Self Acceptance with Learning Disabilities

The universal struggle of the job, career, employment does affect every single of us! I have written about it 50 times, even with some complaining. Ok, maybe a lot of complaining.

The fact that I'm a Dyslexic and have always been proud of it, never stopped me in the search for the perfect fit. However, I wasn't paying attention to my strengths and my weaknesses in the results of the test done 15 years ago. Finally accepting my true limitations like a low score in what they call Working Memory has always affected me on many of my jobs. It has always been a challenge for in my jobs in customer service. So, what I'm going to do is post the important scores to help anyone who is unsure of the limitations we may face. Now, my scores are my scores. They will be very different for each person who gets tested. The scores and percentages are all on the 100+ or 100% scale in skill level. Numbers listed will be Score, Precent with age group, and where I fall in the group.

Verbal IQ: 92, 30%, Average
Performance IQ: 98, 45%, Average
Full Scale IQ: 95, 37%, Average.
Verbal Comprehension: 94, 34%, Average
Perceptual Organization: 103, 58%, Average
*Working Memory: 86, 18%, Low Average
Similarities: 11, Average
*Analyze: 13, High Average

There are more scores, but these are the ones that matter. The ones on the surface and the ones not listed is who I am on the job market. No self pity, just finally a full understanding of my struggles for the past 30 years.

My lowest or biggest struggle is Passage Comprehension & Dictation at 11%. My highest or best assets are Science (analyze) at 46%.

Here is my message to all parents who have little ones who have been diagnosed or are struggling. Pay close attention to the scores and help them find work where their Strengths or Strongest areas are used on their career. And what ever you do, DO Not Ever Tell Them They Can't Go After that career choice because They Don't Have the Experience! My father did that to me and if he had been more supportive and realizing that the only way I can get experience is by doing it, I would be in a different place in my life right now. With his statement, it stopped me in my tracks that I would never be successful in the career I feel capable of making money at. Sadly, I've stayed in the wrong job market for the past 12 years (post-college degree)! Struggling with homelessness, financially broke and low self-esteem. Be careful of what you say to others.

My best asset is Problem Solving and coming up with solutions on the most basic of levels. We have become a nation where we only think about the bigger picture while ignoring the feet under the bigger picture or body. I've had conversations with politicians about the basic problems that face this nation and the people in it and they have forgotten the feet under the body of issues. That subject was about Affordable Housing. My point here is that the body can't get fixed if the feet are ignore. That is my best asset.