I volunteer from time to time at an organization that is there to help college students talk about their problems and get a different point of view.  I recently talked to a student (I won’t mention names) that had some problems in school.  He happily shared his journey with me and I thought I would share it with you, to inspire you and teach you to never give up.

"I was always smart as a child and always received good grades in school.  I never would have guesses that, as an adult, I would be diagnosed with a learning disability.

The first symptoms of dyslexia that I had came to me a teenager.  At this point, words were not the problem, but numbers were.  I could not, for the life of me, manage to get a phone number straight. 

As I got older, other symptoms slowly started to surface.  Words were now starting to confuse me.  I knew something was wrong, but chose to ignore it.  As I struggled through my junior year of college, I knew that I needed to do something.  I joined a study on learning disabilities and the students who were running the study had me do a dyslexia test.

The results were positive - I had dyslexia.  This had never crossed my mind before I did the test.  I was grateful to be able to pinpoint my problem.  I did intensive studying of the topic and learned much about my disability and what I could do to make it less of a struggle. 

I am happy to report that I am nearly finished my senior year and it was a breeze."