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writes:I'm 23 and for some strange reason I've always struggled with my learnng throughout life. I fear I may be dyslexic, infact thats incorrect, I don't fear the fact of being dyslexic, I fear I will never find out whats wrong with me.I recently lost my job, where I was offered a dyslexia test to be funded by the company, I'm not holding my breath as I have been in touch about it numerous times and they don't bother getting back to me. They said I'm obviously not dyslexic as I have a degree.. This came from someone who did have a degree and also was dyslexic..I haven't always struggled this much. It started in my later years at secondary school. I would be asked questions and wouldn't have a clue what the teacher was on about, I wasn't taking the information in because I was so slow. I was tested for dyslexia but it came back negative as all they focused on was left, right and spelling, which I'm fine with. To add to this around the same time theres a possiblity I could of had viral meningists but it was never picked up by the doctors as they blamed the sudden illness on something else, this was until I started to have difficulty focusing, taking things in and my hearing started to disappear.I say my hearing is disappearing.. Its not. I've been tested and they cannot find anything wrong with my hearing but what they did say is that it seems like its something between my ears and my brain, because when I'm listening out for something I can hear it, but I cannot understand what people are saying to me if they are speaking from afar, in an environment with background noise, and I also mistake words that sound very similar very often. I often have to ask people to repeat what they said several times until suddenly it clicks, and its terribly embarrassing.This was the main reason why I lost my job, other than the fact I had no training and one member of staffed had bullied 3 other employee's out before targeting me. But one thing they used against me was my telephone skills, because although when names were said to me I had to ask them to spell it out because my brain just wasn't registering it correctly, I also couldn't use the phone with any background noise.Whilst at college and uni, I could never work in the library or with people taking in the background, I had to be at home in a dead sclience, no tv, people or anything. I can't filter out background noise. I got good grades but it definately wasn't easy, I never understood the questions I had to have everything reworded in baby form, and even then I have to continuously re-read everythingI cannot express how much I struggle to learn, I need someone with extreme paitents which no companies have these days. I've never been a confident person which doesn't help but people can be taking in general and I have no idea what words mean. I also get extremely easily distracted, as alot of people do.I really don't know if I have got learning difficulties but I have taken afew online dyslexia probability tests and I fall into the range of non-dyslexic, but only just. They all seem to be fcused on the same thing, but theres more types of learning difficulties out there than spelling and basic alphabet. It's really beginning to depress me and its getting worse. I'm beginning to forget things I've recently done on the odd occasion, I cannot hold my focus for too long either, I cannot take in anymore than one or two instructions unless I can do the job inside out to start with.What can I do, is there anyone I can talk to that could help. People say I'm being paranoid because I've got a degree and my course wasn't easy, but like my last employer said, I can be clever but I just don't grasp the basics..
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reader, eyeswideopen  +, writes (26 June 2014):
 You sound just like my daughter-in-law. She has been diagnosed with ADD and is now on meds which have made a HUGE difference in her life. Make a doctor's appointment ASAP.
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reader, anonymous, writes (26 June 2014): What you described sounds like Attention Deficit Disorder. Not being able to filter out background noise, being distracted too easily, not taking in information, asking people to repeat themselves because what they said didn't "click", and not being able to focus are what people with this disorder deal with.
Get PROPERLY diagnosed before taking the next step.
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