annemieke neurotypical

How can i show my dyslexia, it is something that most people will never understand unless you have it yourself. People called me dumb and stupid while my IQ is above average. i was tested for vwo while i ended up in vmbo. how can i accept my dyslexia and let it help me academically but also later in my art. First i need to find out when it all started.
I remember as a kid i loved school, the first 2 years where wonderful but then the 3rd year arrived. I was at first excited but after a while i slowly started to struggle and had difficulty with reading, writing and spelling. The teachers and school saw that happening but really didn’t do anything about it. The only thing i remember doing is that a certain teacher would take me out of class and we would go into this silent white room somewhere in the school.
It was super awkward and i hated that room. She had always this silver timer with her that made several sounds and a small pile of papers with a lot of dif- ferent words on them. She would put on the timer and say read these words as fast as you can and i really tried my best. We did this until i went to high school. In my 2 last years of school i also had to come in 20 minutes early to study the words on the computer that we where learning for that week so i wouldn’t fail my tests. Which i obviously also hated because i couldn’t play or see my friends before school. As a kid i saw everyone around me doing so good and i just couldn’t get it. It ate at me and i really blamed myself. In the end of my first year of high school they discovered that i was dyslexic and i had to get tested which the outcome is pretty obvious.