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 😊.

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Lists

I love writing lists, every Thursday night I come home and sit down to write my list for the weekend. Depending on how that day has gone I might do this while drinking a fine cup of Earl Grey tea or a nice cold beer! I start with looking at my list from the last week, there are some things which are always recurring – clean the house, iron, food shop etc. Then I add what I didn’t get round to doing the previous week, followed by what needs to be done this weekend. I see a list as having multiple uses: It helps me to remember the things I need to do. Helps me plan and organise my weekend, otherwise I think I would put off doing certain things until it’s late on a Sunday night and I’ve run out of time. Motivates me - I enjoy looking at a list, deciding what to do next, going away and doing it -then going back and ticking it off. That’s the buzz, drawing a line through the item and putting a big tick at the end! In fact I’d go as far as saying I think I have an obsession with lis...

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...

Another through/ thought

And guess what - while trying to write the last post, I was struggling with so many spellings errors, that yes I ended up changing what I was going to write! So decided to try to pick up this thread today, here goes... Added to this spelling problem, memory is another. So I think of what I want to say, start writing or typing it and before I've got to the second word its gone, or got mixed up, doesn't make sense. This is when I start to get angry at myself, if I'm at home on my own I can express this frustration, but in work, in a public space, even in front of family I have to suppress it - this doesn't help just makes me internalise the problem. I've tried to write straight off- not worrying about the spellings or grammar, just gone for it. But still I lose my thread and forget what I'm trying to say. Its like my mind and thought's/ through (again you choose the correct one) is racing ahead and skipping bits, the brain isn't sending the signals down ...

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