Having dyslexia

It didn't come as much of a surprise to my family, friends or my self when my college finally discovered I was dyslexic.My spellings, which I am sure there is multiple mistakes on here, are pretty bad along with my grammar. I also have a very bad memory and find it extremely hard to read unfamiliar words. So today I thought it was time for a non beauty type post but instead talk about my experiences with dyslexia. As I turned to reading a lot of these types of post before I was diagnosed.

My diagnosis was very late compared to most. For example one of my friends was diagnosed in year 4 whereas myself in year 12. At school I hated subjects like English and use to freak out when having to read out loud. Once I was doing a drama exam in which one of your drama lessons is recorded to be sent off to the examiner.  We went round in a circle reading out a paragraph each of a case study so I did what I always did, count how many people were before me found my chapters then re read it lots of times before it was my turn in order to not mess it up. However the boy before me was asked to read my paragraph as well. I lost it and could not read the simplest words such as 'mother' I looked up after 5 minutes of trying to read a 3 line paragraph and could feel my whole class looking at me like 'what the hell'. Of course that's not the only story if you are like me you will realise that this happens on a pretty much daily basis.

A lot of people suffer with dyslexia however most goes undiagnosed. When stalking through you lovely followers on bloglovin, I am aware most people reading my blog are still at school. If I have one tip to people who think they are dyslexic, have a test. I found out in the first couple of weeks at College and I am so thankful I got the test. Without it I would not of got extra time and a separate room to do my exams in which comes in very helpful.

There is a lot I could talk about regarding dyslexia, whether telling you all that being dyslexic does not make you stupid and such like however it is a very wide topic. Therefore I feel like a dyslexia Q&A would be easier, I am going to tweet and I want you to leave me any questions, whether on this or by email, which I will answer in a separate post.

In the mean time if you are in need for some extra advice, Have a look round these sites:

http://www.beatingdyslexia.com

http://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/

Thanks for reading! I'm blogging everyday in August, read the first post here!

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