Monday, 12 January 2009

I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful feeling to think of yourself as 'slow' - it's horrible. - Robert Benton

The one thing that really gets to me about being dyslexic apart from how the word is spelt (seriously! WTF!), is how people treat me, I had my dyslexic report back as they had to re-test me (yet again, oh and I am dyslexic, really? surpise surpise) so I could get some money from the government.

This woman was talking to me like I was stupid, seriously, I know how to read my own report and fill in the forms, I have been running my own home for the past year and half, I did my own mortgage forms and solictors forms for my partner as he couldnt' understand them.

Just because I can not spell, sound out words or remember a lot of  things does not make me stupid, I completed my A Levels with AAA, and my last programming grade was 97%!

Blah! Annoying people in student services....

Apart from uni was good today, I had two lectures - HCI and Program Design which seem interesting...

Tomorrow I have one lecture because it's the first week on further programming which means I will be spending hours shouting at Java.

Boytoy had a good day at work (first day!) and he will be home in an hour, so I going to go and fill in these forms plus another form for health care help.

1 comment:

  1. Ugh, that must have been irritating. I think that sometimes people act in such a way because they truly don't understand. Not that it makes it any better, I know.

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