6.
Gary Cohn grew up in a suburb of
Cleveland, in northeast Ohio. His family
was in the electrical contracting
business. This was in the 1970s, at a
time before dyslexia was routinely
diagnosed. He was held back a year in
elementary school because he couldn’t
read.^6 But, he said, “I didn’t do any
better the second time than I did the first
time.” He had a discipline problem. “I
sort of got expelled from elementary
school,” he explained. “I think when you
hit the teacher, you get expelled. It was
one of those disruptive incidents....I
was being abused. The teacher put me