Dyslexia
Hi,
I have struggled through schools and college pretty much all my life, and no one ever tested me for dyslexia even though my mum asked for them too many times. It wasn't until I went to college that they tested me and told me. They gave me helped me to get me through my coursework and it helped but I still stressed because even with help I've never done well.
You feel like you're not good enough and that you're not going to make it and do what you want so you may as well stick to doing an easy job that you don't really want to do, so the fact people use it as an excuse because they mixed up on a word isn't very nice, it's kind of like people are using it for there jokes (which I've heard people do which isn't nice makes you embarrassed to admit to it)
I recently got into university (which I neverrrr thought would happen in a million years, whilst doing my coursework for college I thought "I'll try my best to get into uni but even that wont be enough", and now I'm there I wish I wasn't because I know I'm going to be well behind everyone else with my coursework and I'm going to stress like mad like I did in college because I'd struggle to meet a deadline. I practically made myself ill about it (It sounds dramatic but it's how it makes you feel)
Sorry about the rant lol.
The psychologist at uni (who diagnosed/tested me) gave me an option for 2x extra time for exams if 1.5x wasn't enough, but I felt so bad about getting extra time that I just took the 1.5x even though I probably needed more. 