• Question: is your job hard doing you job being dexlexic as i find alot of things hard ?

    Asked by xenia to Shruti, Mark, Faranak, Douglas, Charlene, Alistair on 8 Mar 2019.
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      Mark Bentley answered on 8 Mar 2019:

      I had a very good friend who had very bad dyslexia who was an engineer, he struggled with with some parts of engineering but was great with math, he was a fantastic engineer so it never stopped him.

      Maybe more hands on learning would suit you?

      Also don’t worry, I find a lot of things hard, but just work through them a bit at a time and you will get there.

      All the best 🙂

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      Faranak Bahrami answered on 10 Mar 2019:

      I had a few friends at uni who also had dyslexia. They might have struggled with some things, but they were also very good in the others. But that’s how everyone is, we can’t be fantastic in everything, but you can work on them little by little and get through them. Don’t worry you can do anything if you want to 🙂 Good Luck! 🙂

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      Charlene Chung answered on 10 Mar 2019:

      My good friend is a mechanical engineer and is dyslexic.
      He struggled in school with his dyslexia but was really good at the subjects he focused on, and went really far in his PhD and his now role in an engineering company.

      I wouldn’t worry about it. We all have things we find hard and difficult, but we find ways to work through with them and it often turns out, the determination you go through working at it makes it really rewarding!

      You’ll be fine 🙂

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      Shruti Turner answered on 11 Mar 2019:

      I am not dyslexic myself, but I know many people who have completed PhDs and other research that are. A PhD isn’t easy for anyone and I think that someone with dyslexia may well struggle with different parts of the job to someone without dyslexia. That being said, I don’t think dyslexia would hold someone back from doing the job well. Many people I know with dyslexia have gone on to have fantastic research careers and study what they really love 🙂

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      Alistair McConnell answered on 12 Mar 2019:

      It can give you an extra challenge. I was detected as being Dyslexic (which I still misspell a lot) when I was at school and now as an engineer, I just know that I have to check what I write and often get another person to read what I have done before it is completely submitted. My grammar is also normally out the window.
      Apart from that it is of no issues and I think can add to your abilities.

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