i have dyslexia

I've not really got any tips, but just a thought.. you've made it to uni, and you've only just been diagnosed, so it can't have affected you too badly so far. Just think of it as something that might explain any problems you find reading/writing/etc... you're still the same person as you were before.

ive been told ive got moderate dyslexia (didnt know you could get different strengths of it). so yey go me.

has anyone else got it?

any tips and advice on overcoming it?

everyone says this but tbh most schools dont have the resources isnt diagnosed till the parents step in. i was dyslexic to the point of writing letters back to front so it was very obvious yet no one noticed until i was put in private education.

erm not much i can say about coping stratergies. make sure you get weekly special needs lessons, they are a god send. if they try and fob you off with monthly ones then get your parents to step in because by that point it gets to be useless as the teacher doesnt remember who you are etc and you never get anywhere.

also try to get your free lappy. you need to actually go to the council and hound them. filling in a form gets you nowhere in my experience.

just blame it for everything bad in your life so far. take for example:

person 1: "so Amy, why didnt you get into Oxbridge?"

Amy: "Oh because I had dyslexia which wasnt diagnosed at the time".

I've got 'mild' dyslexia...

Didn't your psychologist give you some info... mine suggested some kind of card activity, and some kind of tape recorder thing whilst in lectures. I have problems with Maths (bit strange as I did the best in Maths out of my A-levels ), unless my concentration is tip top, I make A LOT of mistakes. So I have to do each question very carefully, and check it several times, even then sometimes I miss the mistakes I have done! However I did not apply for extra time for my A-levels... I also have problems talking from the top of my head, i.e. when a teacher shoots a question at my spontaneously, even though I know the answer- it just takes me longer to think (don't know if that counts as dyslexia).

yeah, thanks for that, that has made me feel a bit better actually

have always found it difficult to communicate through writing, i dont find reading that much of a problem, only writing... i find i can do it better on a computer though

thankfully im doing art so theres not much reading and writing involved lol

as for the laptop, ive already got my baby... i dont really need another one... though are they good laptops? if so i feel an ebay sale coming on

up until the age of about 6 i only ever wrote backwards, people blamed that on the fact i was left handed but why would that make a difference?

as fr the extra study lessons, ive asked my contextual studies lecturer about this and shes going to give me an hour every week of 1 to 1 learning, to to do the best i can with the written work ive got to do.

as for the laptop, ive already got my baby... i dont really need another one... though are they good laptops? if so i feel an ebay sale coming on

Anyway, if you haven't been struggling much then I wouldn't try to con your uni out of a laptop someone else might need much more. But extra help from a lecturer doesn't cost a thing so go for it