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Subject: Re: Dyslexia within the Workplace

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Date Posted: 22:45:36 04/21/10 Wed
In reply to: Mandy 's message, "Dyslexia within the Workplace" on 08:11:24 04/09/10 Fri

I am broken.

I resigned from a job over a year ago because of the way I had been treated with regards to my dyslexia. I made it clear at the interview stage that I was severely dyslexic and that I might need help. After induction (when I realised it was not going to be addressed) I arranged for a meeting with my HR. I let her know I had done some research my self and I had found funding to support my needs. She suggested I continue with organising everything myself. So I did (it was a time where you were grateful just to have a job).

I organised the funding, wrote a letter to be signed by my HR and got them to sign and post the letter (didnt want to be too much trouble). I organised with the IT staff who to find the equipment from and what to get.

Just so you understand I have a BSc, MSc and NVQ2 to my name so with endurance and hardwork I am able to achieve alot. I am very careful to apply for jobs which are mostly practical or social and without a heavy reading or writing content. This job was no different.

While I was only a month in the job my boss started to give me jobs which were out of my comfort zone and not on my job description. Writing reports, developing strategies and other large written work. When I showed her the results she was displeased with my efforts and would pass my tasks onto someone else. Soon she was picking me out for public humiliation in front of my collogues. Once she invited me to a meeting where she had invited her boss without letting me know. there she completely undermined me in front of him. My opinion of her had gone through the floor but I quite respected her boss so the whole experience was disgusting. On Friday late afternoon too.

Anyway I soon fell apart, i was having nightmares, headaches, I was being sick and I was crying all the time and even got a little agoraphobic (fear of going outside).
I couldnt do my job so I became what she though I was.. a waste of space. So I resigned! I have a very strong belief that I do not want to become the people I dont like so I decided not to follow it up. I told the chief ex what I though was going on but I cried the whole way through to the point I think it would have been difficult to understand what i was saying. But I tried to put it straight. I did not have the energy to do anything else.

Now over a year down the line I am still very effected by it. I have no confidence, self-worth or motivation. I used to be able to do anything but now I am so unsure of myself I can hardly do daily tasks. I have spent the last year in the company of my family and have removed myself from my social circle, actually any social circle.

Please tell me how to get my confidence back. Something so natural in my life now seems to evade me completely. has this happened to anyone else?

Sorry to be doom and gloom but I thought if anyone will be able to give me some light hearted direction.

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