The Boy Who Talked to Dogs: A Memoir By Martin McKenna

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When Martin McKenna was growing up in Garryowen, Ireland, in the 1970s, he felt the whole world knew him as just “that stupid boy.” Badly misunderstood by his family and teachers, Martin escaped from endless bullying by running away from home and eventually adopting—or being adopted by—six street dogs. Camping out in barns, escaping from farmers, and learning to fend for himself by caring for his new friends, Martin discovered a different kind of language, strict laws of behavior, and strange customs that defined the world of dogs. More importantly, his canine companions helped him understand the vital importance of family, courage, and self-respect—and that he wasn’t stupid after all. Their lessons helped Martin make a name for himself as the “Dog Man” in Australia, where he now lives and dispenses his hard-earned wisdom to dog owners who are sometimes baffled by what their four-legged friends are trying to tell them.An emotional and poignant story seasoned with plenty of Frank McCourt–style humor, The Boy Who Talked to Dogs is an inspiration to anyone who’s ever been told he or she won’t amount to anything. It’s also a unique, fascinating look into canine behavior. In these pages, Martin shows how modern life has conditioned dogs to act around humans, in some ways helpful, but in other ways unnatural to their true instincts, and how he has benefited enormously from learning to “talk dog.”

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I would rate this book as required reading for every parent of a child with dyslexia and ADHD. It should be a textbook for every education degree. Too many parents and teachers assume that all children's behavior is wilfull; in children who have ADHD it is not, as McKenna makes crystal clrear. The bullying that can come from all sides when teachers and administration are themselves bullies who do not intervene in the bullying among students is illustrated here with saddening clarity. In McKenna's case, his only way to protect himself from bullying at school and home was to isolate himself by running away.While society has made it criminal to steal and trespass, it did not and has not made bullying criminal seven for adults who are emotionally and mentally abusing, harming, and/or destroying children. McKenna was forced by what should be criminal behaviors from people who should have helped and guided him into actual criminal behaviors to stay alive. No person who has bullied another should be proud of his behavior, but McKenna is rightly proud of his ability to survive "feral"--raising himself and keeping himself sheltered, fed, and emotionally supported when the expected social structures failed him miserably.McKenna's story is his own. Born last of a set of triplets, he was at first an oddity. But as a child with ADHD and what can only be assumed is dyslexia, school was a never-ending nightmare with no accommodations for his straying attention or impulsivity or inability to make sense of printed language. Worldwide our one-size-fits-all education systems assume Try Harder is a valid teaching philosophy for every child long after it has been proven for some children that it is not. McKenna's passionate illustration of his feelings of failure, worthlessness, and social isolation tear at our hearts. His telling of his mistreatment at every level of care makes it painfully clear what a miracle it is that he could find for himself ways to cope and heal emotionally. With the intelligence so often overlooked or ignored in children with learning and behavioral differences, McKenna found emotional grounding and support among a pack of dogs and then observed them so closely that he discovered how dogs communicate with each other and what drives many of their behaviors. He discovered that if he used the same communication behaviors, the dogs accepted it as humans accept our language. Then he managed, despite dyslexia, to communicate his entire story to us in writing, making this what I consider one of the best inspirational books I have read in years. It is at once an expose of what parental alcoholism and bullying does to children, what abuse and bullying from adults at school does as it spreads example of the resilience of the spirit and triumph of YES I CAN!Martin McKenna's book should be required reading in families where ADHD and dyslexia exist and for all students of education so the adults around children like him will know the struggle is real and the potential for abuse is real. The fact that McKenna is a published writer and his abusers are not is a testament to the human ability to overcome obstacles and achieve healing. I recommend this book as an inspirational coming of age memoir that will help many of us appreciate what it means to be "normal" and to appreciate the hidden potential of those society considers disabled.FIVE STARS.

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