Learning Disability

LegacyUser

Hello, I’m looking for some advice please.

When I was a child I was diagnosed with having learning difficulties and it was advised I be put into a learning facility that catered for my educational needs. I attended these classes for a few years until my parents decided to remove me and place me back into main stream education. They had both felt that I would have no chance of securing a leaving certificate or job prospects if I stead in that place. There had been friction at home also about why I wasn’t learning as quickly as other people my age etc. I won’t go into the details but it was a very difficult time for me and still affects me to this day.

The next few years followed with deplorable grades and feeling pretty low within myself to say the least. I was contemplating suicide at fifteen. I managed to sit my leaving cert and with the grace of God managed to pass it.

I then managed to get myself in to college, flunked all modules but managed to get myself into a job and have spent the last twenty years there. I don’t want to come across as vain but it was my looks that got me the job as the director has spent the past twenty years asking me on a date so it wasn’t my CV he was after!

Life was good and my past worries were no longer an issue, nobody called me stupid and I was treated like an intelligent human being for once.

I learned last week that the company I work for is closing down. I’m absolutely devastated. I don’t know what the future lays in store for me. I am terrified to go to interviews in case they notice I’m not as quick off the mark as others.

It’s like my life has been rewinded twenty years back and I am now at starting point again.

LegacyUser

Hi OP,

I don't really have any advice for you but just wanted to say that you come across as very well spoken/written from your post and having worked in Recruitment and seen the standard of some applications that come in (txt speak in letters etc!).

It sounds like you'll get a great reference from the company you currently work for, and future employers will generally be impressed with your length of service - it shows that the company were happy with your work and that you are dedicated.

I hope everything works out for you.

OP - what learning disability were you diagnosed with?