The feeling of being unable to communicate within a system created for the majority. How do I give my surrounding what they want? Relieve the frustration that has been created because I can’t seem to understand what is evident to the rest.
Letters make words. Words need to be depicted to make sounds, which make words. This is evident to the majority and this is how education is communicated. To me letters were just like pictures, which didn’t make sounds. When I looked at shop signs; I didn’t read the letters. I looked at the colors, the shapes, I heard the name being pronounced; and connected the name I heard with the picture I saw.
What does this mean? I was at a disadvantage, the means in which I was supposed to learn; didn’t work for me. I was misunderstood, the means in which I should communicate; didn’t work for me.
The feeling of success happened when I was understood. It was like everybody had been talking to me in another language and finally someone started speaking to me in my language. I was taught to understand how the majority communicated and how I could learn to communicate in a way that was understood by the majority.
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