'If you don't know how to read, you don't do this.'

04:04 If you don't know what...

04:04 They told me everything against what I felt.

04:06 Because I realized once I gave myself that power,

04:09 I started to understand I got to live as who I wanted to be."

04:12 "We're reading 'Outsiders.'

04:13 I'm learning to read and this is the second book.

04:16 This book, this one right here.

04:18 Wowee!

04:20 This one, I understand it."

04:22 [Explosion]

04:24 [SILENCE]

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