fodder
映画監督のスティーブン・スピルバーグが「Friends of Quinn (原題) 」という学習障がい者のためのサイトで、難読症であることを告白しました。
used his own differences as fodder for~のfodderは「 飼い葉，まぐさ、食料」ということですが、ここでは"inferior or readily available material used to supply a heavy demand"(Webster）の意味で（例：She often used her friends' problems as fodder for her novels.）、「（障害を逆手にとって）キャラクターづくりの糧として利用した」となりますか。
このところ多くの有名人たちが難読症を告白していますが、どのケースでも「障がい」が新たな才能への開花につながる可能性を示唆していて、大変、心強く思います。（UG）
HIS FIGHT HELPED SHAPE SOME OF HIS MOVIES
Steven Spielberg has decided to talk about the battle with dyslexia he has struggled with his whole life, and how it has made him a stronger person.
It might be hard to believe one of the most successful directors in Hollywood has battled with a learning disability, but it's true. Steven Spielberg has decided to open up about his fight with dyslexia.
Spielberg sat down with Friends of Quinn, an organization that works to help people with what they call learning differences, or LDs, to talk about what he has been through and how it has made him a stronger person.
"When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set," he said.
The surprising thing is that even though Spielberg has faced dyslexia for years, he was only diagnosed a few years ago. This is because of the lack of awareness of dyslexia when he was growing up.
"While he wishes that there had been more awareness of LDs in the '50s, he acknowledges the impact of his supportive parents, who helped him endlessly with his studies, making sure he did as well as he possibly could in school," said Friends of Quinn.
It's also possible that dealing with dyslexia has helped him to become as successful as he is today. The director is responsible for such movies as E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, Jaws, Schindler's List, The Color Purple, and Raiders of the Lost Ark.
"I never felt like a victim," he said in the interview. "Movies really helped me ... kind of saved me from shame, from guilt, from putting it on myself, from making it my burden when it wasn't my burden. I think making movies was my great escape, it was how I could get away from all that."
Spielberg has tried to turn having dyslexia into a positive experience. In the interview, he said he knows in advance that it will take him twice as long as other people to read a book or script, but he turns the reading into a pleasurable experience instead of something he just has to get through. And it seems to have ended up being a good thing for all of his viewers, as he said he used his own differences as fodder for creating the characters in The Goonies.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xtx7d2_steven-spielberg-opens-up-about-learning-disability_people
