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Introduction
Hi blog readers hope you are well. Fab news about my last blog which had over 700 reads which is a record for me. Thanks to all who took the time to read and share my blog much appreciate.
For a change from me waffling on I thought I would like to ring in the changes a little here by inviting people to write a little guest blog for us. I am going to try and publish one around one a month. Give me a nod if you would like to write a guest blog for us.
So Amie from How to be happy has agreed to be my first guest blogger. Its important that we all have the opportunity to express our thoughts and opinions about being dyslexic and about dyslexia in itself. How else can we have a debate if we don't talk about the issues as each of us perceives them?
Guest Blog
Dear all you amazing Mums and Dads,
I can still remember being told I had to go through tests to
find out ‘what I had’. I can remember feeling so patronised throughout my whole
assessment. After years of learning support and feeling different my mum decided
to get me tested by an educational psychologist. I also felt different and
inadequate but do you know what was nice? Was to have a label. It was nice to
actually have an ‘excuse’ so I could tell people ‘sorry may not look right, I
have dyslexia.’ I think parents go into panic mode and can end up making things
a lot worse. But I remember thinking it
was great to learn what I had and meant I could research better ways to cope.
I believe one of the biggest mistakes parents make is to
feel sorry for their child. I read recently somewhere that a high percentage of
entrepreneurs are dyslexic. Yes they probably all struggled at school like your
child will probably struggle, but school is such a small part of someone’s life
in the grand scheme of things. I meet with straight A, 1st Class
honour degree types of people every day that can’t seem to get a job, mainly
due to their lack of social skills. It would seem to do well in school or
University you have to have the top grades. Yes I did think that but not any
more. Life is an experience, a gift and after school your life is not defined
by exams results. I was lucky enough to be encouraged to pursue different
avenues that highlight my strengths by my parents. Failure is a horrible
feeling. So why make exam results the talk of the town in your household? We should be encouraging our children in
every aspect not just academic. If they have a flair for sport, music, drama,
debating, public speaking whatever it may be, encourage it!
I quite often look through Twitter and see people talking
about having Dyslexia and being Dyslexic and how down they are. This genuinely
upsets me as people are measuring themselves on numbers or letters that are on
a piece of paper. All I want to do is tell them it will be ok and bet they can
achieve so much. I recently wrote down all the negative things about me and all
the positives. when I did it I had way more negatives than positives. I then
asked my friends, colleagues and family to do the same for me and they gave me
much more positives than negatives. We really are our own worst enemy, we focus
on the negatives and don’t embrace the positives. I sometimes wonder how many
more Einsteins, Robin Williams’, David Bowies’ etc we could have had out there
if people were more positive.
I read something recently that said ‘We are not born with
insecurities, we create them.’ Do you think any babies out there are paranoid
how they look, think or act? No! Because they are not aware yet and cant’ read
things on social media or over-hear things being said about them. People in
general are also bad at encouraging their friends and family or telling them
how amazing they are. If anyone out
there is reading this and struggles in life in any capacity (school,
employment, social skills etc) then all I ask is ask anyone you know to write
down three traits about yourself and I guarantee none of them will be negative.
If , like me, you never felt like you would be successful; take all the lovely
traits people have said about you and embrace them! Find a career where you can
use these traits. You will be successful!
Kind regards,
Amie
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| Aimie and #IAMDYSLEXIC |
Email: Howtobehappy89@gmail.com
Twitter: @HowToBeHappy89
Many thanks for your fab blog much appreciated. For being our guest blogger you receive a fabtastic Unique Dyslexic sticker.
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A little news from NASA
After an almost five-year journey to the solar system’s largest planet, NASA's Juno spacecraft successfully entered Jupiter’s orbit during a 35-minute engine burn. Confirmation that the burn had completed was received on Earth at 8:53 p.m. PDT (11:53 p.m. EDT) Monday, July 4.#
Hey did you know that around 50% of people who work at NASA are dyslexic? How fabtastic is that? Our education system still fails far to many of our dyslexic, disabled and neuro different kids. But look what we can achieve in spite of this? Next time you are felling down about being dyslexic just look up at Jupiter because without dyslexic diversity we may not have reached Jupiter at all.
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