Hear me out okay.
For those of you who don’t know anything about dyslexia it is a learning difficulty that makes reading,writing,memory,spelling, processing,organisation,concentrating very hard!
Dyslexia means though out school and college and life in general I have to work twice as hard as any neuro typical person just to keep up and get the same grades as them.
For high school GCSEs I worked my ass off to just pass, I studied every second. I had private tutoring with dyslexia tutors and I had private tutoring for maths just to help me pass. I put so many hours work in just get D/Cs when other class mates just could do half as much of studying and get As.
Same with college. I worked so hard in college to keep up with everyone. I took my English GCSE again in college since I didn’t get C in high school. meaning my dyslexia meant I had to retake English and spend 2 extra years in college to everyone else.
I took my driving test (theory) 6 times before I passed as it took me so much longer to memorise all the answers.

Despite dyslexia making every day very hard from remembering things from important dates and deadlines to routes to places I want to go(google maps saves me!) or shopping lists (I have to write everything down or I will not remember!) Or to processing conversations and instructions (from university tutors/work managers). Yes dyslexia not only interferes with academic but also life. Even though all of this is an issue I am so proud for working so hard to make everything happen. For example I wanted to pass GCSEs I took extra revision classes, I had private tutoring, I worked so much harder then any other student just to pass. I wanted to pass driving so I spent every spare second revising theory tests to pass and it took me a lot longer then most but I did it. I had to retake English language and spend two extra long painful years at college but I did it.
I didn’t let anything stop me not even my dyslexia, and it does come with stigma that dyslexics are lazy and need to work harder but that is a lie. Dyslexics have amazing work ethic as we have to work twice as hard as everyone else.

I am proud I have dyslexia as it makes me work harder to achieve things and makes my achievements more worth while and makes me so proud of any achievement as it took me longer and too me more energy and more work to get the grades. I am proud of my achievements and most importantly I am proud I had to work harder because of my dyslexia even if it’s very hard and a lot of the time you want to quit.