One day when Thomas Eddison came home from school, he gave a letter from his teacher to his mother. The teacher told him specifically that it was only to be read by his mother. However, his mother read the letter aloud, her eyes were tearful, “Your son is a genius, this school is too small for him, and he doesn’t have enough good teachers training him. Please teach him yourself.” So, that’s exactly what his mother did, she taught him reading, writing, and math in homeschool.

Many years later his mother passed away and he was now one of the greatest inventors of the century. While he was going through her things, he found a folded paper hidden in
the corner of a drawer. It was the same letter from his childhood, but the paper had written on it, “Your son is mentally ill. We won’t let him come to school anymore.” Edison was shocked and wrote in his diary, “Thomas Alva Edison was an addled child, grown by a hero mother and became the genius of the century.”

It doesn’t matter what other people see in you or how they label you, you can do anything and exceed yourself into higher places if you believe in yourself. We can help people like Eddison's mother by motivating others and pushing past their flaws to help them succeed in life or their dreams.