Repressed by an undiagnosed learning difficulty, poor health, and trauma as a child, Dr. Stephen R. Phinney felt he had been born rejected by life itself. Yet decades later, he is a prolific writer followed by millions, and his message is one of perseverance. Phinney was born in San Antonio, Texas, in 1955, spending the first five years of his life in an oxygen tent—which he refers to as a “bubble”—as he was allergic to many different things including various forms of food, human touch, and textures. “As it turned out, I was allergic to the environment, including the air most people were accustomed to breathing,” Phinney told The Epoch Times via email. “I was labeled ‘The Bubble Boy.'” “My first memories were seeing condensation on the inside of my ‘bubble’ and, as told by my mother, holding me through latex gloves attached to the walls of this tent,” Phinney …