It sounds passive and done to us but it’s so easy to say. Somewhere in the grammar the event stops being something that happened and starts being something you are. A story about ourselves as if we are out of control.

As Movember draws to a close, I find myself reflecting on why this cause matters so deeply to me. It's personal. It's about my brother Phillip, and it's about the countless others who struggle in silence.

For most of my life, I suspected I might be dyslexic. I voiced it more than once, but was always batted away because I “loved reading too much.” So I carried on, working harder, building a career in PR, and quietly wondering why certain things always felt more difficult for me than for others.