Before I write this please be aware that these are my strategies and may not be the cheapest or even sanest to use. So before you decide to try them shop around... I tend to find something that works and never change - I like the familiar. I listed my problems in What is dyslexia… Continue reading Coping strategies I use everyday
Category: Dyslexic tales
Actual events that arise from the dyslexia and how I cope or don’t
Coping strategies the university provided without realising it
3rd October 2012 First day... Did I sleep? Course not. The usual questions were running through my head. Will I keep up? Will I be liked (this is an anxiety I get)? Will I understand what they are talking about? Now don't get me wrong I had tried to alleviate the fears. Firstly by getting… Continue reading Coping strategies the university provided without realising it
Part-time or full-time
The main question once I'd decided to go for a masters was whether to do it part-time or full-time. I think that had it been any other course apart from this one, I would have chosen part-time... but Trinity's creative writing is taught only one day a week - Wednesdays. So as far as the… Continue reading Part-time or full-time
Shall I or shall I not
So you know you've been dyslexic for years, and I mean years. Diagnosed in 1998 and then sent out into the world with a degree... Oh, but there's a story. My first degree was done at the University of Derby a very, very long time ago. The course no longer exists but it was called… Continue reading Shall I or shall I not
Kate Murray - Cleaver 