When Emma Grede received her dyslexia diagnosis in her late 20s, she remembers it as the “most freeing thing.”

Growing up, the “Shark Tank” veteran and Skims founding partner says school was “always a struggle,” but students were rarely tested for dyslexia, a learning difference that involves difficulty reading due to differences in areas of the brain that process language, according to Mayo Clinic .

“Back then, I thought I was always a lazy learner,” Grede, 43, tells TODAY.com. “I thought I wasn’t smart, and I thought I wasn’t that capable because trying to do anything new would just exhaust me.”

Although she felt constantly “tired” and learning was “wearing me down,” Grede nevertheless calls herself a “relentless trier. ... I think that my natural resilience is quite hard, so I woul

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