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Dyslexic person

 As a dyslexic person, I feel embarrassed during the lectures and stupid. I have to think slowly and process all the topics in my head and I can answer the Professor's questions at my own speed and time. Many times, Professors say my name to hoping to get an answer and it feels terrible because I´m not ready to answer because of the slow process in my brain. Sometimes this kind of surprise makes me feel anxious and I almost start to cry. If we are having a conversation in general about what's happening in the world at this moment, I can raise my hand and speak about the topics normally because I have already processed the news in my head in my own time. Very often I compare myself to the other students and I think how they can be so smart and they don´t even participate in all the lectures. How can they know so much already without making any notes? And then I feel stupid, slow, and embarrassed because I have to concentrate on one thing, at a time and I still haven´t quite understood what we have just gone through. As a dyslexic, I can´t write notes if I need to listen to the Professor. I have to just listen. Sometimes, I feel I'm drowning in the information because I don´t recognize important parts of the big picture. It would be very helpful to understand, which parts of the areas are most important because dyslexic people focus always on everything and try to remember everything that is written in a 100-page PowerPoint. In details.

Some of the lectures go too fast and Professors leave some important steps away. All the things that seem unnecessary to explain for normal people are the key things that need to be explained for dyslexic people. For example, mathematics for a dyslexic person is very complicated. If there is a very easy formula or calculation, a dyslexic person thinks it is very complicated way and very detailed. If there are some steps left out of the calculation, I can´t understand at all. It´s very important to see the whole calculation to understand the topic and the way it´s done. For me, the logic is unlogical, and without explanations, it´s impossible to understand. Then, after one lecture I´m behind. The workload in normal circumstances is almost 4 times bigger for dyslexic persons than for normal students. It takes a lot of time to study all the topics from courses. When other students are going forward and I´m not at the same speed, I get scared that the Professors think I´m lazy. I get in a panic that how could I show them how hard-working person I really am. But I can´t. Nobody can´t understand the workload, pressures, and anxiety that dyslexic goes through. 



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