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I rarely tell people I'm dyslexic because I think too many people use it as a defence for bad spelling. There's a lot of undiagnosed dyslexics, especially in the more mature generations and its hugely expensive for an adult to go and get tested, so there's little point unless you are about to embark on a new college or university course. That doesn't mean you don't have dyslexia though and equally it doesn't mean you do.

As a child, my dyslexia was confounded with dyspraxia, these two things often go hand in hand and although my dyspraxia now only rears its head when I'm tired or stressed, my dyslexia is always reminding me that its a part of who I am.

Are you dyslexic or dyspraxic or both? or do you think you could be? How does it affect you? What have you done to help yourself? How have others helped you?

I have trouble with writing a sequence of numbers which obviously gives me mathematical problems.
I have short term memory problems, especially with numbers! and the more stressed I am, the worse it gets.
My speech can become affected when I'm tired or stressed and I often can't express what's in my head, which is hugely frustrating. Sometimes it feels as though my heads full of information but I can't explain that information verbally.
My hand writing is awful and I write slowly (I can type 40 words a minute though)
I have poor coordination and so find it difficult to do things like aerobics, catch or throw a ball and funnily enough run. I do something really odd when I run