Yours Truly, Alex Maxi

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High school wasn't great but then when I was 16 I think, I was diagnosed with Autism and Dyslexia. That explained so much, explained why I struggled. But That didn't stop me the moment I turned 18 I left home, I had a fairly good paying job and was attending a course for teaching. I wanted to be a teacher, you may say that my choice was not the best choice. But I wanted to be a teacher and I wasn't gonna let anything stop me!

I graduated the course and became a teacher, or well thats how I thought it worked. But in truth I had to take yet another course on my chosen subject, history. Anyway so after that I was employed at the same high school I attended, lucky me.

And this is where I thought everything would get better, I had a job, house, car. What was I missing? happiness.

I went in my first class as a teachers' aid, because apprently they decided to have me assist another teacher first... why? I honestly have no idea. This was when I realised my disabilities might pose a threat to my job. I struggled- as stated before, to speak. I had somewhat overcome my speech problems but because I had delayed speech as a kid I now somewhat struggled? It didn't affect me that much but, boy, things were tricky at times. I would often gte asked questions... 'what does this mean?' I often had to look at the thing the student was showing me for a long time before I got what they meant, then I would respond.

A few students got annoyed at me because of this, In addition I tended to not answer very well. I knew the answer but I just didn't know how to explain it... most conversations were like this:

"What does this mean?"

"uhhhhhhhhhhhh..."

pause...

*really bad explaination*

Yeah, I wasn't the best help but I wanted to at the least try. The students didn't particularly like me, but I had a job and I was gonna do my job! A few months later I was assigned a class to teach. It was simple enough, a group of first year high schoolers. I knew it wasn't going to be easy, but as I've said, I had a job and I was going to do it.