Ten Things That Amaze Me About Me (by sarah)
My six year old daughter has a spelling age that is the same as I had at 18. Though my vocabulary has always been massive as in exceeded what is expected for an average adult in the UK in primary school.
I am obsessed with reading and learning things though I still do not have an adult reading age. Reading at all didn't really happen for me until about the age of 12. I am still a slow reader - I read text books for fun.
I got glandular fever and failed my first year at university - then had back and mobility issues involving painful weekly hospital trips plus a side helping of IBS with ulcers. And I still have a degree from one of the best Universities in the World and it was so close to a first it's painful.
I am so shy it is classed as a medical issue compounded by C-PTSD but I have a solution - it is called performing - as in stage.
My hearing needed sorting yet I have always been obsessed with music and probably because of this it is a thing I feel with my body and not just something I hear. I still struggle with comprehension if I can not see a persons lips moving.
Shyness and stutter plus the remnants of things like lisps mean that I like diction, languages and singing.
I am dyslexic, and I don't mean just a little bit - the educational psycologists said he had never seen anyone with such severe dyslexia even sit GCSE's let alone get the grades I got. The natural reaction to this for me? I have always had the ambition to write stories. I managed to get published before I was eighteen.
I am scared of heights and used to get bad vertigo, was the clumsiest kid around (called dyspraxia and is a cousin of dyslexia) - I became a climbing and archery instructure.
I almost died and was crippled by having a baby, I willingly decided to have another and do not regret it.
School and even university bullying made me feel that I was going to be single forever and never achieve anything. I have the most loveliest husband, intelligent and cute to boot and I have been 'going out' with him since I was 21. He supports me and seems to actually fancy me too.
Forgive the egotistical post but these things really do amaze me.
Sun 8th Apr 2012 10:39 pm 
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By Iain Watson, Sun 8th Apr 2012 @ 11:10 pm
Even more amazing that I only learned most of this after I'd already known you for years. At the time, you seemed a little nervous, but otherwise pretty normal (by Imperial standards!) But in retrospect it must have taken a huge amount of strength just to keep going at the rate you were. You've always done really well at not lying down and just surrendering to everything life's thrown at you. You should be proud 🙂
By angie (mum), Mon 9th Apr 2012 @ 3:10 am
You should be proud: your Dad I are very proud of you and I would like to thank you for letting us be part of it all and having enough confidence in me to allow me to support you when required. We too love Alaric and as for those two girls, what can I say, they make me proud all over again.
See you soon.
love
By becca, Mon 9th Apr 2012 @ 4:22 pm
I think the best thing is that you tackled every illness/health issue/ disability head on....and have succeeded at anything you turn your hand to. Too many people with just one of the conditions you have had would have given up and not tried to overcome it.
By sarah, Tue 10th Apr 2012 @ 8:40 am
Thanks guys - Becca I'm not sure I know how to give up and do nothing :/
Iain thanks 🙂 I'm a normal geek?
Mum your biased.