The Boy in a Dress and Dyslexia

The Boy in the Dress

Battling with Dyslexia

R.L Stines teenage horror series

I know this is not a film review or anything to do with Jewellery but it is something I want to get back into that I used to do as a child.

When I was young I was always reading fictional books an hour or so before lights out and bed. The books I used to love were Goosebumps, Narnia and The Famous five and I really enjoyed them.  As I got older I was really struggling with reading, I would struggle to hold all the information causing confusion and causing me to lose interest really quickly. I thought maybe it was down to me becoming a teenager and I wasn't actually a book person. I really struggled in Secondary school too, when it came down to doing work I found it hard to understand even when the teacher used to break it down for me I could not get it. Someone would tell me a conversation and I would either not understand something simple or I would forget within minutes what some of the conversation was about the person had with me. I spent my school years feeling embarrassed and hopeless. It was only when I was at college doing my Art and Design my lecturer noticed something was not right when I was trying to do writing on my work and that it did not make sense and I would struggle with wording. He sat me down and recommended that through the college that I should get tested for Dyslexia...I agreed...The test was simple just answering questions and writing things down..it came back that I had dyslexia and with the help of the lecturer and the college they gave me the help I needed to get me through college. I was so relieved, all these years being picked on and being made like I was a no gooder at school by students and teachers I battled through I finally found the help I needed. I still sometimes struggle today but I have people around me that understand and help me through it. Sometimes Paul will say something to me with a word I do not understand and I ask him to explain what it means without feeling the need to be embarrassed and he explains it to me. He laughs if I am on the phone to my mom and he say's "oh cool what did she say is she ok?" and I would reply " I can not remember what she said now and I just laugh with him. Getting to the actual blog about the boy in the dress, I was in Waterstones the other day and I said to my dad That I missed reading books and would like to do it again but I feel that I cant and if I try to read, if I put it down when it comes to picking it up again I have to go back a re-read a few pages to remember what happened. My dad bless him said you are just not reading the right books that I am reading books with too much information that overloads my brain. So he recommended me to try teenage books again so I have,  but not quite teenage lol even though I am nearly 30 I got a book from the 9-12 section which got my interest. I picked up " The Boy in the Dress" by David Walliams, when I saw it the illustration style reminded me of the great Roald Dahl, the written layout was nice and spaced and there is not alot of information to overload me, so I will see how I get on with it. 

The moto of this is do not let others bully you  because you are different, there is nothing wrong with that it makes you who you are, Strong, special and unique.
I am proud of who I became and I now feel there is nothing to be ashamed of that there are aways a way around the obstacles put in place.