Deedee Jansen, a seventh grader at Santa Fe School for the Arts and Sciences in Santa Fe, NM, read and responded to the online YES! Elman takes people’s stories—their actual words—about what they fear, and uses art to visually interpret those fears. “How Do You Spell: Afraid, Dyslexia, Faer.” Illustration by Julie M. ElmanHow Do You Spell: Afriad, Dislexsa, FaerTo me, letters are not soldiers but hip-hop artists. Magazine article, “This Artist Collects Your Worst Fears and Turns Them Into Something Great,” it states that Julie M. Elman collects fears and makes them beautiful. The cage I find myself in collects my fear about dyslexia and my fear that others misunderstand my learning differences.