Living with dyslexia at 22

School life has always been hard for me. The most problem I had was spelling, grammar and pronunciation. English was always my most hated class as I was never good at it...as so I thought. Year 10 comes a long and I'm struggling with a science test as I can't spell the chemicals names. The teacher comes to me my second round of the test and says "You could be dyslexia." The rest of the day that all I could think of is makes so much sense now. This is why I have struggle so much through out school life and even everyday with emails, msn and texting. 

This was one of the most heartbreaking thing but also biggest relief. Fast forever to year 11. I have started sixth form college, I picked English, ICT and Photography. I knew I needed support and the college offer that. I went to their disability support office, told them the situation. I have never felt so happy that I knew this wasn't going to hold me back anymore. This wasn't my official diagnose but it was enough for the college to go on before I started my Bachelor's degree in the same college. 

Now I'm doing my Bachelor's degree in Photography. Due to the joy of funding I had to be official diagnose by the NHS otherwise I wouldn't get the supported I need. This helped the most has I was able to get the software call Dragon. Dragon is a speech-to-text software that lets you talk into a microphone and have the words be on the word document. This was most useful software for me out of all the support I felt I could do anything...till I got told my documents read like someone is talking...which it was. AH WELL.

I have graduate and my dyslexic effective me more than my whole school life. I'm trying my hardest to get into content creation as a full time job and my dyslexic really wants to kicks me into the teeth. I try my hardest to work my way around it but not all work places have the software I need. Offend I just get told to make re check your work, let other people check it or don't understand how my spelling and grammar is that bad. I'm slowing getting there but hopeful one day I will get my big chance. 

With friends and family is has't changed us with now know it is dyslexia but it has help us open up more and getting to understand my learning disability. They never make any dyslexia jokes to me unless I make fun of it myself first. It's great to know that there are people out there how understand and love to learn more about it. Fun fact: Dyslexia is the most common learning disability and occurs in all areas of the world. It affects 3–7% of the population, however, up to 20% may have some degree of symptoms. I have met people from around the world who have dyslexia to be able to talk about it and known your never alone, there is always help.

I suggest Dragon software if you do have the spelling type of dyslexia has it has help me a lot though big worded documents. And if you feel embarrassed or hardhearted by your learning disability, remember Albert Einstein was dyslexic. Pablo Picasso was dylexic. Richard Branson is dyslexic and there is many more famous faces who are dyslexic. They have found success and you can too.