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the day they laughed at my dsylexia

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i am having prolbems at work. they dont seem to understantd that i have diffcultes wiht my spelling and raeding. i am dsylexic. i go to collage to help wiht it.

the trolbe is that they know i cant raed very well when info is on white paper but they still print it of on white especalilly my contact and then maon at me for takeing to long to raed it.

i have even haerd them taking the mikey out of me when they fought i was nt listening. this realy up set me as i am trying my bset to over come this and all i am asiking fir is a little bit of suport.

does any body esle have this prolbme?

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Submitted by Sue on Sun, 01/15/2006 - 11:02 PM

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Can you get a colored overlay so the paper doesn’t look white any more? Sometimes when people actually *see* what a difference something makes, they start to believe it. You might just be working with jerks… but it could be one jerk and then others who just didn’t know how to break the “making fun” cycle.
It’s tough to work with people you know are laughing at you (I have been there). My usual defense is to try to also laugh at myself first, or if it’s totally not funny, treat it like the obnoxious challenge it is (sort of like how you act when yhou’re going to go outside and the weather is nasty…) … and really bust my butt to try to let my *strengths* show and do a really good job at teh stuff I’m really good at (or if it’s not something I’m really good at… I look for something nobody else wants to do - but not to the point where I become a walking victim trying to do anything to avoid abuse.)
Mainly… don’t let the b*ggers get you down. Maybe they’ll grow out of it someday.

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