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I didn’t find out that I was dyslexic until I was 46 years old. I only found out because I went to work at the British Dyslexia Association as Fundraising Director and the dyslexia specialists there recognised it by the way that I worked. They kept telling me that I was ‘so’ dyslexic. I thought that they wanted everyone in the world to be dyslexic and I couldn’t possibly be because I could read and write and had worked my way up to a senior position.

I finally went and had a full educational psychologists assessment; this proved to be enlightening. The assessment demonstrated that I had a high IQ – this news was shocking as up until this point I had believed that I was thick.
I also learnt about my strengths as well as my weaknesses. However, to discover that I was dyslexic made me feel really quite depressed because now I had two labels – thick and disabled.

Having spent a lifetime hiding the fact that I was not intelligent, the prospect of now having to hide a disability was not one that I relished. I became so depressed that it affected my work – I felt almost paralysed by this.

A colleague (a dyslexia expert) asked me what was wrong. This was one of those life defining moments and I will never forget it. She said that I could take the knowledge that I am dyslexic put it in a drawer and forget it as I was the same person today as I was three weeks earlier when I was assessed.
Or I could embrace the fact and learn ways to work that might be more effective.
She explained how she had observed me working and felt that I was over compensating in some areas and not working to my strengths in others.

I then spent time learning new ways of working which have completely transformed some aspects of my life, giving me confidence and an absolute passion for dyslexia and how to help people like me overcome their difficulties.

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I now take responsibility for my dyslexia and I am able to control it.

I keep abreast of all developments in how we teach people with dyslexia and how to support them in the workplace.

My alliance to the British Dyslexia Association is obviously enormously helpful in this respect as are the contacts that I have made over the years.

I have grown as a person through this knowledge and use it to raise awareness through training, workplace assessments and screening children using the Lucid-Research screening products such as LASS Junior.

I am happy to provide testimonials from those I have worked with since starting my company.