So it is official I am dyslexic. I am 29 and this is the first time that is has been made official.

A few weeks ago I had undertook a series of tests from an educational psychologist. The tests determined that I have short term memory problems and I am unable to spell a great number of words. In the past this has been put down to me being lazy and not really wanting to learn, which is untrue, I want to learn and enjoy learning. I also have attention issues which I have been able to learn how to control with a great deal of discipline. I will be getting the help that I need in order to make it through university (such as programs that will read out what I have written etc). It does change the way I look at my own work, if that’s a good or bad I don’t yet know.

A few interesting points have come out of all this. I am smarter than average which is nice to know. I am also lateral thinker, so I don't think outside of the box, I more use it to trap small children and sell them to homeless people for straw hats.

In uni at the moment there is a lot of work that needs to get done. I have to make a program in java (I am just learning the basics of java at the moment). There is also a few reports that need written up and a presentation which will be done on Wednesday. The presentation is done by teams.

On the day that the teams had been made up we had been put in a group and told “you are team K”. I had only known anyone in the class for about two days and was hoping that it would be made of people that I could have a laugh with. Turns out I was right, like myself they are all computer game development students so I will have them in almost all my classes for the next few years. When the topic of leader came around and we had to pick, Mitchel jump straight in saying that he would do it and was leader of the group for around 5 minutes. The rest of the team had decided that I should be the leader as I just started working on what I needed to do rather than messing about (The messing about happened later). A bit of a tangent but now that it is out of the road.

The teams presentation is on Robots. I got to do what I think is the best bit about robots which is robots in general culture so a bit about their past and also in books and movies. Even though I let everyone in the team pick what bit they wanted to do first I still got the bit I really wanted, I suspect that is was more to do about the amount of work that needed to be done for it.

One last thing, I get to make games, they are very basic at the moment using a system called gamemaker, but i get to make games dude. In my gaming class I have been told to read comics, books, watch movies, play games, go do something new, go on a trip to somewhere you have never been and write a blog. So here I am. I am going to try and keep this up I don’t know what I am going to say but if anyone wants to ask me something than go ahead.