Welcome to my blog!

You may have guessed from the title of this blog I’m dyslexic and can never tell the difference between the words Diary or Dairy – when reading them or writing them. So why have I decided to create this blog I hear you ask? Well like many others out there (it might even be you reading this) I wasn’t diagnosed as dyslexic until the grand old age of 21 and just about to leave university, now in my mind 30’s I’ve decided that there’s nothing I can do about, I’ll never be the best speller or reader or have confidence to express my views in social spaces. I’ve spent many days and night struggling to do what comes normal to others, and feel at times it holds me back. I’ve experienced many different emotions from anger, fear and weakness through to full on anxiety attacks. I always try to hide how I’m feeling, put a mask on so others don’t see this side of me – well now I’ve decided it’s time to face this head on and write about it – YES write! And not in a private journal but a public space.

What your read here will just be me talking about whatever comes to mind – as I’m severely dyslexic its part of me. I can’t switch it off (although at times I wish I could), so its little traits pop up regularly during my day. I’ll make no apologies for any spelling or grammar mistake you read here – I do enough of that daily, so this space will be me, faults and all. I don’t intend for this blog to be negative, dyslexia is part of me, yes it makes things difficult but it can also make you view things differently. Happy reading!

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Post-It Notes

I've briefly said before that post it notes are great. But I truly mean it, the fact they come in all different shapes, sizes and colours means I can use them to organise and record key information. At work I have a notebook, the inside of the cover page and the back page is full of post it notes. Each one with a key prices of information on, same are pointers to remind me of log ins and passwords, other have important or regularly needed telephone numbers and emails. Some even have names of people - often forget peoples names. The different shapes and colours help me find the price of information I'm looking for quickly, my own reference system. I often use post it notes to plan any written documents, write sentences or the odd buzz word I need to include. Then you can move them around easily to help contract the document. I've even done this when writing a job application, I wrote all the things I wanted to get a cross, my skills, experience, examples to demonstrate ho...

See dyslexia differently

What a great video the British Dyslexia Association have produced! I can identify with 'trying to hide from other people the difficulties completing tasks others find easy' . Its great to have a visual/ video like this as it not only helps others to understand what its like to be dyslexic, but also after I watched it, it made me feel a bit better about the every day struggles I have 😊.

Dyslexic moment #1

Just had what I'm now going to refer to as a dyslexic moment - for those of you who are dyslexic I'm sure your know what I mean! But basically it's when you are suddenly confronted by information that your brain can't process quickly enough - and you kind of freeze or have a mind blank, although you try to style it out. This often happens in the most every day event/ occasion - I'm not talking about huge amounts of information, it's often just something so simple that can throw you. So my dyslexic moment today....on the phone trying to make an appointment with the doctor. Receptionist: 'yes tomorrow at ten to ten' Me: 'that's great thanks' Receptionist: 'what's your name? how do you spell your last name?' Now this is where my moment happens, I'm trying to write down on a piece of paper the appointment time, but ten to ten - I'm struggling to visualise it (I'm differently a visual learner and unless I can see i...

Dyslexic Diary...or is it Dairy?!

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