My name is Ajay, 27 years old and I live in Chennai. For 27 years I grew up to people telling me that I’m dumb, stupid, useless, hopeless, lazy, arrogant and what not a child should hear while growing up. I had no friends growing up and I think that contributed to the fact that all the abuse from my family, school and college made my peers feel that I was an unworthy being to be friends with.

I've always been an under performer at school and at work. I changed jobs frequently as I was getting fired or I quit because, I was unable to take the pressure and harassment at work. I’m not lazy at all. I have enough energy that at times I feel like I would just burst. Recently all of my alleged dumbness seemed too obvious to many around me and I got to thinking that I'm not dumb but why I’m not able to cope up, perform and work like others. Latest I took up a full time writing job and that is when all of that thought and reasoning and pressure climaxed as I struggled immensely to sustain my job.

That is when I came across in the internet about Dyslexia. I did a preliminary diagnosis and the result detailed that I’m heavily dyslexic. I resorted to a private and a government clinical psychologist and they both tested and reported that I’m dyslexic.

Let me explain how dyslexic I am. It is actually quite funny :)

• I can’t immediately identify from my right to my left

• I don't know which is my east, west, north or south

• I get lost easily when I’m out on my own trying to find a place and I struggle to remember streets

• I can’t read maps and at times all the streets and places look similar to me

• Because of my disability I'm prone to a lot of anxiety attacks that are quite severe

• I misinterpret words or misunderstand words

• I miss stations and bus stops every single time when I take a bus or a train

• I've poor motor skills and coordination; I bump into things, I can’t catch or throw stuff and I lose balance easily and fall

• I’m always clumsy

• I struggle a lot to read an analog watch

• I struggle to button my shirt or tie a shoelace

• I can't ride a motorcycle or a car, I tried but I just couldn't; I’m still trying

• I struggle to read in my native language and in English. The words/letters literally blur up or keep running and I end up with a headache

• I’ve to read a passage repeatedly to understand the context

• I might pronounce a simple word in different ways

• I can't pronounce a new word and I struggle to read or pronounce big words

• I'm sloppy and unorganized. I try but I fail

• I get stressed out easily

• My handwriting is like fowl scratch

• I make a lot of mistakes while reading and writing

• I’m hopeless in math and I need my fingers to count

• I can’t take too many verbal instructions, things just go off on top of my head

• I keep missing instructions and steps

• I miss out steps and sequences when following a list or set of instructions

But

• I’m fairly intuitive

• I’ve an interesting imagination that makes me think out of the box and come up with 20 different solutions for a problem

• I’m creative and spontaneous

• Though I’m dyslexic I like to write

• I’m eloquent

• I’m objective

At my latest job I confided in my line manager about my disability, he didn't understand what it was and he was persistent in pushing my limits. I was fired last March and I'm unemployed yet again. Now employers are not willing to hire me as my profile looks inconsistent. No one will even consider me for an interview. Even if I try to explain about my disability they don't understand about it or they don't want to listen.

Now I've taken this opportunity to exploit every possible platform in the internet to explain my condition and my situation, hoping that I might be given a fair chance to be interviewed for a job.

I've around 2 years of experience working on social media platforms. I've Optimized keywords and developed search engine optimized content for websites. Monitored and listened to social properties using Radian6 and Brandwatch for a specific brand, product or service and prepared reports to provide feedback on the brand, product or service for it to be enhanced and chiseled as per customers’ need. Audited daily, weekly and monthly reports prepared by social media analysts after monitoring and listening to social properties for a specific brand, product or service. Promoted content and engaged with potential stakeholders on various social mediums. Actively engaged and promoted services on the in house Q&A forum. Contributed search engine optimized content to the uniguru website which is part of Hotcourses. Prior to the above mentioned experiences I've handled training and process quality assurance for an international voice process, worked in NGO's and I'm a certified peer counselor.

So please, if there are any opportunities that will help me get a job please write to ukedou@gmail.com Thank You.