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dyslexic

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eda

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Date Posted: 13:21:46 01/07/11 Fri

hi im a 23yr old girl who spent her whole education struggling . i graduated uni 2 years ago and in my last year i only just got diagnosed with been dyslexic. it really frustrated me because during my 1st 2 years of uni i was doing a professional writing course which included english and all... and not 1 out of my 3 lectures picked it up and i just use to get marked down on it all because sometimes its didnt make sence my sentences, my grammar n spelling was bad.. its ironice how i went threw 3 years and even college for not 1 teacher to pick it up. threw out my education i was penalised for been dyslexic. now im not confident in the working enviroment. i wanted to write my own script and make my own films but i gave up because i could not express myself any more. i think people need to be aware of dyslexia because it really does effect people in life and alot of people do not know what it really is. it needs to be more recognised by the world and in every school provide proper help.....

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Author:
Kelley
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Date Posted: 15:27:49 01/07/11 Fri

I really know what you mean iam finishing up my degree this spring and i have taken a bit longer than others well 6 years for a 4 year degree. I was required to take two semesters of comp but had to repeat my first semester my teacher just did understand. So i repeated it and then took my seconded semester during the summer and i flat out told my teacher i was dyslexic. But the semester before that i had a class that our grade willl noting more than a paper a week. My teacher just counldnt get it why i wasnt writeing well. Why i had bad grammer, spelling, and sentuce structure. He told me to drop the class and take another comp class. Thankfully i got help from a written toudor and passed. I also have had teachers that just dont get it that why i cant get the latin sicentic names ( iam a wildlike ecology and conservation major)but really i cant say it i cant spell it i cant remember it. I think that there are very few college professors that understand learing problems( i hate the word learning diablilies to me it impalys that you cant learn i like problems it just means you have some issues with it.)so if professors just understood more things would be so much easyer with dyslexic college students.

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Re: dyslexic

Author:
A
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Date Posted: 18:13:07 03/04/11 Fri

I really understand where you are coming from. I managed to finish college. It was really hard but I graduated! I had a fight with one of my lectures at one stage. I was being put forward to speak in a debate. I knew she really didn't want me in it but I still wrote an essay. She said it wasn't god enough. Which was fine, I understood that, and I explained that I was a dyslexic. She really didn't care. Then afterwards she told one of the other students that, if she had known that I was a dyslexic she would have never aloud me to get involved. I was so so upset it was crazy!! I then became really mad. I pulled her up on it a week or 2 after the debate. I told her that it was lucky that it was me that she had spoken about in such a manor, and not another student because she could have ran into some really big legal problems!! As she knew because she was a European studies lecturer. Also, that if she had known what form of dyslexia I had, she would know that my form of dyslexia did not hinder my public speaking abilities but enhances them. But I can't blame her for being so ignorant. It is crazy that such people get to teach me!! It still hurts me to this day. It is shocking how much time I spend crying because of other peoples responses to my dyslexia.It makes me so mad!

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Re: dyslexic

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damefrank
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Date Posted: 11:28:56 03/12/11 Sat

Hey, kiddo...there are over 45 million people who are going through the same thing as you just in America alone. You're all genius so have created ways to work around the "ignerts" (AS I CALL US) to get where you want to go. There are tons of advocates out there who are seriously devoting their lives to helping you (such as me). I am not dyslexic, but my daughter (who is now grown and skipped high school and college) is dyslexic. I wrote a phonetic dictionary for her, just finished it. It would help you too. It's also an APP on Android, iPhone, iPad, iPod. Check it out...http://www.dyslexiadictionary.com
It's the best I can do and am attempting to get it onto every computer everywhere...long journey, small in relation to everything else that must be accomplished but still...it's another rung in the ladder to empowerment for you!