I am dyslexic and not a person with dyslexia like there is me and standing next to me there is the dyslexic me

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Good morning blog readers hope you are all well

I have spent a lot of time over the last week end thinking about what I am going to write about in this my latest blog. Not because I don't have any ideas but because I have to many lol.

Some of the problem is like many, not all, dyslexics I tend to think in pictures and I see the big picture when it comes to issues. To me everything links up, has relationships with everything else and it always lends itself to the big picture. So teasing out a small picture out of the big picture can be problematic. Give me a 10,000 word essay and I am away like a rat up a drainpipe. Give me an essay in 500 words and I am like a sloth in amber lol.

The other part is about me procrastinating. Something which I did a lot of doing last week. Getting myself motivated was almost impossible for the first three days of last week. The when I do get myself motivated the problem then becomes giving myself a break to rest. So I am either work, work working or procrastinating, procrastinating and hmmm procrastinating. To make things worse I absolutely hate procrastinating lol.

Then there is the dyslexic roller coaster of highs a lows. When I am at the top of the roller coaster I am a very confident and positive dyslexic. I endeavour to see the positive at all times that's me most of the time.

But I still can get taken down the slope of the roller coaster to. I can still get to a place where my confidence and self esteem are back in the place where I was struggling at school, where I did feel stupid, depressed and where I could not see a future for myself. Like any real roller coaster it can take a little time to reach get to next high lol.

I talk to may dyslexic students about these highs and lows and it is surprising how hard we can be on ourselves. How we can say things to ourselves about ourselves that we would not say about our worst enemy. For me that is one of the positives of writing a blog. I can go back over old blogs and remind myself of the highs. Its honest self reflection which I believe is really important to do and something I always advise my students to do. Here is something  funny about being dyslexics. Its surprising how many dyslexics become like the agony aunts within their friends circle. They are the person friends confide in or talk about their problems to? Two really strong positive dyslexic qualities are empathy and emotional intelligence. Where would the world be without empathy and emotional intelligence? 

I am very lucky in that I have my wife and her family and friends to support me. Social media like Facebook and blogger etc and great sources of support. My own family life as a kid was a train wreck quite literally. My dad was a chronic alcoholic and gambler and my mum used to hit us with a large stick she used for washing clothes. Yelling and shouting was something that happened every day.  

The roller coaster analogy works well for entrepreneurs and in particular dyslexic entrepreneurs. When we successfully completed our Unique Dyslexic Get Creative Campaign. That was a fab high. When I completed the inaugural Scotland Can Do Scale fab. When I got the £12.500 award from First Port when I started Dyslexia Pathways CIC fab. Right now I am working very hard to try and keep Dyslexia Pathways CIC going. CIC stands for Community Interest Company by the way.

At this time to social entrepreneur in my is struggling, has been and a real low for a while. But I am slowly climbing back up the hill again. The dyslexia awareness training sessions are going well and getting lots of positive feedback and that's always good to hear. That's bringing some income, not enough but some. I am going to start doing dyslexia screenings and assessments again and networking. I have been contacted by Inspirealba, hope I got that spelling right and they have offered us some free support and advice. We have our dyslexia online shop and will have a new tee shirt design ready soon thanks to support from InspireAlba.

This week I am going to approach the National lotteryand make a funding bit with them and I am still slowly, slowly moving the dyslexia hub idea forward. Slowly slowly is a problem for me though because like many entrepreneurs slow is just now quick enough

But Dyslexia Pathways CIC really need more people on board to support and help us with our dyslexia hub idea. We need people with expertise in developing an idea like this. People who can write funding bids, help market what we are doing, who have experience of and help us build a dyslexic / neuro difference community.

We have a feasibility study, we have architects plans, we have a prospective site to develop in Lochgelly, our Unique Dyslexic programmes has showed there are people out there who would like to see what we are doing happening. I have one or two people interested in getting involved but idealy we need around 6. I would have to be on a voluntary basis because we cannot afford to pay anyone.

Our vision is that through social enterprise and our social model of dyslexia message we can forge a new more positive way forward for dyslexic and other neuro difference communities. Its not good enough that some many dyslexic kids are basically being failed by our education systems world wide. This is something we are working to change in our own small way 

I am hoping the one message that comes out from this blog is that we cannot take dyslexia



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Pease love and groovyness to all in the dyslexic and other neuro difference communities as well as to all those who love and or support us

Steve McCue

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