“It’s a hurdle, but in the Olympics, what do you do when you when you come up to a hurdle? You jump over it.”

Being a scientist is hard. Being a scientist with a learning disability is harder, but it can be done.

Recently, astrophysicist and scientific communicator extraordinaire Neil deGrasse Tyson had a speaking engagement during which an eight-year-old girl named Lois asked him if there were any people in his field with dyslexia.