Dyslexia

Dyslexia.

I want to right something about this learning difficulty I have. As it is really starting to standout to me now. I work as a counsellor in a university and have done for the past 8 years. I am a fantastic counsellor! Well a few people have told me that....lol 

Now my dyslexia has not been a problem in the past I can cope in my own funny little ways. I will blog about them later. My job has now changed so much my writing and reading sills are in the spot light. 

When I joined the university I saw 4 clients a day and wrote up my notes which to be honest were never that great.... I understood them, and that's about it not much work invalid in my day to day role. 

Now it's a lot different I take the lead in certain areas of the counselling service, I update the uni counselling service web pages, which is a bit of a trauma for me as my spelling isn't good and my grammar not much better. So I find that part of the job a challenge. Another job that I have to do for the service is publicity and promotion, again this involves posters promoting the service leaflets etc something else that is not easy for me. I am also surrounded by other counsellors that can just bang out the academic work liken reports and research without thinking about it. So I feel that I lack in that area too. My manager is very impressive, with the amount of work that they do, I think there is some expectations of me to be able to do the same.

The People that I work with and my manager are aware of my dyslexia and they sort of understand but I have had some comments that I am lazy.... This is something I use to hear at school a lot from my teachers, I'm not lazy I just find writing, reading and spelling hard so it takes me longer to finish one piece of work before I move on to the next.

Time to stop typing now. As I need to read through this a few times before I publish it to my blog. Things just take me a little longer.