One day Thomas Edison came home and gave a paper to his mother. He told her, "My teacher gave me this paper and told me to only give it to my mother."
His mother's eyes were tearful as she read the letter out loud to her child: Your sin is a genius. This school is too small for him and doesn't have enough good teachers for training him. Please teach him yourself.
After many, many years, after Edison's mother died and he was one of the greatest investors of the century, one day he was looking through old family things. Suddenly he saw a folded paper in the corner of a drawer in a desk. He took it and opened it up.
On the paper was written: Your son is addled (mentally ill). We won't let him come to school anymore.
Edison cried for hours and then he wrote in his diary: "Thomas Alva Edison was an addled child that, by her mother, became the genius of the century."
Moral: Never give up. Be confident
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