College Essay On Dyslexia

When you walk into a room of people look around you at everybody. Can you pick out one or two people who suffer from a learning disability? Simply by looking at me Could you tell I do. Even educators did not realize that I had dyslexia. Unfortunately, they did not see the signs. I would like to share with you, how I have endeavored obstacles throughout life and still do, to this day.
When I was growing up, I struggled a great deal in school! In third grade I started a new school. They had three tiers of classes. One with the regular kids, another with kids that needed a little bit of help in math and reading, and thirdly, a category that had mentally retarded children learning life skills. I was being placed in that third tier. I absolutely loved school before they had placed me in that class. All that

year I kept getting into trouble I was getting sent home from school, the children were really cruel. They would laugh and call me names. It got to the point where I was always having an upset stomach and wanted to stay home from school.
I could read and write, but my letters and numbers were mixed up. I saw the letter W as M, 7 as L, 19 as 91 and other letters and numbers that may look similar. Reading large print books would be fine as long as it did not have more than three lines together. Anymore than three lines would be a big blur. I felt like something was wrong with me and I was so dumb. I asked myself so many times, "Why can't I be like everyone else?" I was very sad and confused.
Three years went by, being in the same class. In my sixth grade year, I had Mrs. Strain. The first week of school I was able to be in her class. She had called my mother, asked her to make me an appointment for an evaluation. After I went to the doctor, he had said that I had something called boarder line dyslexia and ADHD. I was not sure what that was. I started taking this medicine called Adderall. That next day at school I let My teacher know what the doctor had said. She sat me down, worked with me on my reading, and showed me different tricks to reading. Such as, using a blank white sheet of paper to scroll down line for line, as i read.
She had significantly made a difference in my school life.

I may have had to go out of class for reading and math, but a lot of kids did, too. I didn't mind that, as much, as the life skills class. I do feel like I am very backwards, a lot, still as an adult. Unknowing was very confusing, as well as frustrating. I still get very frustrated when I confuse dates or times, causing me to miss appointments. It is constantly a struggle.
The point that I am trying to makes: if you have a child or are involved in a childs life, watch how he/she says or writes abc's or 123's. Know the signs, if they are getting letters or numbers mixed up, such as, 2 and 5, 3 and s, 7 and L, w and m, 12 and 21, 19 and 91, excetra. If he/she does display difficulties with letter's and number's, please recommend them to be tested!
If a child has Dyslexia, work with that child to find out what different things they could do to read better. See if spacing sentences out will help. Maybe they would just need a blank sheet of paper to block out the other words, Use flash cards and repetition. Also, routines are extremely

helpful.
In conclusion, I really hope that you were able to get a better understanding what life is like with Dyslexia. You know some of the signs of catching this learning disability. As well as, how I have been trying to overcome my struggles. It does not just go away, but it does get a little easier with repetition and routines.