草莓传媒

My earliest memory of realizing I had dyslexia was when I was in primary school. I always struggled with schoolwork and found it very hard to concentrate. I was sent for a meeting with my teachers and my parents who all agreed that I needed to take some tests for a diagnosis.

I was diagnosed with dyslexia and the school was very supportive and gave me additional support. Unfortunately, not long after, I moved schools to a completely new area and they were not so supportive. Although I had additional help such as a reader, or writer in exams, it was a larger school with fewer support workers to assist us pupils who struggled. My classmates were mean to me also, often putting me down and looking down on me because I was in a lower set than them.

Prove them wrong!

At secondary school on receiving my GCSE results, a careers advisor had been booked in for one-to-one careers talk with each student. Unfortunately, mine was awful. She read my results and realized I had dyslexia and told me to go and apply for every supermarket in the area as that鈥檚 as far as I鈥檓 ever going to go. I was heartbroken.

For some time, it got me down and I doubted my abilities, but I enrolled myself in a GNVQ in IT. I completed the first year but again had another setback. The head of the department told me that I can perform very well on the practical side but in the written part I didn鈥檛 meet the standards expected to pass the second year.
We decided together it would be best that I seek work and try and get some work experience and work my way up in the industry.

The determination I had was listening back to the words the careers advisor said to me, and I was determined to prove her wrong. I got a job and built my way up through different companies. I am now a Technical Director for a company in London. It's taken a huge amount of hard work and determination, but it's all been worth it.