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Disclosing to others

Author:
Jane (sad)

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Date Posted: 13:03:33 08/24/06 Thu

Hi dose anyone have any advice on disclosing the nature of their disability to others especially teachers. I have always had difficulty getting people to understand that I can have difficulty reading off the board or off over head projectors. I had this difficulty in primary one and am still having this problem in my Second Degree! My parents always said that peoples understaning would improve but when I ask for help with this or with my spelling I end up getting concepts which I am perfectly capable of understanding re explained and not help with the actual problem or I get made fun of or overly sympathetic reaction form both my peers neither of which improves self esteem and confidence. I even once got the response that none else had complained about the problem when I know that others were having difficulty and the problem did come out at a student lession meating a year later but I was told that I was trying to take advantage which made me very angry as I was asking for help with a practicle diagnosed difficulty and not with accademic work. My colleges did also complain when I asked for help saying it was disrupting their education and why should I get print outs that they did not get.

I don't understand this presumbabley if someone n the class had epilepsy, asthma or diabetes they would not all want antiepileptic drugs, ventilin or inslin.

I would not mind if they did get printouts presumably if this would help them this is a good thing.

If the overhead is not visible and readable for the majority of the class I don't understand the point of it being there in the first place!

Sorry for sounding so frustrated!

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Replies:

Subject	Author	Date
Re: Disclosing to others	Sue	02:46:58 08/28/06 Mon

Re: Disclosing to others	Danielle	17:00:18 08/28/06 Mon

Re: Disclosing to others	Joanne (upset also)	06:07:00 03/01/07 Thu

Re: Disclosing to others	John (watch out)	19:22:18 03/25/07 Sun

Re: Disclosing to others	Paula	11:43:03 04/02/07 Mon

Re: Disclosing to others	Asad	16:58:05 06/14/07 Thu